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The 2008 Disney Dreams Giveaway is part of the Year of a Million Dreams at Disney Parks. At Disneyland, the popular immersive entertainment experiences will continue to thrill guests at Disney Princess Fantasy Faire, Jedi Training Academy and Pirate's Lair on Tom Sawyer Island. And at Disney's California Adventure, guests young and old will be dancing to the beat of the new High School Musical 2: School's Out! street show, inspired by the megahit Disney Channel original movie. For information on new attractions, the Year of a Million Dreams celebration and vacations at Disneyland Resort visit http://www.disneyland.com/, call (866) 60-DISNEY or contact local travel agents.
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During his career, Disney received 64 individual Academy Award nominations, and won 26 times - both all-time records. Most of Disney's nominations and awards were for cartoon shorts, but he ... won four awards for Best Documentary. In 1941, Disney won the prestigious Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, which honors "creative producers whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production." Perhaps an even more amazing statistic is that, for 31 years, from 1931 to 1962, Disney was nominated for at least one Academy Award every year but one - 1940. The year after that incredible string of nominations finally ended, Disney won his first and only Best Picture award for "Mary Poppins" (1963).
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Raised on a farm near Marceline, Missouri, Walt early became interested in drawing, selling his first sketches to neighbors when he was only seven years old. At McKinley High School in Chicago, Disney divided his attention between drawing and photography, contributing to the school paper. At night he attended the Academy of Fine Arts.
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Disney experimented with Technicolor and animation styles. In 1932, he won an Academy Award in the best cartoon category for "Flowers and Trees." It was the first of 32 Academy Awards which Disney would win in his life.
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In 1939, Disney received an honorary Academy Award and in 1954 he received four Academy Awards. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson presented Disney with the Presidential Medal of Freedom and in the same year Disney was awarded the Freedom Foundation Award.
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The Steve Harvey Morning Show conducted the Dreamer's Contest to identify the participants in Disney's Dreamers Academy. This program was created for high school students who show promise -- but may need a little motivation. However, all of the selected students share a trait: the power to DREAM. Parents, teachers, school administrators, church groups and even the students themselves nominated more than 3,000 aspiring dreamers from across the nation for the program.
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