Something tells me that the entire Pixar crew is feeling celebratory this morning…
The 83rd Annual Academy Awards nominations were announced today, and both Toy Story 3 and Day & Night were able to secure top spots:
• Best Picture
Darla K. Anderson
• Best Animated Feature Film
Lee Unkrich
• Adapted Screenplay
Michael Arndt, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich
• Original Song
"We Belong Together" Randy Newman
• Sound Editing
Tom Myers, Michael Silvers
• Best Animated Short Film
"Day & Night" Teddy Newton
Click on the above categories to see the film’s competition. For a full list of nominees, follow this link.
The 83rd Annual Academy Awards will be held on February 27, 2011 in Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre beginning at 8 PM ET.
Congratulations, Lee Unkrich, Teddy Newton, Darla K. Anderson, and all the talent associated with Toy Story 3 on these momentous nominations!
Last modified: January 25, 2011
Impressive, and there’s actually pretty good competition in the Best Animated Feature category.
I’m wondering: Why is the screenplay “adapted”? What is it adapted from?
Anon— It is considered adapted because it is a sequel, thus it has been adapted from the original— in a sense.
Yipee! 😀
Also, I’m glad How To Train Your Dragon got some noms; Dreamworks made some nice films this year, and while TS3 is probably gonna clean up, DW deserves a little attention. 😀
First of all, congrats to Pixar! They absolutely deserved every nomination they received. Thus far, I’ve seen 9 out of the 10 Best Picture nominees, and Toy Story 3 was the best one, IMHO (I haven’t seen Winter’s Bone). The other nominees I’ve seen were great as well, so this is certainly saying a lot.
I feel pretty bad for DreamWorks to be honest. They’ve finally released a wonderful film with a legitimate shot at winning Best Animated Feature (Shrek won over Monsters, Inc. back in 2001, but quite frankly, I thought the latter was more deserving), and then along comes the masterpiece that is Toy Story 3 – this just goes to show how masterful the geniuses at Pixar truly are at their art.
Former Pixar and Disney filmaker/artist Geefwee BoeDoe (Monsters, Inc. titles, and animated many scenes of the beast in Beauty and the Beast) was also nominated for his wonderful short animated film, “Let’s Pollute.”