List of Academy Awards for Walt Disney


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 (Cartoon) 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 (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

YearCategoryFilm/documentaryResultRefs.
1932
(5th)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Flowers and TreesWon
1932
(5th)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Mickey's OrphansNomitated
1933
(6th)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)The Three Little PigsWon
1933
(6th)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Building a BuildingNomitated
1934
(7th)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Won
1935
(8th)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Three Orphan KittensWon
1935
(8th)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Who Killed Cock Robin?Nomitated
1936
(9th)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Won
1937
(10th)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Won
1938
(11th)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Ferdinand the BullWon
1938
(11th)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Brave Little TailorNomitated
1938
(11th)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Good ScoutsNomitated
1938
(11th)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Mother Goose Goes HollywoodNomitated
1939
(12th)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Won
1939
(12th)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Nomitated
1941
(14th)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Lend a PawWon
1941
(14th)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Truant Officer DonaldNomitated
1942
(15th)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Der Fuehrer's FaceWon
1942
(15th)
Best DocumentaryNomitated
1942
(15th)
Best DocumentaryNomitated
1943
(16th)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Reason and EmotionNomitated
1944
(17th)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)How to Play FootballNomitated
1945
(18th)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Donald's CrimeNomitated
1946
(19th)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Squatter's RightsNomitated
1947
(20th)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Chip an' DaleNomitated
1947
(20th)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Pluto's Blue NoteNomitated
1948
(21st)
Best Short Subject (Two-reel)Seal IslandWon
1948
(21st)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Mickey and the SealNomitated
1948
(21st)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Tea for Two HundredNomitated
1949
(22nd)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Toy TinkersNomitated
1950
(23rd)
Best Short Subject (Two-reel)In Beaver ValleyWon
1951
(24th)
Best Short Subject (Two-reel)Nature's Half AcreWon
1951
(24th)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Lambert the Sheepish LionNomitated
1952
(25th)
Best Short Subject (Live Action)Water BirdsWon
1953
(26th)
Best Documentary (Feature)Won
1953
(26th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)Won
1953
(26th)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Toot, Whistle, Plunk and BoomWon
1953
(26th)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Rugged BearNomitated
1953
(26th)
Best Short Subject (Two-reel)Bear CountryWon
1953
(26th)
Best Short Subject (Two-reel)Ben and MeNomitated
1954
(27th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)Won
1954
(27th)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Pigs Is PigsNomitated
1954
(27th)
Best Short Subject (Two-reel)SiamNomitated
1955
(28th)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)Men Against the ArcticWon
1955
(28th)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)No HuntingNomitated
1955
(28th)
Best Short Subject (Two-reel)SwitzerlandNomitated
1956
(29th)
Best Short Subject (Two-reel)SamoaNomitated
1957
(30th)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Nomitated
1958
(31st)
Best Short Subject (Live Action)Grand CanyonWon
1958
(31st)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Paul BunyanNomitated
1959
(32nd)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)Donald in Mathmagic LandNomitated
1959
(32nd)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Noah's ArkNomitated
1959
(32nd)
Best Short Subject (Live Action)Mysteries of the DeepNomitated
1960
(33rd)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Goliath IINomitated
1960
(33rd)
Best Short Subject (Live Action)Islands of the SeaNomitated
1961
(34th)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)AquamaniaNomitated
1962
(35th)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Symposium on Popular SongsNomitated
1964
(37th)
Best PictureMary PoppinsNomitated
1968
(41st)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery DayWon

Honorary Academy Awards

YearTo, for/award nameAward typeRefs.
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
1942
(14th)
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial AwardThalberg Award