The Princess and the Frog

The Princess and the Frog is a 2009 American animated family film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, inspired in part [3] by E. D. Baker's novel The Frog Princess, which was in turn inspired by the Grimm brothers' fairy tale "The Frog Prince".[4] The film opened in limited release in New York and Los Angeles on November 25, 2009, and with a wide release by Walt Disney Pictures on December 11, 2009. It is the 49th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics line, and the first of these films to be traditionally (2D) animated since 2004's Home on the Range. The film was directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, directors of The Great Mouse Detective, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, and Treasure Planet, with songs and score composed by Randy Newman and featuring the voices of Anika Noni Rose, Bruno Campos, Keith David, Michael-Leon Wooley, Jennifer Cody, Jim Cummings, Peter Bartlett, Jenifer Lewis, Oprah Winfrey,[5] Terrence Howard, and John Goodman. Tiana, the main character, is also notable as Disney's first black princess.[6]

The film's plot concerns a prince named Naveen (Bruno Campos) from the land of Maldonia, who is transformed into a frog by the evil scheming voodoo magician Dr. Facilier (Keith David). The frog prince mistakes a girl named Tiana (Anika Noni Rose) for a princess and has her kiss him to break the spell. The kiss does not break the spell, but instead turns Tiana into a frog as well. Together, the two of them must reach the good voodoo queen of the deepest, darkest part of the Bayou, Mama Odie (Jenifer Lewis), while befriending a trumpet-playing alligator Louis (Michael-Leon Wooley) and a hopelessly romantic Cajun firefly named Ray (Jim Cummings) along the way.

The Princess and the Frog, which began production under the working title The Frog Princess, is an American fairy tale; a Broadway-style musical set in, and around, New Orleans, Louisiana at the height of the Roaring Twenties. The film received three 2010 Academy Award nominations: one for Best Animated Feature and two for Best Original Song