How many Academy Awards did Walt Disney receive?

Answer 1

Walt Elias Disney (1901-66) won 22 0scars from 59 Academy Award nominations, e receiving his 1st Oscar for the creation of Mickey Mouse in 1932. He also received 4 honorary Oscar Awards. The most memorable among his wins were for "Snow White & the 7 dwarfs" (1937, recognizing it as a significant screen innovation charming millions pioneering a new entertainment field,for which he received 1 statuette & 7 miniature statuettes. Both his last competitive & honorary Oscars were posthumous.He died from lung cancer on Dec,15 1966.

Answer 2

Walt Disney was nominated 59 times and won 22 awards(more than any individual in Oscars history) as well as 3 additional special awards and one honorary award. He is the individual who has been awarded the most total Oscars. He had 64 total Oscar nominations in his lifetime.

1. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968) the award was given posthumously.
2. Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects for: Grand Canyon (1958)
3. Best Documentary, Short Subjects for: Men Against the Arctic (1955)
4. Best Documentary, Features for: The Vanishing Prairie(1954)
5. Best Documentary, Features for: The Living Desert(1953)
6. Best Documentary, Short Subjects for: The Alaskan Eskimo(1953)
7. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom (1953)
8. Best Short Subject, Two-reel for: Bear Country(1953)
9. Best Short Subject, Two-reel for: Water Birds(1952)
10. Best Short Subject, Two-reel for: Nature's Half Acre(1951)
11. Best Short Subject, Two-reel for: Beaver Valley(1950)
12. Best Short Subject, Two-reel for: Seal Island(1948)
13. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Der Fuehrer's Face(1942)
14. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Lend a Paw (1941)
15. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Ugly Duckling(1939)
16. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Ferdinand the Bull(1938)
17. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: The Old Mill(1937)
18. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: The Country Cousin(1936)
19. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Three Orphan Kittens(1935)
20. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: The Tortoise and the Hare (1935)
21. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Three Little Pigs(1933)
22. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Flowers and Trees(1932)

Walt Disney also received four honorary awards, but because they are not considered competitive, he cannot be said to have won them:

1. February 27, 1941 - Honorary Award for: Fantasia (1940) Shared with: William E. Garity J.N.A. Hawkins - For their outstanding contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in motion pictures through the production of Fantasia (certificate).
2. February 26, 1942 - Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (awarded periodically to "Creative producers, whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production.")
3. February 23, 1939 - Honorary Award for: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) For Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, recognized as a significant screen innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field (one statuette - seven miniature statuettes).
4. November 18, 1932 - Honorary Award For the creation of Mickey Mouse.

His other nominations follow:

1. Best Picture for: Mary Poppins (1964) Shared with: Bill Walsh (Disney Studios is the only major film studio in Hollywood never to win an Oscar for Best Picture.)
2. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: A Symposium on Popular Songs (1962)
3. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Aquamania (1961)
4. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Goliath II (1960)
5. Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects for: Islands of the Sea (1960)
6. Best Documentary, Short Subjects for: Donald in Mathmagic Land (1959)
7. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Noah's Ark (1959)
8. Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects for: Mysteries of the Deep (1959)
9. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Paul Bunyan(1958)
10. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: The Truth About Mother Goose (1957)
11. Best Short Subject, Two-reel for: Samoa (1956)
12. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: No Hunting (1955)
13. Best Short Subject, Two-reel for: Switzerland(1955)
14. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Pigs Is Pigs(1954)
15. Best Short Subject, Two-reel for: Siam (1954)
16. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Rugged Bear(1953)
17. Best Short Subject, Two-reel for: Ben and Me (1953)
18. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Lambert the Sheepish Lion (1952)
19. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Toy Tinkers(1949)
20. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Mickey and the Seal(1948)
21. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Tea for Two Hundred(1948)
22. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Chip an' Dale(1947)
23. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Pluto's Blue Note(1947)
24. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Squatter's Rights(1946)
25. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Donald's Crime(1945)
26. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: How to Play Football(1944)
27. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Reason and Emotion(1943)
28. Best Documentary for: The Grain That Built a Hemisphere(1943)
29. Best Documentary for: The New Spirit (1942)
30. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Truant Officer Donald(1941)
31. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: The Pointer(1939)
32. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Brave Little Tailor(1938)
33. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Good Scouts(1938)
34. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Mother Goose Goes Hollywood (1938)
35. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Who Killed Cock Robin?(1935)
36. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Building a Building(1933)
37. Best Short Subject, Cartoons for: Mickey's Orphans(1931)

Answer 3

Walter Elias Disney (Dec1901-66) won a total of 22 Academy Awards from a total of 59 nomination's won his 1st Oscar (Honorary) for the creation of Mickey Mouse in 1932. He also got 4 honorary Oscar awards, his last Competitive & Honorary Oscars were posthumous.

Walter also was the inaugural recipient of a star in the Anaheim walk of stars for his contribution, mainly for Disneyland in Anaheim,Calif. he has 2 stars in the H'wood walk of fame,1 for motion pics & the other for TV. He also received the Legion d'Honneur in France in 1935, & the Pres medal of freedom in 1964 & the Congressional Gold medal in 1968. The League of Nations awarded him a spl award for creating Mickey Mouse.

He was inducted in the California hall of fame in 2006 by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. A minor planet discovered by a Russian astronomer is named after him.

Among his awards & honors received were the Honorary Oscar statuette & 7 miniature statuettes given to him in 1937 by A.M.P.A.S. in recognition for his production of "Snow white & the 7 dwarfs, & a citation stating the feature as a significant screen innovation that enthralled millions.

Answer 4

Disney won 8,000 Academy Awards in 80 nominations.

Answer 5

Walt Disney won 22 academy awards before he died in 1966.

Answer 6

He had 26 amazing movies or shows that got academy awards.

Answer 7

Walt won 22 Academy Awards from 59 nominations, and was awarded 4 Honorary Oscars.

Answer 8

Walt won 22 Academy Awards and four Honorary Academy Awards.

Answer 9

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