Gary Trousdale

Kirk Wise

Howard Ashman executive producer

Don Hahn producer

Sarah McArthur associate producer

Linda Woolverton (animation screenplay)

Roger Allers (story supervisor)

Brenda Chapman (story)

Burny Mattinson (story)

Brian Pimental (story)

Joe Ranft (story)

Kelly Asbury (story)

Chris Sanders (story) (as Christopher Sanders)

Kevin Harkey (story)

Bruce Woodside (story)

Tom Ellery (story)

Robert Lence (story)

Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont story (uncredited)

Original Music by Alan Menken

John Carnochan

Silver Screen Partners IV

Walt Disney Feature Animation (uncredited)

Walt Disney Pictures

USA

English

Walt Disney Feature Animation - 500 S. Buena Vista Street, Burbank, California, USA (studio)

Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida, Walt Disney World, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA (studio)

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ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards


1993 Won ASCAP Award Most Performed Songs from Motion Pictures
Howard Ashman,Alan Menken For the song "Beauty and the Beast".


The Academy Awards
1992 Won Oscar Best Music, Original Score Alan Menken

1992 Won Oscar Best Music, Original Song
Alan Menken (music),Howard Ashman (lyrics) For the song "Beauty and the Beast". Howard Ashman's nomination and award were posthumous. His partner Bill Lauch accepted the award on his behalf.

1992 Nominated Oscar Best Music, Original Song
Alan Menken (music),Howard Ashman (lyrics) For the song "Be Our Guest". Howard Ashman's nomination was posthumous.

1992 Nominated Oscar Best Music, Original Song Alan Menken (music),Howard Ashman (lyrics) For the song "Belle". Howard Ashman's nomination was posthumous.

1992 Nominated Oscar Best Picture Don Hahn

1992 Nominated Oscar Best Sound Terry Porter,Mel Metcalfe,David J. Hudson,Doc Kane


Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA


2003 Nominated Saturn Award Best DVD Classic Film Release For the Special Edition.

1993 Nominated Saturn Award Best Fantasy Film

1993 Nominated Saturn Award Best Music Alan Menken


Annie Awards


1992 Won Annie Best Animated Feature


BAFTA Awards


1993 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Original Film Score Alan Menken,Howard Ashman

1993 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Special Effects Randy Fullmer


BMI Film & TV Awards


1992 Won BMI Film Music Award Alan Menken


DVD Exclusive Awards


2003 Won DVD Premiere Award Best Overall New Extra Features, Library Release
Jeff Kurtti,Brian Johnson,Ben Zev,Allan Hellard For the platinum edition.

2003 Nominated DVD Premiere Award Best Menu Design For the Platinum Edition.
Original Retrospective Documentary, Library Release Jeff Kurtti
For Tale as Old as Time: The Making of Beauty and the Beast collection of featurettes. For the Platinum Edition.


Golden Globe Awards


1992 Won Golden Globe Best Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical

1992 Won Golden Globe Best Original Score - Motion Picture Alan Menken

1992 Won Golden Globe Best Original Song - Motion Picture Alan Menken (music),Howard Ashman (lyrics) For the song "Beauty and the Beast"

1992 Nominated Golden Globe Best Original Song - Motion Picture Alan Menken (music),Howard Ashman (lyrics) For the song "Be Our Guest"


Golden Screen, Germany


1993 Won Golden Screen


The Grammy Awards


1993 Won Grammy Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television Alan Menken For the instrumental score portion of the soundtrack.

1993 Won Grammy Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television Howard Ashman,Alan Menken For the song "Beauty and the Beast".


Hugo Awards


1992 Nominated Hugo Best Dramatic Presentation


Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards


1992 Won KCFCC Award Best Animated Film


Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards


1991 Won LAFCA Award Best Animation Gary Trousdale,Kirk Wise


Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA


1992 Won Golden Reel Award Best Sound Editing - Animated Feature


National Board of Review, USA


1991 NBR Award Special Award for Animation


National Film Preservation Board, USA


2002 National Film Registry


Satellite Awards


2003 Nominated Golden Satellite Award Best Youth DVD


Young Artist Awards


1993 Won Special Award Outstanding Family Entertainment of the Year

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Beauty and the Beast marked the 30th animated film from Walt Disney Studios since Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs debuted back in 1937. Constant throughout the ensuing years were female “leads” of the old school. Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, even the Little Mermaid – all were high-born young ladies without much gray matter between their pretty ears. And then along came Belle. The leading, very animated female of Beauty and the Beast (she was the first half of the title) actually liked to read books. What’s more, she was low-born, not the daughter of a king or queen, nor did she have ambitions, à la Cinderella, to become royalty. Just a nice simple country girl, right in tune with the politically correct ‘90s.

But not for long. While retaining her literary predilection, she was destined to fall for a beastly male who just happened to be an enchanted prince. The formulaic Disney royalty fixation was still intact. (In fact, it was still there well into the ‘90s, two blockbusters later, with Aladdin getting involved with an Arabian princess and Pocahontas herself being an Indian princess).

It was a “tale as old as time”, the telling and retelling of Beauty and the Beast, King Kong (1933 and 1976) and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) had been earlier versions of the classic fairy tale. Perhaps the best rendering yet to be found on celluloid is French director Jean Cocteau’s 1946 masterpiece in its original, lyrical French (with English subtitles), available on video. Disney’s 1991 animated film owes a great deal to this live-acted predecessor. It too, was a fantasy, complete with talking spellbound household objects – candelabra held by disembodied hands, talking doors and wall statuary that follow Belle with their eyes. The movie is noted for its dazzling costumes, sets and makeup, as well as its poignant performances.

Disney’s version of the classic successfully captures the heart of the Cocteau classic. There are singing and dancing table settings, talking clocks and teapots, all equally charming. In fact, the whole film has the feel of a Broadway production, thanks to the glorious score by Alan Menken and the late Howard Ashman. Fortunately, this was just what the composers had in mind; they were trying to capture that feeling for the big screen and it worked. Not only did they receive an Oscar (for the title song), but two years later, the live-acted stage version of Beauty and the Beast landed on the boards in New York and in 1995, Los Angeles. It was Disney’s first venture into the world of the “theatuh” and most critics predicted (or longed for) failure. Instead, the Tony-nominated legit version, with six original and seven new songs (penned by Menken with lyricist Tim Rice) broke records on both coasts.

Disney’s movie edition of Beauty and the Beast itself set several records. It was the highest-grossing animated film to that date; it was the first animated film ever to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture (for a total of six nominations), a salute from those usually sedate Academy members to the film’s excellence and it was also the first film to receive three (out of five) Best Song nominations.

Beast: I want to do something for her... but what?
Cogsworth: Well, there's the usual things: flowers... chocolates... promises you don't intend to keep...

Gaston: It's not right for a woman to read. Soon she starts getting *ideas*, and *thinking*...

Gaston: I'd like to thank you all for coming to my wedding. But first I'd better go in there and propose to the girl.

In the opening musical number we see Belle's home. The windmill on the house has 2 gears that are clearly working against one another, yet they still turn perfectly.

n the beginning of the movie before Belle starts singing, you can see the steps go down and lead to a path heading to the village. Although when Gaston comes to purpose to her, the steps go down to a path to the barn. Later when Gaston and others come to take Maurice to the asylum it faces straight to the village.

During the first song, Belle reads a book near a fountain, and show us a picture of a castle from it. Later, Gaston scans through the same book and says there are no pictures in it.

Belle's nails disappear and reappear several times throughout the movie.

On the Special Edition, at exactly one hour and three minutes, just for a second, Mrs. Potts' eyes turn black and then turn back to blue.

During the fighting scene between Gaston and Beast, Gaston says "Belle is mine!" But his mouth is saying something else. This is because, he was originally supposed to say, "Time to die!" but the writer changed it to fit Belle back in the scene.