Cars – Academy Award Finalist

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1. JV IS TIZ!!! PIXAR says:

   November 5, 2006 at 10:04 am

   Go Cars Go! Go Cars GO!

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2. Archibald says:

   November 5, 2006 at 10:12 am

   Come on ! How could Cars not win the Academy Award ?

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3. Bill says:

   November 5, 2006 at 12:02 pm

   I’m definitly betting my money on Cars to win, but we have some steap competition if Flushed Away gets nominated, which it most certainly will. I got screwed last year when Wallace and Gromit won and not Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride. So if anybody from the Academy is reading this, you’ve already screwed me once. Please don’t do it again. I don’t want to have to start writing letters.

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4. Hannah Stockdale says:

   November 5, 2006 at 4:24 pm

   Trying SO hard not to give my hopes up on Cars winning. With so many films released in the past year, it sure is going to be tough. But Cars will most likely be the one to beat! I’m almost postive that Barnyard won’t take it home, though 🙂

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5. maggie says:

   November 6, 2006 at 12:18 am

   i’m SO sure of this: Cars is the ultimate animated movie of the year and Pixar deserves one more Oscar in the collection! GO CARS, GO CARS, GO!!!!!!!!!!!

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6. JarakMaldon says:

   November 6, 2006 at 1:01 am

   Here is how I see this… if Cars was originally met with rave critical reviews a la all the rest of Pixar’s fare, that combined with its sheer technical brilliance would all but lock it up for a win. However, even though critical review was more positive than negative, there were still a fair crop of nay-sayers. Does it matter in the end? No, it depends on the academy voters, but you don’t have the clearest picture right now.

   The two biggest competitors I see are Flushed Away and Happy Feet. I know Ebert ate up Monster House, but since it is motion capture, I don’t expect the academy to eat it up. Now, Flushed Away is made by Aardman, a person that the academy absolutely loves. But, like Cars, his movie isn’t raking in the acclaim of his previous works. Plus, this film is CGI and not Aardman’s renown stop-motion work. Happy Feet is a wild card right now. I have heard and read many people who are putting the chips down on this one already. Apparently, the cute penguin factor is pretty edgy. You won’t know more about this until it comes out. It could be everything the early birds are preaching it to be, or it may totally fall on its face.

   I have no doubt whatsoever that Cars will make the short-list, which should be populated by 4 others considering the animated glut we have this year. When that list comes out, we will have seen them all and can make a better guess.

   Don’t forget other categories, though. In the past, Pixar films have been nominated for original screenplay, original song and sound editing. Some of those were taken home. Cars may find itself driving out of LA with an Oscar statue, but it may not be the one that everyone would prefer.

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7. gottalovepixar says:

   November 6, 2006 at 5:01 am

   That is an automatic win for cars !

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8. Anonymous says:

   November 6, 2006 at 6:18 am

   Why are Curious George and The Wild even on that list!

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9. Bill says:

   November 6, 2006 at 6:41 am

   There are some movies I’ve never even heard of…

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10. CountSolo says:

    November 6, 2006 at 4:30 pm

    Of course, I want “Cars” to win, but JarakMaldon has brought up a good point. The competition is pretty tough this year.

    I’m very positive that “Cars” will AT LEAST be nominated for the award (99%, if you want numbers). There’s also a pretty good chance for “Cars” to get nominated in the Best Original Song category (for “Our Town”). Who knows, maybe we can dub next year’s Academy Awards as the year that Randy Newman won his second Oscar 🙂

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