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OSCARS SPECIAL: Barbara Walters interviews Shrek!
…release a Shrek 3D double-DVD-pack, which will contain the current special editon of the original film, an Oscar winner in 2001, as well as what is rumored to be the… |
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Spider-Man, Bao win animation Oscars, First Man wins VFX award
…team behind #SpiderVerse: Winner – Best Animated Feature” Pixar’s Bao won the Oscar for Best Animated Short. This was the studio’s fifth win in the category. They previously won for… |
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Watch How Far I’ll Go performed by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Auli’l Cravahlo at the Oscars
ABC has released the (pretty terrific) performance of How Far I’ll Go from Moana at the Oscars last night, and you can watch it in the player below. Also below… |
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Watch Randy Newman’s Toy Story 4 Oscars performance
It wasn’t only “Elsas from around the world” who took the stage at the Oscars last night. Randy Newman was also present to perform his Oscar-nominated song I Can’t Let… |
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15 films going up for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars
The Wrap is reporting that 15 films are offically going to be up for the Oscar for Best Animated Feature this year. Due to rules, this means that only three… |
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Can Kung Fu Panda mark DreamWorks' return to the Oscars?
…features a year. But industry insiders agree that things are about to change this year with Kung Fu Panda a strong contender for at least an Oscar nomination and–depending how… |
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Ted song to be performed at Oscars
…about a potty mouthed teddy bear more than earned its R rating, the Oscar-nominated song is actually sweet and simple, sounding more like something that would come from a Bing… |
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Pete’s Dragon: 35th Anniversary Edition
…company grew, and success came in the form of the incredibly popular Mickey Mouse cartoons and the Oscar winning Silly Symphonies, but almost twenty years on a second World War… |
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Wreck-It Ralph: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…might have pulled off the double feat of winning this year’s Oscar for Best Animated Feature after their Paperman short proved so winning and did eventually nab the Animated Short… |
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Director Barry Cook remembers the Peoples of Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida
…next animated feature. The one that “stuck” was based on a short story he had developed years earlier: The Ghost & His Gift, a retelling of Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville… |
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The Essential Bugs Bunny
…& Jerry set, which featured the cat and mouse’s debut appearance and following Oscar winners, the onus of Disc One is on Bugs’ early milestones, standout shorts and his sole… |
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Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter & The Wolf (2006)
…our exclusive interviews here! Storyboard: Sergei Prokofiev’s immortal musically told story comes back to life in a stark and stunningly stop-motion rendered retelling which won the Oscar for Best Animated… |
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Woody Woodpecker And Friends: Classic Cartoon Collection
…either a silly wolf character or, as in The Screwball (a baseball variation), a policeman. The Dizzy Acrobat has Woody joining the circus in his first Oscar-nominated cartoon, and Ration… |
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Trailer for Mowgli now online
…cunning panther, Bagheera; Oscar winner Cate Blanchett (“Blue Jasmine,” “The Aviator”) as the sinister snake, Kaa; Oscar nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (“The Imitation Game,” “Avengers: Infinity War”) as the fearsome tiger,… |
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“Claymation” pioneer Will Vinton passes away at 70
Oscar, Emmy, and Clio Award winner Will Vinton has died at age 70. Vinton was a pioneer in stop motion animation, trademarking the name “claymation” for his process. He and… |
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Wallace & Gromit: A Matter Of Loaf And Death
…elevate each studio to loftier and loftier heights. Indeed, once Park’s wide-mouthed creations became a hit – confirmed with an Oscar win for his follow up Creature Comforts – the… |
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AMPAS presents A Salute to Norman McLaren
…animation program. The tribute will feature 13 short films, all remastered and restored 35mm prints by the NFB, including McLaren’s Oscar-winning short documentary, Neighbours (1952), and his Oscar-nominated live action… |
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The Muppets
…other than three-time Oscar nominee Adams, who has already done the up-and-coming route and made her mark in everything from award-worthy dramas to big-hit family entertainments such as Enchanted and… |
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2017: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…Picture at the Oscars this weekend – and it’s about as dead a cert as they come – then the “Pixar effect” that suggests voters who don’t see all the… |
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VIEW Conference 2017: an interview with director Maria Elena Gutierrez
…for VR at the National Film Board Of Canada (Compositing in Nuke VS Game Engine for Linear VR Experience). Oscar winner and four-time Oscar nominee Hal Hickel of Industrial Light… |
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The Secret Of Kells: Special Edition
…forest outside of the wall, where fantastic sights – and dangers – await… The Sweatbox Review: This year’s crop of Oscar hopefuls for the Best Animated Feature award was an… |
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Monsters, Inc.: 2-Disc Collectors Edition
…a three-minute section on the Monsters Inc Oscar-nominated score and Oscar-winning Best Song, If I didn’t Have You by Randy Newman. Nominated 14 times for Academy Award recognition, it was… |
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Bill Plympton returns!
…Oct. 2008, Moscow, Russia. Plympton, received his first Oscar® Nomination for “Your Face” (1988) and his second Oscar® Nomination for “Guard Dog” (2005). His latest short film, “The Cow Who… |
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The Best Of 2010: The Year 3D Made Contact!
…first fully animated motion picture to gain an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. Disney Studios had been honored with nods before, of course, from Walt’s almost regular winning of the… |
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Allers & Minkoff: The Legacy of The Lion King
…Mousetro” himself, Walt Disney, died, leaving behind a legacy of classics but an uncertain future for his animation studio. Shirley Temple presents Walt Disney with an honorary Oscar – and… |
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Disney Blu-ray 3D Reissues: Chicken Little / Meet The Robinsons / Bolt / G-Force
…office, Bolt didn’t exactly set Disney’s shares soaring on original release, and an no-one was expecting an Oscar nomination, an extra surprise given the production’s history, which famously started out… |
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Director Gore Verbinski wrangles up Rango!
…Captain Jack Sparrow. As Walt Disney Pictures’ first PG-13 film, Pirates became an international success, collecting $654 million and five Oscar nominations. Disney quickly hired Verbinski to film back-to-back Pirates… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition
…Computer Animation (or Assisted) Production System, which scanned the artwork and stored it as high resolution digital files (itself a scientific Oscar winner for the developmental team at Disney Feature… |
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The Return Of 2015: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…– the Oscars – turns to a reverential hush before talk begins of who may already be in the race for next year, Animated Views somewhat belatedly offers its own… |
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Elmer Bernstein dies at 82
…B-films like Robot Monster before gaining fame with his jazz-influenced score (a Hollywood first) to 1955’s The Man With The Golden Arm, for which he received his first Oscar nomination…. |
