Having lost both of her parents at a young age, Snow White is a princess living with her wicked and cold-hearted stepmother, the Queen. Disney's take on the fairy tale has had a significant cultural effect, resulting in popular theme park attractions, a video game, a Broadway musical, and an upcoming live-action film. The American Film Institute ranked it among the 100 greatest American films, and also named the film as the greatest American animated film of all time in 2008. In 1989, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant' and selected it as one of the first 25 films for preservation in the National Film Registry. They were presented to Disney by Shirley Temple.

This award was unique, consisting of one normal-sized, plus seven miniature Oscar statuettes. Snow White was nominated for Best Musical Score at the Academy Awards in 1938, and the next year, producer Walt Disney was awarded an honorary Oscar for the film. Worldwide, its inflation-adjusted earnings top the animation list. Adjusted for inflation, it is one of the top-ten performers at the North American box office and is still the highest-grossing animated film. The popularity of the film has led to its being re-released theatrically many times, until its home video release in the 1990s. It was also the highest-grossing animated film for 55 years. Despite initial doubts from the film industry, it was a critical and commercial success and, with international earnings of more than $8 million during its initial release against a $1.5 million budget, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1937, and briefly held the record of highest-grossing sound film. Snow White premiered at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles, California, on December 21, 1937. The production was supervised by David Hand, and the film's sequences were directed by Perce Pearce, William Cottrell, Larry Morey, Wilfred Jackson, and Ben Sharpsteen. Based on the 1812 German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, it is the first animated feature film produced in the United States and the first cel animated feature film. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures.

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