《美女与野兽》（Beauty and The Beast)是第一部获奥斯卡奖提名最佳故事片的动画长片，并获第49届金球奖最佳影片（歌舞/喜剧类）奖。本片的制作预算高达8000万美元，由500多位动画师制作。故事讲述在村外的森林里，住着一位被魔咒化为野兽的王子。村子里美丽的姑娘贝尔与父亲相依为命，一天父亲在森林里迷路，误入城堡被怪兽囚禁，贝尔为救父亲，自愿留在城堡内。经过一段时间的相处，贝尔发现怪兽其实心地善良，不知不觉就爱上了它。此时村夫恶汉盖斯通欲娶贝尔，便带村民围杀野兽，在奋战中，盖斯通坠楼身亡，最后怪兽也被解除魔咒，变成英俊的王子。
本片是迪士尼公司又一部改编自神话故事的经典卡通片，影片通过美女和野兽之间情绪的变化烘托出如何学习爱人和被爱的主题。将动物和一般死物成功地拟人化制造出来的喜剧效果，以及在画面上首次运用三维立体电脑特效营造的视觉突破，都是令本片在艺术创作上脱颖而出的原因。而配乐一向是卡通电影成功的重要因素，所以迪士尼公司为本片组织了强大的配乐阵容。作曲家艾伦．曼肯(Alan Menken)和作词家霍华德．亚瑟曼（Howard Ashman）的配合使本片增色不少，他们将热闹的摇滚乐和夸张的百老汇音乐相互融合，发展出别具一格的迪士尼式浪漫童话配乐，效果深获好评，同时获得奥斯卡和金球奖的最佳原著音乐及最佳电影歌曲奖 。主题曲“BEAUTY AND THE BEAST”由抒情歌王Peabo Bryson和流行天后Celion Dion深情演绎，分别代表了野兽和美女柔情似水的内心世界在激荡，成为一首百听不厌的对唱情歌。
附歌词：
(F) Tale as old as time, true as it can be. Barely even friends, then somebody bends, unexpectedly (M) Just a little change, small to say the least, both a little scared, neither one prepared,
(B) Beauty and The Beast
(B) Ever just the same, Ever a surprise (B) Ever as before and ever just as sure as the sun will rise.
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(B) Ever just the same, (M) Ever a surprise (B) Ever as before, (F) and ever just as sure
(B) as the sun will rise. (F) Tale as old as time, tune as old as song, (B) Bitter sweet & strange, (B) finding you can change, learning you were wrong (M) Certain as the sun [(F) Certain as the sun], (M) Rising in the east (F) Tale as old as time, (B) Song as old as rhyme, Beauty & the Beast (F) Tale as old as time, (M) Song as old as rhyme, (B) BEAUTY…BEAST
