List of Academy Awards for Walt Disney explained

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.

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. In the seven Academy Award ceremonies that followed (6th–12th), Disney consecutively earned nominations and won in the same category.

Disney received three more Honorary Academy Awards, one in 1939 and two in 1942. 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).^[2] In 1965, Disney earned his sole Best Picture nomination, for the film Mary Poppins. He was posthumously awarded his final Academy Award in 1969 for Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day.

Competitive Academy Awards

Year<	-- NOTE: This refers to the year in which the Academy Award ceremony took place-->	Category	Film/documentary	Result	Refs.
1932	Best Short Subject (Cartoon)	Flowers and Trees		^[3] ^[4]
Mickey's Orphans
1933		The Three Little Pigs		^[5]
Building a Building
1934				^[6]
1935		Three Orphan Kittens		^[7]
Who Killed Cock Robin?
1936				^[8]
1937				^[9]
1938		Ferdinand the Bull		^[10]
Brave Little Tailor
Good Scouts
Mother Goose Goes Hollywood
1939				^[11]
1941		Lend a Paw
Truant Officer Donald
1942		Der Fuehrer's Face		^[12]
Best Documentary
1943	Best Short Subject (Cartoon)	Reason and Emotion		^[13]
1944		How to Play Football		^[14]
1945		Donald's Crime		^[15]
1946		Squatter's Rights		^[16]
1947		Chip an' Dale		^[17]
Pluto's Blue Note
1948	Best Short Subject (Two-reel)	Seal Island		^[18]
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)	Mickey and the Seal
	Tea for Two Hundred
	1949	Toy Tinkers		^[19]
1950	Best Short Subject (Two-reel)	In Beaver Valley		^[20]
1951		Nature's Half Acre		^[21]
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)	Lambert the Sheepish Lion
1952	Best Short Subject (Live Action)	Water Birds		^[22]
1953	Best Documentary (Feature)			^[23]
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)	Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom
	Rugged Bear
Best Short Subject (Two-reel)	Bear Country
	Ben and Me
1954	Best Documentary (Short Subject)			^[24]
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)	Pigs Is Pigs
Best Short Subject (Two-reel)	Siam
1955	Best Documentary (Short Subject)	Men Against the Arctic		^[25]
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)	No Hunting
Best Short Subject (Two-reel)	Switzerland
	1956	Samoa		^[26]
1957	Best Short Subject (Cartoon)			^[27]
1958	Best Short Subject (Live Action)	Grand Canyon		^[28]
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)	Paul Bunyan
1959	Best Documentary (Short Subject)	Donald in Mathmagic Land		^[29]
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)	Noah's Ark
Best Short Subject (Live Action)	Mysteries of the Deep
1960	Best Short Subject (Cartoon)	Goliath II		^[30]
Best Short Subject (Live Action)	Islands of the Sea
1961	Best Short Subject (Cartoon)	Aquamania		^[31]
1962		Symposium on Popular Songs		^[32]
1964	Best Picture	Mary Poppins		^[33]
1968	Best Short Subject (Cartoon)	Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day	(posthumous win)	^[34] ≠

Footnotes

• ≠ indicates the award was accepted by someone else (in this case, the winning film's director Wolfgang Reitherman)^[35]

Honorary Academy Awards

Year	To, for/award name	Award type	Refs.
1932	To Walt Disney for the creation of Mickey Mouse.	Statuette
1939	To Walt Disney for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,^[36] "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	^[37]
1942	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	^[38]
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award	Thalberg Award	^[39]

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

External links

• D23 entry

Notes and References

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3. Web site: The 5th Academy Awards (1932). 2015-03-23. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2016-05-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20160507092803/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1933. live.
4. Web site: Walt Disney's Oscars®. 2015-03-25. Waltdisney.org. https://web.archive.org/web/20150322054517/http://www.waltdisney.org/blog/walt-disneys-oscars%C2%AE. 2015-03-22. dead.
5. Web site: The 6th Academy Awards (1934). 2015-03-23. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2017-02-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20170201231924/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1934. live.
6. Web site: The 7th Academy Awards (1935). 2015-03-23. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2011-07-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093704/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/7th-winners.html. live.
7. Web site: The 8th Academy Awards (1936). 2015-03-23. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2011-07-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093707/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/8th-winners.html. live.
8. Web site: The 9th Academy Awards (1937). 2015-03-23. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2016-03-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20160321112653/http://oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1937. live.
9. Web site: The 10th Academy Awards (1938). 2015-03-23. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2016-03-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20160321113206/http://oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1938. live.
10. Web site: The 11th Academy Awards (1939). 2015-03-23. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2011-07-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093754/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/11th-winners.html. live.
11. Web site: The 12th Academy Awards (1940). 2015-03-23. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2017-01-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20170128185131/https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1940. live.
12. Web site: The 15th Academy Awards (1943). 2015-03-23. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2011-07-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093739/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/15th-winners.html. live.
13. Web site: The 16th Academy Awards (1944). 2019-02-14. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2016-03-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20160321095215/http://oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1944. live.
14. Web site: The 17th Academy Awards (1945). 2015-03-23. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2016-07-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20160702160225/https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1945. live.
15. Web site: The 18th Academy Awards (1946). 2013-03-23. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2011-07-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093754/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/18th-winners.html. live.
16. Web site: The 19th Academy Awards (1947). 2015-03-23. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2015-04-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402003414/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1947. live.
17. Web site: The 20th Academy Awards (1948). 2015-03-23. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2016-02-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20160224010004/https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1948. live.
18. Web site: The 21st Academy Awards (1949). 2015-03-23. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2016-03-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20160321100956/http://oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1949. live.
19. Web site: The 22nd Academy Awards (1950). 2015-03-23. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2015-04-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402002854/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1950. live.
20. Web site: The 23rd Academy Awards (1951). 2015-03-23. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2017-01-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20170128185155/https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1951. live.
21. Web site: The 24th Academy Awards (1952). 2015-03-23. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2015-04-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402003505/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1952. live.
22. Web site: The 25th Academy Awards (1953). 2015-03-23. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2016-03-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20160321101403/http://oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1953. live.
23. Web site: The 26th Academy Awards (1954). 2015-03-23. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2015-04-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402003527/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1954. live.
24. Web site: The 27th Academy Awards (1955). 2015-03-23. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2011-07-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093921/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/27th-winners.html. live.
25. Web site: The 28th Academy Awards (1956). 2015-03-23. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2016-03-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20160321101011/http://oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1956. live.
26. Web site: The 29th Academy Awards (1957). 2015-03-23. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2016-05-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20160507092819/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1957. live.
27. Web site: The 30th Academy Awards (1958). 2015-03-23. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2015-04-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402003629/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1958. live.
28. Web site: The 31st Academy Awards (1959). 2015-03-23. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2015-04-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402003640/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1959. live.
29. Web site: The 32nd Academy Awards (1960). 2015-03-23. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2011-07-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20110706094204/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/32nd-winners.html. live.
30. Web site: The 33rd Academy Awards (1961). 2015-03-23. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2015-04-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402003651/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1961. live.
31. Web site: The 34th Academy Awards (1962). 2015-03-23. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2015-04-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402003704/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1962. live.
32. Web site: The 35th Academy Awards (1963). 2015-03-23. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2018-02-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20180202001804/https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1963. live.
33. Web site: The 37th Academy Awards (1965). 2015-03-23. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2015-04-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402003759/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1965. live.
34. Web site: The 41st Academy Awards (1969). 2015-03-23. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2015-04-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402003856/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1969. live.
35. Web site: Short Film Winners: 1969 Oscars . 2022-07-29 . 2022-07-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220729163026/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAMyOjp4nn4 . live .
36. Web site: Walt Disney and the Snow White Oscars® - D23 . 2022-07-29 . 2022-08-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220817003425/https://d23.com/featured-photo/walt-disney-and-the-snow-white-oscars/ . live .
37. Web site: Alyssa . Carnahan . Look Closer Recap: Walt's Honorary Oscars . January 4, 2013 . March 23, 2015 . Waltdisney.org . https://web.archive.org/web/20150328051506/http://www.waltdisney.org/blog/look-closer-recap-walt%E2%80%99s-honorary-oscars . 2015-03-28 . dead .
38. Web site: The 14th Academy Awards (1942). 2013-04-26. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2014-10-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20141001055038/https://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/14th.html. live.
39. News: Susan. King. Honorary Oscar recipients named. Los Angeles Times. August 26, 2010. March 23, 2015. June 17, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130617170846/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-honorary-oscars-20100826,0,4764731.story. live.