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
2011 in film greatest art films of our age, but a revolution in the language of blockbuster filmmaking. One big-budget action film after another used digital cameras to show the world behind explosions in starker, stranger light, while constructing a backbone of classical ideas and images." These are the top-grossing films that were released in 2011. "" grossed $1,045,713,802, becoming the second film in the series to have grossed over $1 billion, and the 13th highest-grossing film of all time. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2" grossed $1,341,511,219, becoming the third highest-grossing film of all time, the highest-grossing film in