…set in olden times, though it is a great cartoon, with some of the best animation of Mickey in the 30s and was rewarded with an Oscar nomination for Best…

…Oscar! Song Of The South’s follow-up film, So Dear To My Heart (1949), featured even more live-action, and has often been named as Walt’s most favorite, personal film. With the…

…check that decent versions were going out. I feel this is a real shame, as Planet deserves more than this, especially in light of its recent Oscar campaign (or lack…

…that sound suspiciously like they have been more recently mixed in), and Ollie’s debut with a brief 30-second clip from The Brave Little Tailor (Oscar nominee for 1938). Although these…

…Ghibli, which under director Hayao Miyazaki garnered much critical praise and ultimately an Oscar, for last year’s Spirited Away. But as far as Rankin/Bass’ feature work goes, they couldn’t be…

…(the set quite rightly does not venture into video sequel or television territory) is the Oscar-nominated 1995 animated short Runaway Brain, a rarely seen, but brilliantly animated spoof of the…

…wilderness, again as an “actor for hire” in Mickey’s Christmas Carol, the Oscar-nominated featurette which featured Mickey as Bob Cratchit, with Donald and Goofy in supporting roles. Though again, it…

…to a home video release when it deserves so much more (such as an Oscar nomination). The 2D, traditionally drawn animation literally sparkles, and is the richest looking I have…

…– he isn’t even mentioned here, despite being a grand old master of film music and having this particular score Oscar nominated in 1998. Very much an outstanding omission, and…

…produced being attributed to them. A little digging on the IMDB revealed that this 1949 Chuck Jones cartoon actually won an Oscar for Best Documentary Short! The second film, a…

…– and Oscar winning – performance, or Dick Van Dyke’s hysterically so-bad-it’s-all-part-of-the-fun “Cock-er-nee” English accent, nor even about the protracted history behind the book to screen adaptation. Yes, the film…

…of Goldsmith’s Oscar-nominated, epic original, but it pushes all the right emotional buttons, especially considering that, due to the nature of such projects, he is unable to use melodies from…

…clip is happy to point out who won what at the Oscars that year but fails to mention Bambi’s three nominations, which also go unmentioned anywhere else too! A collection…

…and winning this year’s Best Animated Feature Oscar for The Incredibles – about as far as one could get away from The Plague Dogs if searching for polar opposites! The…

…several screenings of the Academy screener sent out for the film’s consideration for the Oscars. But I have to say that I just find the film inexcusably funny, and it…

…making one very tired very quickly of the Barenaked Ladies’ one-time Oscar hopeful theme song from the movie. We get One Little Slip three times (all around 3 minutes): once…

…the Disney style of movie musical composition, with the Oscar-nominated Journey To The Past also the clear favorite with score composer David Newman, who uses it for his main theme…

…theatrically with Stuart Little II and Men In Black II, The ChubbChubbs ended up only appearing on the MIIB DVD after winning the Oscar for Best Animated Short, as well…

…park itself, for a parade of characters and the joining to the family of Mary Poppins and her chimney sweep friends, who perform that movie’s Oscar-winning song Chim, Chim, Cher-ee….

…known footnote in animation history, the most recent nod being an obscure reference as the nickname of the animated Oscar-type awards in Friz Freleng’s late-1970s compilation feature The Looney, Looney,…

…with an Oscar nomination for Best Short. Mickey looks the better of the two, but these appear to be the same composite video transfers as before, lacking the remastering that…

…moments including the signature three-note fanfare for our hero. Unbelievably, neither the songs nor score were even nominated for Oscars, though Disney did pick up four awards that year for…