"The Lion King" received four Golden Globe Award and Oscar nominations. The film would go on to win two Golden Globes; for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Original Score, as well as two Academy Awards, for Best Original Score (Hans Zimmer) and Best Original Song with "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" by Elton John and Tim Rice. The songs "Circle of Life" and "Hakuna Matata" were also nominated. "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" also won the Grammy Award for Best Male Vocal Performance. "The Lion King" also won Annie Awards for Best Animated Feature, Best Achievement in Voice Acting (for Jeremy Irons) and Best Individual Achievement for Story Contribution in the Field of Animation.
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who did the voice for simba in lion king
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Matthew Broderick
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can you name the movie ?
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The Lion King
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when was it released?
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June 1994
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who designed the protagonist?
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Mark Henn served as Simba's supervising animator as a cub, Ruben A. Aquino animated the character as he appears as an adult.
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Universal acclaim, a superbly realized character
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Hans Zimmer
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"The Lion King" received four Golden Globe Award and Oscar nominations. The film would go on to win two Golden Globes; for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Original Score, as well as two Academy Awards, for Best Original Score (Hans Zimmer) and Best Original Song with "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" by Elton John and Tim Rice. The songs "Circle of Life" and "Hakuna Matata" were also nominated. "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" also won the Grammy Award for Best Male Vocal Performance. "The Lion King" also won Annie Awards for Best Animated Feature, Best Achievement in Voice Acting (for Jeremy Irons) and Best Individual Achievement for Story Contribution in the Field of Animation.
The Lion King | Other awards
At the Saturn Awards, the film was nominated in two categories, Best Fantasy Film and Best Performance by a Younger Actor although it did not win in either category. The film also received two nominations at the British Academy Film Awards, for Best Sound as well as the Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music although it lost in both categories to "Speed" and "Backbeat" respectively. The film received two BMI Film & TV Awards for Film Music and Most Performed Song with "Can You Feel the Love Tonight." At the 1995 MTV Movie Awards, the film received nominations for Best Villain and Best Song, though it lost in both categories.
The Lion King | Other awards
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1st Blockbuster Entertainment Awards | Favorite Soundtrack
Disney studio bosses expressed fears that Zimmer would be killed if he went to South Africa, so the recording of the choirs was organized during a visit by Lebo M. Zimmer won numerous awards for his work on "The Lion King", including an Academy Award for Best Original Score, a Golden Globe, and two Grammys. In 1997, the score was adapted into a Broadway musical version which won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1998. , the musical version of "The Lion King" is the highest grossing Broadway show of all time, having grossed $853.8 million. Zimmer's score for Tony Scott's 1995 film "Crimson Tide" won a Grammy Award for the main theme, which makes heavy use of synthesizers in place of traditional orchestral instruments.
Hans Zimmer | 1990s
The film received nominations for Best Animated Feature Film and Original Song categories at the 77th Golden Globe Awards and 25th Critics' Choice Awards. It was also nominated at 73rd British Academy Film Awards and 92nd Academy Awards, both for visual effects.
The Lion King (2019 film) | Introduction
"The Lion King" won the Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Movie at the 1995 Kids' Choice Awards. In 2008, "The Lion King" was ranked as the 319th greatest film ever made by "Empire" magazine, and in June 2011, "TIME" named it one of "The 25 All-TIME Best Animated Films". In June 2008, the American Film Institute listed "The Lion King" as the fourth best film in the animation genre in its AFI's 10 Top 10 list, having previously put "Hakuna Matata" as 99th on its AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs ranking.
The Lion King | Other awards
When Zimmer was chosen by Disney to compose the music for their film "The Lion King", he specifically wanted to collaborate with Morake. His voice is the first voice heard at the beginning of the film, singing a chant over the opening sequence, which is often considered synonymous with the film's image in popular culture. He also contributed to the sequel to the film's soundtrack, "Rhythm of the Pride Lands", and the film's direct-to-video sequel "". The duo composed so much music that Disney approved of an additional soundtrack album, "Rhythm of the Pride Lands", containing extra compositions. "The Lion King's" original soundtrack, with the compositions that had made the cut for the theatrical release, earned the two composers a Grammy Award, and Zimmer won an Academy Award for Best Original Score.
Lebo M. | The Lion King
The film was nominated for two Academy Awards; Jerry Goldsmith for Best Original Score and Harry W. Tetrick, Aaron Rochin, William McCaughey, Roy Charman for Best Sound. Additionally, the Writers Guild of America nominated Milius' screenplay.
The Wind and the Lion | Awards and honors
★ Alphonso Romero Jones II - "The Lion King"
32nd Young Artist Awards | Best Performance in Live Theater - Young Actor
★ Christopher Massey - From the Los Angeles production of Disney's "The Lion King"
23rd Young Artist Awards | Outstanding Young Performer in Live Theater
The film was nominated for four Academy Awards: Maurice Jarre was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. Head was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design, and Oswald Morris for the BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography.
The Man Who Would Be King (film) | Award nominations
The original motion picture soundtrack for the first film was released by Walt Disney Records on June 13, 1994, two days before the film's release. It contains songs by songwriter Elton John and Tim Rice, who wrote five original songs, with Elton John performing "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" during the end credits. Additionally, "The Morning Report", a song which was not present in the original theatrical film, was later added to the IMAX theater and to the DVD Platinum Edition release. The film's score was composed by Hans Zimmer and supplemented with traditional African music and choir elements arranged by Lebo M.
The Lion King (franchise) | Music
Zimmer's partners Mark Mancina and Jay Rifkin helped with arrangements and song production. The "Lion King" original motion picture soundtrack was released by Walt Disney Records on April 27, 1994. It was the fourth-best-selling album of the year on the "Billboard" 200 and the top-selling soundtrack. It is the only soundtrack for an animated film to be certified Diamond (10× platinum) by the Recording Industry Association of America. Zimmer's complete instrumental score for the film was never originally given a full release, until the soundtrack's commemorative in 2014. "The Lion King" also inspired the 1995 release "Rhythm of the Pride Lands", with eight songs by Zimmer, Mancina, and Lebo M.
The Lion King | Music
The song "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" alone won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, the Golden Globe for Best Original Song, the BMI Film Music Award, and the Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance Male. On home video, "The Lion King" became the best-selling film on VHS, selling 32million tapes, and grossing in video sales. "The Lion King II: Simba's Pride" sold 3.5 million copies in three days. Thirteen million copies were sold while it was still in print in the late 1990s. By 2000, it had sold 15million VHS copies, and grossed about in sales and rentals.
The Lion King (franchise) | Reception
★ "The Lion King" (Walt Disney)
16th Youth in Film Awards | Best Family Motion Picture: Comedy or Musical
The soundtrack received two Golden Globe award nominations: "Best Original Score" and "Best Original Song" (for "Wunderkind").
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (soundtrack) | Response
This is the discography of Hans Zimmer, an award-winning German composer and music producer. Zimmer has composed and produced over one hundred soundtracks and film scores. Of them, about 50 soundtracks and songs were nominated for awards. He won one Academy Award ("The Lion King"), four Satellite Awards ("The Thin Red Line", "Gladiator", "The Last Samurai", ""), two Golden Globe Awards ("The Lion King", "Gladiator"), four Grammy Awards (two prizes for "The Lion King", "Crimson Tide", "The Dark Knight"), three Saturn Awards ("The Dark Knight", "Inception", "Interstellar"), two Annie Awards ("Kung Fu Panda", "Secrets of the Furious Five"), and one WAFCA Award ("Inception").
Hans Zimmer discography | Introduction
"The Lion King 1½" sold 6million DVD and VHS units in North America. "The Lion King" musical has grossed nearly as of 2017, and is the highest-grossing musical of all time. Both sequels won the Annie Award for Best Animated Home Entertainment Production. "The Lion King 1½" also won five DVD Exclusive Awards. The musical won six Tony Awards including Best Musical.
The Lion King (franchise) | Reception
"If I Were King" was nominated for four Academy Awards: Hans Drier was also nominated for an Academy Award for his work on the 1930 film "The Vagabond King", which was a musical version of the same story.
If I Were King | Accolades
The album was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score and a Grammy Award: "Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television" but lost both to "The Lion King".
The Shawshank Redemption (soundtrack) | Recognition
Both films won Academy Awards for Best Original Song and Best Original Score. "Aladdin" also earned an additional Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song and nominations for Best Sound and Best Sound Effects Editing, for a total of five nominations. "The Lion King" earned two additional Academy Award nominations for Best Original Song, giving it a total of four Academy Award nominations. Between the two in-house productions, Disney diversified in animation methods and produced "The Nightmare Before Christmas" (1993) with former Disney animator Tim Burton. 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.
Disney Renaissance | 1992–94: "Aladdin" and "The" "Lion King"
"King of the Zombies" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Music (Music Score of a Dramatic Picture) (Edward Kay).
King of the Zombies | Awards
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The Lion King (1994 soundtrack) | Certifications
He asked Zimmer if any sort of musical version of the song could still be a part of the film; Favreau subsequently asked Tim Rice if he could update the song's lyrics to reflect Scar's new dynamic with the hyenas. Rice did so, and the final version of the song is a mix of the monologue Nathanson penned (from "Mufasa has always shown too much restraint when it comes to hunting" to "the need for a diff'rnt dream"), Rice's old and new lyrics, and new score created by Zimmer. Favreau opined that while it wasn't the full song, it would give the audiences the impression that they had still seen the sequence in the remake, and cited the final shot of Scar on a peak with a crescent moon behind him as a key image he had to keep for the film.
The Lion King (2019 soundtrack) | Background
Zimmer treated his work on the remake similar to his work on the original film, stating that "[He is] doing this strictly for the people for whom it means something. [He is] working [his] musicians to the bone because [he] wants to get that performance. [He wanted] to smell sweat and blood in [the] studio". However, he also had a different approach on the score than in the original film, trying to "rehearse and record the score like a live concert performance". On November 28, 2017, it was reported that Elton John had signed onto the project to rework his musical compositions from the original film before retiring.
The Lion King (2019 soundtrack) | Background
During its release in 1994, "The Lion King" was widely praised and acclaimed, grossing more than $783 million worldwide, becoming the most successful film released that year, and, as of May 2020, is the forty-ninth highest-grossing film of all time. The film was the highest grossing animated film of all time until the release of Disney/Pixar's "Finding Nemo", a computer-animated film. "The Lion King" is still the highest grossing traditionally animated film of all time in the United States. The film received many award nominations, and won the Academy Award for Best Original Score, the Golden Globe award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, and the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature.
The Lion King (franchise) | Reception
At the 83rd Academy Awards, "The King's Speech" won the Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Director (Hooper), Best Actor (Firth), and Best Original Screenplay (Seidler). The film had received 12 Oscar nominations, more than any other film in that year. Besides the four categories it won, the film received nominations for Best Cinematography (Danny Cohen) and two for the supporting actors (Bonham Carter and Rush), as well as two for its mise-en-scène: Art Direction and Costumes. At the 64th British Academy Film Awards, it won seven awards, including Best Film, Outstanding British Film, Best Actor for Firth, Best Supporting Actor for Rush, Best Supporting Actress for Bonham Carter, Best Original Screenplay for Seidler, and Best Music for Alexandre Desplat.
The King's Speech | Awards and nominations
The Lion King is a musical based on the 1994 Walt Disney Animation Studios' animated feature film of the same name with music by Elton John, lyrics by Tim Rice, and book by Roger Allers and Irene Mecchi, along with additional music and lyrics by Lebo M, Mark Mancina, Jay Rifkin, Julie Taymor, and Hans Zimmer. Directed by Taymor, the musical features actors in animal costumes as well as giant, hollow puppets. The show is produced by Disney Theatrical Productions.
The Lion King (musical) | Introduction
1968: "The Lion in Winter" – John Barry 1969: "Z" – Mikis Theodorakis
BAFTA Award for Best Original Music | 1960s
Hans Zimmer, who composed the 1994 animated version, would return to compose the score for the remake with Pharrell Williams as a collaborator. Elton John also returned to rework his musical compositions from the original film before his retirement, with Knowles-Carter assisting John in the reworking of the soundtrack. John, the original film's lyricist, Tim Rice, and Beyoncé were also slated in 2018 to create a new song for the film. However, the collaboration between Beyoncé and John did not pan out as the unreleased song was not added to the official soundtrack. John and Rice also wrote a new song for the film's end credits, titled "Never Too Late" and performed by John.
The Lion King (2019 film) | Music
However, it features the award-winning music from the first film, written by Elton John and Tim Rice. The show uses songs, dance, puppetry and visual effects to create an African savannah setting filled with lions, elephants, giraffes, birds, zebras and gazelles.
The Lion King (franchise) | Theatrical
He also won a Grammy Award in 1995 for his spoken word performance of an audiobook version of "The Lion King".
Robert Guillaume | Introduction
It was a Canadian Film Award nominee for Best Picture at the 26th Canadian Film Awards, but did not win. It won the Canadian Film Award for Best Musical Score.
Lions for Breakfast | Introduction
On September 28, 2016, it was announced that Jon Favreau would direct a remake of Disney's "The Lion King", which was announced to feature songs from the original film by Elton John and Tim Rice. On November 1, 2017, it was announced that the original film's composer, Hans Zimmer, who composed additional music for Favreau's "Iron Man", would return to score the film. Zimmer initially hesitated to return for the remake, arguing that "[he has] worked very hard to not ruin things through improvement", however, he agreed to compose the remake after performing the original film's score in a concert, saying that he "suddenly realized what [his] place in this new version was: to try a big experiment and use my band and orchestra, go back to Africa, work with Lebo and the chorus and extraordinary musicians from all over the world, and really make this a "performance"".
The Lion King (2019 soundtrack) | Background
Morake also helped score "The Lion King's" stage musical, creating new music and adding pieces from "Rhythm of the Pride Lands". The musical was nominated for Best Original Score at the 52nd Tony Awards in 1998. He founded the Lebo M Foundation and Till Dawn Entertainment.
Lebo M. | The Lion King
★ Jason Weaver (duet with ) - "The Lion King" (Walt Disney)
16th Youth in Film Awards | Best Performance by a Youth Actor in a Voice-Over - TV or Movie
John and Rice wrote five original songs for the film ("Circle of Life", "I Just Can't Wait to Be King", "Be Prepared", "Hakuna Matata" and "Can You Feel the Love Tonight"), with John's performance of "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" playing over the end credits. The IMAX and DVD releases added another song, "The Morning Report", based on a song discarded during development that eventually featured in the live musical version of "The Lion King". The score was composed by Hans Zimmer, who was hired based on his work in two films in African settings, "The Power of One" and "A World Apart", and supplemented the score with traditional African music and choir elements arranged by Lebo M.
The Lion King | Music
We saw it happen in 2016 when she easily outshone Coldplay during its own Super Bowl halftime performance. We saw it happen last year when she remade the world's most prestigious music festival as Beychella. Now we’re seeing it again with Disney's new version of “The Lion King".
The Lion King: The Gift | Critical reception
At the 17th Screen Actors Guild Awards, Firth won the Best Actor award and the cast won Best Ensemble. At the 64th British Academy Film Awards, it won seven awards out of fourteen nominations, more than any other film, consisting of Best Film, Outstanding British Film, Best Actor (Firth), Best Supporting Actor (Rush), Best Supporting Actress (Bonham Carter), Best Original Screenplay (Seidler), and Best Music (Alexandre Desplat).
List of awards and nominations received by The King's Speech | Introduction
The film had been nominated for 14 BAFTAs, more than any other film. At the 68th Golden Globe Awards, Firth won for Best Actor. The film won no other Golden Globes, despite earning seven nominations, more than any other film. At the 17th Screen Actors Guild Awards, Firth won the Best Actor award and the entire cast won Best Ensemble, meaning Firth went home with two acting awards in one evening. Hooper won the Directors Guild of America Awards 2010 for Best Director. The film won the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture at the Producers Guild of America Awards 2010.
The King's Speech | Awards and nominations
This production was performed in Mandarin and led by Ntsepa Pitjeng.
The Lion King (musical) | Other countries
"Lion" received six Oscar nominations at the 89th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Patel), Best Supporting Actress (Kidman) and Best Adapted Screenplay, but did not win in any of the categories. It did win two BAFTA Awards, however, for Best Supporting Actor (Patel) and Best Adapted Screenplay. At Australia's 7th AACTA Awards, it won twelve awards, in all of the categories it was nominated in.
Lion (2016 film) | Accolades
"King Rat" was nominated for Academy Awards for Cinematography (Burnett Guffey) and Art Direction (Robert Emmet Smith and Frank Tuttle).
King Rat (film) | Awards
The soundtrack for the 2019 Walt Disney Pictures film "The Lion King", a photorealistic computer-animated remake of the 1994 animated film of the same name, consists of a soundtrack featuring songs from the original film written by Elton John and Tim Rice, and performed by the film's cast, as well as a new song by Beyoncé and an end-credit song titled "Never Too Late", written by John and Rice and performed by John, and a score composed by the original film's composer Hans Zimmer. Beyoncé also produced a curated soundtrack titled , which features new songs performed by multiple artists.
The Lion King (2019 soundtrack) | Introduction
The following films received the Golden Lions or the major awards of the Venice Film Festival:
Golden Lion | Golden Lion
The Lion King is a 1994 American animated musical drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 32nd Disney animated feature film, and the fifth animated film produced during a period known as the Disney Renaissance. "The Lion King" was directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, produced by Don Hahn, and has a screenplay credited to Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, and Linda Woolverton. Its original songs were written by composer Elton John and lyricist Tim Rice, with a score by Hans Zimmer. The film features an ensemble voice cast that includes Matthew Broderick, James Earl Jones, Jeremy Irons, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Moira Kelly, Nathan Lane, Ernie Sabella, Rowan Atkinson, Robert Guillaume, Madge Sinclair (in her last film role), Whoopi Goldberg, Cheech Marin, and Jim Cummings.
The Lion King | Introduction
The Lion King: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album for the 1994 Disney animated film, "The Lion King". It contains songs from the film written by Elton John and Tim Rice, and a score composed by Hans Zimmer. Elton John has a dual role of performer for several tracks. Additional performers include Lebo M, Carmen Twillie, Jason Weaver, Rowan Atkinson, Joseph Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, Jeremy Irons, Cheech Marin, Jim Cummings, Nathan Lane, Ernie Sabella, and Sally Dworsky. The album was released on May 31, 1994 on CD and audio cassette. The soundtrack was recorded in three different countries: the U.S., the U.K.
The Lion King (1994 soundtrack) | Introduction
It was nominated for 6 Emmy Awards, including Best Actor for Michael Caine, but only won for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Lighting Direction (Electronic) for a Drama Series, Variety Series, Miniseries or a Special.
World War II: When Lions Roared | Awards
The film won eight Robert Awards including Best Film.
King's Game | Awards
"The Return of the King" also has the distinction of being the only fantasy film until "The Shape of Water" (2017) to have won the Academy Award for Best Picture. In addition to receiving the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and National Board of Review Award for Best Cast, many of the actors were also recognized for their individual work, including McKellen (12 nominations), Serkis (10 nominations), Astin (9 nominations), and Mortensen (5 nominations). Composer Howard Shore received recognition for his original score, as he was the recipient of two Academy Awards, two BAFTA nominations, and three Grammy Awards in addition to a number of other awards.
List of accolades received by The Lord of the Rings film series | Introduction
Due to Academy rules, only Hans Zimmer was officially nominated for Best Original Score, and not Lisa Gerrard at the time. However, the pair did win the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score as co-composers.
Gladiator (2000 film) | Accolades
Czech Lion Award for Best Film is award given to the Czech film with best soundtrack.
Czech Lion Award for Best Music | Introduction
"The Dark Knight" – James Newton Howard & Hans Zimmer
Online Film Critics Society Awards 2008 | Best Original Score
For the 1992 film "The Power of One", Zimmer traveled to Africa in order to use African choirs and drums in the recording of the score. On the strength of this work, Walt Disney Feature Animation approached Zimmer to compose the score for the 1994 film "The Lion King". This was to be his first score for an animated film. Zimmer said that he had wanted to go to South Africa to record parts of the soundtrack, but was unable to visit the country as he had a police record there "for doing 'subversive' movies" after his work on "The Power of One".
Hans Zimmer | 1990s
It was also nominated for the Grand Prix of the Belgian Syndicate of Cinema Critics.
When We Were Kings | Awards and recognition
Hans Florian Zimmer (; born 12 September 1957) is a German film score composer and record producer. Zimmer's works are notable for integrating electronic music sounds with traditional orchestral arrangements. Since the 1980s, he has composed music for over 150 films. His works include "The Lion King", for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1995, the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, "Interstellar", "Gladiator", "Crimson Tide", "Inception", "Dunkirk", and "The Dark Knight Trilogy". He has received four Grammy Awards, three Classical BRIT Awards, two Golden Globes, and an Academy Award. He was also named on the list of Top 100 Living Geniuses, published by "The Daily Telegraph".
Hans Zimmer | Introduction
Tina Turner recorded a version of "He Lives in You" for the film. On August 31, 2004, Disney released an "enhanced soundtrack" to coincide with the release of the film's 2-Disc Special Edition DVD. However, the CD only contains the songs featured in the film, without any of the inspired songs by the first film. "Siskel & Ebert" noted that it was best the film was direct-to-video, since the music was lacking and not remotely equal to the original's soundtrack.
The Lion King (franchise) | Music
"Library Lion" has won the following awards and honors:
Library Lion | Awards
Costume Designers Guild Primetime Emmy Awards Golden Globe Awards
The Lion in Winter (2003 film) | Nominated
2001 Czech Lion Awards ceremony was held on 2 March 2002. Jan Švankmajer's "Little Otik" has won the Best film award.
2001 Czech Lion Awards | Introduction
"The King and I" directed by Walter Lang
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★ (duet with Jason Weaver) - "The Lion King" (Walt Disney)
16th Youth in Film Awards | Best Performance by a Youth Actress in a Voice-Over - TV or Movie
Upon its release, "The Lion King" received 'Pick of the Year' by Entertainment Weekly. The Lion King received the most votes for the 1995 Computer Retail Week.winner in the Best Educational Software category, but it was disqualified due to being released before January 1. Parents reviewed Winnie the Pooh and the Honey as part of their series entitled "The best of 1995: Software".
Disney's Animated Storybook | Critical reception
"The Lion King" was released to critical acclaim. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 93%, based on 129 reviews, with an average rating of 8.43/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Emotionally stirring, richly drawn, and beautifully animated, "The Lion King" stands tall within Disney's pantheon of classic family films." It also ranked 56th on their "Top 100 Animation Movies". On Metacritic, the film has a score of 88 out of 100, based on 30 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a rare "A+" grade on an A+ to F scale. Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of a possible four and called it "a superbly drawn animated feature".
The Lion King | Critical response
Both "City Pages" and "Fuse" included "The Gift" on their lists of the best albums of 2019, while "Brooklyn Vegan" listed the soundtrack at number 22 on their ranking of the best rap and R&B albums of the same year. A list of awards and nominations received by songs from the album "The Lion King: The Gift".
The Lion King: The Gift | Accolades
Elton John thought his career had hit a new low when he was writing the music to the song "Hakuna Matata". However, the strongly enthusiastic audience reception to an early film trailer which consisted solely of the opening sequence with the song "Circle of Life", suggested that the film would be very successful. Out of the five original songs, "Hakuna Matata" was listed at number 99 in the AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs list in 2004, and "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" won the Oscar for Best Original Song during the 67th Academy Awards. The soundtrack itself was the fourth best-selling album of 1994 on the "Billboard" 200 and the top-selling soundtrack.
The Lion King (franchise) | Music
Bigas Luna won the Silver Lion at the 1992 Venice Film Festival for the film.
Jamón Jamón | Awards
At the 2019 Soul Train Music Awards, "Spirit" was nominated for Best Video of the Year and Best Dance Performance, while "Brown Skin Girl" was nominated for Best Collaboration and The Ashford & Simpson Songwriter's Award, winning the latter. "The Lion King: The Gift" has been nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards while "Spirit" has received two nominations: for Best Pop Solo Performance and Best Song Written for Visual Media. "Vibe" included "The Gift" on their list of the 30 best albums of 2019, while "The Fader" also included the release on their selections of the best albums of the same year.
The Lion King: The Gift | Accolades
Golden Apple Award Golden Globe Awards
Perry King | Award nominations
Since the category's inception in 1934, twelve animated films have won this music category, with Disney winning eleven (three with Pixar), and DreamWorks winning one. "Beauty and the Beast" (1991) and "The Lion King" (1994) both had three nominations in this category, the first and second films to do so. "Wet Blanket Policy", a 1948 Woody Woodpecker short cartoon, was also nominated for Best Original Song. "The Woody Woodpecker" song was written by George Tibbles and Ramey Idriess and was nominated for the 21st Academy Awards (21st). It is the only animated short subject to be nominated in a traditionally feature film category.
List of animated feature films nominated for Academy Awards | Best Original Song
Goldsmith was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Music Score, but lost to Stephen Warbeck's score for "Shakespeare in Love". Goldsmith was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. Matthew Wilder and David Zippel were nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for "Reflection". They were beaten by "The Truman Show" and "The Prayer" from "Quest for Camelot", respectively. In 2008, the film was one of 50 nominees listed on the ballot for the American Film Institute's top 10 greatest American animated movies.
Mulan (1998 film) | Accolades
At the 67th Academy Awards, three of the five nominees for the Academy Award for Best Original Song were from "The Lion King" soundtrack. John won the award for "Can You Feel the Love Tonight". Both that and "Circle of Life" became hits. "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" also won the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 37th Annual Grammy Awards. After the release of "The Lion King" soundtrack, the album remained at the top of "Billboard" 200 for nine weeks. On 10 November 1999, the RIAA certified "The Lion King" "Diamond" for selling 15million copies.
Elton John | "Sacrifice" to "Aida" (1990–1999)
He won a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance in a Featured Role - Play or Musical for his performance as Timon in "The Lion King".
Jonathan Wilson (actor) | Introduction
Other winners included "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2" and "Thor" with two awards and "Kill List", "Like Crazy", "", "The Inbetweeners Movie", and "Tyrannosaur" with one. Michael Fassbender received the Empire Hero Award, Ron Howard received the Empire Inspiration Award and Tim Burton received the Empire Legend Award. Indira Suleimenova from Kazakhstan won the Done In 60 Seconds Award for her 60-second film version of "Black Swan".
17th Empire Awards | Introduction
Several other people were also involved with the production of the ceremony. Bill Conti served as musical director and conductor for the event. Production designer Roy Christopher designed a new stage for the ceremony which prominently featured a proscenium which was designed to resemble the iris of a camera. Moreover, Christopher commented that the iris motif was inspired by the iris shot prominently featured in several comedic films and shorts. Dancer Debbie Allen choreographed "The Lion King" musical number. Actors Alec Baldwin, Jack Lemmon, Steve Martin, and Rosie O'Donnell participated in a pre-taped comedic sketch lampooning auditions for a role in "Cabin Boy", the film in which Letterman made his film acting debut.
67th Academy Awards | Ceremony information
The film was released in Australia on 19 January 2017 and in the United Kingdom on 20 January 2017. The film was released to positive reviews, with a Rotten Tomatoes approval rating of 86%, based on 200 reviews, and an average rating of 7.3/10. Metacritic lists a score of 69 out of 100, based on 45 reviews. "Lion" received six nominations at Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor for Patel, Best Supporting Actress for Kidman, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score and Best Cinematography. The film won Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Patel and Best Adapted Screenplay and nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Kidman, Best Film Music and Best Cinematography at British Academy Film Awards.
List of accolades received by Lion (2016 film) | Introduction
The film's soundtrack album contains two original songs; "Diggah Tunnah Dance", written by Lebo M., who co-wrote many of the songs for the original film, and "That's All I Need", written by Elton John and Tim Rice, who also worked on the first film. The latter song, which is performed by Nathan Lane in the film, is largely based on a cut song from "The Lion King" titled "The Warthog Rhapsody", with which it shares a similar melody. The film features the song "Hakuna Matata" from the first film, which is featured both as the original soundtrack recording in the soundtrack album and in the film as a new cover performed by Lane and Ernie Sabella.
The Lion King 1½ | Soundtrack
The film received six nominations at Critics' Choice Awards, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor for Patel, Best Supporting Actress for Kidman, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Score and Best Young Performer for Pawar. The film received four nominations at Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for Patel, Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for Kidman and Best Original Score. The film received five nominations at Satellite Awards, including Best Film, Best Supporting Actor for Patel, Best Supporting Actress for Kidman, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Film Editing.
List of accolades received by Lion (2016 film) | Introduction
But thanks to a clever story line, snappy dialogue that kids and adults will enjoy, a couple of decent new songs and the return of the original voice actors, "Lion King " is an irreverent gas." Many reviewers have suggested that the film was influenced by the Tom Stoppard play "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead", which follows Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters from Shakespeare's play "Hamlet", and details their experiences taking place during the same time as the events of "Hamlet", similar to what the film does with its predecessor, which has been similarly compared to "Hamlet". Screenwriter Tom Rogers confirmed that this was intentional in a 2019 interview, adding that the film's frame story was inspired by "Mystery Science Theater 3000".
The Lion King 1½ | Reception
He further wrote in his print review, "The saga of Simba, which in its deeply buried origins owes something to Greek tragedy and certainly to "Hamlet", is a learning experience as well as an entertainment." On the television program "Siskel & Ebert", the film was praised but received a mixed reaction when compared to the previous Disney films. Ebert and his partner Gene Siskel both gave the film a "Thumbs Up", but Siskel said that it was not as good as "Beauty and the Beast" and that it was "a good film, not a great one". Hal Hinson of "The Washington Post" called it "an impressive, almost daunting achievement" and felt that the film was "spectacular in a manner that has nearly become commonplace with Disney's feature-length animations", but was less enthusiastic toward the end of his review saying, "Shakespearean in tone, epic in scope, it seems more appropriate for grown-ups than for kids.
The Lion King | Critical response
The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reports that the film has an approval rating of 62% based on 13 reviews with an average rating of 5.97/10. "Siskel & Ebert" gave the film a "two-thumbs up" and said it was a "satisfactory sequel to one of the most popular films of all time, "The Lion King"". However, they also said it was best that it went to video, citing that the music was lacking and not remotely equal to the original's soundtrack. "TV Guide" gave the film 2½ stars out of four, claiming that, despite being of slightly higher quality than Disney's previous direct-to-video animated sequels, "comes nowhere near the level of its big-screen predecessor", either musically or artistically.
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride | Reception
"Kat and the Kings" won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical and, in an unusual move, the entire cast was named Best Actor in a Musical. The show also was nominated for Best Theatre Choreography. An original cast album was recorded live during the June 6, 1998 performance and released by First Night Records.
Kat and the Kings | Introduction
The score to "The Wind and the Lion" was composed and conducted by Jerry Goldsmith. True to the style of such Golden Age scores as Maurice Jarre's "Lawrence of Arabia", Goldsmith used a diverse ensemble that relied heavily upon a large percussion section and a variety of Moroccan instrumentation. The music went on to earn Goldsmith an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score, though he lost to fellow composer John Williams for "Jaws". It is often regarded as one of the best scores of his career and was one of the American Film Institute's 250 nominees for the top 25 American film scores.
The Wind and the Lion | Music
Tom Courtenay received the award for the Best Actor for his role as Hamp at the 1964 Venice Film Festival, where the film was also nominated for the Golden Lion. The film was nominated for four 1965 BAFTA awards, including Best Film.
King and Country | Awards
The score and the songs in the remake were influenced by the music featured in the Broadway version of "The Lion King", as Favreau felt that "[Zimmer and John] really [explored] further what the roots of the music are [in the Broadway show]". Of the five songs of the original, the fate of "Be Prepared" was the one which was most debated when creating the film's soundtrack. Favreau felt that the original sequence, which he compared to the "Night on Bald Mountain" segment of "Fantasia", would clash too heavily with the remake's tone and characterization of Scar. Favreau considered outright cutting the song and had screenwriter Jeff Nathanson create a spoken word monologue to replace the song, but was unsatisfied since he knew how important a villain song is to a Disney film.
The Lion King (2019 soundtrack) | Background
The score garnered Goldsmith an Oscar nomination for Best Original Score, though he lost to fellow composer John Williams for his score to "Jaws". "The Wind and the Lion" was also one of the AFI's 250 nominees for the top twenty-five American film scores.
Jerry Goldsmith | 1970s
"Kong" did not receive any Academy Awards nominations. Selznick wanted to nominate O'Brien and his crew for a special award in visual effects but the Academy declined. Such a category did not exist at the time and would not exist until 1938. Sidney Saunders and Fred Jackman received a special achievement award for the development of the translucent acetate/cellulose rear screen – the only "Kong"-related award.
King Kong (1933 film) | Awards and nominations
She sang the title song for the German version of the film "The Lion King." For her CD "Blue Lights and Nylons" she received die Goldene Schallplatte in the category German Jazz in 2003.
Jocelyn B. Smith | Awards
Henry King - "The Song of Bernadette"
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Alongside "The Lion King" and "The Nightmare Before Christmas", "Mask of the Phantasm" was nominated for an Annie Award in the category of Best Animated Feature, but lost to "The Lion King".
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm | Accolades
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and twice for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, but lost to "Up" and "Crazy Heart", respectively. It was also nominated for eight Annie Awards and, at the 37th Annie Awards Ceremony on February 6, 2010, won three.
The Princess and the Frog | Awards and nominations
In 2002, the first recipient of the award was "Amélie". The most recent award was given in 2020 to "The Lion King". The nation with the most cumulative nominations is the United States, with 17 of the 31 nominations to date. Other nations with multiple nominations are France and the United Kingdom (with four) and Germany (with two).
Golden Eagle Award for Best Foreign Language Film | Introduction
Most of the show's international productions had cast recordings which are available on CD, including: Of all the show's productions (counting the English ones), only the Brazilian and the Korean ones didn't have cast recordings released.
The Lion King (musical) | Recordings
In 1967, the "Jungle Emperor" theatrical feature was awarded the St. Mark's Silver Lion Award at the 19th Venice International Film Festival.
Kimba the White Lion | Reception
Hugh Jackman was nominated in 2001 for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. The film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Song for the song "Until...", written and performed by Sting. The same song was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, and Sting performed the song during the ceremony.
Kate &amp; Leopold | Accolades
The soundtrack also consists of various covers of pop songs, such as Hugh Masekela's "Grazing in the Grass" performed by Raven-Symoné, Kool and the Gang's "Jungle Boogie" performed by Drew K. and The French, and "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" (which appears briefly in the original film as well) performed by Lebo M. and Vinx. Other featured songs not on the soundtrack include "Sunrise, Sunset" from the musical "Fiddler on the Roof" and the eponymous theme song from the television show "Peter Gunn" composed by Henry Mancini. The film contains an original score composed by Don L. Harper, and also features Ennio Morricone's instrumental theme from the Sergio Leone film "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly".
The Lion King 1½ | Soundtrack
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List of awards and nominations received by Bibi Zhou | Music King Awards
He composed the original score and then spent late September through early November 2005 conducting the Hollywood Orchestra and overseeing the recording of the English choir. For "colour", he employed instruments used in ancient folk music, and to underscore critical dramatic moments, he added choral textures and, occasionally, a solo voice. The score includes instances of electronic music. The soundtrack received two Golden Globe Award nominations: "Best Original Score" and "Best Original Song" (for "Wunderkind").
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | Music
Other winners included "Braveheart" with one award for Best Film and "Heavenly Creatures", "The Madness of King George", "The Usual Suspects" and "To Die For" also with one. Mike Leigh received the Lifetime Achievement Award.
1st Empire Awards | Introduction
The other top 50 box office hits that earned nominations were "The Lion King" (1st), "True Lies" (3rd), "Clear and Present Danger" (6th), "Speed" (7th), "The Mask" (8th), "Interview with the Vampire" (10th), "Maverick" (11th), "Legends of the Fall" (27th) and "Little Women" (31st).
67th Academy Awards | Box office performance of nominees