Which Disney film is based on the fairy tale 'Beauty and the Beast'?

Which Disney film is based on the fairy tale “Beauty and the Beast”? Beauty and the Beast (1991) is the answer.

The animated musical adapts the French fairy tale associated with Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. Its story follows Belle, who takes her father’s place as the Beast’s prisoner and gradually discovers the person beneath his frightening appearance.

Disney had tried to develop an animated version decades earlier, but the project gained momentum after The Little Mermaid revived the studio’s animation division. The finished film was directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, with songs by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman. It became Disney’s first animated feature nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

A common mix-up is confusing this film with Disney’s 2017 live-action adaptation, which retells the same basic story. The 1991 version is the specific animated film identified by the question.