Walt Disney receives a special Oscar for his classic 83-minute animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, at the 11th Academy Awards held at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Eleven-year-old child star Shirley Temple presents Walt with one statuette and seven miniature statuettes for "a significant screen innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field for the motion picture cartoon." (It is film director Frank Capra who has come up with the idea of a full-sized Oscar statuette with seven smaller ones descending in a row.) Also awarded is the Disney/RKO short Ferdinand the Bull for Best Short Subject, Cartoon, beating out 4 other animated shorts including Disney's own Brave Little Tailor! (It is the first Academy Awards show without any official host.)
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