 The film was very popular in Japan surpassing "Gone With the Wind" as the highest-grossing film of all time with a gross of over $800,000.The Academy Award that Disney earned for "The Living Desert" helped the producer make history as the individual with the most Oscar wins in a single year.At the 26th Academy Awards, in addition to winning the Best Documentary Feature Oscar, Disney also won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for "Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom", the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) for "The Alaskan Eskimo" and the Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel) for "Bear Country".