WALL-E won one Academy Award: Best Animated Feature at the 81st Academy Awards.
The 2008 Pixar film was nominated in six Oscar categories, including Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, and Best Animated Feature. It won only the animated-feature prize, presented at the ceremony held on February 22, 2009.
A common mix-up is counting WALL-E's many other honors as Oscars. The film won major critics' awards, the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature, and the BAFTA for Best Animated Film, but those are separate awards. It also received substantial attention as a possible Best Picture contender, yet it was not nominated in that category.
WALL-E's Oscar win was especially notable because it tied Beauty and the Beast for the most Academy Award nominations received by an animated film at that time. Andrew Stanton directed the film, while Pixar's reputation for acclaimed animated features helped make its victory part of the studio's growing Oscar history.