Songs were written by composer Elton John and lyricist Tim Rice, with an original score by Hans Zimmer. A musical film, The Lion King garnered two Academy Awards for its achievement in music. The story, which was strongly influenced by the Shakespearean play Hamlet and Disney's 1942 classic Bambi, takes place in a kingdom of anthropomorphic animals in Africa. This film also belongs to an era known as the Disney Renaissance. The Lion King still holds the record as the highest grossing traditionally animated film in history. The film was the highest grossing animated film of all time until the release of Finding Nemo (a Disney/Pixar computer-animated film).
It is the 32nd film in the Disney animated feature canon. The Lion King is a 1994 American animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, released in theaters on Jby Walt Disney Pictures.
