List of Academy Awards for Walt Disney
Walt Disney (1901–1966) won or received a total of twenty-six Academy Awards, and holds the record for most Academy Awards in history.[1] He won twenty-two competitive Academy Awards from a total of fifty-nine nominations, and also holds the records for most wins and most nominations for an individual in history.[1]
Disney won his first competitive Academy Award and received his first Honorary Academy Award at the 5th Academy Awards (1932). He received the Honorary Academy Award for the creation of Mickey Mouse and won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoon) for the film Flowers and Trees.[2] In the seven Academy Award ceremonies that followed (6th–12th), Disney consecutively earned nominations and won in the same category.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
Disney received three more Honorary Academy Awards, one in 1939[8] and two in 1942.[10] At the 26th Academy Awards (1954), Disney won the Academy Award in all four categories in which he was nominated: Best Short Subject (Cartoon), Best Short Subject (Two-reel), Best Documentary (Feature), and Best Documentary (Short Subject).[11][12] In 1965, Disney earned his sole Best Picture nomination, for the film Mary Poppins.[13] He was posthumously awarded his final Academy Award in 1969.[14]
Competitive Academy Awards
Year | Category | Film/documentary | Result | Refs. |
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1932 (5th) |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Flowers and Trees | Won | [2][16] |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Mickey's Orphans | Nominated | [2] | |
1934 (6th) |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | The Three Little Pigs | Won | [3] |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Building a Building | Nominated | ||
1935 (7th) |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | The Tortoise and the Hare | Won | [4] |
1936 (8th) |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Three Orphan Kittens | Won | [5] |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Who Killed Cock Robin? | Nominated | ||
1937 (9th) |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | The Country Cousin | Won | [6] |
1938 (10th) |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | The Old Mill | Won | [7] |
1939 (11th) |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Ferdinand the Bull | Won | [8] |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Brave Little Tailor | Nominated | ||
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Good Scouts | Nominated | ||
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Mother Goose Goes Hollywood | Nominated | ||
1940 (12th) |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | The Ugly Duckling | Won | [9] |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | The Pointer | Nominated | ||
1942 (14th) |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Lend a Paw | Won | [10] |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Truant Officer Donald | Nominated | ||
1943 (15th) |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Der Fuehrer's Face | Won | [17] |
Best Documentary (Feature) | The Grain That Built a Hemisphere | Nominated | ||
Best Documentary (Feature) | The New Spirit | Nominated | ||
1944 (16th) |
Best Documentary (Short Subject) | Water: Friend or Enemy | Nominated | [18] |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Reason and Emotion | Nominated | ||
1945 (17th) |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | How to Play Football | Nominated | [19] |
1946 (18th) |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Donald's Crime | Nominated | [20] |
1947 (19th) |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Squatter's Rights | Nominated | [21] |
1948 (20th) |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Chip an' Dale | Nominated | [22] |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Pluto's Blue Note | Nominated | ||
1949 (21st) |
Best Short Subject (Two-reel) | Seal Island | Won | [12][23] |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Mickey and the Seal | Nominated | [23] | |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Tea for Two Hundred | Nominated | ||
1950 (22nd) |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Toy Tinkers | Nominated | [24] |
1951 (23rd) |
Best Short Subject (Two-reel) | In Beaver Valley | Won | [25] |
1952 (24th) |
Best Short Subject (Two-reel) | Nature's Half Acre | Won | [26] |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Lambert the Sheepish Lion | Nominated | ||
1953 (25th) |
Best Short Subject (Two-reel) | Water Birds | Won | [27] |
1954 (26th) |
Best Documentary (Feature) | The Living Desert | Won | [11][12] |
Best Documentary (Short Subject) | The Alaskan Eskimo | Won | ||
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom | Won | ||
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Rugged Bear | Nominated | ||
Best Short Subject (Two-reel) | Bear Country | Won | ||
Best Short Subject (Two-reel) | Ben and Me | Nominated | ||
1955 (27th) |
Best Documentary (Feature) | The Vanishing Prairie | Won | [28] |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Pigs Is Pigs | Nominated | ||
Best Short Subject (Two-reel) | Siam | Nominated | ||
1956 (28th) |
Best Documentary (Short Subject) | Men Against the Arctic | Won | [29] |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | No Hunting | Nominated | ||
Best Short Subject (Two-reel) | Switzerland | Nominated | ||
1957 (29th) |
Best Short Subject (Two-reel) | Samoa | Nominated | [30] |
1958 (30th) |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | The Truth About Mother Goose | Nominated | [31] |
1959 (31st) |
Best Short Subject (Live Action) | Grand Canyon | Won | [32] |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Paul Bunyan | Nominated | ||
1960 (32nd) |
Best Documentary (Short Subject) | Donald in Mathmagic Land | Nominated | [33] |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Noah's Ark | Nominated | ||
Best Short Subject (Live Action) | Mysteries of the Deep | Nominated | ||
1961 (33rd) |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Goliath II | Nominated | [34] |
Best Short Subject (Live Action) | Islands of the Sea | Nominated | ||
1962 (34th) |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Aquamania | Nominated | [35] |
1963 (35th) |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Symposium on Popular Songs | Nominated | [36] |
1965 (37th) |
Best Picture | Mary Poppins | Nominated | [12][13] |
1969 (41st) |
Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day | Won (posthumous win) | [14] |
Honorary Academy Awards
Year | To, for/award name | Award type | Refs. |
---|---|---|---|
1932 (5th) |
To Walt Disney for the creation of Mickey Mouse. | Statuette | [2][12] |
1939 (11th) |
To Walt Disney for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, "recognized as a significant screen innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field for the motion picture cartoon." | One statuette and seven miniature statuettes on a stepped base | [8][37] |
1942 (14th) |
To Walt Disney, William Garity, John N. A. Hawkins and the RCA Manufacturing Company "for their outstanding contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in motion pictures through the production of Fantasia." | Certificate of merit | [10][37] |
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award | Thalberg Award | [10][38] | |
See also
- List of Academy Award records
- List of people who have won multiple Academy Awards in a single year
- List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees
References
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- ↑ "The 18th Academy Awards (1946)". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2013-03-23.
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- ↑ "The 27th Academy Awards (1955)". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2015-03-23.
- ↑ "The 28th Academy Awards (1956)". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2015-03-23.
- ↑ "The 29th Academy Awards (1957)". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2015-03-23.
- ↑ "The 30th Academy Awards (1958)". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2015-03-23.
- ↑ "The 31st Academy Awards (1959)". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2015-03-23.
- ↑ "The 32nd Academy Awards (1960)". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2015-03-23.
- ↑ "The 33rd Academy Awards (1961)". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2015-03-23.
- ↑ "The 34th Academy Awards (1962)". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2015-03-23.
- ↑ "The 35th Academy Awards (1963)". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2015-03-23.
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