... including Toy Story 3 which is the third animated feature to receive a Best Picture nomination*.
For Best Animated Feature, the nominees are How To Train Your Dragon (directed by TAG members Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois), The Illusionist and Toy Story 3.
TS3's nominations also include Randy Newman for Original Song ("We Belong Together"); Tom Myers and Michael Silvers for Sound Editing; and Michael Arndt for Adapted Screenplay with story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich. John Powell is nominated for Original Score for How to Train Your Dragon.
In addition to TAG members Geefwee Boedoe for "Let's Pollute" and Teddy Newton for "Day & Night", Animated Short nominees include Jakob Schuh and Max Lang for "The Gruffalo", Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann for "The Lost Thing" and Bastien Dubois for "Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary)".
The awards will be presented on February 27. Congratulations to all!
* Previous nominees: Beauty and the Beast and Up. Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs got a Special Award in 1938, but no Best Picture nomination.
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By second you mean Pixar's, right? Because Beauty and the Beast was the first ever to be nominated :p
tough competition this year in the animated race. too bad it wasn't more than 3 nominees.
Anon #1, yep -- I forgot Up.
There needs to be an asterisk next to Beauty and the Beast's nomination, because it was able to be nominated even when the playing field was much smaller (5 nominees, instead of 10).
If the Academy were to go back to 5 right now, Toy Story 3 would be gone...believe it!
I'm not sure why Disney/Pixar tried so hard to get into the Best Picture category. It doesn't stand a chance and they must know that - don't they? Or are they that delusional?
If anything it might diminish their chances of winning Best Animated Film. having that film shoved down everyone's throat constantly could create a backlash.
VFX Oscars goes to 5 this year
Many TAG members worked on these fantasy
pictures
Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Hereafter
Inception
Iron Man 2
"f anything it might diminish their chances of winning Best Animated Film. having that film shoved down everyone's throat constantly could create a backlash."
I disagree. If anything, it almost guarantees that Toy Story 3 will win.
"Sorry, Pixar, but you didn't win for Best Picture. Here's the Best Animated Feature Oscar, though, as a consolation prize. Thanks for playing!"
Maybe, but I'm voting for Dragon. It was overall a better film
Tangled didnt even got a nomination for best animated picture? Thats Bullshit, man.
And worst, Christopher Nolan wasnt nominated for Best Director.
Unless that Toy Story 3 wins Best Picture, the Academy Awards is officially dead to me.
There needs to be an asterisk next to Beauty and the Beast's nomination, because it was able to be nominated even when the playing field was much smaller (5 nominees, instead of 10).
If the Best Picture category still had 5 slots, UP or Toy Story 3 would have NEVER been nominated.
Both of Pixar’s nominations for Best Picture came in years with 10 nominations for Best Picture. I seriously doubt that if there were only 5 nominations that either Up or Toy Story 3 would have gotten the nomination.
The movie that wins the most nomination is usually the one that wins the best picture category, so the fact that Toy Story 3 doesnt have the Best Director nomination doesnt mean that its not going to win the Best Picture nomination.
The movie that wins the most nomination is usually the one that wins the best picture category, so the fact that Toy Story 3 doesnt have the Best Director nomination doesnt mean that its not going to win the Best Picture ...
Yeah, but it certainly stacks the deck for The King's Speech.
No congratulations to Tangled's "See the Light" getting nominated for best song?
I'm so relieved that tron didn't get either a production design OR a vfx nomination. Such unimaginative laziness
TRON was a great update of classic production design from the first movie. I'm shocked it didn't get a VFX nomination, especially with Hereafter, Iron Man 2, and another Harry Potter movie up there.
Perhaps even more stunning is a lack of TRON nominations for costume design and the fabulous score by Daft Punk.
Tron was a blast. Didn't expect much but really enjoyed it and worth seeing.... soundtrack fantastic!
Tron was bad even for a disposable movie. And the design WAS lazy--especially where updating and providing a sense of context or believability. Epic Fail (and way below box office expectations.
That dragon cartoon was cute, but didn't go beyond the standard fare. Toy Story 3, on the other hand, mined incredible emotional territory and is hands down the best film of the year.
"Toy Story 3, on the other hand, mined incredible emotional territory and is hands down the best film of the year."
Which means it shamelessly pushed audiences' every emotional button - or rather, smashed it with a sledgehammer - while telling the same basic story used for the prior two films. It's the most overrated movie of the year.
I completely agree that Toy Story 3 is the most overrated film of the year. I liked Dragon better. I'm a bit surprised that Guardians of Ga'Hoole wasn't nominated for either animated film or VFX because it was gorgeous and very well done IMHO.
"That dragon cartoon was cute, but didn't go beyond the standard fare."
You either didn't see it or had it on TV while paying zero attention. It was a lot of things but "cute" and "standard" it wasn't.
Dragon IS the overrated movie, not TS3 witch is a much better film in any aspect.
We can have this subjective debate all day long, but the fact remains that TS3 was a sequel (not a 3rd in a trilogy that completed a story arc like Return of the King) and therefore less inventive than How to Train Your Dragon or Tangled or The Illusionist.
Toy Story 3 was essentially Toy Story 2. Same characters, same arc, same lesson.
And Dragon was basically a copy of Avatar in visual, story and character development.
So yeah, i pretty much prefer a sequel that follows the structure of its own franchise rather than having a movie that copies a whole different movie.
"And Dragon was basically a copy of Avatar in visual, story and character development."
Nope. Not at all.
a)No paper thin angry marine villain or equivalent there of in Dragon.
b) No unobtantium plot point or equivalent there of in Dragon.
c) No Sigourney Weaver character equivalent in Dragon.
d)All design aspects of Dragon looked way more appealing than blue cat people.
e) There was more character development between Toothless and Hiccup, and Hiccup and his Father than there was in any single relationship dynamic in Avatar.
There's a difference between a movie having a similar plot point to another movie, and one making a near identical copy of itself years later to cash in.
How can anyone be so ignorant as to think a movie that's been years in production, that has to be essentially finished in story long before animation is done, "copied" specifically from a film released a few months earlier? Really, I mean, come the fuck ON.
You think Dean ripped Avatar? Reallllly?
I believe that, since Avatar was also many years in story development long before it was actually putted in production.
Funny, I thought Avatar was a Fern Gully rip off!
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