Cars Recieves 2 Oscar Nominations!

The nominations for the 79th Annual Academy Awards have been announced. Pixar has snatched up 3 nominations in the following categories…

– Best Animated Feature (Disney/Pixar’s Cars – John Lasseter)

Cars is up against

– Warner Bros.’ Happy Feet – George Miller
– Sony/Columbia’s Monster House – Gil Kenan

– Best Animated Short Film (Pixar’s Lifted – Gary Rydstrom)

Lifted is up against

– Mikrofilm and National Film Board of Canada’s The Danish Poet – Torill Kove
– Disney’s The Little Matchgirl – Roger Allers and Don Hahn

– Kedd Production’s Maestro – Geza M. Toth
– Blue Sky’s No Time for Nuts – Chris Renaud and Michael Thurmeier

– Best Original Song (Cars’ Our Town – Music and Lyric by Randy Newman)

Our Town is up against

– An Inconvenient Truth’s I Need to Wake Up – Music and Lyric by Melissa Etheridge
– Dreamgirls’ Listen – Music by Henry
Krieger and Scott Cutler; Lyric by Anne Preven
– Dreamgirls’ Love You I Do – Music by Henry Krieger; Lyric by Siedah Garrett
– Dreamgirls’ Patience – Music by Henry Krieger; Lyric by Willie Reale

Here is some trivia on Randy Newman and the Best Original Song category.

This is the seventeenth Academy Award nomination (including one win) for Randy Newman. The film that he won on was Monsters, Inc. Let’s hope that he can bring home another Oscar this year on Feburary 25th.

Cartoon Brew has some analysis on the first two categories so check it out here.