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The nominations for the 79th Annual Academy Awards<\/a> have been announced. Pixar has snatched up 3 nominations in the following categories…<\/p>\n

\n– Best Animated Feature<\/span> (Disney\/Pixar’s Cars<\/span> – John Lasseter)\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\nCars <\/span>is up against<\/p>\n

– Warner Bros.\u2019 Happy Feet<\/em> – George Miller
\n – Sony\/Columbia\u2019s Monster House<\/em> – Gil Kenan<\/p>\n

– Best Animated Short Film<\/span> (Pixar’s Lifted<\/span> – Gary Rydstrom)<\/p>\n

Lifted<\/span> is up against<\/p>\n

– Mikrofilm and National Film Board of Canada\u2019s The Danish Poet<\/em> – Torill Kove
\n – Disney\u2019s The Little Matchgirl<\/em> – Roger Allers and Don Hahn
\n \"\"<\/a>
\n– Kedd Production\u2019s Maestro<\/em> – Geza M. Toth
\n – Blue Sky\u2019s No Time for Nuts<\/em> – Chris Renaud and Michael Thurmeier<\/p>\n

– Best Original Song<\/span> (Cars’ Our Town<\/span> – Music and Lyric by Randy Newman)<\/p>\n

Our Town<\/span> is up against<\/p>\n

– An Inconvenient Truth’s I Need to Wake Up <\/span>– Music and Lyric by Melissa Etheridge
\n – Dreamgirls’ Listen<\/span> – Music by Henry \"\"<\/a>
\nKrieger and Scott Cutler; Lyric by Anne Preven
\n – Dreamgirls’ Love You I Do<\/span> – Music by Henry Krieger; Lyric by Siedah Garrett
\n – Dreamgirls’ Patience<\/span> – Music by Henry Krieger; Lyric by Willie Reale<\/p>\n

Here is some trivia on Randy Newman and the Best Original Song category.<\/p>\n

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

Cartoon Brew<\/span> has some analysis on the first two categories so check it out here<\/a>.
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