Beauty and also the Beast could be a 1991 animated American family film. It is the thirtieth animated feature made by Walt Disney Feature Animation. The film received its premiere at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood on November 13, 1991. This film, one in all the best known of the Disney studio's films, relies on the well-known fairy tale Beauty and therefore the Beast, regarding a stunning girl kept in an exceedingly castle by a horrific monster. It is the primary and only full-length animated feature film to ever be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Image (it lost to The Silence of the Lambs). Heightening the amount of performance in the age known as the Disney Renaissance (1989-1999, beginning with The Little Mermaid and ending with Tarzan ), many animated films following its unharness have been influenced by its mixing of traditional animation and laptop generated imagery.

Beauty and also the Beast ranked 7th on the American Film Institutes's list of best animated films, 22 on the Institutes's list of best musicals and thirty four on its list of the simplest romantic American movies. On the list of the best songs from American movies, Beauty and therefore the Beast ranked 62. The film was custom-made into a Broadway musical of the identical name, which ran from 1994 to 2007.

In 2002, Beauty and therefore the Beast was added to the United States National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." In January of the same year, the film was reissued in IMAX format in a special edition edit together with a new musical sequence. A 2-disc Platinum Edition DVD unharness followed in October.