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Before Disney was a marque – 1 that Billboard saluted pinch this database of The 100 Greatest Disneyverse Songs of All Time – Walt Disney was a man, 1 of nan astir successful entrepreneurs successful intermezo history. Nearly 60 years aft his death, he continues to clasp 5 cardinal records successful nan Oscar grounds book.
In addition, Disney is 1 of nan fewer individuals to person apical honorary awards astatine 3 of nan 4 EGOT grant shows. At nan Oscars successful February 1942, he received nan Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, which is presented to “creative producers whose bodies of activity bespeak a consistently precocious value of mobility image production.” He was conscionable nan 4th shaper to person nan award, pursuing Darryl F. Zanuck, Hal B. Wallis and David O. Selznick.
In 1986, 30 years aft winning a Primetime Emmy for champion producer—film bid for nan ABC bid Walt Disney’s Disneyland, Disney was inducted into nan Television Academy Hall of Fame. He was successful nan 3rd induction class, on pinch TV legends Steve Allen, Jackie Gleason and Mary Tyler Moore, producer/director Fred Coe, web executive Frank Stanton and puppeteer and Kukla, Fran and Ollie creator Burr Tillstrom.
In February 1989, Disney received a trustees grant from nan Recording Academy. The grant is “given to individuals who person made non-performing contributions of specified wide scope to nan section of signaling that they do not autumn wrong nan model of nan Grammy Awards categories.” He was honored alongside composers Richard Rodgers and Cole Porter and shaper Quincy Jones.
An unsigned effort successful that year’s Grammy programme book shed ray connected Disney’s philharmonic contributions. It began: “Walt Disney remains a elephantine successful nan creation of movie animation. But he besides made ample and important contributions to euphony connected film. Music and precocious signaling techniques were vital, non-visual components of Disney’s workplace during his 40-year career. Only 1 twelvemonth aft Al Jolson appeared pinch sound and euphony successful The Jazz Singer, Disney presented Steamboat Willie, nan first synchronized sound cartoon.”
Here are nan 5 Oscar records that Disney holds to this day. All years mention to nan twelvemonth of nan Oscar ceremony:
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Individual pinch nan astir competitory Oscars
Disney received 22 Academy Awards from 1932, erstwhile he won short taxable (cartoon) for Flowers and Trees, to 1969, when, much than 2 years aft his death, he won a posthumous Oscar for Winnie nan Pooh and nan Blustery Day.
Art head Cedric Gibbons is 2nd among individuals pinch nan astir Oscars (11). He is followed by composer Alfred Newman (nine).
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Individual pinch nan astir full Oscars (competitive and non-competitive awards combined)
Disney received 26 Oscars, combining competitory and non-competitive awards. Iain Neil, who received 13 technological and method awards, is runner-up, followed by creation head Cedric Gibbons (11).
Disney’s non-competitive awards are, successful summation to nan aforementioned Irving G. Thalberg Award, typical awards for nan creation of Mickey Mouse (1932); for Snow White and nan Seven Dwarfs, (1939, “a important surface invention which has charmed millions and pioneered a awesome caller intermezo section for nan mobility image cartoon”); and for Fantasia (1942, “for their outstanding publication to nan advancement of nan usage of sound successful mobility pictures.” ) Disney shared nan second grant pinch William Garity, John N. A. Hawkins and nan RCA Manufacturing Company.
The typical grant to Disney for Snow White and nan Seven Dwarfs was a twelvemonth late. The movie had been nominated for champion people nan erstwhile year. But nan trophy itself showed productivity – Disney was presented pinch 1 statuette and 7 miniature statuettes connected a stepped base.
Disney received nan Thalberg nan aforesaid nighttime that he received a typical grant for Fantasia. He was apparently not alert he was going to get nan Thalberg Award. “I find myself speechless,” he said connected receiving nan grant from nan erstwhile recipient, David O. Selznick. “I knew that location was thing present tonight; this is measurement beyond my anticipation … I’m good alert of nan precocious ideals that this grant symbolizes, and I benignant of consciousness for illustration I should rededicate myself to those ideals. I’ve been done a very trying year, nan toughest year. I dream there’s ne'er different 1 for illustration it. And coming aft that year, I benignant of feel, I’d for illustration to consciousness that it’s much than an grant for past conscientious efforts, honorable mistakes. I for illustration to consciousness that it’s benignant of a ballot of a assurance for nan future. And I want to convey nan members of nan Academy, my friends, everybody. Thank you.”
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Individual pinch nan astir Oscar nominations
Disney received 59 nominations from 1932 to 1969. Composer John Williams is 2nd pinch 53 nods, followed by composer Alfred Newman (43), creation head Cedric Gibbons (38) and costume designer Edith Head (35).
Disney received conscionable 1 information for champion picture, for co-producing Mary Poppins with Bill Walsh. The philharmonic mislaid successful 1965 to nan movie adjustment of My Fair Lady, produced by Jack L. Warner (who had made nan arguable determination to not formed Julie Andrews, who had originated nan domiciled of Eliza Dolittle connected Broadway, successful nan film).
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Individual pinch Oscar nominations successful nan astir consecutive years
Disney was nominated successful 22 consecutive years, from 1942 done 1963. Costume designer Edith Head and composer Alfred Newman stock 2nd spot pinch nominations successful 19 consecutive years. They are followed by composer Max Steiner (13) and creation head Hal Pereira (12).
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Individual pinch nan astir Oscar wins successful competitory categories successful a azygous year
At nan Oscars successful February 1954 (see photograph accompanying this list), Disney won 4 Oscars – champion documentary characteristic (The Living Desert), champion documentary short taxable (The Alaskan Eskimo), champion animation short taxable (Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom) and champion two-reel short taxable (Bear Country). No 1 other had ever won much than 2 awards successful 1 night.
On accepting his 4th grant of nan night, for Bear Country, Disney joked, “I’ve conscionable gotta opportunity 1 much word. It’s awesome — but I deliberation this is my twelvemonth to retire.”
Happily, he did not retire. In nan remaining 12+ years of his life, he opened Disneyland, launched an Emmy-winning TV bid (initially called Walt Disney’s Disneyland) and co-produced nan beloved movie philharmonic Mary Poppins.
Runners-up, pinch 3 Oscars successful 1 night, are (listed chronologically): Billy Wilder (The Apartment, 1961), Marvin Hamlisch (The Way We Were, The Sting, 1974), Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Part II, 1975), James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment, 1984), James Cameron (Titanic, 1998), Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh (The Lord of nan Rings: The Return of nan King, 2004), Ethan Cohen and Joel Coen (No Country for Old Men, 2008), Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman aliases (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 2015), Bong Joon-Ho (Parasite, 2020) and Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All astatine Once (2023).
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