Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. The 30th film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series and the third film of the Disney Renaissance period, the film is based on the fairy tale La Belle et la Bête by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont. The film's animation screenplay was written by Linda Woolverton with story written by Roger Allers, Brenda Chapman, Chris Sanders, Burny Mattinson, Kevin Harkey, Brian Pimental, Bruce Woodside, Joe Ranft, Tom Ellery, Kelly Ashbury, and Robert Lence, directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise and produced by Don Hahn. The music of the film was composed by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman. The film was dedicated to Howard Ashman. The film was released on November 22, 1991. Beauty and the Beast was also nominated for several awards and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, the Academy Awards for Best Original Score and Best Original Song for the song "Beauty and the Beast". Famously, Beauty and the Beast was the first ever animated film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Voice Cast
- Belle - Paige O'Hara
- Beast - Robby Benson
- Gaston - Richard White
- Lumiere - Jerry Orbach
- Cogsworth - David Ogden Stiers
- Mrs. Potts - Angela Lansbury
- Chip - Bradley Michael Pierce
- Maurice - Rex Everhart
- Lefou - Jesse Corti
- Philippe - Hal Smith
- Wardrobe - Jo Anne Worley
- Bimbette - Mary Kay Bergman
- Stove - Brian Cummings
- Bookseller - Alvin Epstein
- Monsieur D'Arque - Tony Jay
- Baker - Alec Murphy
- Featherduster - Kimmy Robertson
- Bimbette - Kath Soucie
- Narrator - David Ogden Stiers
- Footstool/Special Vocal Effects - Frank Welker
Additional Voices
- Jack Angel
- Bruce Adler
- Scott Barnes
- Vanna Bonta
- Maureen Brennan
- Liz Callaway
- Philip Clarke
- Margery Daley
- Jennifer Darling
- Albert de Ruiter
- George Dvorsky
- Bill Farmer - Angry Mob, Gaston Swallowing Eggs
- Bruce Fifer
- Johnson Flucker
- Larry Hansen
- Randy Hansen
- Mary Ann Hart
- Alix Korey
- Phyllis Kubey
- Hearndon Lackey
- Sherry Lynn
- Mickie McGowan
- Larry Moss
- Panchali Null
- Wilbur Pauley
- Jennifer Perito
- Caroline Peyton
- Patrick Pinney
- Cynthia Richards-Hewes
- Phil Proctor
- Stephani Ryan
- Gordon Stanley
- Stephen Sturk
Trivia
- In 2002, Beauty and the Beast was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."