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Walt Disney and the Oscars go together like popcorn and movies, except his Oscar collection is something no one else has ever matched. You might think big Hollywood stars or legendary directors hold the record for the most Academy Awards, but nope, it’s the man behind Mickey Mouse who still reigns supreme. And trust me, the number of Oscars he won will blow your mind!

Walt Disney in The Imagineering Story and Sean Baker accepting his Best Director Award at Oscars 2025 (Credits- Disney+ and Oscars/YouTube)

Walt Disney changed the game in animation and filmmaking. Back in 1923, when he founded The Walt Disney Company, no one could have guessed how massive it would become. From Mickey’s first appearance in Steamboat Willie to the groundbreaking Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Disney wasn’t just making cartoons, he was making history. His creativity, storytelling, and innovation set new standards,...

Anoradirector Sean Baker had a record-breaking evening at the 2025 Academy Awards, matched only by one of Hollywood's biggest names. Last night, Baker became the second person in history to receive four individual Oscars thanks to his provocative drama — the first being none other than Walt Disney.

Baker won four out of the five awards that Anora was nominated for: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Editing, and Best Original Screenplay. This stunning achievement makes him the second person ever to earn four Oscars in one night and the first person to do so in 70 years. In 1954, Walt Disney initially established this record by winning Best Documentary for The Living Desert, Best Documentary Short for The Alaskan Eskimo, Best Short Cartoon for Toot, Whistle, Plunk, and Boom, and Best Short Subject for Bear Country. Unlike Disney, however, Baker notably won all of his awards for a single film.

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The Oscars saw history last night with the tying of one of Walt Disney’s Oscar records but Walt still holds a big one in Academy history!

The Oscars are always notable for some fun records and achievements being made. The 2025 ceremony saw a few, such as Best Actor winner Adrian Brody, setting the record for the longest acceptance speech at five minutes and forty-five seconds.

In the Best Animated Feature category, Pixar's Inside Out 2 lost the award not to the favored The Wild Robot but the indie feature Flow in what many saw as the biggest upset of the night.

The ceremony was good, and host Conan O’Brien kept it going. However, Disney got some embarrassment as the live Hulu stream of the event was interrupted by the server crashing mid-way through. Worse, the live feed cut off at the scheduled time of 10:30 Est, right before the announcement of Best Actress.

Guess who made history at the 97th Academy Awards despite controversies surrounding the lack of intimacy coordinators on set? If you guessed Sean Baker, you’re absolutely right. The indie filmmaker, known for his raw storytelling, witnessed the biggest night of his career—winning not one, not two, but four Oscars in a single evening!

Director Sean Baker | image: Frank Sun, licensed under Cc-by-sa 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

His 2024 film Anora took home several awards, turning heads and breaking records. But the biggest moment came for Sean Baker, who matched the record only Walt Disney has ever achieved: a single person winning four Oscars in one night. If that’s not a groundbreaking success, then what is?

Sean Baker bagged Best Director, Screenplay and Editing awards

The indie genius behind Anora, Sean Baker, just turned the 97th Academy Awards into his Monopoly game, winning almost every award for different categories. Dominating the 2025 Oscars,...

Move over, Walt Disney. Anora filmmaker Sean Baker made Oscar history on Sunday night, becoming the first person to win four Oscars in one night for the same project.

Baker won Best Picture (as a producer), Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing for the Neon film. He was favored to win all of them except editing, where Anora was second in the odds to Conclave, the BAFTA winner. Due to the L.A. wildfires in January, the Ace Eddie Awards were moved to March 14, so the only major editing precursors were the BAFTAs and the Critics Choice Awards, which crowned the Oscar-snubbed Challengers. Last month, Anora won the top guild prizes at the Producers Guild of America, Directors Guild of America, and Writers Guild of America Awards.

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Baker joins Disney as the only other person to win a record four Oscars in one night.

One might think, looking at the above headline, that this will be an article about the legendary composer John Williams, but that is not the case. Williams, perhaps shockingly, has only won five Oscars in his decades-long career, specifically for "Fiddler on the Roof," "Jaws," "Star Wars: Episode IV -- A New Hope," "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," and "Schindler's List." The famed composer, however, has been nominated for more Oscars than anyone in history (save for one), having been recognized 54 times since 1968. Williams' most recent nomination was for "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny."

Others might also think of director John Ford or actor Katharine Hepburn as the most decorated talents in Oscars history, but they each only have four wins to their names. To be fair, winning four Oscars in one's field is still a huge achievement. Also, Ford holds the record as the most awarded director, and Hepburn the most awarded actor.

Disney's 100th-anniversary celebration highlights the creations of Walt Disney, including all the films and television shows that his company has developed since its inception. That said, the best-known Disney projects are the studio's vast canon of animated movies, which have been critically acclaimed and have won numerous Oscars and Emmys. Most of them form a quiet bedrock to the Disney+ streaming service, where they remain fixtures without the periodic jumping to other services like many other films do.

As the celebration kicked off in early 2023, fans of Disney are revisiting the animated movies that made the company the entertainment powerhouse it is today. But with so many movies, it is hard to remember which movies came first. Disney's earliest works established iconic characters and rewrote centuries-old fairy tales that used to have grim endings to having a happily ever after. They also encompass some of the most important films in the company's canon,...

Bong Joon Ho came incredibly close to tying Walt Disney‘s Oscar record on Sunday evening.

As the 2020 Oscars wrapped with the exciting news that Parasite had won its fourth award of the night with Best Picture, the South Korean filmmaker, 50, appeared to be on track to have tied Disney for the most individual Oscar wins in a single year.

In addition to Best Picture, Bong’s gripping thriller won in three other categories: Best Director, Best International Film and Best Original Screenplay.

While the individual record stands at four, due to a technicality, it turns out Bong just narrowly...

Disney has shared a new trailer for their upcoming Disney+ streaming service and it’s over 3-hours long! I don’t know if you want to spend over three hours seeing what Disney+ has to offer when it launches, but you have the option!

Disney+ also posted all of the films and TV shows coming to the streaming service on a super long Twitter thread, which I included below the trailer. As you’ll see there’s a ton of stuff that will be available that will make Disney fans happy. Gargoyles and several other classic 90s animated series are among them along with a lot of old weird films that have been pulled out of the Disney vault.

If you don’t want to watch the trailer or scroll through the Twitter feed, I shared the full list of titles for you. Check everything out below and let us...

Disney has finally revealed every single title that will officially be coming to Disney+ on launch day next month. Previously, we had received a list from those who were already subscribed to the streaming service in the Netherlands. However, due to various licensing rights, the titles will vary quite a bit from country to country. Now, U.S. subscribers know exactly what they will be getting for their money, and it's a potentially attractive treasure trove of content.

It. Is. Time. From Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to The Mandalorian, check out basically everything coming to #DisneyPlus in the U.S. on November 12.

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— Disney+ (@disneyplus) October 14, 2019

Not to be outdone by the competition, the official Disney+ Twitter account started a thread showcasing everything, in order of release,...

Narrated by John Krasinski (“13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,” NBC’s “The Office,” “Amazon’s “Jack Ryan”), Disneynature’s new True Life Adventure film “Born In China” takes an epic journey into the wilds of China where few people have ever ventured. Following the stories of three animal families, the film transports audiences to some of the most extreme environments on Earth to witness some of the most intimate moments ever captured in a nature film. A doting panda bear mother guides her growing baby as she begins to explore and seek independence. A two-year-old golden monkey who feels displaced by his new baby sister joins up with a group of free-spirited outcasts. And a mother snow leopard—an elusive animal rarely caught on camera—faces the very real drama of raising her two cubs in one of the harshest and most unforgiving environments on the planet.

Featuring stunning,...

It’s rarely mentioned today, but Walt Disney, alongside innovating the animated feature film, was also among the pioneers of the feature-length nature documentary. 1953’s Oscar-winning The Living Desert is still one of the pinnacles of the genre — with its beautiful photography and sly editing, not to mention its gently anthropomorphized, playful depiction of animal life in the Arizona Desert. But perhaps its most remarkable quality is its easy translation of geography and science: The Living Desert opens with an elegantly animated sequence explaining how the Sierra Nevada Mountains keep moisture from reaching the desert, and there’s a comforting simplicity to it, as if Uncle Walt and his filmmakers had succeeded in turning science into fairy tale. That’s not meant as a slight: Generations of kids back then probably first learned about the wonders of nature from these films unspooling through 16mm projectors in classrooms around the country.

Check out the new trailer for Disneynature’s Monkey Kingdom.

Life is an adventure for Maya, the clever and resourceful blonde-bobbed monkey in Monkey Kingdom, Disneynature’s new feature film set among ancient ruins in the storied jungles of South Asia. Maya’s world is forever changed when she welcomes her son, Kip, into her complicated extended family. Like all families, Maya’s has more than its share of colorful personalities—and she’s determined to give her son a leg up in the world. When their longtime home at Castle Rock is taken over by powerful neighboring monkeys, Maya’s whole family is forced to relocate, where she uses her street smarts and ingenuity to lead them to untapped resources amidst strange new creatures and unsettling surroundings.

Ultimately, they will all have to work together to reclaim Castle Rock, where Maya can hopefully realize her dreams for her son’s future.

By Scott Feinberg

The Hollywood Reporter

Only one filmmaker has ever been nominated for the best documentary feature Oscar in back-to-back years. His name was Walt Disney and he was nominated — and ultimately won — for both The Living Desert (1953) and The Vanishing Prairie (1954). In those days, an organization (i.e. the U.S. Air Force) or its figurehead (i.e. Disney’s Disney) were often recognized for projects that were actually primarily completed by others who worked for them. That was certainly the case with these nature films.

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Only one filmmaker has ever been nominated for the best documentary feature Oscar in back-to-back years. His name was Walt Disney and he was nominated — and ultimately won — for both The Living Desert (1953) and The Vanishing Prairie (1954). In those days, an organization (i.e. the U.S. Air Force) or its figurehead (i.e. Disney's Disney) were often recognized for projects that were actually primarily completed by others who worked for them. That was certainly the case with these nature films. But under today's stricter standards, that would not fly. In other words, Joshua

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Monday began with a visit to Desert Adventures Eco-Tours in Indio, CA. Every time there's an earthquake in the valley, folks want to partake on their tour because they're sitting smack dab on the San Andreas Fault! Take a look:

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Tuesday, I went to Fantasy Springs Resort Casino because all week we have been talking about local destinations for Labor Day weekend! Brian Wilson, and one of the founding father of the Beach Boys, Al Jardine, will perform at the resort together! How cool is that?

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Wednesday, my adventure continued at The Living Desert! Their theme is Babies In Bloom! Why? Because there are many cute babies at the zoo! I met a baby porcupine (they're called porcupet do you know that?) named Tootsie, and baby goats! Take a look:

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Tim here. It’s Independence Day weekend here in the States, which means that most of you undoubtedly have something better to do than read about old cartoons. But if I promise to keep things short, hopefully you’ll indulge me in chatting up an odd little animated short perfectly timed to the holiday.

I have in mind Ben and Me, one of the oddest one-offs in the history of Walt Disney Productions. Released in November, 1953, it was the studio’s first two-reel animated short, and one of the initial releases under Disney’s own Buena Vista Distribution label, part of a package deal with the nature documentary The Living Desert. But more to the point, for our present purposes, it’s about how a mouse helps Benjamin Franklin write the preamble to the Declaration of Independence. We can wait a minute if you want to process all the ways...

Bears

Written by Alastair Fothergill and Adam Chapman

Directed by Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey

UK and USA, 2013

During its fledgling years as a film studio, the Walt Disney Company helped revolutionize the nature documentary with its True-Life Adventure series. Here, as never before, audiences could thrill to the story of seals, beavers, bears, tigers, and the rest of the creatures sharing space with us on Earth. These days, what is most striking about these early documentaries is less the physical ground they cover, and more that they come from a patient time in filmmaking. Documentaries like The Living Desert and Seal Island featured narration and music, and sometimes attempted to play up the humor of an animalistic situation, but they were still created by people who afforded their presumed audience a base level of intelligence. In some respects, these nature documentaries were born out of the insistence on...

Olivia Holt, performer of Bears anthem “Carry On” and Star of Disney Channel’s “I Didn’t Do It,” hosted a special showing of Disneynature’s Bears on the Walt Disney Studios lot and yours truly was there this morning for the family screening.

There was a raffle and giveaway for those who brought a new stuffed bear to donate to the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and our tickets, which also doubled as bookmarks, were eco-friendly to be planted later. The logo even reminded me of Disney’s animated Brother Bear.

Check out these photos from this morning’s screening.

In an epic story of breathtaking scale set against a majestic Alaskan backdrop teeming with life, Disneynature’s 2014 big-screen adventure Bears follows a bear family as impressionable young cubs are taught life’s most important lessons.

Some quick reactions to directors Alastair Fothergill’s and Keith Scholey’s, as...

Ronald Reagan, Knute Rockne: All American Kay Francis, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow: Packard Campus Movies Thursday, September 1 (7:30 p.m.) The Wanderers (Orion, 1979) Set against the urban jungle of 1963 New York's gangland subculture, this coming of age teenage movie is set around the Italian gang the Wanderers. Directed by Philip Kaufman. With Ken Wahl, John Friedrich and Karen Allen. Action drama. Rated R. Color, 117 min. Thursday, September 8 (7:30 p.m.) Mildred Pierce (Warner Bros., 1945) A housewife-turned-waitress finds success in business but loses control of her ungrateful teenaged daughter. Directed by Michael Curtiz. With Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott and Ann Blyth. Drama. Black & White, 111 min. Selected for the National Film Registry in 1996. Friday, September 9 (7:30 p.m.) Pre-code Drama Double Feature Jewel Robbery (Warner Bros., 1932) A wealthy, married woman becomes captivated by a debonair jewel thief. Directed by William Dieterle. With Kay Francis and William Powell. Comedy,...

The Disney Company’s history with the Oscars has been long and cultured. Trivia buffs may know that Walt holds the honor of winning the most Academy Award nominations (59) and wins (26), but Mr. Disney isn’t the only one with the company who has received much recognition. In this special edition of the Mouse House, premiering during a most exciting time of the year for any film buff, we’ll cover some of the most memorable milestones for Disney at awards time, in addition to shocking nominations and snubs. On with the show.

Cartoons and documentaries garner countless wins

For nearly three decades, Walt Disney and company dominated the “Best Short Subject – Cartoon,” “Best Short Subject – Two-reel” and “Best Documentary” categories at the Academy Awards, from the monumental “Flowers and Trees” short in 1932 – the first color cartoon - to “The Vanishing Prairie” doc in 1955 (featured in this vintage clip below...

book review: The Lion And The Giraffe by Jack Couffer (BearManor Media) The author of this colorful memoir may not be a household name, but he’s been involved in everything from Walt Disney’s The Living Desert to Out of Africa, from Disney animal movies like The Incredible Journey to Never Cry Wolf…and he has great stories to tell. Couffer was a naturalist and a seaman before he ever thought of looking through a viewfinder. It was only by chance, when he attended USC on the G.I. bill after World War Two, that he became friendly with a fellow student named…...

The legendary Disney animation producer Don Hahn discusses the studio's latest film in their long tradition of making nature documentaries

The Walt Disney Company has had a long tradition of making award-winning documentaries about the wonders of nature. Beginning in the late '1940s and continuing through to the early '60s, the films were the brainchild of company founder Walt Disney and often won Oscars for best documentary like '1953s The living Desert, '1954s The Vanishing Prairie and '1958s White Wilderness. The company's interest in the documentaries dissipated in the '60s with the growth of their animation department and the addition of their popular live-action films. However in 2008 the company announced the creation of DisneyNature, an independent film label that would continue the company's tradition of making big screen nature documentaries. It began with last year's Earth, a film that explores our own planet, and...

With Disneynature’s Oceans hitting theaters on Earth Day (April 22), we’ve been given 5 clips to help promote the release. Narrated by Pierce Brosnan and directed by Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud, Oceans features “spectacular never-before-seen imagery captured by the latest underwater technologies.” At least that’s what the synopsis says.

If you are interested in seeing Oceans, Disneynature will make a contribution to The Nature Conservancy to save coral reefs in honor of every guest who sees the film during opening week (April 22-28, 2010). So you can go see a movie and feel like you’re saving the planet. Not a bad deal. Hit the jump for the clips and more info on Oceans:

As always, are the clips are in the player below. Once you push play you might have to watch a pre-roll ad and then all the clips will play in order. Sorry about the pre-roll,...

A nephew of Walt, he restored Disney to classic cartoon status

Roy E Disney, who has died from stomach cancer aged 79, was the last member of the Disney family involved in the company and saw himself as the protector of its tradition. As the family enterprise grew into a huge conglomerate, he retained a strong influence. Twice he exiled himself from the business and then returned to lead shareholder revolts which saw the corporation's leadership thrown out and its direction returned to traditional strengths, particularly cartoons.

He grew up with the Walt Disney Co, originally the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio. His father, Roy Oliver, handled finances while his uncle Walt ran the creative side and was the public face. Mickey Mouse was created in 1928; two years later Roy was born. In some ways, he was the son Walt never had. He attended test screenings when young and later remembered the...

It's our sad duty to report that Roy E. Disney, the nephew of Walt Disney former executive for the Walt Disney Company has passed away at the age of 79 after a year-long battle with stomach cancer.

A stalwart fixture at Disney - his personal office was situated inside the magic hat atop Disney Animation Studios in Burbank, California - he oversaw many of the company's greatest successes over the past few decades. The company released the following statement:

Roy Edward Disney, son of Disney Studios co-founder Roy O. Disney, and nephew of Walt Disney, passed away today (12/16/09) at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach, California, following a year-long battle with stomach cancer. He was 79 years old.

Disney was a successful businessman, philanthropist, filmmaker and award-winning sailor, who played a key role in the revitalization of The Walt Disney Company and Disney's animation legacy. He was associated with the Company over a 56-year period,...

Roy E. Disney passes away at age 79 Roy Edward Disney, son of Disney Studios co-founder Roy O. Disney, and nephew of Walt Disney, passed away today (12/16/09) at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach, California, following a year-long battle with stomach cancer. He was 79 years old. Disney was a successful businessman, philanthropist, filmmaker, and award-winning sailor, who played a key role in the revitalization of The Walt Disney Company and Disney's animation legacy. He was associated with the Company over a 56-year period, and from 1984 - 2003, served as vice chairman of the Company's board of directors, and chairman of the Studio's Animation Department. In recent years, he held the title of director emeritus and consultant for the Company. As head of Disney Animation, Disney helped to guide the Studio to a new golden age of animation with an unprecedented string of artistic and box office successes that included The Little Mermaid,...