Walt Disney
won or received a total of twenty-six Academy Awards, and holds the record for most Academy Awards in
history. He won twenty-two competitive Academy Awards from a total of
fifty-nine nominations, and 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. In 1965, Disney earned his sole Best
Picture nomination, for the film Mary Poppins. He was posthumously
awarded his final Academy Award in 1969.
The display case in the lobby of the Walt
Disney Family
Museum , in San Francisco , displays many of the Academy
Awards that Walt Disney won or received. The distinctive, special award which
he received for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, is at
the bottom.
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