So the Golden Globes roll out their animated nominees a couple of days ago ...
The category's five nominees announced Tuesday morning ... included: "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs," ''Coraline," ''Fantastic Mr. Fox," ''The Princess and the Frog" and "Up." ...
And Variety and USA Today grab onto the "diversity of styles" meme, and how one animation style doesn't have a lock on the biz:
...[T]he Globes have ... chosen some highly traditional, retro-styled projects to go up against "Up's" state-of-the-art shiny, 3D CG imagery. Disney Animation Studios' "The Princess and the Frog," ... took the old-fashioned 2D route with a hand-animated revamp of the classic fairy tale ... And Fox's "Fantastic Mr. Fox," ... features the even more basic technique of stop-motion animation. -- Variety
... Not only does computer animation no longer have a monopoly, but no one method seems to dominate ... -- USA Today
Variety points out (correctly) that the Globes could have picked other cgi cartoons for its animated category instead of the specimens that it did, but chose not to.
But swear to God, I don't know what USA Today is smoking. CGI clearly dominates cartoon box office. The big global animated features during the past year were cg products. ( Even The Princess and the Frog had a lot of computer imaging in it.) And neither Fox nor Coraline have been outsize performers, so I guess I really don't know what our "national newspaper" thinks dominance actually means.
When you have the non-nominated IA: Dawn of the Dinosaurs rack up $883,718,521 around the globe while the nominated Coraline tallies $121,916,524, you don't have to be a math major to know what style of animation is the King Kong in the marketplace, even if Mr. Kong isn't receiving a shiny trophy.
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Maybe they meant "no one method seems to dominate the Golden Globe nominations"
I read it that way, at least, because the article goes on to say...
"CG is still the most successful type of animation, but the playing field is much more diverse"
Maybe, but I would submit that the field, Mr. Selick to the contrary, isn't particularly diverse.
The vast majority of animated features is cgi. That doesn't indicate to me that the diversity thing is particularly viable.
There is no use arguing the point. UP is going to win, hands down..... not that I thought that it was the best animated feature of the year, but because everyone is scared NOT to say it was the best.
If I had to vote, I would choose Mr. Fox as the best of the year, with Coraline following close behind.
It is an artistic travesty and outrage that "Monsters vs Aliens" was not nominated. We must band together to protest this scurrilous scandal.
For me, when it comes to a really visually and emotionally satisfying movie, Astro Boy tops them all this year. Followed closely by Ponyo. Naturally both got snubbed by the Globes.
Screw the Globes.
Up was one of the best films of the year, and in my opinion the best. And by far the best designed. Ricky Nierva did a terrific job!
No one here is going to say Up deserves the win, especially among actual animators. It will be a cold day in hell when people here actually think Pixar made a good movie, let alone the best movie of the year.
Indeed, no one.
I'll admit Pixar did make the best movie of the year...
.... back in 1995 with Toy Story.
There I said it, are you satisfied, anonymous #7?
I would have to agree that UP is the best animated film of the year, but I think Fantastic Mr. Fox was easily second.
Academy members will vote for a live action guy before animators. I predict Wes Anderson takes it. It's a bad reason, and I hope it don't happen, but that's my guess.
Ponyo should have been nominated. Astro Boy wasn't even submitted by Imagi and Summit after their horrible marketing campaign sunk the movie. A pity.
@Randy, yes, it is indeed a pity. But Imagi (or Summit?) do have ads in place for the Oscars...damn I wish Astro would get a nod!
The last Pixar movie I really enjoyed was Ratatouille.
As far as the best animated movie is concerned...my vote goes to Coraline.
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