Ranking '' Beauty and the Beast '' Disney 's third greatest animated film while hailing it as " the best Disney movie musical , " Gregory Ellwood of HitFix wrote , " you ca n't argue the cinematic joy in numbers such as the opening ' Belle ' . " Ranking '' Beauty and the Beast '' the " Best Disney Soundtrack ... of the Past 25 Years " , Moviefone 's Sandie Angulo Chen highlighted " Belle " , commenting , " There 's an infectious quality to all of the Alan Menken and Howard Ashman songs , like the opening number of ' Belle ' ( that reveals how different Belle is from the other Disney heroines ) . " Alongside " Be Our Guest " and " Beauty and the Beast " , " Belle " was one of the three '' Beauty and the Beast '' songs that received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song at the 64th Academy Awards in 1992 . " Belle " ultimately lost to the film 's title and theme song . According to producer Don Hahn , Disney was actually hoping that the award would go to " Beauty and the Beast " and promoted the song heavily , spending significantly less money and attention on " Belle " . Oh No They Did n't ranked " Belle " at number twenty in its article " The Top 25 Disney Songs of All Time "
64th Academy Awards
64th Academy Awards
Belle (Disney song)