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.1932Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Flowers and TreesMickey's Orphans1933The Three Little PigsBuilding a Building19341935Three Orphan KittensWho Killed Cock Robin?19361937 1938Ferdinand the BullBrave Little TailorGood ScoutsMother Goose Goes Hollywood19391941Lend a PawTruant Officer Donald1942Der Fuehrer's FaceBest Documentary1943Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Reason and Emotion1944How to Play Football1945Donald's Crime1946Squatter's Rights1947Chip an' DalePluto's Blue Note1948Best Short Subject (Two-reel)Seal IslandBest Short Subject (Cartoon) Mickey and the Seal Tea for Two Hundred 1949Toy Tinkers1950Best Short Subject (Two-reel)In Beaver Valley1951Nature's Half AcreBest Short Subject (Cartoon)Lambert the Sheepish Lion1952Best Short Subject (Live Action)Water Birds1953Best Documentary (Feature)Best Documentary (Short Subject)Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Toot, Whistle, Plunk and BoomRugged BearBest Short Subject (Two-reel)Bear CountryBen and Me1954Best Documentary (Feature)Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Pigs Is PigsBest Short Subject (Two-reel)Siam1955Best Documentary (Short Subject)Men Against the ArcticBest Short Subject (Cartoon)No HuntingBest Short Subject (Two-reel)Switzerland1956Samoa1957Best Short Subject (Cartoon)1958Best Short Subject (Live Action)Grand CanyonBest Short Subject (Cartoon)Paul Bunyan1959Best Documentary (Short Subject)Donald in Mathmagic LandBest Short Subject (Cartoon)Noah's ArkBest Short Subject (Live Action)Mysteries of the Deep1960Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Goliath IIBest Short Subject (Live Action)Islands of the Sea1961Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Aquamania1962Symposium on Popular Songs1964Best PictureMary Poppins1968Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day(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.1932To Walt Disney for the creation of Mickey Mouse.Statuette1939To 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 base1942To 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 meritIrving G. Thalberg Memorial AwardThalberg 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
References
External links D23 entry