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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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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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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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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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VFX issues bubble over
After a pre-Oscar protest by Rhythm & Hues visual effects employees and supporters, and the winner of the visual effects Oscar having his mic cut off just as he was… |
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The Best Of 2012: Apocalypse NOT!
…technique rivalled the likes of ParaNorman and Frankenweenie’s puppet models (and as seen by a surprise but welcome Oscar nod). As the Pirate Captain, Hugh Grant provided a sure touch… |
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Latest Aladdin teaser reveals Will Smith’s Genie
…written by Menken and Oscar-winning lyricists Howard Ashman and Tim Rice and includes two new songs written by Menken and Oscar and Tony Award-winning songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.”… |
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National Board of Review honors Wreck-it Ralph
Wreck-it Ralph picked up the prize for Best Animated Film from the National Board of Review, according to Entertainment Weekly. Their track record of predicting Oscar success is close to… |
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Frankenweenie wins NYFCC award
…Oscar glory. Since the Academy started giving out an animated feature award in 2001, the winner of the NYFCC animation prize only went on to win the Oscar four times…. |
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Revolving around Revolting Rhymes with directors Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer
…Little Pigs, Jack & The Beanstalk and Cinderella, and serves them with a mischievous twist. The 30-minute-animated short was directed by Oscar nominees Jakob Schuh (The Gruffalo) and Jan Lachauer… |
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Mulan: 15th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection
…with the film itself, McNeely’s music doesn’t quite reach the heights of Goldsmith’s Oscar-nominated, epic original, but it pushes all the right emotional buttons, especially considering that, due to the… |
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The Rescuers / The Rescuers Down Under: 35th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection
…such as when the two brave mice meet Rufus the orphanage cat, and the Oscar-nominated Someone’s Waiting For You sequence, as well as the pure excitement and suspense of the… |
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Pocahontas: 2-Movie Collection
…a blockbuster epic that would wow the Oscar Academy into handing out the first ever award for an animated Best Picture, which Beauty And The Beast had come close to… |
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Treasure Planet: 10th Anniversary Edition
…The AristoCats, Planes, and the too-Forrest Gump, too-quirky, too obvious Oscar-bait The Odd Life Of Timothy Green, already annoying before anyone really knows much about it. Moving onto the bonus… |
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Santa gets his origin story in the trailer for Klaus
…(most likely to ensure it’s eligible for Oscar nominations) before settling in on their streaming service the following week. When Jesper (Jason Schwartzman) distinguishes himself as the postal academy’s worst… |
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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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The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn
…Williams’ attention right down to the individual instrumentation he uses is clearly why he’s still top of his game, and why the music here gave him yet another Oscar nomination!… |
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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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Coco
…destined for Oscar notice. The voice cast is good all-around, with Anthony Gonzalez as Miguel, Gael García Bernal as Hector, and Benjamin Bratt as Ernesto de la Cruz handling most… |
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Composer Hunter talks Fantastic Flying Books
…of an Oscar nominated silent film. No, not that one! Hunter compsed the soundtrack for The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, nominated for the Animated Short Film Oscar…. |
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Po is back in the Kung Fu Panda 4 trailer
…he can assume his new lofty position. Even worse, there’s been a recent sighting of a wicked, powerful sorceress, Chameleon (Oscar® winner Viola Davis), a tiny lizard who can shapeshift… |
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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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Lilo And Stitch: 2-Movie Collection
…time of the one-two-three-punch of Beauty And The Beast’s Best Picture Oscar nomination, the commercial success of Aladdin and the record-breaking phenomenon of The Lion King earlier in that decade…. |
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William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg read The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore!
On February 26, Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore co-directors William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg entered the stage at the 84th Academy Awards to accept the Oscar for Best… |
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The Best of 2019: And Then It Was Over
…properly mentioned in a single article. Among the more notable were Richard Williams [right], the Oscar-winning master animator behind The Pink Panther and Who Framed Roger Rabbit; Russi Taylor, the… |
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Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir on the Rise and Fall of Disney’s Circle 7 Animation
…Story 3, helmed by Toy Story 2 co-director Lee Unkrich and written by Oscar-winning Little Miss Sunshine screenwriter Michael Arndt. Toy Story 3 received an Oscar nomination for Best Picture… |
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Robin Hood: 40th Anniversary Edition
…successful The Jungle Book would also take home Oscar gold for Best Song along with its chart-topping soundtrack sales. Walt Disney Productions was largely on a high at a critical… |
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McKenzie talks Muppet sequel
Collider has posted a video interview with Bret McKenzie, one half of Flight of the Conchords, a Middle Earth elf, and the Oscar winning song writer of The Muppets. While… |
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The Best Of 2009: This Time It’s Personal!
…of animation, Tom & Jerry racked up well over 100 credits with that duo and an impressive seven Oscar nominations before MGM closed its theatrical cartoon division indenting to rent… |
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Beauty and the Beast
…was a charming success. Surely Bill Condon, whose experiencing in adapting musicals into live-action features include writing Best Picture Oscar winner Chicago and directing another Oscar winner in Dreamgirls, could… |
