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The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences stated today:
Beverly Hills, CA — 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
UpAlvin 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.
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half those movies HAVE to know that they suck way too much to be nominated.
why they bother, i have no idea.
so basically, it’ll be up or coraline
I vote for “Up”, “Ponyo”, “Coraline” for Bes Animated Film, xD
I’m sorry but why are most of these films even bothering? The Academy isn’t even going to bother looking at Alvin and the Chimpmunks, Astro Boy, Battle for Terra, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Disney’s A Christmas Carol, Monsters vs. Aliens, and Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure when you have Up, Ponyo, Coraline, The Princess and the Frog, and obscure films that no one has ever seen that the Academy loves to gobble up.
Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Mary and Max
Ponyo
The Princess and the Frog
Up
Those seem like the only probable candidates, and it’ll be either Ponyo or Up that takes the win.
“Alvin and the Chipmunks 2″ is eligible? How so? It’s not an animated film, but a film with some CGI characters interacting with non-animated humans, not unlike “Transformers” or “Avatar.”
20 submitted, but the nominee list is easy: Up, Princess and the Frog, Ponyo, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and 9.
Princess and the Frog to win as a reward to Disney for returning to 2D.
You’ve never seen Coraline. It’s one of the best movies of the year flat-out (and between Coraline and 9, Coraline has the box office and the reviews in its favor).
Not that it will win against the likes of Up, Ponyo and Disney’s return to hand-drawn animation in Princess and the Frog, but seriously, how is the redicliously-titled Squeakuel considered an Animated Feature? It is live-action with creepy CG chipmunks.
A list of 19 films that will lose to UP
I dunno, I think it’s going to be close between Up and Ponyo
Up so far isn’t just the best animated film, it may be the best film I’ve seen this year. Period.
Interesting. I wonder how many movies made for adults will be up for Oscars this year. 1? 2? 3? Were there that many?
What, no Delgo?
Fantastic Mr. Fox is anything but fantastic, trust me. Creepy, unfunny and ugly. The stop-motion in Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer was more sophisticated. I think it’ll give kids nightmares. As for the others…given its charm and emotional effectiveness, Astro Boy ought to be nominated, but probably won’t be, while Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs probably WILL be nominated but shouldn’t be. Ponyo isn’t Miyazaki’s best work – it’s no Spirited Away. Monsters vs. Aliens was hideous and is representative of the worst CGI animation can offer. Coraline is better than Fox, but at best it’s a decent interpretation of a marginally enjoyable children’s book. Up of course was accomplished, but had story problems (I never could get why the old man suddenly started caring about the big bird, especially when it meant turning against his boyhood hero – that was an unconvincing turnabout) and as for Ice Age…snore. Scrat’s fifteen minutes are just about over. Princess and the Frog is still an unknown, but the clips I’ve seen display a bland character palette and very conventional 2D animation. The rest of the entries I haven’t seen. If I were in charge of the process, Up, Astroboy, Coraline, Ponyo and perhaps the Secret of Kells would get the nod. But no doubt the Academy will make the usual conventional choices.
I propose Avatar count as animation. The performances in any of the animated films seem more life like than what Avatar promises.
At least this way it will have a chance to win something.
It’s going to be Up or Coraline but I’m hoping Ponyo, because Miyazaki is everyone’s Daddy.
Half of those movies were added just so all of Disney’s big three, Up Poyo and The Princess and the Frog, can be nominated and without problems.
For those wondering how Alvin and the Chipmunks qualifies, according to the definitions given for an animated feature, here’s what it has to meet (besides the standard rules):
A) running time of at least 70 minutes in which movements and characters performances are created using a frame-by-frame technique,
B) significant number of the major characters must be animated, and
C) animation must figure in no less than 75 percent of the picture’s running time.
There is no total animation requirement, and CGI counts as a frame-by-frame technique. Now, last year, there was one film (I forget which) that was on the submitted list but was later disqualified for failing to meet the 75 percent requirement, so it is possible you’ll see it drop later. Personally, I think it stinks, but that’s not up to me.
The bigger news is, as it stands, this will be the 2nd year in the nine year history of the award where they’ll have a field of five nominations instead of three. And I don’t think enough films will get tossed out to drop below the 16 required to get five nominations.
if Alvin is eligible, shouldn’t somebody submit Where the Wild Things Are? Because that’s better than anything else on that list (unless Fantastic Mr. Fox really is as good as they say.)
Oh right, the oscars aren’t about better…see Slumdog last year.
Mary & Max is the best of the bunch.
Well, it’s pretty clear that UP is going to win the award. it doesn’t matter which films will make up the list of other nominees.
Everyone knows the Oscars aren’t about the best, but the most popular with the Academy Voters, Wes Anderson is throwing himself at every PR/Media call he can get. I wouldn’t be surprised if Fox wins regardless of its creepy look.
that Tinkerbell movie went direct-to- DVD… nice try Disney
Caroline all the way!!!!!!
I really wish Mary and Max wins, but I’ll settle for a nomination and a worldwide release. It’s a film that people need to see.
Soooo….I suppose Up should get it, particularly as I don’t think it will get a Best Pic. nomination.
Coraline was amoral and miserable. Worst of all Coraline was boring. The book was written by a Scientologist so it makes sense he would write about evil doppelgangers trying to zombify a kid.
Although I suspect it hasn’t been nominated to the Academy as an animated film, I have a sinking feeling that James Cameron’s “Avatar” will be shunted over in this category because the Academy won’t see it as a “real” live-action film. They did the same with Richard Linklater’s “A Scanner Darkly” and “Waking Life” even though in those films—like Avatar—the animated characters were not created by animators but rather used digital technology to alter the appearance of filmed live-action actors.