Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated musical film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, adapting the classic fairy tale of a young woman held at a cursed prince's castle. The film became the first animated feature ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and the first to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy, marking a turning point in critical recognition of feature animation as a medium capable of prestige-level storytelling. It was also among the first films to make extensive use of Disney's Computer Animation Production System, most visibly in its computer-assisted ballroom dance sequence, and it became the first animated film to gross over 100 million dollars domestically in its initial theatrical release.
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Did Beauty and the Beast win the Oscar for Best Picture?
No. The Silence of the Lambs won Best Picture.
No. Beauty and the Beast was a Best Picture nominee, but the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences lists The Silence of the Lambs as the winner of that award at the ceremony honoring the films of 1991.
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Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated musical romantic fantasy film directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, written by Linda Woolverton, and based on the French fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast".
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Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated musical film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, adapting the classic fairy tale of a young woman held at a cursed prince's castle.
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Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated musical romantic fantasy film
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Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated musical romantic fantasy film directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, written by Linda Woolverton, and based on the French fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast". Produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, the film stars Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers, Angela Lansbury, Bradley Michael Pierce, Rex Everhart, Jesse Corti, Hal Smith in his final film, and Jo Anne Worley.
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