List of Academy Awards for 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 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. He received the Honorary Academy Award for the creation of Mickey Mouse and won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject for the film Flowers and Trees. In the seven Academy Award ceremonies that followed, 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, Disney won the Academy Award in all four categories in which he was nominated: Best Short Subject, Best Short Subject, Best Documentary, and Best Documentary. 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

YearCategoryFilm/documentaryResultRefs.
1932
Best Short Subject Flowers and TreesWon
1932
Best Short Subject Mickey's OrphansNomitated
1933
Best Short Subject The Three Little PigsWon
1933
Best Short Subject Building a BuildingNomitated
1934
Best Short Subject Won
1935
Best Short Subject Three Orphan KittensWon
1935
Best Short Subject Who Killed Cock Robin?Nomitated
1936
Best Short Subject Won
1937
Best Short Subject Won
1938
Best Short Subject Ferdinand the BullWon
1938
Best Short Subject Brave Little TailorNomitated
1938
Best Short Subject Good ScoutsNomitated
1938
Best Short Subject Mother Goose Goes HollywoodNomitated
1939
Best Short Subject Won
1939
Best Short Subject Nomitated
1941
Best Short Subject Lend a PawWon
1941
Best Short Subject Truant Officer DonaldNomitated
1942
Best Short Subject Der Fuehrer's FaceWon
1942
Best DocumentaryNomitated
1942
Best DocumentaryNomitated
1943
Best Short Subject Reason and EmotionNomitated
1944
Best Short Subject How to Play FootballNomitated
1945
Best Short Subject Donald's CrimeNomitated
1946
Best Short Subject Squatter's RightsNomitated
1947
Best Short Subject Chip an' DaleNomitated
1947
Best Short Subject Pluto's Blue NoteNomitated
1948
Best Short Subject Seal IslandWon
1948
Best Short Subject Mickey and the SealNomitated
1948
Best Short Subject Tea for Two HundredNomitated
1949
Best Short Subject Toy TinkersNomitated
1950
Best Short Subject In Beaver ValleyWon
1951
Best Short Subject Nature's Half AcreWon
1951
Best Short Subject Lambert the Sheepish LionNomitated
1952
Best Short Subject Water BirdsWon
1953
Best Documentary Won
1953
Best Documentary Won
1953
Best Short Subject Toot, Whistle, Plunk and BoomWon
1953
Best Short Subject Rugged BearNomitated
1953
Best Short Subject Bear CountryWon
1953
Best Short Subject Ben and MeNomitated
1954
Best Documentary Won
1954
Best Short Subject Pigs Is PigsNomitated
1954
Best Short Subject SiamNomitated
1955
Best Documentary Men Against the ArcticWon
1955
Best Short Subject No HuntingNomitated
1955
Best Short Subject SwitzerlandNomitated
1956
Best Short Subject SamoaNomitated
1957
Best Short Subject Nomitated
1958
Best Short Subject Grand CanyonWon
1958
Best Short Subject Paul BunyanNomitated
1959
Best Documentary Donald in Mathmagic LandNomitated
1959
Best Short Subject Noah's ArkNomitated
1959
Best Short Subject Mysteries of the DeepNomitated
1960
Best Short Subject Goliath IINomitated
1960
Best Short Subject Islands of the SeaNomitated
1961
Best Short Subject AquamaniaNomitated
1962
Best Short Subject Symposium on Popular SongsNomitated
1964
Best PictureMary PoppinsNomitated
1968
Best Short Subject Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery DayWon

Honorary Academy Awards

YearTo, for/award nameAward typeRefs.
1932
To Walt Disney for the creation of Mickey Mouse.Statuette
1939
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
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
1942
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial AwardThalberg Award