Animation Timeline By Mememistro420 1892 Émile Reynaud opened his popular Théâtre Optique 1906 J. Stuart Blackton made the first completely drawn animated film 1914 Raoul Barré and Bill Nolan opened the first animation studio in New York 1923 Walt and Roy Disney created Disney 1929 The First Academy Awards 1932 Flowers and Trees win the first Oscar for Animation 1937 Snow White the Seven Dwarfs, The First Disney Film, Was Released 1938 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs won an Oscar for 'Significant Screen Innovation' 1995 Toy Story, the first feature length film animated by computer, was released 2001 Shrek won the first Oscar for an Animated Feature Film