It think Up will more than likely get nominated in these categories:
Best Animated Feature
Best Original Score
Best Original Screenplay
Best Sound Editing
Best Sound Mixing
Best Picture
I personally think that the actual award for Best Picture will go to either Up In The Air (which is directed by Jason Reitman, who made Juno) or Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire. If you haven’t been following the festivals (Venice and Toronto), then you may not have heard of these films yet. But trust me, by the time they open you will be hearing a lot about them.
I agree with you. I can see it getting all of those nominations and maybe even one for Best Art Direction. But, we can’t get too excited there are still films like: Amelia, Invictus, Nine, Precious, Where the Wild Things Are, Up in the Air, The Hurt Locker, Avatar, The Road, The Lovely Bones, Broken Embraces, and An Education. Those are all expected to be fairly well made movies and only ten can get an Oscar nod, so don’t get your hopes up too high.
As for the Best Animated Feature, I don’t know how many are needed for it to get bumped to 5 nominations (Which is should be this year!) but we still have yet to see The Princess and the Frog, Wes Anderson’s The Fantastic Mr. Fox, and A Christmas Carol. If it indeed becomes 5 nominations I see: Up, Coraline, The Princess and the Frog, Ponyo, and The Fantastic Mr. Fox battling it out, even though we all know who it truly should go to.
I wish an animated feature would get an Art Direction nomination someday.
I would also love to see Pixar actually win Best Original Screenplay, but unfortunately there will always be some “breakout” indie screenwriter, or Woody Allen, up in the category against them.
That would be really cool if they got nominated for Best Picture! But I dont think it would win. Animation just doesnt get that kinda attention. I agree it’ll probably be one of the holiday releases. (and while I’d love to see Star Trek in that category as well, I dont see it happening, because I believe the Academy feels it a ‘genre’ film, as in, its only appealing to certain people, despite any sales figures to contrary. Of course I would love to be pleasantly surprised) And I definitely think Up should win Best Animated at the very least, because really, what else was there? I dont think there’s any other animated film out this year that came close to their level
You guys are totally forgetting Coraline. I’d love to see that take best animated.
I think it’s cool that UP is going for best pic, but I don’t think it’ll win. Don’t get me wrong. It’s a great movie. I just don’t know if it could beat out the other heavy hitters from this year.
I think the only recent pixar film to get close was Ratatouille. It was one of the highest rated flicks that year. I’m still fairly bitter about it not getting at least a nod at best picture.
The only thing it didn’t really do well in its category was ‘advance the arts of animated film-making’ It’s already at a very high standard! That’s why some of the dark horses might stand a chance to win, just because they use different animation styles, or aren’t the populist choice. Coraline was a good contender, and it was a well-made film, too. It’s about the only one that could take it, because of the very unique puppetry (no one does that any more)
However, for me, the first four minutes of UP alone could win best short subject as well as best animated…
Haha, I like the way you think Rostron2, Up just shines, every aspect of the film is so beautifully done. Especially the story. I’ve actually thought about doing a bet if it doesn’t win best animated film, but something within reason, I’m not gonna shave my head or anything
Yup, Mike Frederickson posted that on twitter yesterday, and I think it’s much better. The quote and picture are a bit more fitting. Good luck to Pixar!
They did the same exact thing for WALL-E last year, yet it didn’t get nominated for Best Picture. I wouldn’t get my hopes too high, but the fact that this year’s Best Picture category has been pushed up to 10 nominations (As opposed to only 5 nominations last year), Up at least has a better chance at getting nominated than WALL-E.
I don’t see Star Trek getting nominated for Best Picture. It’s just no way Best Picture material. If anything, it will probably get nominated in some special effects categories. I think one of the most likely films to be nominated would be The Hurt Locker.
Well the reason they pushed the nominations to 10 was basically because of The Dark Knight and Wall-E last year. Or at least, the press release stated that those were two of the names tossed around that deserved nomination but ultimately lost out. I’d expect Up to get nominated. I don’t expect it to win, but a nomination isn’t a long shot.
In today’s (print edition) LA Times, there’s an occasional “Envelope” section filled with ads and a few puff pieces aimed at Academy voting members (though sent to everyone who subscribes). Looking at most of the full-page ads for the various films, most are listing a whole mess of catagories they’re hoping to be considered for (some more than 10, from actor to director to best picture to costume to lighting to music to makeup to you name it. Disney took out a full-page ad for “Up” (a nice one, actually, that says “Best Reviewed Movie of the Year”) but for the “for your consideration” catagories, listed only “Best Picture” and “Best Animated Film.” I wonder if they think it’s not worth the push for other worthwhile catagories (such as score, or editing or best original story, etc)? Are they hoping to have a better chance by narrowing it down to just two?
Also, keep in mind that the Oscars have changed a lot for this year… many more films in many catagories are being allowed as finalists. Also, it’s been a pretty good year animation-wise (better than some other years in the past) where others might have had a shot for best animated film, had Up not be just so good. I sure hope it manages to squeak out at least a best picture nomination, especially with the added room this year…
miafka - They are actually pushing Up for other categories than just Best Animated and Best Picture. If you look on the Disneystudiosawards site, you see all the other categories they submitted Up for.
Best Picture
Best Animated Feature
Best Director
Best Original Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best Film Editing
Best Art Direction
Best Sound Mixing
Best Sound Editing
Best Original Score
Those are all the categories that Disney submitted Up for. Looking at some of the categories, I can feel Up won’t have much of a chance winning in (Or who knows?), but I think it’s good that Disney is really pushing Up to be a wildly recognized film for this year’s Academy Awards.
I’m guessing that the reason the full page ad mentions only Best Picture and Best Animated Feature is because they are seriously concentrating on getting the Best Picture nomination, and they want the voters to understand that they can nominate it for both Best Pic and Best Animated Feature.
I’ll be very surprised if it doesn’t get nominations for Original Screenplay and Score.
I’d take that back while you have the chance. If I learned anything from how horribly WALL-E got shafted last year, it’s that the Oscars have a lame anti-animation bias. In fact, this isn’t anything different from what Disney did with WALL-E last year (and WALL-E was the best reviewed film last year too). The only difference, however, is that the Academy is allowing 10 pics for Best Picture this year. I’m keeping myself from EXPECTING Up to get one of those noms, because getting my hopes up last year on anything proved fatal, but I would be REALLY happy if it did get a nom. I’d be shocked if it actually won though.
I’ve actually got a similar idea to chef’s, I’m making a bet. I don’t know what the consequence will be, but I’m betting that Up will win best animated. If it doesn’t, I’ll do whatever I come up with. I want it to be drastic, but nothing like shaving my head. I’ll save that for if Up wins best picture (I mean that)
Even though there are actually some other strong contenders this year, I think it will be a major upset if Up doesn’t win Animated Feature. The main thing that scares me at this point is the speculation presented here:
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Basically, their point is, if UP does get the Best Picture nomination, voters will decide, “Hey, they’ve had their reward,” and choose something else for Animated Feature. That sort of reasoning is the only way I see Up not winning animated feature, no matter how good the competition.
I’m still hoping Up gets the Best Picture nom, but it’s not yet a 100% sure thing. The biggest thing in Up’s favor is the expanded category (if it were still 5 nominees, we’d be going through WALL-E all over again). On the plus side, the academy has basically been left with no excuse whatsoever not to nominate Up, but watch, they could still find a way to end up with 10 “typical” nominees and render the whole 10-films change worthless. (Ooh, that’s something I hadn’t thought of before: If there are enough voters who hate the 10-film change, would they use all their votes on “typical” films to convince them to go back to 5 films, because “we’re not nominating anything popular no matter how many films you make us choose.”)
I’d love to see that take best animated.
