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Composer Mark Watters on Disney’s Silly Symphonies music
…and serving as principle arranger for Pixar In Concert, which has enjoyed numerous performances around the world. Most recently, he scored the 2013 Oscar-nominated short, Get A Horse. AnimatedViews: Mark,… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Two – There Is Now A Level Zero
…Oscar, a low-level fish who dreamed of living the high-life. But when he would be falsely identified as a sharkslayer, the fame would go to his head and his little… |
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Finding Dory
…the poor man an Oscar already? Maybe not for this film, but c’mon! With thirteen nominations and zero wins he is the third most nominated living person to have never… |
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Anomalisa
…can easily see the various reasons as to why the film was Oscar-nominated. Anomalisa is recommended for when in the right frame of mind, although probably not for when one… |
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Beauty & the Beast: 25th Anniversary Edition coming to Blu-ray this year
…feature to receive an Academy Award® nomination for best picture. It won two Oscars®, including best song, by the renowned Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, and best original score (Menken),… |
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The Jungle Book arriving on Blu-ray August 30th
…eliminate what he sees as a threat. The film’s musical score, composed by Emmy winner and Oscar-, BAFTA- and Annie Award-nominee John Debney (Elf, Iron Man 2), features a classic… |
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Press Release: Sony Pictures Imageworks announces key new hires
…experience in the industry on projects including The Maze Runner, John Carter, X-Men: The Last Stand, Troy, and visual effects Oscar®-winner, The Golden Compass. Daniel Cox joins Imageworks as visual… |
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Kubo and the Two Strings
…Feature Oscar nomination to all three of their past movies). I’m mentioned some of the reasons why in an earlier review. But after seeing ads for their latest offering I… |
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Animated short Borrowed Time makes its online debut
…during their spare time over the 5 past years. To date, the film has played in over 50 festivals and has won 13 awards, several being Oscar qualifiers and was… |
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Shaun the Sheep Movie 2 officially announced by Aardman
…January 2017. The world’s favourite sheep returns to the big screen in Shaun the Sheep Movie 2, the sequel to his hugely successful and highly acclaimed Oscar nominated 2015 cinematic… |
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Finding Dory
…an Oscar win for Pixar’s first Best Animated Feature award, giving Stanton the clout to make the equally superlative WALL-E and, following that film’s just as huge audience approval, his… |
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Kubo And The Two Strings
…being Oscar nominated for Best Animated Feature and they remain popular sellers on home video, with dedicated fanbases to boot. Most importantly for wider animation fans in general, Laika is… |
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2016: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…Oscar races as we head into awards season, leaving the real gems to be catalog titles coming to Blu-ray for the first time, such as the classic Frankenstein and Marx… |
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Animated Views’ 2017 Animated Movie Guide
…short film Head Over Heels getting an Oscar nomination. Official Website: Currently not available. Release Date: November 10th. Coco Studio: Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios Storyboard: Despite his… |
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Disney announces Moana to set sail for Blu-ray combo pack and 3D edition March 7
…the Frog,” and co-directed by Chris Williams & Don Hall (Oscar-winning “Big Hero 6” -Best Animated Feature Film in 2015), “Moana” is produced by Osnat Shurer (“Lifted,” “One Man Band”),… |
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Trolls: Party Edition
…Its soundtrack was arguably an even bigger home run for them, with the chart-topping Can’t Stop the Feeling! even earning an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song. Trolls may have… |
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Welcome…to Moana orchestrator and song arranger Dave Metzger!
…One of the songs he arranged and orchestrated for Moana, “How Far I’ll go” was recently nominated for an Oscar. For Animated Views, he kindly accepted to talk about the… |
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Moana: Ultimate Collectors Edition
…Zootopia won over the just as adored traditional musical Moana, taking the major Best Animated Feature prizes at the Golden Globes, Annies and Oscars, the only notable standout against that… |
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The Road To Broadway And Beyond: Disney’s Aladdin – A Whole New World
…handful of other oversights, too: a resume for Menken doesn’t mention his other Oscar-winning work for Disney past Aladdin‘s 1992 release, and a rundown of other pre-Disney versions of the… |
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A tribute to X. Atencio
…which won an Academy Award®. Other films he contributed to included Jack And Old Mac, as well as Oscar® nominees Noah’s Ark and A Symposium On Popular Songs. X helped… |
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Production Designer Carlos Zaragoza puts a smile on The Emoji Movie
…Toro; that same film also won the Oscar and Satellite Awards for Best Production Design. Other credits include the animated The Tale of Despereaux, Gnomeo & Juliet, Madagascar 3, Mr…. |
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Lots of parody posters for Sherlock Gnomes released
Paramount has released several parody posters for Sherlock Gnomes on the film’s official Facebook page, and you can check them all out below. Each one spoofs an Oscar-nominated movie (well,… |
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Of Rabbits and Ducks: a chat with composer Dominic Lewis
…composing for the 2011 Oscar-nominated film, How To Train Your Dragon. He has since worked with some of Hollywood’s most renowned composers, including Henry Jackman and Hans Zimmer. In their… |
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Disney and Pixar animator/voice actor Bud Luckey passes away
Bud Luckey–a Pixar animator and voice actor who’s probably best known for the Oscar-nominated short Boundin’–has passed away, his son Andy Luckey has revealed on Facebook. Luckey had quite a… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez celebrates the art of Disney’s mid-century era
…film. In the 1940s, Disney won only two, with MGM dominating the category. And in 1950, a new-comer got the Oscar for animated short: United Productions of America (UPA), with… |
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Smallfoot
…flipped again. The animation here is beautiful, the music Oscar-worthy, and the twist (while not completely unforeseen by the audience) so well down in-story to make you doubt everything you… |
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46th Annual Annie Awards nominations announced
…CAVALIER, Camille JALABERT, Oscar MALLET • Sister California Institute of the Arts Siqi Song Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Animated Effects in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production • DreamWorks Theatre… |
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200 Shrek fans have remade the film, and the results are surreal
200 Shrek fans across the internet have banded together to produce a “remake” of the Oscar-winning film, and the results are bizarre to say the least. The film–titled Shrek Retold–uses… |
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The Best Of 2018: The Year Old Became New (Again!)
…the streaming service. Granted, Mowgli was always going to face the hurdle of coming only two years after Disney’s live-action Jungle Book remake, with its Oscar-winning special effects setting the… |
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Spider-Verse big winner at Annie Awards
…BRUNEL, Loris CAVALIER, Camille JALABERT, Oscar MALLET • Sister California Institute of the Arts Siqi Song Outstanding Achievement for Animated Effects in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production • DreamWorks Theatre Presents… |
