Deadline Hollywood Daily reports that Disney and Pixar are going to push hard for a Best Picture Oscar nomination for Wall•E “on the basis of its anti-toon moody darkness and…

…Score, Song (Down to Earth), Sound Mixing, and Sound Editing. WALL-E‘s six nominations ties Beauty and the Beast for most Oscar nominations for an animated movie. Waltz With Bashir was…

…look at three of the directors who may be looking at the animated Oscar this year. And the Irish Times wonders if studios aren’t “flinging second-rate material into cinemas as…

…fifteen films being considered for the Oscar for Best Visual Effects this year. Three movies will be nominated for the prize when the Oscar nominations are announced on February 2nd….

After watching the ten nominees in the Best Live-action Short and Best Animated Short Oscar categories, The Faster Times has a five-point hypothesis on what it takes to make an…

…all the films meet the Oscar criteria, 5 would be chosen as eventual nominees. The list and the rest of the press release follow: The 18 submitted features are: The…

…will be at the 84th Academy Awards. They will present an Oscar to a winner, while reading from a TelePrompTer and, hopefully, adlibbing some hilarious one-liners. There will probably be…

Ten animated short films–including Disney’s Paperman and the Simpsons cartoon Maggie Simpson in The Longest Daycare–are in the running for this year’s Best Animated Short film Oscar. Originally 56 films…

The nominations for the 85th Annual Academy Awards were announced today. The full list is available on the Oscar website. • Best Animated Feature: Frankenweenie, The Pirates! Band of Misfits,…

For the seventh year, Shorts HD is bringing the Oscar nominated short films to theatres across the country. Beginning February 1st, the animated, live action, and documentary shorts will be…

Looking to improve your chances in an Oscar pool? Several websites are looking at the five films up for the best Animated Short Oscar. Brightest Young Things is going with…

One of the most infamous musical numbers in Oscar history occurred in 1989 at the 61st Academy Awards when Rob Lowe and an unauthorized-by-Disney Snow White performed an excruciating 15…

…Pixar film not nominated for Best Animated Feature since the award began in 2001. Storylines to watch for include The Wind Rises going after an Oscar in what may be…

The five animated short films nominated for an Oscar are being profiled by several sites around the web, including the Washington Post, the Boston Herald, the Huffington Post, and Crave…

Gravity was one of the big winners at the 76th Annual Academy Awards, taking home seven Oscars, including Best Director, Best Visual Effects, and Best Score. Frozen beat out Despicable…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 films remain in the running in the Visual Effects category for the 87th Oscars®. The films are listed…

{{link http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2003/03.11.19.a.html The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences}} has released the names of the eleven films that will compete for the Best Animated Feature Film Oscar in the…

…Animated Feature Oscar. We all have favorites that we’d like to see win, but remember that these are not the final nominations, but just the short list of which films…

…Picture prize itself, rather than pushing for Best Animated Feature. ‘Dalboz’, in the {{link http://animation.skyblueproductions.net/ Animated News Forums}} tells us that {{link http://www.oscarwatch.com/index.html OscarWatch}}, an independent site which keeps tabs…

{{link http://www.usanimation.com/pdf/OscarNominations.htm Toon Boom Technologies}} notes that their animation software was used on almost half of the animated films eligible for the Animated Oscar. Five of the eleven films (\\The…