Claim: The Lion King is an artistic work.

In the history of the Walt Disney Company , the Disney Renaissance refers to the era from 1989 to 1999 during which Walt Disney Feature Animation -LRB- renamed Walt Disney Animation Studios in 2006 -RRB- experienced a creative resurgence in producing successful animated films based on well-known stories , which restored public and critical interest in The Walt Disney Company as a whole . During this era , the studio produced and released ten animated films : The Little Mermaid -LRB- 1989 -RRB- , The Rescuers Down Under -LRB- 1990 -RRB- , Beauty and the Beast -LRB- 1991 -RRB- , Aladdin -LRB- 1992 -RRB- , The Lion King -LRB- 1994 -RRB- , Pocahontas -LRB- 1995 -RRB- , The Hunchback of Notre Dame -LRB- 1996 -RRB- , Hercules -LRB- 1997 -RRB- , Mulan -LRB- 1998 -RRB- and Tarzan -LRB- 1999 -RRB- .   From 2000-06 , Disney Animation went through a slump , downsizing , and conversion to computer animation , due to competition from CGI films made from Pixar -LRB- which The Walt Disney Company partnered with -RRB- and DreamWorks Animation -LRB- co-founded by former Disney Studios chief Jeffrey Katzenberg -RRB- . With Disney 's acquisition of Pixar in 2006 , it was expected that Disney Animation would be shut down . However Edwin Catmull and John Lasseter , who oversaw both Pixar and Disney Animation in their new roles , revived Disney Animation and led it to another period of renaissance -LRB- also known as the `` Disney Revival '' -RRB- with commercially and critically acclaimed features such as The Princess and the Frog , Tangled , Wreck-It Ralph , Frozen , Big Hero 6 , Zootopia , and Moana ; winning three Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature .