Thread:LegalizeAnythingMuppets/@comment-25653772-20141216025838/@comment-2256018-20141217192119

He was mostly alive during the production of the second featurette. He posthumously won an Academy Award for Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day for Best Animated Short Film of 1968, but he died about 2 years before the featurette came out due to lung cancer. So at the last minute on Walt Disney's behalf, director Wolfgang Reitherman accepted the award.