history as the individual with the most Oscar wins in a single year. At the 26th Academy Awards, in addition to winning the Best Documentary Feature Oscar, Disney also won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom, the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) for The Alaskan Eskimo and the Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel) for Bear Country. In addition to its Oscar, the film also won the International Prize at the 1954 Cannes Film Festival, an award at the Berlin Film Festival and a special achievement award from the Golden Globe Awards. In 2000, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". References External links The Living Desert essay by N. Paul Kenworthy Jr. on the National Film Registry website "The Living Desert", essay by Daniel Eagan in America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry, A&C Black, 2010 , pp. 478–79 1953 films 1950s English-language films Films directed by James Algar American documentary films Disney documentary films Best Documentary Feature Academy Award winners United States National Film Registry films Documentary films about nature 1953 documentary films Films produced by Ben Sharpsteen Films produced by Walt Disney Films set in the Southwestern United States Films set in Arizona Films set in deserts Films shot in Tucson, Arizona Films scored by Paul Smith (film and television composer) Walt Disney Pictures films Films with screenplays by Winston Hibler 1950s American films