Beauty and the Beast is an American animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released to theaters on November 22, 1991 by Walt Disney Pictures. The thirtieth film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film is based on the fairy tale La Belle et la Bête by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont[2] and uses some ideas from the 1946 film of the same name.[3] The film centers around a prince who is transformed into a Beast and a young woman named Belle whom he imprisons in his castle. To become a prince again, the Beast must love Belle and win her love in return, or he will remain a Beast forever.
The film is the third animated feature released during a period known as the "Disney Renaissance", which began in 1989 with The Little Mermaid and ended in 1999 with Tarzan. Many animated films following its release have been influenced by its blending of traditional animation and computer generated imagery.
The film's animation screenplay was written by Linda Woolverton with story written by Roger Allers, Brenda Chapman, Chris Sanders, Burny Mattinson, Kevin Harkey, Brian Pimental, Bruce Woodside, Joe Ranft, Tom Ellery, Kelly Ashbury, and Robert Lence, directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, and produced by Don Hahn. The music of the film was composed by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, both of whom had written the music and songs for Disney's The Little Mermaid.
Upon its release, Beauty and the Beast was a significant commercial and critical success, earning $403 million in box office earnings throughout the world. Beauty and the Beast was also nominated for several awards, and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, with two other awards for its music. Famously, Beauty and the Beast was the first ever animated film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and the last to be nominated until 2009. Beauty and the Beast received a total of six nominations, including Best Picture, Best Original Score, Best Sound, and three nominations for its song. It ended up winning two, for Best Original Score and Best Original Song for the songs "Beauty and the Beast".
This is one of my favourite classic animated movies. Someone should pick this movie as Rupert Sanders picked snow white and turn it into a life movie, I would love to see it (:
TheBykas 11 hours ago
one of the best of disney!
definitely my fav princess film.
ditt0nee 2 weeks ago
On voit toute suite la différence en HD :)
88ranced 3 weeks ago
im gonna watch is tommorow with my friend and my sister
ishajq 4 weeks ago
this will be nominated for 85th oscars...i think...
movievfx 1 month ago
@rohannesburg The only other likely one to be released like this than The Lion King and The Little Mermaid is Aladdin. And of course the Pixar ones, probably The Incredibles besides the two already slated for release.
kipolem53 1 month ago
I cant wait for Monsters Inc 3D or Monsters University!!!!
tehraptortheo 1 month ago
Disney is bringing back the classics
rohannesburg 1 month ago
and always with the amazing Celine Dion who's singing this wonderful song!!
aemxme 1 month ago
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
i am so freaking excited :3
cali29 1 month ago