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Bedknobs And Broomsticks: Enchanted Musical Edition
…suits of armor previously seen in the films El Cid and Camelot!) was spectacular for its time. In fact, the film that year won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects,… |
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Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
…feel I have to spend a week looking at each DVD I buy. The film itself is deserving of its Oscar nomination just on the basis of the great animation,… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #54: Mary Poppins – Jack of All Accents
…Mary Poppins a witch or fairy? Do Mary Poppins and Nanny McFee belong to the same nanny organization? • Mary Poppins: Julie Andrews casting story, Oscar acceptance speech, very serious… |
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Surprise Best Picture nod for \\The Incredibles\\ from PGA
…by film producers, the very people who receive the trophies for Best Picture at the Academy Awards, they are considered a good indicator of Oscar success. Other nominees include \\Sideways\\,… |
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EXCLUSIVE! Co-director Chris Renaud on No Time for Nuts
In anticipation of the 79th annual Academy Awards, Animated News & Views speaks with Chris Renaud, writer and co-director of the Oscar-nominated and Annie Award-winning short No Time for Nuts…. |
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
* see AV #20181217 – – ed. In 2018, Sony took us Into the Spider-Verse, with a film Animated Views called a “game-changer”*. It won the Best Animated Feature Oscar, was… |
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Eloise in Hollywood to Premiere at Teen & KidFilm Festival in Dallas
…by Film Roman, a Starz Media company, in association with Handmade Films, Eloise features the star-studded voice talent of two-time Oscar-nominee Lynn Redgrave, Tim Curry, Matthew Lillard, Curtis Armstrong, and… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 1
…a further six Oscars for the duo over the next decade— and a total of 11 nominations. (Ironically, Quimby took the Oscars himself according to the Oscar rules of awarding… |
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Fantasia / Fantasia 2000
…was Oscar nominated, but the proposed third musical concert feature would not appear. Many hoped that the Fantasia World material announced for this set would be this quasi-third film, and… |
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The Incredibles production notes excerpts: Parts III and IV
…out to find an actor cool enough to portray Frozone, a superhero who can always put his enemies on ice. Bird was thrilled to be able to cast Oscar® nominee… |
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New interview, Robinsons promising for Disney, more Treasures, Popeye is coming
…As for the film itself, I know that many animation fans hated it, and resented its Oscar nomination (never mind its win), for various reasons— the motion capture vs. “true”… |
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The Best Of 2022: Wait, What…It’s Over? Where Did THAT Go?
…Not helping with our collective confusion was having to read the same headlines over and over again (did you happen to hear what Will Smith did at the Oscars?), giving… |
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New special look at Strange World explores family dynamic
…Hall (Oscar®-winning Big Hero 6, Raya and the Last Dragon) and co-director/writer Qui Nguyen (co-writer “Raya and the Last Dragon”), and produced by Roy Conli (Oscar®-winning Big Hero 6, Tangled)…. |
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Jaws featured in Shark Tale- sort of
The Dreamworks SKG Fansite has the details on a sight gag in the new trailer for Shark Tale. Apparently, in the sequence in which Oscar (Will Smith) and Lenny (Jack… |
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Embark on an epic journey with the Strange World trailer
…Hall (Oscar®-winning Big Hero 6, Raya and the Last Dragon) and co-director/writer Qui Nguyen (co-writer Raya and the Last Dragon), and produced by Roy Conli (Oscar®-winning Big Hero 6, Tangled)…. |
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Disney highlights Frozen music on big and little screens
With a #1 album and Academy voters mulling a potential Best Song Oscar, Disney is putting the music of Frozen at the front of their latest publicity campaign for Frozen,… |
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The Sylvester And Tweety Mysteries: The Complete First Season
…Tweety and Sylvester in 1947’s Tweetie Pie (sic) was also the studio’s first Oscar win, and the series went on to produce one more Oscar winner and a nominee. Today,… |
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Tangled
…was the best pure Disney film since Tarzan, and I’m astonished as to why it didn’t make the Best Animated Feature shortlist at this year’s Oscars, even in a quality… |
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How Dean Wright and Wendy Rogers brought FX to Prince Caspian
…Towers and Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, all Oscar winners for their innovative effects work. In fact, the Michigan native enrolled in the University of Arizona… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Disney Rarities – Celebrated Shorts: 1920s-1960s
…The Ugly Duckling). Ferdinand was a deserving Oscar winner, a tale of a gentle bull who is mistaken for a savage beast and brought to Madrid for the bullfights. The… |
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More From AV
• Anniversary Features Take a look back at all the bonus content we featured during our 10th, 15th and 20th Anniversaries. • Oscar Contest Record Book We’ve run an Oscar… |
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Warner Archive: The Amazing Captain Nemo
…as a purveyor of documentary nature films (and winning an Oscar for The Sea Around Us in 1953), Allen produced or directed (or both!) a number of high-gloss productions that… |
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Toy Story / Toy Story 2: Special Editions
…Pixar as an amalgamation of pixels and art. The company quickly made an impression with its simple but effective computer generated imagery, later coined as CGI, landing an Oscar nomination… |
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A kind interview with the creators of The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse
…Cara Speller is an Oscar-nominated, Emmy-nominated, BAFTA-winning and triple Grammy-nominated producer, and serves on the Executive Committee of the Short Films and Feature Animation branch at The Academy of Motion… |
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Up wins Animated, Score awards; Avatar wins Effects
Pete Docter picked up the Oscar for Best Animated Film and Michael Giacchino won for Best Score for Disney/Pixar’s Up at the 2010 Academy Awards. Avatar picked up prizes for… |
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Waking Sleeping Beauty awakens…
…the Disney classic Beauty and the Beast, the first animated film to receive a Best Picture Oscar nomination from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, and to win… |
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Shark Tale trailer now online!
…shark mafia boss (Robert De Niro) is killed, a fast-talking bottom-feeder named Oscar (Will Smith) lies and takes the credit. At first, he basks in the respect of his fellow… |
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The Red Turtle
…before, and were very impressed with his Oscar-winning short film Father And Daughter, and thought that he shared a certain sensibility with Studio Ghibli. They proposed an arrangement unique for… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3
…boogie woogie show-stopper. Seven Puppetoons were nominated for Oscars, and the first was Rhythm In The Ranks (1941), which sees toy soldier Jan disciplined for dereliction of duty after being… |
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Finding Dory coming November 25, 2015
…Oscar-winning 2003 blockbuster Finding Nemo. “I have waited for this day for a long, long, long, long, long, long time,” said DeGeneres. “I’m not mad it took this long. I… |
