Oscars 2010

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#1

[size=150]20 Animated Features Line Up for 2009 Oscar® Race[/size]

Beverly Hills, CA (November 11, 2009) — Twenty features have been submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 82nd Academy Awards®.

The 20 submitted features are:

“Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel”
“Astro Boy”
“Battle for Terra”
“Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”
“Coraline”
“Disney’s A Christmas Carol”
“The Dolphin – Story of a Dreamer”
“Fantastic Mr. Fox”
“Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs”
“Mary and Max”
“The Missing Lynx”
“Monsters vs. Aliens”
“9”
“Planet 51”
“Ponyo”
“The Princess and the Frog”
“The Secret of Kells”
“Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure”
“A Town Called Panic”
“Up”

“Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel,” “The Dolphin – Story of a Dreamer,” “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” “Planet 51,” “The Princess and the Frog,” “The Secret of Kells” and “A Town Called Panic” have not yet had their required Los Angeles qualifying run. Submitted features must fulfill the theatrical release requirements and meet all of the category’s other qualifying rules before they can advance in the voting process.

Under the rules for this category, a maximum of 5 features can be nominated in a year in which the field of eligible entries numbers at least 16.

Films submitted in the Animated Feature Film category also may qualify for Academy Awards in other categories, including Best Picture, provided they meet the requirements for those categories.

The 82nd Academy Awards nominations will be announced on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2009 will be presented on Sunday, March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.

#2

Wow! Thanks for the neat info eerik! I have to say, all movies don’t stand a chance to win as Up will be running!

#3

Thanks for the info eerik! Should be a nice competition, there’s some strong titles in there, but of course we all know who SHOULD win.

#4

Thanks for the information eerik! A lot. Here’s who I want to be nominated and who I want to WIN!

UP
Ponyo
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox

#5

I’m breaking it down to Princess and the Frog, Coraline, UP, and Fantastic Mr. Fox. Love to see Coraline or PatF take it, but it’ll probably be UP or FMF.

#6

Here’s my prediction.

Up
Mary & Max
Coraline
The Princess and the Frog
Fantastic Mr. Fox

Either Up or Mary & Max will win, hopefully Up though.

#7

I think these will be nominated:

Up
Mary & Max
Coraline
The Princess and the Frog
Ponyo

And Up is soooooo going to win! :sunglasses:

#8

My wishlist is
Up
Coraline
Cloudy with a Chance of MEatballs
Princess and the Frog
Secret of Kells

#9

Up should win, but might not, owing to strong entries with Coraline, and possibly Fantastic Mr. Fox. The handcrafted, stop-animation films always seem to do well against even Pixar entries. Haven’t seen Mr. Fox, but Coraline was beautifully done as well.

However, for overall story, animation, comedy and a wide demographic appeal, Up takes the Oscar for me.

I don’t like to say it, but Princess and the Frog looks good, but I just don;'t know how it would do against its own corporation’s entry with Up.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was surprisingly good, but it won’t win.

No one I know even saw Mary & Max, so I can’t judge. I remember seeing exactly one trailer for that, and it looked really well done. I shall have to look it over.

#10

Here’s what I think would be worthy nominations for Best Animated Feature:

Up
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Coraline

I must say, this is a very good year for animated films, compared to previous years. Every year we seem to have Pixar dominate this category (In other words… Pixar is put up in competition with, let’s face it, crappy films) – but this year it seems like there’s more than enough quality animated films that are up for the award. While yes, Up is still the best film of them all, there are still a lot of other worthwhile animated films that I think really do deserve to be nominated as well.

#11

My predictions:

Up - A sure nominee, and honestly, I can’t see it losing. If there is any justice, it will also get a Best Picture nomination.

Coraline - We’ll never know, but I would bet this gets the most votes after Up. It’s really too bad it had the misfortune to be up this year, because in a lot of other years, I would have been rooting for it.

Ponyo - I haven’t seen it, so I’m just predicting on the strength of Miyazaki’s name, and the fact that Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle both had nominations. SA won its year, and HMC had the hard luck of being up against the beloved Wallace & Gromit.

If there had been only 3 nominees, those would have been my predictions. For the “other two” -

Princess & the Frog - Disney has got to want this nomination so bad. I was shocked when I saw Tinker Bell on the list of eligible films, I always thought it was straight-to-video only, but I think Disney needed a 5-nominee field for PatF to have a chance, and that’s why Tink got into a theatre, to help get the category up to 5.

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs - This is the “wild card” slot, and I’m going with this, since I think it was kind of a “better-than-expected” surprise, and it’s from Sony, who got a nomination with Surf’s Up a couple of years ago.

EDIT: Whoaaaaa… I guess I should have done my homework first - I had no idea Fantastic Mr Fox was already at 92% on Rotten Tomatoes with 83 reviews! It’s starting to look like a pretty likely nominee. Who Gets the Boot from my list above depends on whether the critics think PatF is “the start of a new Disney Renaissance” or “Been There, Done That.”

#12

youtube.com/watch?v=lw2_HZTu … re=related
Trailer for Secret of Kells if you never saw the thread I made months ago on the movie. I say it has the best chance of getting in out of all the indie/international movies that came out this year. Really fantastically done and Pixar-approved when it was screened over there with a standing ovation.

#13

Yes:
“Fantastic Mr. Fox”
“Mary and Max”
“Ponyo”
“Up”

Maybe:
“Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”
“Coraline”
“9”
“The Princess and the Frog”
“The Secret of Kells”

No:
“Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel”
“Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs”
“Monsters vs. Aliens”
“Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure”
“Disney’s A Christmas Carol”
“Astro Boy”
“Battle for Terra”
“The Dolphin – Story of a Dreamer”
“The Missing Lynx”
“Planet 51”
“A Town Called Panic”

#14

I havn’t seen enough of these films to make a strong comment but I think Mary and Max could take it. As much as I love up I think their was something special about this film and I would like to see it win

#15

Here’s who I want to be nominated:
Up
Coraline
Ponyo
Princess and the Frog
Fantastic Mr. Fox

#16

[size=150]10 Animated Shorts Move Ahead in 2009 Oscar® Race[/size]

Beverly Hills, CA (November 20, 2009) — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 animated short films will advance in the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards®. Thirty-seven pictures had originally qualified in the category.

The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production company:

* “The Cat Piano,” Eddie White and Ari Gibson, directors (The People’s Republic of Animation)
* “French Roast,” Fabrice O. Joubert, director (Pumpkin Factory/Bibo Films)
* “Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty,” Nicky Phelan, director, and Darragh O’Connell, producer (Brown Bag Films)
* “The Kinematograph,” Tomek Baginski, director-producer (Platige Image)
* “The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte),” Javier Recio Gracia, director    (Kandor Graphics and Green Moon)
* “Logorama,” Nicolas Schmerkin, producer (Autour de Minuit)
* “A Matter of Loaf and Death,” Nick Park, director (Aardman Animations Ltd.)
* “Partly Cloudy,” Peter Sohn, director (Pixar Animation Studios)
* “Runaway,” Cordell Barker, director (National Film Board of Canada)
* “Variete,” Roelof van den Bergh, director (il Luster Productions)

The Short Films and Feature Animation Branch Reviewing Committee viewed all the eligible entries for the preliminary round of voting in screenings held in New York and Los Angeles.

Short Films and Feature Animation Branch members will now select the five nominees from among the 10 titles on the shortlist. Branch screenings will be held in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco in January 2010.

The 82nd Academy Awards nominations will be announced on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2009 will be presented on Sunday, March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.

#17

Partly Cloudy would be my #2 choice (esp. since it’s the only other one I’ve seen), but woohoo! Wallace & Gromit! That should be your winner, right there, regardless of what else is up. :smiley:

#18

Most definitely. AMOLAD was hilarious.

#19

Matter of Loaf and Death counts as a short film? 8D

…Uh… well then, I’m sorry Partly Cloudy, but it’s W+G man. -_-;

Anyways, predictions for best animated:

Up
9
Coraline
Ponyo

There’s 5 slots, however, and I have no clue on the 5th. As it is, 9 may get shafted because it’s PG-13 and not foreign, but I hope not.

Then there’s always the matter of Up possibly getting a BP nom, and the voters may choose to do that only and open this up for another film company to win something. xD I’m not sure what I’d think of that. It’d be interesting though, that’s for sure. If that doesn’t happen though, Pixar’s probably gonna win BAF again.

If there is only one slot remaining after those 4 though, it’s anybody’s guess. Part of me wants to say MvA cause Dreamworks always seems to get a nom, but PATF has quite a buzz and older academy members may really go for it. Then there’s the possible political bias for Battle For Terra. There’s also been some good talkback about Mary and Max/The Fantastic Mr. Fox.

#20

i agree with this although i dont know aout mary and maax ust yet