Fantasia
US (1940): Animated/Fantasy/Musical
The movie many consider Disney's greatest animation achievement is a series of eight animated fantasies set to classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski. Swirling, surrealistic, colorful, it's long been considered a classic (particularly among generations of substance-enhanced audiences). Look for Mickey Mouse in the famous "Sorcerer's Apprentice" segment. During the late 1960s, rumors abounded that animators on Fantasia took drugs while making the film. Art Babbitt, who directed the Dancing Mushroom sequence, once quipped, "Yes, it is true. I myself was addicted to Ex-Lax and Feenamint." (amctv.com)
2 Special Awards
· Special Award 1941: Walt Disney, William Garity, John N. A. Hawkins (RCA Manufacturing Company) "for their outstanding contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in motion pictures through the production of Fantasia."
· Special Award 1941: Leopold Stokowski "and his associates for their unique achievement in the creation of a new form of visualized music in Walt Disney's Fantasia, thereby widening the scope of the motion picture as entertainment and as art form."