'' Beauty and the Beast '' premiered as an unfinished film at the New York Film Festival on September 29 , 1991 , followed by its theatrical release as a completed film at the El Capitan Theatre on November 13 . The film grossed $ 425 million at the box office worldwide on a $ 25 million budget . '' Beauty and the Beast '' won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy , the first animated film to ever win that category . It also became the first animated film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 64th Academy Awards , where it won the Academy Award for Best Original Score and Best Original Song for its title song and received additional nominations for Best Original Song and Best Sound . In April 1994 , '' Beauty and the Beast '' became Disney 's first animated film to be adapted into a Broadway musical . The success of the film spawned two direct-to-video follow-ups : '' Beauty and the Beast : The Enchanted Christmas '' ( 1997 ) and '' Beauty and the Beast : Belle 's Magical World '' ( 1998 ) , both of which take place in the timeline of the original . This was followed by a spin-off television series , '' Sing Me a Story with Belle ''
64th Academy Awards
64th Academy Awards
Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)