Beauty and the Beast (1991)

Academy Awards, USA 1992

Winner 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.
	Best Music, Original Score Alan Menken
Nominee Oscar	Best Picture Don Hahn Beauty and the Beast (1991) became the very first full-length animated feature film in cinema history to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
	Best Sound Terry Porter Mel Metcalfe David J. Hudson Doc Kane
	Best Music, Original Song Alan Menken (music) Howard Ashman (lyrics) For the song "Belle". Howard Ashman's nomination was posthumous.
	Best Music, Original Song Alan Menken (music) Howard Ashman (lyrics) For the song "Be Our Guest". Howard Ashman's nomination was posthumous.

Buena Vista Pictures
Directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Walt Disney)

A cold-hearted prince is turned into a beast after refusing shelter to a peasant woman. He is cursed to stay that way unless he learns to love and is loved in return by the time the last petal falls on a hexed rose. Years later, a woman ventures into his castle looking for her lost father. Could she be the one? The angry beast imprisons her in exchange for releasing her father. She befriends the animated objects in the house, themselves once human, and cautiously tries to break through to the beast. They eventually hit it off after he shows her his library and they share a dance in the ballroom. However, an old admirer from the village arrives to try to take her away, forcing the beast to fight for her. Despite dying in the process, there is a happy ending. This is Disney. The animation is not all that good, and the CGI even worse, but it is buoyed by Alan Menken's Broadway-style songs.