The 1940 Disney feature was the first animated feature to win Academy Awards for best original score and song. By Hilton Dresden Associate Awards Editor Jiminy Cricket, narrator and singer of “When ...

Dec 20, 2018 - In this fascinating feature, culled from story meetings between February 1938 and July 1939 (the film would eventually be released in February of 1940), Walt's original notes are ...

BURBANK, Calif. -- "Pinocchio" first entered the hearts of moviegoers back in 1940. Now 82 years later, there's a new version starring Tom Hanks and directed by Oscar winner Robert Zemeckis. The two ...

The Oscars’ animated feature category turns voting age this year, which means none of the genre’s masterpieces dating back to the 1930s ever competed for the coveted prize. And that means one of this ...

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The Academy, however, gave it a warmer reception: While the film didn’t earn nominations for best picture (it would take 50 years for an animated film, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, to do so) or best ...

Geppetto, the woodcarver in "The Adventures of Pinocchio" who created a walking, talking puppet out of wood, was actually a slave owner who built Pinocchio out of slaves' body parts. I Was Today Years ...