Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise's 1991 musical retelling of the French fairy tale follows Belle as she trades her freedom for her father's release and slowly reconsiders the beast holding her captive. Written from a completed script by Linda Woolverton and scored by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, it became the first animated film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
The Lion King follows Simba, a lion cub exiled after his uncle Scar arranges his father Mufasa's death, as he grows up away from his kingdom and eventually returns to reclaim it. Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff directed after an earlier documentary-style version by George Scribner was abandoned for a musical treatment with songs by Elton John and Tim Rice and a score by Hans Zimmer. Made on a $45 million budget, it grossed $968.5 million, becoming the highest-grossing traditionally animated film ever made and winning the Academy Award for Best Original Score.