Deadline Hollywood Daily reports on the Oscar race now developing for animated features.
... [A] letter [from the Academy] was sent late last week 14 entries had been received but that it was still possible to reach 16, the magic number needed to expand the category.... [W]hether it turns out to be 3 or 5 nominees this year in the animated feature race and with 10 nominees for Best Picture, Disney/Pixar and Dreamworks are looking to take their battle of the ‘toons to an even bigger stage than ever. ... [T]wo perceived front runners are also waging visible -- and viable -- campaigns for Best Picture too. ...
Animated features are a bigger part of the feature marketplace than ever before. You would think that this would translate into more and bigger awards. But does anybody believe that "Toy Story 3" or "How to Train Your Dragon" will be winning "Best Picture" Oscars in 2010?
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Let's just stop and marvel at this. I don't like EVERY one of the animated features out this year, but the variety, and the attempts, and the quality, is amazing. Nikki Finke reporting on this is cool---we're not at the kids table any more---although the chair we're sitting in is shorter than most.
Rooting for a 5 nom year and that Plympton's "Idiots and Angels" is one of them.
But does anybody believe that "Toy Story 3" or "How to Train Your Dragon" will be winning "Best Picture" Oscars in 2010?
Dragon, no; TS3, very possibly, and a nomination guaranteed.
That's about the voters, not the movie: We were one step away from Up last year, but the critics' equally activist campaign of "Why didn't you see Hurt Locker instead of giving your money to Transformers 2?" trumped it at the last minute.
There'd have to be some pretty big competition on the same "crusade" level for a critics' favorite to take the votes away from Oscar's Operation:Pixar this year, and nothing springs to mind.
(And to think they once laughed at Gregory Peck for trying to nominate "Jungle Book"...)
Wait...you think Up almost won Best Picture...?
ROFLMAO
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