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
1973 in film 1973 in film The year 1973 in film involved some significant events. The top ten 1973 released films by box office gross in the United States and Canada are as follows: The highest-grossing 1973 films in countries outside of North America. The following table lists known worldwide gross revenue figures for several high-grossing films that originally released in 1973. Note that this list is incomplete and is therefore not representative of the highest-grossing films worldwide in 1973. The worldwide revenue for "The Sting", for example is not known. This list also includes gross revenue from later re-releases. Academy Awards: Golden