Part 6 of 7. The Making Of Walt Disney's Lilo & Stitch. Lilo & Stitch is a 2002 American animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution on June 21, 2002. The film was written and directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, and was the second of three Disney animated features produced primarily at its animation studio at Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida. The film was rated PG for "mild sci-fi action". Lilo & Stitch was nominated for the 2002 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, which ultimately went to Spirited Away. The score material was composed by Alan Silvestri, who was the directors' first and second choice. Teaser trailers for this film parody trailers for other Disney films from recent years such as Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, and The Lion King (two of these were animated by Sanders). They begin with actual scenes from the movies they parody, with Stitch disrupting the action. These are called "Inter-Stitch-als" and are featured on Disney's official site. The Little Mermaid trailer was the most difficult to parody, as it wasn't animated in the CAPS system and had to be cleaned up by hand. The original actors were brought back to reprise their roles and were shocked when asked to act negatively towards Stitch.