Walt Disney Animation Studios in worldwide box office. The next summer's "Tarzan", directed by Kevin Lima and Chris Buck, had a high production cost of $130 million, but earned $448 million at the box office. The "Tarzan" song score by pop star Phil Collins resulted in significant record sales and an Academy Award for Best Song. In October 1999, Dream Quest Images, a special effects studio previously purchased by The Walt Disney Company in April 1996 to replace Buena Vista Visual Effects, was merged with the computer-graphics operation of Walt Disney Feature Animation to form a division called The Secret Lab. The Secret Lab
Academy Award for Best Original Score members outside the music branch didn't distinguish between the two. So when a score like "The Lion King" is competing against a drama like "Forrest Gump," it's apples and oranges – not in the quality of the score, but in the way it functions in the movie. There's a big difference." The category was therefore split into Best Original Dramatic Score and Best Original Musical or Comedy Score in 1996. This change proved unpopular in the other branches of the Academy as Charles Bernstein, chairman of the Academy's rules committee, noted that "no other Oscar category depended on a film's