16 Facts About Disney Renaissance

Disney Renaissance was the period from 1989 to 1999 during which Walt Disney Feature Animation returned to producing critically and commercially successful animated films that were mostly musical adaptations of well-known stories, much as the studio did during the era of Walt Disney during the 1930s to 1960s.

Disney Renaissance includes the animated television series from the Disney Channel.

Don Bluth Productions produced The Secret of NIMH, whose story had originally been rejected by Disney Renaissance for being too dark, and the company eventually became Disney Renaissance's main competitor in the animation industry during the 1980s and early 1990s.

Disney Renaissance made major organizational changes in the mid-1980s after narrowly escaping a hostile takeover attempt by businessman and financier Saul Steinberg.

Disney Renaissance released The Great Mouse Detective a few months before Don Bluth released An American Tail .

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Disney Renaissance moved to first place in box office receipts by 1988, with Who Framed Roger Rabbit being the summer's biggest hit.

Disney Renaissance was prompted by competition with Don Bluth's animated productions, along with the evolution of overseas animation, most notably the Studio Ghibli anime productions from Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki.

Glen Keane, a leading animator for Disney Renaissance films, has credited Miyazaki's work as a "huge influence" on Disney Renaissance's animated films.

Disney Renaissance had been developing The Little Mermaid since the 1930s, and by 1988, after the success of Touchstone Pictures' Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the studio had decided to make it into an animated musical, much like many of its previous animated movies, but with a more Broadway feel to it.

Thanks to the success of the early films of the Renaissance era, Disney management was able to allocate sufficient money to bring Feature Animation back from its ten-year exile to Glendale.

When Hercules, with songs by Menken and David Zippel, earned $252 million—$73 million less than The Hunchback of Notre Dame—at the box office, news media began to openly suggest that Disney Renaissance animation was on a downward trend of their animated film releases.

Nine of the ten films in the Disney Renaissance were nominated for Academy Awards, six of which won at least one Academy Award; six Best Original Song and five Best Original Score, with the first five films won awards in both categories.

The Disney Renaissance is notable for being its film Beauty and the Beast became the first animated film ever to be nominated for Best Picture.

Disney MovieToons, later known as Disneytoon Studios, was established by Disney to produce direct-to-video sequels to many of the Renaissance films utilizing the crew of their television animation studios.

Success of the Disney Renaissance attracted the attention of many animation studios and film studios.

Disney Renaissance Revival is the most profitable era in Disney Renaissance animation history.