In 2016, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". It won three Academy Awards for Best Film Editing, Best Sound Effects Editing and Best Visual Effects and received a Special Achievement Academy Award for its animation direction by Williams. It brought a renewed interest in the Golden age of American animation, spearheading modern American animation and the Disney Renaissance. It grossed over $351 million worldwide, becoming the second-highest-grossing film of 1988. It received acclaim from critics, who praised its visuals, humor, writing, and performances (particularly Hoskins), with critics and audiences considering it to be "groundbreaking".
The film was released through Disney's Touchstone Pictures banner on June 22, 1988. While filming, the production budget began to rapidly expand and the shooting schedule ran longer than expected. Production was moved from Los Angeles to Elstree Studios in England to accommodate Williams and his group of animators. Zemeckis was brought on to direct the film while Canadian animator Richard Williams was hired to supervise the animation sequences. Price and Seaman wrote two drafts of the script before Disney brought in executive producer Steven Spielberg and his production company, Amblin Entertainment. Walt Disney Pictures purchased the film rights for the film's story in 1981. Set in a 1947 version of Hollywood where cartoon characters (commonly referred to as "toons") and people co-exist, the film follows Eddie Valiant, a private investigator hired to help exonerate Roger Rabbit, a toon who has been framed for the murder of the Acme Corporation's owner. The film stars Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Fleischer, Stubby Kaye, and Joanna Cassidy. Wolf's 1981 novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?. Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American live-action/animated comedy mystery film directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by Frank Marshall and Robert Watts, and loosely adapted by Jeffrey Price and Peter S.
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