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=== Awards and honors === ''Fantasia'' was ranked fifth at the [[National Board of Review Awards 1940|1940 National Board of Review Awards]] in the [[National Board of Review: Top Ten Films|Top Ten Films]] category.<ref>{{cite web|title= Awards for 1940 |url= http://www.nbrmp.org/awards/past.cfm?year=1940 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121109143604/http://www.nbrmp.org/awards/past.cfm?year=1940 |archive-date= November 9, 2012 |publisher= National Board of Review |access-date=March 11, 2011 }}</ref> Disney and Stokowski won a Special Award for the film at the [[1940 New York Film Critics Circle Awards]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1941/01/06/archives/screen-awards-are-presented-by-the-critics-at-a-reception.html |title=Screen Awards Are Presented By the Critics at a Reception |work=The New York Times|date=January 6, 1941}}</ref> ''Fantasia'' was the subject of two [[Academy Honorary Award]]s on February 26, 1942βone for Disney, William Garity, John N. A. Hawkins, and the RCA Manufacturing Company for their "outstanding contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in motion pictures through the production of ''Fantasia''", and the other to Stokowski "and his associates for their unique achievement in the creation of a new form of visualized music in Walt Disney's production ''Fantasia'', thereby widening the scope of the motion picture as entertainment and as an art form".{{sfn|Holden|1993|p=584}} In 1990, ''Fantasia'' was selected for preservation in the United States [[National Film Registry]] by the [[Library of Congress]] as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/19/movies/library-of-congress-adds-25-titles-to-national-film-registry.html |title=Library of Congress Adds 25 Titles to National Film Registry |work=The New York Times |first=Barbara |last=Gamarekian |access-date=February 12, 2011 |date=October 19, 1990 }}</ref> On the 100th anniversary of cinema in 1995, the [[Holy See|Vatican]] included ''Fantasia'' in its list of [[Vatican's list 45 films|45 "great films"]] made under the Art category (the other categories being Religion and Values).<ref>{{cite web|title=Vatican Best Films List |url=http://old.usccb.org/movies/vaticanfilms.shtml |publisher=Catholic News Service Media Review Office |access-date=October 31, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120422064928/http://old.usccb.org/movies/vaticanfilms.shtml |archive-date=April 22, 2012 }}</ref> ''Fantasia'' is featured in three lists that rank the greatest American films as determined by the [[American Film Institute]]. The film ranked number 58 in [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies|100 Years... 100 Movies]] in 1998,<ref name=afi98andtop10>{{cite web |url=http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/TOP10.pdf |title=AFI's 10 Top 10 |publisher=American Film Institute |year=2008 |access-date=March 9, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707092536/http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/TOP10.pdf |archive-date=July 7, 2011 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> before it was dropped from its ranking in the [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)|10th Anniversary]] revision in 2007,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/100Movies.pdf |title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies -- 10th Anniversary Edition |publisher=American Film Institute |year=2007 |access-date=March 9, 2011}}</ref> though it was nominated for inclusion.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/Movies_ballot_06.pdf |title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies Official Ballot |publisher=American Film Institute |year=2006 |access-date=March 9, 2011 |archive-date=September 21, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170921090928/http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/Movies_ballot_06.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> The [[AFI's 10 Top 10|10 Top 10]] list formed in 2008 placed ''Fantasia'' fifth under Animation.<ref name=afi98andtop10 />
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