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
Disney Renaissance Original Score, earning an additional nomination for Best Original Song for "Kiss the Girl." "The Rescuers Down Under" was released one year later and was the first canon sequel produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The film garnered mainly positive reception, but was not as financially successful as "The Little Mermaid". "Beauty and the Beast", often considered to be one of the greatest of all Disney animated features, followed in 1991. It was the first animated film nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, losing to "The Silence of the Lambs", and remains the only animated film nominated for