Walt Disney (1901–1966) 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 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). 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 | Category | Film/documentary | Result | Refs. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 (5th) | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Flowers and Trees | Won | |
| Mickey's Orphans | Nominated | |||
| 1933 (6th) | The Three Little Pigs | Won | ||
| Building a Building | Nominated | |||
| 1934 (7th) | The Tortoise and the Hare | Won | ||
| 1935 (8th) | Three Orphan Kittens | Won | ||
| Who Killed Cock Robin? | Nominated | |||
| 1936 (9th) | The Country Cousin | Won | ||
| 1937 (10th) | The Old Mill | Won | ||
| 1938 (11th) | Ferdinand the Bull | Won | ||
| Brave Little Tailor | Nominated | |||
| Good Scouts | Nominated | |||
| Mother Goose Goes Hollywood | Nominated | |||
| 1939 (12th) | The Ugly Duckling | Won | ||
| The Pointer | Nominated | |||
| 1941 (14th) | Lend a Paw | Won | ||
| Truant Officer Donald | Nominated | |||
| 1942 (15th) | Der Fuehrer's Face | Won | ||
| Best Documentary | The Grain That Built a Hemisphere | Nominated | ||
| The New Spirit | Nominated | |||
| 1943 (16th) | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Reason and Emotion | Nominated | |
| 1944 (17th) | How to Play Football | Nominated | ||
| 1945 (18th) | Donald's Crime | Nominated | ||
| 1946 (19th) | Squatter's Rights | Nominated | ||
| 1947 (20th) | Chip an' Dale | Nominated | ||
| Pluto's Blue Note | Nominated | |||
| 1948 (21st) | Best Short Subject (Two-reel) | Seal Island | Won | |
| Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Mickey and the Seal | Nominated | ||
| Tea for Two Hundred | Nominated | |||
| 1949 (22nd) | Toy Tinkers | Nominated | ||
| 1950 (23rd) | Best Short Subject (Two-reel) | In Beaver Valley | Won | |
| 1951 (24th) | Nature's Half Acre | Won | ||
| Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Lambert the Sheepish Lion | Nominated | ||
| 1952 (25th) | Best Short Subject (Live Action) | Water Birds | Won | |
| 1953 (26th) | Best Documentary (Feature) | The Living Desert | Won | |
| Best Documentary (Short Subject) | The Alaskan Eskimo | Won | ||
| Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom | Won | ||
| Rugged Bear | Nominated | |||
| Best Short Subject (Two-reel) | Bear Country | Won | ||
| Ben and Me | Nominated | |||
| 1954 (27th) | Best Documentary (Short Subject) | The Vanishing Prairie | Won | |
| Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Pigs Is Pigs | Nominated | ||
| Best Short Subject (Two-reel) | Siam | Nominated | ||
| 1955 (28th) | Best Documentary (Short Subject) | Men Against the Arctic | Won | |
| Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | No Hunting | Nominated | ||
| Best Short Subject (Two-reel) | Switzerland | Nominated | ||
| 1956 (29th) | Samoa | Nominated | ||
| 1957 (30th) | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | The Truth About Mother Goose | Nominated | |
| 1958 (31st) | Best Short Subject (Live Action) | Grand Canyon | Won | |
| Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Paul Bunyan | Nominated | ||
| 1959 (32nd) | Best Documentary (Short Subject) | Donald in Mathmagic Land | Nominated | |
| Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Noah's Ark | Nominated | ||
| Best Short Subject (Live Action) | Mysteries of the Deep | Nominated | ||
| 1960 (33rd) | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Goliath II | Nominated | |
| Best Short Subject (Live Action) | Islands of the Sea | Nominated | ||
| 1961 (34th) | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Aquamania | Nominated | |
| 1962 (35th) | Symposium on Popular Songs | Nominated | ||
| 1964 (37th) | Best Picture | Mary Poppins | Nominated | |
| 1968 (41st) | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day | Won (posthumous win) | ≠ |
Footnotes
- ≠ indicates the award was accepted by someone else (in this case, the winning film's director Wolfgang Reitherman)
Honorary Academy Awards
| Year | To, for/award name | Award type | Refs. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 (5th) | To Walt Disney for the creation of Mickey Mouse. | Statuette | |
| 1939 (11th) | To Walt Disney for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, "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 | |
| 1942 (14th) | 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 | |
| Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award | Thalberg Award |
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
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