(Reuters) - The blockbuster movie "Frozen," a Walt Disney Animation
Studios musical fairy tale about the bond between two royal sisters in an icy
Scandinavian kingdom, won the Academy Award on Sunday for best animated feature
film.
The win is the first in the category for Walt Disney Animation
Studios, the animation house founded by the man who pioneered the genre. The
animated feature category was created in 2002 and has been dominated by
Disney-owned Pixar, which has won it seven times but was shut out of the
nominations this year for the second time in three years.
"Frozen" cemented a resurgence for Disney Animation Studios, becoming a
global phenomenon with over $1 billion in movie theater ticket sales, according
to Rentrak.
The musical soundtrack and hit anthem "Let It Go" by Idina Menzel have sold
more than 1 million copies each and inspired thousands of YouTube videos by
young girls singing the tune.
The film features the voice of Kristen Bell as a Scandinavian princess
searching for her sister, the queen, who has the power to freeze anything with a
touch and accidentally sets off a long winter that is destroying their kingdom.
The story was inspired by "The Snow Queen" fairy tale by Hans Christian
Andersen.
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