Critical Reception
The song proved enormously popular and was nominated for Best Song at the Academy Awards in 1995 and lost only to "Can You Feel the Love Tonight", one of three Lion King song nominations (the other was "Circle of Life"). It was also ranked 99th in the AFI's list of the 100 best American movie songs of all time, Disney's fourth and last entry of songs on the list (the others being "When You Wish Upon a Star" from Pinocchio at #7, "Some Day My Prince Will Come" from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at #19, and "Beauty and the Beast" from Beauty and the Beast at #62).
A shortened version of "Hakuna Matata" was used as the theme song of the spinoff Timon & Pumbaa TV show.
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