Walt Disney Still Record-Holder for Most Won Academy Awards in History
Walt's Oscar Collection Showcased at The Walt Disney Family Museum
San Francisco, CA (January 8, 2013)-The
Walt Disney Family Museum celebrates the 2013 Academy Awards season
with recently compiled fun facts about the legendary Oscars and Walt
Disney. Twenty-six of these famed Awards are on view at the Museum
including the celebrated Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Oscar which is on exhibit through April 14, 2013 in the special exhibition, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: The Creation of a Classic.
- Between
1931 and 1968, Walt Disney won 32 Academy Awards and still holds the
record for most individual Academy Awards won. This number includes
special and technical awards.
- Twenty-six of Walt's Academy Awards-including the Honorary Award for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs-are on display at The Walt Disney Family Museum.
- Walt's
first Oscar was the first ever Academy Award for Animated Short
Subjects, his Silly Symphony "Flowers and Trees." That same Academy
Award Ceremony in 1932, Walt was also given an Honorary Award, which was
presented to him for the creation of Mickey Mouse.
- In 1939, Walt received a custom-made Oscar statuette for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
The Honorary Award consisted of one standard Oscar statuette, standing
above seven other miniature ones-representing each of the Dwarfs, placed
on a stepped, 20-inch long base. Shirley Temple presented this second
Honorary Award (he won a total of four in his lifetime)-this by far was
the most distinctive award in Academy history.
Photos by Jim Smith, courtesy The Walt Disney Family Museum.
- The first ever nature documentary Academy Award was awarded to Walt in 1948 for Seal Island.
- In
the 1960s, Walt purchased 20 miniature Oscar charms, each engraved with
the name of the work for which it was awarded. He created a beautiful
charm necklace and gifted it to his wife Lilian, who then converted it
into a charm bracelet, which is on view at The Walt Disney Family
Museum.
- Academy
Award host Bob Hope is rumored to have said (in tribute to Walt's many
wins), 'if we have any of these statues left over, we'll just send them
to Walt Disney.'
- Walt also holds the record for the most Academy Award nominations with 59 nods.
Join us for a daily screening of the Academy Award-winning film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in the Museum's Fantasia-inspired theater. The film screens daily at 4pm through April. Check www.waltdisney.org for more info and tickets.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: The Creation of a Classic
is organized by The Walt Disney Family Museum. Major support is
provided by Wells Fargo. Exhibition design: IQ Magic. Media sponsors: San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate.com, and ABC7/KGO-TV.