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Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures traces its origins to 1953, when Walt and Roy O. Disney established the Buena Vista Film Distribution Company, Inc. to handle North American distribution of their own films. The company took its current name in late 2007.
RKO Pictures refused to distribute The Living Desert, Disney's first feature-length film in the True-Life Adventures series. That refusal led Walt and Roy O. Disney to form their wholly owned subsidiary, Buena Vista Film Distribution Company, Inc., in 1953.
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures has released 35 films that crossed one billion dollars in worldwide grosses, more than any other major Hollywood studio. Four of those films crossed two billion dollars, also a record for any single studio.
Walt Disney Studios has produced or distributed films that received 36 Academy Award Best Picture nominations. Five of those films won: The English Patient, Shakespeare in Love, Chicago, and No Country for Old Men from Miramax, and Nomadland from Searchlight Pictures.
Avengers: Endgame is the highest-grossing film distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, earning $2,799.4 million worldwide. Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the highest-grossing Disney-distributed film in North America at $936.7 million.
Buena Vista was the original name for Disney's distribution arm, taken from Buena Vista Street in Burbank, California, where the Walt Disney Studios is located. Disney discontinued the name in 2007 but it returned in Latin America in 2026 when the Star brand was retired and replaced by the Hulu brand, reverting that region's distribution label back to Buena Vista International.