Editing Ub Iwerks (section)

== Influence and tributes ==
The ''Ub Iwerks Award for Technical Achievement'', as part of the [[Annie Award]]s, is named in his honour.

A rare self-portrait of Iwerks was found in a garbage bin at an animation studio in Burbank. The portrait was saved and is now part of the [[ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project|Animation Archives]] in Burbank, California.

After [[World War II]], much of Iwerks' early animation style was imitated by legendary [[manga]] artists [[Osamu Tezuka]] and [[Shotaro Ishinomori]].{{cn|date=April 2025}}

In 1989, Iwerks was named a [[Disney legend]].

In the 1996 ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "[[The Day the Violence Died]]", a relationship similar to Iwerks' early relationship with [[Walt Disney]] is used as the main plot.

A documentary film, ''The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story'', was released in 1999, followed by a book written by Iwerks' granddaughter [[Leslie Iwerks]] and John Kenworthy in 2001. The documentary, created by Leslie Iwerks, was released as part of [[Walt Disney Treasures: Wave Seven|The Walt Disney Treasures, Wave VII series]] (disc two of The Adventures of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit collection).<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story (1999) |url=https://www.waltdisney.org/education/films/hand-behind-mouse-ub-iwerks-story-1999 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220308083001/https://www.waltdisney.org/education/films/hand-behind-mouse-ub-iwerks-story-1999 |archive-date=March 8, 2022 |access-date=March 8, 2022 |website=[[The Walt Disney Family Museum]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Hand Behind the Mouse: Stories of Ub with Don and Leslie Iwerks |url=https://www.waltdisney.org/education/talks/sold-out-hand-behind-mouse-stories-ub-don-and-leslie-iwerks |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220308082959/https://www.waltdisney.org/education/talks/sold-out-hand-behind-mouse-stories-ub-don-and-leslie-iwerks |archive-date=March 8, 2022 |access-date=March 8, 2022 |website=[[The Walt Disney Family Museum]]}}</ref>

A feature film released in 2014, ''[[Walt Before Mickey]]'', showed how Ub Iwerks, portrayed by [[Armando Gutierrez]], and Walt Disney, portrayed by [[Thomas Ian Nicholas]], co-created Mickey Mouse.

The sixth episode from the second season of ''[[Drunk History]]'' ("Hollywood") tells about Ub's work relationship with Disney, with stress on the creation of [[Mickey Mouse]]. Iwerks was portrayed in the episode by [[Tony Hale]].