Studios enter multiple toons in Oscar race

by Jafar | November 14, 2008 6:25 am

[1]Best Animated feature category gets a boost with 20 toons slated to receive qualifying runs in Los Angeles theaters by year’s end, encouraging the studios to enter more than one entry per Oscar season, reports Variety[2]. While Disney has Wall-E and Bolt in contention, DreamWorks’ plans to launch campaigns that focus on the individual strengths of both of their submitted films- Kung Fu Panda and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. The article also talks about how this year’s race might have been different if Fox had submitted Space Chimps and Universal had entered The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie and pushed the total submission count to 16, boosting the chances for films such as Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! and The Tale of Despereaux. Since there have been 14 submissions this year there will only be three nominations on the shortlist.

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