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Academy Award deadline nears
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has {{link http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2003/03.10.28.b.html announced}} that Monday, November 3, is the deadline for makers of eligible animated feature films to submit their entry… |
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BFCA nominations announced; \\Finding Nemo\\ to compete for the top award
…Critics Choice Awards “are the most accurate predictor of the Academy Award nominations. In the past five years, 94% of Oscar nominees for Best Picture were first Critics Choice Award… |
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Disney prepares takeover action; Animators back Roy Disney
…guru to add respectability to the board’s decisions’.” In related news, the IMBD continues with a story on Roy Disney’s chances of winning an Oscar for Destino, the short film… |
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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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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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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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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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Howl's Moving Castle Los Angeles premiere press release
…and two-time Oscar nominee Jean Simmons) by the vain and conniving Wicked Witch of the Waste (voiced by screen legend and Oscar nominee Lauren Bacall). Embarking on an incredible odyssey… |
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Flushed Away summed up
…of Tony Award winner Hugh Jackman (Broadway’s The Boy From Oz, the X-Men film franchise) as Roddy; four-time Oscar® nominee Kate Winslet (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Iris, Titanic,… |
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Here's to victory: Wallace and Gromit soak up the adulation
…THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT WINS TOP HONORS AT 33RD ANNUAL ANNIE AWARDS INCLUDING “BEST ANIMATED FEATURE” The Oscar® Nominated Film Sweeps In All Ten Eligible Categories GLENDALE, CA –… |
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Best Animated Feature breakdown
…as well as a look at previous Oscar appearances by the current nominees. The site also is running an Oscar competition featuring a Curious George prize pack for the winner…. |
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ReFrederator presents classic cartoons
…Mouse in “Wolf! Wolf!” from 1945 and the Oscar-nominated “Pigs in a Polka” from director Friz Freling. The week will wrap up with “Poor Cinderella,” the only color Betty Boop… |
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Over the Hedge: review, interviews, and production notes
…Best in Show), who are paired as the porcupine couple, Penny and Lou, with a brood of little porcupine mouths to feed; two-time Oscar® nominee Nick Nolte (Affliction, The Prince… |
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Jackman's kids finally get to see Daddy's work
…of two children, Oscar and Ava, stated. “Oscar has never seen any of my movies”. Jackman will voice the role of Roddy in DreamWorks/Aardman’s \\Flushed Away\\ and Memphis in Warner… |
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Platige Image treads Paths of Hate
Platige Image, the studio behind the Oscar-nominated The Cathedral and the BAFTA-winning Fallen Art, is teaming with Damian Nenow to work on Paths of Hate. A trailer for the film… |
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RIP, Robert Altman (February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006)
…Short Cuts (1993) and Gosford Park (2001). Two of those films, Nashville and Gosford Park, were praised with “Best Picture” Oscar nominations. Although Altman never received the “Best Director” Oscar,… |
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For your consideration…
Oscar Watch has collected a wide assortment of “For Your Consideration” advertisements, taken from Variety. Campaigning for Oscar gold through these ads are Arthur & the Invisibles, Cars, Curious George,… |
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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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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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Canadian NFB moves into Hothouse
…animated film via the NFB Animation Studio’s Hothouse Program. Mentoring the directors is none other than Torill Kove, who recently took a Best Animated Short Oscar for her direction on… |
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The world loses a great: Stan Winston (1946-2008)
Four-time Oscar winner Stan Winston, who created some of the most memorable visual effects in cinematic history, passed away yesterday at age 62 after a seven-year struggle with multiple myeloma…. |
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Hollywood legend Paul Newman dies aged 83
Actor Paul Newman who, among many other roles including the iconic Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, Cool Hand Luke, Fast Eddie Felson in The Hustler and his Oscar-winning sequel… |
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Tom & Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection
…Jones team did not include any of their own recent offerings, relying instead on clips from the Oscar winning H-B directed Yankee Doodle Mouse (1943), Heavenly Puss (1949) and Designs… |
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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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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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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 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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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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Bolt: Cinzia Angelini – one bold, Bolt animator!
…Stallion Of The Cimarron and then Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas. She joined Sony Imageworks in 2002, completed Spider-Man 2 (“Best Visual Effects” Oscar Winner, 2004), Open Season and… |
