In addition to being the biggest winner of the award, Walt Disney has also broken two Oscar rules. Find it out!
Next Sunday, the 10th, starting at 7pm, the MAX streaming platform and the subscription channel TNT will broadcast live the ceremony of the 96th edition of the Oscar, the main award in the world film industry, led this year by the presenter Jimmy Kimmel.
For a film to have the opportunity to compete for one of the coveted statuettes, the production must follow a series of rules imposed by the academy, where exceptions are rarely made. However, the filmmaker Walt Disneyfounder of The Walt Disney Company, has already achieved this privilege twice thanks to Snow White, being honored for two years in a row for the same film, and receiving an adapted statuette.
Breaking rules
This is because, according to information from The Walt Disney Family Museum Blog, shared by the ScreenRant portal, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” is the only film since the creation of the Oscar to be honored two years in a row.
The first took place in 1938, when he was nominated for “Best Music (Score)”. The second came in 1939, during the 11th edition of the Oscars. In this ocasion, Disney was awarded an Honorary Oscar for the release of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, the first live-action animated film in the history of cinema.
However, going against normal protocols, instead of just receiving a golden statuette, the award of Walt it was also accompanied by seven miniatures, which represented the seven dwarves, being the first with this design. The item was delivered to the filmmaker by the hands of the child actress Shirley Temple.
According to The Walt Disney Family Museum’s blog, the idea of honoring the filmmaker with seven more small statuettes came from the president of the Academy at the time, Frank Capra. Furthermore, the tribute would have been made, as Snow White represents “a significant innovation on the screen that enchanted millions and pioneered a great new field of entertainment for cartoons”.
It is worth remembering that, despite being extremely acclaimed, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” was never nominated for Best Film or Best Animation, as, at that time, this category did not yet exist. An animation from the studios Disney It would only be nominated for the first time for the main prize of the night in 1992 with “Beauty and the Beast”, which lost to “The Silence of the Lambs”.
Source: Recreio
