The majority of Walt Disney’s Academy Awards were for producing in the category Short Subject (Cartoon), where he won a total of 12. He won additional producing Oscars for several Short Subject (Two-reel), Short Subject (Live Action) and Short Subject (Documentary) films, and for two full-length documentaries, 1953’s The Living Desert and 1954’s The Vanishing Prairie, per the Academy Awards database. His only nomination for Best Picture was 1964’s Mary Poppins; the movie lost to My Fair Lady at the 1965 Academy Awards, although Julie Andrews took home Best Actress for her work as Mary Poppins.

In what was perhaps the most aggressively adorable presentation of an Academy Award of all time, Disney won an honorary Oscar for Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in 1939, “recognized as a significant screen innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field for the motion picture cartoon.” According to the Walt Disney Family Museum, Academy President and legendary film director Frank Capra came up with the idea of presenting Disney with a regular-sized Oscar on a base with seven small statuettes, one for each dwarf, descending down the side. Shirley Temple, the most famous child star of the era, presented the award to Disney, asking “Isn’t it bright and shiny? Aren’t you proud of it, Mr. Disney?” to which Disney replied “Well, I’m so proud I think I’ll bust.” The exchange is available on YouTube.