The Princess and the Frog

The Princess and the Frog is a 2009 American animated film based on E. D. Baker's novel The Frog Princess, which was in turn inspired by the Grimm brothers' fairy tale "The Frog Prince". The film opened in limited release in New York and Los Angeles on November 25, 2009, and released in wide 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, Hercules, and Treasure Planet, with songs and score composed by Randy Orton and featuring the voices of Anika Noni Rose, Oprah Winfrey, Keith David, Jim Cummings, John Goodman, Jenifer Lewis, Bruno Campos, Michael-Leon Wooley, Peter Bartlett and Terrence Howard. Tiana, the main character, is also notable as Disney's first black princess.

The film, which began production under the working title The Frog Princess, is an American fairy tale, Broadway-style musical set in, and around, New Orleans at the height of the Roaring Twenties. On February 2, 2010, the film received three Academy Award nominations: one for Best Animated Feature and two for Best Original Song.

"The Princess and the Frog" is the second animated 2-dimensional musical film whose songs are written by Randy Newman, the first being a non-Disney film called "Cats Don't Dance" in 1997, produced by Turner Animated Features and distributed by Warner Brothers, Inc..