Illumination releases Despicable Me 4 trailer
Following the 2022 summer blockbuster phenomenon of Illumination’s Minions: The Rise of Gru, which earned almost $1 billion worldwide, the biggest global animated franchise in history now begins a new chapter as Gru (Oscar® nominee Steve Carrell) and Lucy (Oscar® nominee Kristen Wiig) and their girls —Margo (Miranda Cosgrove), Edith (Dana Gaier) and Agnes (Madison […] |
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The 2023 AV Readers’ Choice Poll
Critics, the Academy, Hollywood guilds, and even the Animated Views staff will tell you what they think. But now it’s your turn to be the critic! What was the the best animated film of 2023? |
96th Oscar nominations announced
The nominees up for Academy Awards for films released in 2023 have been announced. Here are the nods in animation categories. Best Animated Feature – The Boy and the Heron – Elemental – Nimona – Robot Dreams – Spider-man: Across the Spider-Verse Best Animated Short – Letter to a Pig – Ninety-Five Senses – Our […] |
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From the Archives: The Animated News Weekly
After some excavation deep into the embarrassingly cluttered AV archives, we discovered some long lost content: the newsletters we published in the years after our 2003 launch! |
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Best Animated Year Poll – 20th Anniversary Edition
On our 10th anniversary we asked you to pick the best year for animation during our existence. Now it’s time to vote again, this time for the top annual slate of movies during our second decade. |
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Twenty Years of AV
Wow. Twenty years. There’s no way we’ve been doing this for two decades! But it’s true. Animated Views turns 20 today. That puts us among the ranks of Wikipedia, YouTube, and Twitter – in terms of longevity, at least! |