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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… |
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The Prince Of Egypt: Signature Selection
…of the actual orchestral score fell to Hans Zimmer, also of The Lion King. Zimmer won an Oscar for his work on that Disney picture and has gone on to… |
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Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
…Oscar candidate we’re talking about here, we have nothing approaching any meaty discussions on how innovatively Jimmy was put together, nor something as basic as an audio commentary. But it’s… |
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The Rescuers
…flipside, there are several heart warming scenes, 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… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Three
…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 On Jerry (1955), integrating them rather… |
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The Incredibles: Collector’s Edition
…though, that this was the only feature I found that for some reason was only encoded in 4×3 full-frame. The final short included is the Oscar-nominated Boundin’, the directorial debut… |
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Pocahontas: 10th Anniversary Edition
…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 with its nomination in… |
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The Jungle Book: 2-Disc Platinum Edition
…deemed too dark for Disney. He added the Sherman Brothers – hot off the Oscar-winning Mary Poppins – to the mix, turned the movie around, and gave it the animated… |
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Warner's Academy Award Collection is here, and we have two to give away!
…Awards Animation Collection: 15 Winners, 26 Nominees. There are two releases out today: a single-disc round-up of the 15 Oscar-winning shorts from the Golden Age of animation might sound pretty… |
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It's the Superman music box set, Charlie Brown!
After the excitement of Oscar weekend, things get a little bit more routine today, with Rand’s latest take on another Warner reissue in their new deluxe line of Peanuts animation… |
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WALL-E: 3-Disc Special Edition
…Picture Oscar nomination instead of the specially awarded Best Animated Feature prize that Pixar have routinely won in the past few years. This has been a tremendous year for computer… |
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Peter, the Wolf, and a Nutty Professor! Plus Watership Down's composer remembered…
…but no matching the first film either. On the other end of the animated filmmaking spectrum, we have a review of the Oscar winner for the 2008 Best Animated Short,… |
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More Peter & The Wolf, Madagascar 2 – and a quick catch-up!
…discussion with the filmmakers who crafted the 2008 Oscar winner for Best Animated Short: a full review of Peter & the Wolf on DVD. Although the disc arrived pre-holidays, I… |
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Snow White: The Characters And Legacy Of The First And Fairest Of Them All!
…a great new entertainment field for the motion picture cartoon”. The award consisted of one regular size Oscar plus seven small Oscar statuettes on stepped base and was presented to… |
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Diamond Edition
…and pioneered a great new entertainment field for the motion picture cartoon”, the special trophy was larger than usual, made up of a regular Oscar on a podium, followed by… |
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Wallace And Gromit: The Complete Collection
…is even more complete, with a caveat or two…) Nick Park’s seminal creations, Wallace & Gromit, starred in three Oscar-nominated featurettes (two of them won) before DreamWorks signed up Aardman… |
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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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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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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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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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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… |
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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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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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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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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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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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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!… |
