"Oklahoma!" wins two Academy Awards 1956

The movie adaption of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical Oklahoma! won two Academy Awards at the 28th annual ceremony on March 21, 1956.  It won the awards for Best Sound Recording for Fred Hynes, and Best Scoring of a Musical Picture for Robert Russell Bennett, Jay Blackton, and Adolph Deutsch.

This was the first of five Academy Awards for Hynes, who would win awards for South Pacific and The Sound of Music. It was the only Oscar for Bennett and Blackton, but the first of three for Deutsch.

It was also nominated for Best Cinematography, Color and Best Film Editing, did not win either.  It was one of five movies to win two or more Oscars that evening!

"Dumbo" released 1941

Walt Disney Studios released its fourth animated feature, Dumbo, across America October 31, 1941.  It became a major hit with audiences, and gave the studio its first success after the failures of Pinocchio and Fantasia.  It has come under fire for its racist stereotyping of African-Americans in recent years.

Despite that, Dumbo won an Academy Award for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture.  The song Baby Mine was nominated for Best Original Song.  It also won Best Animation Design at the Cannes Film Festival.

In 2017, Dumbo was selected for preservation in the US National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.