Peter Schneider (film executive) Peter Schneider (film executive) Peter Schneider is an American film and theatrical producer, notable as the first president of Walt Disney Feature Animation for The Walt Disney Company from 1985 to 1999, and was responsible for helping to turn the feature animation department around and creating some of the most critically acclaimed and highest grossing animated features that Disney released. These films included "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (1988), "The Little Mermaid" (1989), "Beauty and the Beast" (1991, the first animated feature to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture), "Aladdin" (1992), and "The Lion King" (1994, the highest
2016 in film 2016 in film 2016 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, and a list of films released and deaths. The top films released in 2016 by worldwide gross are as follows: "", "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story", "Finding Dory", and "Zootopia" grossed more than $1 billion each, making them among the highest-grossing films of all time. This is the first year that two animated films ("Finding Dory" and "Zootopia") grossed over $1 billion in a single year and are ranked the 4th- and 5th-highest-grossing animated films. Two other films ("The Jungle Book"