List of Academy Awards for Walt Disney


won or received a total of twenty-two Academy Awards, according to D23, 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 Trees
1932
Best Short Subject Mickey's Orphans
1934
Best Short Subject The Three Little Pigs
1934
Best Short Subject Building a Building
1935
Best Short Subject
1936
Best Short Subject Three Orphan Kittens
1936
Best Short Subject Who Killed Cock Robin?
1937
Best Short Subject
1938
Best Short Subject
1939
Best Short Subject Ferdinand the Bull
1939
Best Short Subject Brave Little Tailor
1939
Best Short Subject Good Scouts
1939
Best Short Subject Mother Goose Goes Hollywood
1940
Best Short Subject
1940
Best Short Subject
1942
Best Short Subject Lend a Paw
1942
Best Short Subject Truant Officer Donald
1943
Best Short Subject Der Fuehrer's Face
1943
Best Documentary
1943
Best Documentary
1944
Best Short Subject Reason and Emotion
1945
Best Short Subject How to Play Football
1946
Best Short Subject Donald's Crime
1947
Best Short Subject Squatter's Rights
1948
Best Short Subject Chip an' Dale
1948
Best Short Subject Pluto's Blue Note
1949
Best Short Subject Seal Island
1949
Best Short Subject Mickey and the Seal
1949
Best Short Subject Tea for Two Hundred
1950
Best Short Subject Toy Tinkers
1951
Best Short Subject In Beaver Valley
1952
Best Short Subject Nature's Half Acre
1952
Best Short Subject Lambert the Sheepish Lion
1953
Best Short Subject Water Birds
1954
Best Documentary
1954
Best Documentary
1954
Best Short Subject Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom
1954
Best Short Subject Rugged Bear
1954
Best Short Subject Bear Country
1954
Best Short Subject Ben and Me
1955
Best Documentary
1955
Best Short Subject Pigs Is Pigs
1955
Best Short Subject Siam
1956
Best Documentary Men Against the Arctic
1956
Best Short Subject No Hunting
1956
Best Short Subject Switzerland
1957
Best Short Subject Samoa
1958
Best Short Subject
1959
Best Short Subject Grand Canyon
1959
Best Short Subject Paul Bunyan
1960
Best Documentary Donald in Mathmagic Land
1960
Best Short Subject Noah's Ark
1960
Best Short Subject Mysteries of the Deep
1961
Best Short Subject Goliath II
1961
Best Short Subject Islands of the Sea
1962
Best Short Subject Aquamania
1963
Best Short Subject Symposium on Popular Songs
1965
Best PictureMary Poppins
1969
Best Short Subject Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day

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