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Happy Feet dances to Oscar gold

On a night where Hollywood touted and awarded environmental awareness, Warner Brothers’ Happy Feet fit the theme better than Pixar’s gas-guzzling Cars to win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature….

Gravity, Frozen big Oscar winners

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…

Oscar winner Adam Elliot prefers to work down under

According to {{link http://forum.bcdb.com/gforum.cgi?post=24434 The Big Cartoon Database}}, Australian animator Adam Elliot, who surprised a lot of people by winning the Animated Short Oscar for \\Harvie Krumpet\\, has had many…

Oscar nominations announced

…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…

Oscar’s Snow White speaks

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…

Oscar nominated animated shorts profiled

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…

Oscar nominated animated shorts of 2013

This year’s Oscar nominated animated shorts range from the traditionally told to the metaphorical, from computer animated images to painted pages, and — like any awards list — from good…

Don't forget – it's Oscar Night!

…no, not Jabba the Hut, but Shrek. So go over to Oscar.com, print out your Oscar ballet, and have fun tonight when the main show kicks off at 7:30pm Central…

The Art Of Pixar Shorts, plus last chance for the Oscar Contest!

…One can explore a bit of Pixar’s parent company’s legacy with the prize bundle up for grabs in our Animated News & Views 2009 Oscar Contest, in which we’re giving…

Ten films up for animated short film Oscar

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…

Disney hoping for a Best Film Oscar nomination for Wall•E

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…

Oscar Showcase

Those wishing to find out more about the animated works from 2005 that earned Oscar nominations can check out Animation World Network’s 2006 Oscar Showcase, which profiles each nominated animated…

Oscar Night 2013

It’s Oscar night! Hopefully you entered our prediction contest for a chance to win a $50 Amazon gift card. If so, you can view or print a PDF of all…

Watch Oscar nominee Adam and Dog short

The Washington Post’s Comic Riffs has made Minkyu Lee’s Oscar nominated short Adam and Dog, which recently hit YouTube, their Pick of the Week. They say it is “a painterly,…

Oscar Night 2015

…annual Oscar event is in its 11th year, and hopefully you entered our contest for a chance to win a $100 Amazon of Fandango gift card. If so, you can…

A look at the Animated Short Oscar contenders

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…

\\Variety\\ handicaps Oscar race

\\{{link http://www.variety.com/ac2004_article/VR1117900322?nav=wrap&categoryid=1656 Variety}}\\ takes a look at the major Oscar categories and breaks them down. In the Feature Animation category: \\Finding Nemo\\: “the year’s top grosser”, “The only thing that…

Hayao Miyazaki wins Oscar invitation

The Internet Movie Database’s Studio Briefing reveals that Hayao Miyazaki, director of the Oscar-winning Spirited Away and the Oscar-nominated Howl’s Moving Castle, has been invited to join the Academy of…

2013 Oscar nominees announced

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,…

Oscar shorts back in theatres

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…

Oscar Night 2016

Tonight’s the night! The winners of the 88th Annual Academy Awards will be revealed this evening. It’s hard to believe but our annual Oscar event is in its 12th year!…

Oscar weekend

It’s Oscar weekend! Hopefully you entered our prediction contest for a chance to win a $50 Amazon gift card. If so, you can print your ballot to check how you’re…

Eighteen 2011 animated films up for Oscar consideration

…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…

And the Oscar Presented By The Muppets Goes To…

…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…

Chris Miller discusses his Oscar nom and Puss In Boots

…video on February 24, two days before the Oscars, and Chris Miller talked with Animated Views about it all. Animated Views: First off, congratulations on the Oscar nomination! Chris Miller:…

2009 Oscar Nominations, WALL-E up for six awards

…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…

Oscar Contest Record Book

Animated Views held our first Oscar Contest on February 6th, 2005 — just over a year after the site’s launch in late 2003. The 2024 event marked our 20th anniversary….

Disney on the web; Night At The Museum; Oscar noms 2007

…AMPAS, announce their Academy Awards, or the Oscar nominations to you and me. After a packed year in terms of animation, it will be interesting to see who’ll be amongst…

Incredibles director Bird comments on Oscar nominations

According to Coming Soon, commenting on The Incredibles four nominations, writer and director Brad Bird states, “It is such an honor for The Incredibles to receive four Oscar nominations. I…

Oscar nominated shorts coming to theatres and computers

Animation Magazine reports that Shorts International is bringing the Oscar-nominated live action and animated short films to theaters and computer screens. Beginning on February 6th the group will bring the…