What's Changed In The 20 Years Of Animation At The Oscars
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During the '90s, Hollywood started taking animated films more seriously, and the Oscars gave them a greater scale of regcognition.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of one of the most controversial categories of the Academy’s history — the Oscar for best animated feature. But the Oscars celebrated animated films decades before its official category was ever created.
In 1937, Disney’s “Snow White” became the first animated film to be nominated for an Oscar. It lost in the category of best original score, but three years later, the song “When You Wish Upon A Star” from “Pinocchio” won best original song.
Disney continued to find scattered success in the music categories, but then in 1992, “Beauty and the Beast” became the first — and one of only three — animated films to be nominated in the Academy’s top category: best picture.
