Technically, it was Flowers and Trees (1932). It was the first film to win the Oscar for Best Animated Short. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs did not win and Oscar but it did receive a special honorary Oscar for its achievement as the first full-length animated film in history. The first feature length animated Disney film to win a competitive Oscar was Pinnochio. It won Best Score and Best Song (When You Wish Upon A Star). Ironically, as of 03/07/2010, Disney has yet to win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature (unless you count Pixar as part of Disney).
Flowers and Trees (1932) was the first film to win the Oscar for Best Animated ShortShrek (2001) was the first film to win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.Spirited Away (2002) was the second film to win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.
No, you can win an Oscar for directing a short film, but you can't win an Oscar for starring in a short film.
Ersatz (The Substitute) by Dusan Vukotic won in 1961 making it the first foreign animation to win an Oscar.
There is not an Academy Award for Best Musical. The first musical to win the Academy Award for Best Picture was The Broadway Melody in 1929. It was also the first sound film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
Gone with the Wind was the first full-length feature film in color to win the Oscar in 1940. However, in 1937, Give Me Liberty (released in 1936 by Warner Bros.) received the Oscar for Best Short Subject-Color.
Walt Disney was 1st awarded an Oscar for his first full-length feature film 'snow white & the seven dwarves'.
Flowers and Trees (1932) was the first film to win the Oscar for Best Animated ShortShrek (2001) was the first film to win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.Spirited Away (2002) was the second film to win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.
No, you can win an Oscar for directing a short film, but you can't win an Oscar for starring in a short film.
Wings (1927)
Lord of the rings
The first German film to win the Best Foreign Language category was The Tin Drum (1979).
No, Lagaan was the first Indian (Hindi language) film nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, but it did not win.
Disney's last Oscar win was for a short film released a little more than two years after his death on December 15, 1966. The 1968 Academy Award for Animated Short Film was awarded posthumously to Disney for "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day."
It was the first animated film to win the Best Animated Feature award, which began in 2001.
Ersatz (The Substitute) by Dusan Vukotic won in 1961 making it the first foreign animation to win an Oscar.
"Mrs. Miniver" (1942).
It was the first film, and the only silent film ever, to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.