Tonight, at the 86th Annual Academy Awards, the Academy will honor animated heroes. There is a long history of animated feature films, but most never got their due since the award for Best Animated Feature is so new. Even so, we thought we’d take this opportunity to look back at the films that have taken home the award so far.In 1991, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast became the first animated film to ever be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. The film is a retelling of the French fairytale about a selfish prince turned into a monster and the woman who helps him regain his humanity. It’s a traditional Disney musical feature and considered by many to be the peak of their animation studios’ accomplishments.The Academy only began having a Best Animated Feature category in 2002, when it gave the award to the animated fairy tale comedy, Shrek. The film stars Mike Myers as an Ogre who just wants to be left alone, but finds his life interrupted when fairy tale characters are exiled onto his land.
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