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Happy Feet: Widescreen Edition
…fish… The Sweatbox Review: And so the final film in this year’s trio of Oscar-nominated Best Animated Features – and the eventual winner – has come to DVD. One thing… |
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Giacchino to host AMPAS animation music event
Oscar-winning composer Michael Giacchino will be hosting “What’s Opera, Doc? Animation and Classical Music” on May 14 in Beverly Hills. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences event will… |
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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame: 2-Movie Collection
…Christmas, and gaining critical momentum along the way so as to be noticed, at least in the song and score categories, in the following year’s Oscar nominations. Winter releases were… |
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Monsters, Inc.: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…production process, so our next stop is Music And Sound. Here you’ll find a three-minute clip on the Monsters, Inc. Oscar-nominated score and Oscar-winning Best Song, If I Didn’t Have… |
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Monsters, Inc.
…huge warehouse storage of Monsters Inc… The Sweatbox Review: Although DreamWorks’ Shrek eventually stole the prize for the inaugural Best Animated Feature award at the 2001 Oscars, it is rightfully… |
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A Conversation with Terry Rawlings
…fiction – even a James Bond film – and, naturally, a visit to the Academy Awards to enjoy Oscar nominated glory. Along the way, he’s worked with a host of… |
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Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 2
…first Oscar-nominated success with John Lasseter’s Luxo Jr. Lasseter had actually started at the company before it was even called Pixar (an amalgamation of pixel and art), back when it… |
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Roy E. Disney 1930-2009
…posted a tribute The son of Walt’s brother Roy O. Disney, Roy E. began at his Uncle’s company in the 1950s, co-producing the Oscar-nominated short film Mysteries Of The Deep… |
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The Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Ultimate Collector’s Edition Volume One
…his post-Studio achievements with The Grinch, the re-invention of Tom & Jerry, and triumph at the 68th Oscar ceremony when he won a Lifetime Achievement award. We then jump back… |
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Illumination releases Despicable Me 4 trailer
…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 Polan)—welcome a new member to… |
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Get groovy with the full Minions: The Rise of Gru trailer
…despicable crew and faced off against the most unstoppable criminal force ever assembled in Minions: The Rise of Gru. Long before he becomes the master of evil, Gru (Oscar® nominee… |
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Toy Story: full 10th Anniversary DVD details
…is also an Oscar-winner for Best Animated Short (Tin Toy) 1988. Randy Newman was Oscar nominated for Toy Story for Best Original Score and Best Song “You’ve Got A Friend… |
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Rango wins Academy Award
Rango and Gore Verbinski took home the Oscar for Best Animated Feature at the 84th Annual Academy Awards. The trophy for Animated Short went to William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg… |
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Twenty Questions with the AV Staff
…I had a trial by fire having my first review be Happily N’Ever After in 2007. 3. What was your best placement in the AV Oscar Contest? DACEY: 2nd place…. |
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Plympton over at Chuck’s
…in over twenty papers by Universal Press. In 1987 he was nominated for an Oscar for his animated short Your Face. In 2005, Bill received another Oscar nomination, this time… |
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Shorts International brings new films to iTunes
…– \\The Moon And The Son\\: An Imagined Conversation: Winner, 2006 Oscar for Best Short Animation. A son explores his difficult relationship with his dead father through an imaginary conversation… |
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Beauty And The Beast: 25th Anniversary Walt Disney Signature Collection
…nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, the story of a young woman, Belle, who slowly falls for the charms of a reclusive prince, cursed as a hideous beast… The Sweatbox… |
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UPDATED: Olaf’s Frozen Adventure will go to theaters in front of Coco; first trailer released
…Jonathan Groff). Directed by Emmy®-winning filmmakers Kevin Deters and Stevie Wermers-Skelton (“Prep & Landing”), produced by Oscar® winner Roy Conli (“Big Hero 6”), with original songs by Elyssa Samsel and… |
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The View 2017 program and guests now announced
…‘Mila’ 12. Hal Hickel – Animation Director, Rogue One, ILM. Oscar and BAFTA Winner 13. Rob Coleman – Head of Animation, Lego Batman Movie, Animal Logic. Two-time Oscar nominee for… |
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The Triplets Of Belleville (Sony US Edition)
…nominated for the Best Animated Feature Oscar at this year’s Academy Awards. Did it ever really stand a chance against Pixar’s commercial behemoth fish picture? Probably not, but one tends… |
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Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird – 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
…using innovative editing and video graphics to get kids at home jumping up and engaging with the likes of Bert, Ernie, Oscar The Grouch, the Cookie Monster and, of course,… |
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Academy event to honor 25th anniversary of Beauty and the Beast
The Academy is honoring the 25th anniversary of Beauty and the Beast. Details follow in this AMPAS press release Eight-time Oscar-winning composer Alan Menken and three-time Oscar nominee Angela Lansbury… |
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Bolt
…canine star. Despite polite reviews and generally decent box office, Bolt hadn’t exactly set Disney’s shares soaring, and an Oscar nomination just wasn’t on the cards. No-one was expecting that!… |
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The BFG
…him reach the zenith of the box-office heap with the first Jurassic Park and finally bring home Oscar gold with the extraordinary Schindler’s List. After another break, 1997 saw him… |
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Co-director Chris Renaud on No Time For Nuts
With the Academy Awards just around the corner, Animated News & Views’ Josh Armstrong had the pleasure of speaking with Chris Renaud, writer and co-director of the Oscar-nominated and Annie… |
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We now return you to our normal operating service…!
…couldn’t be beat — ended up with a very real (and very heavy!) Oscar, courtesy of Academy Award-winner Richard Pryke, a “local lad made good” who was one of the… |
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Frozen II coming home in February
…all time. Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the follow-up to 2013’s hit Oscar®-winning Best Animated Feature, Frozen, comes home, with a sing-along version and all-new extras, on Digital in… |
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The first Minions: The Rise of Gru trailer is here
…In the heart of the 1970s, amid a flurry of feathered hair and flared jeans, Gru (Oscar® nominee Steve Carell) is growing up in the suburbs. A fanboy of a… |
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Composer Hans Zimmer and ILM’s Dennis Muren to Keynote VIEW CONFERENCE 2018
…Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park and his 13th Oscar nomination for Spielberg’s War of the Worlds. He holds two Guinness World Records – for most Oscars and most Oscar nominations for… |
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Walt & El Grupo / The Boys / Waking Sleeping Beauty
…on Oscar night, little did the world know that the happy, brotherly image that they had portrayed – and would continue to shape – over the years was a fabricated… |