{{link http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=1956&page=1 AWN}} asks “Has the Oscar for Animated Feature Affected the Industry?” The article looks at the previous and current contenders, their fates, and some of the controversies the…

…to make this year’s Oscar race for Best Animated Feature a 2D/3D showdown. [paid subscription required for \\Animation Magazine\\ – but worth the price!] …I believe we now find ourselves…

Dalboz has provided links in the Animated News Forum to several posters to designed to generate awareness for Oscar nominees including two posters for Finding Nemo and one for Tokyo…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that 11 animated features will be eligible for an oscar nomination. Here is the list: The Incredibles Shrek 2 Shark…

Get in on the discussion of the 2005 Academy Awards at the Animated News Forum! If you’re not a member it only takes a few minutes to join. 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…

Canada’s Metro News profiles the creation of one of this year’s Oscar-nominated animated shorts, Ryan. “The project began when director Chris Landreth, lacking studio and crew, stumbled upon Seneca to…

…night was Chris Landreth’s National Film Board of Canada production Ryan, which has won both the Genie and the Oscar this year in the same category of best animated short….

On Friday, August 19, at 7:30pm the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be screening select Oscar-winning animated shorts from the last seven decades. The program begins with…

{{link http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2005/05.12.15c.html The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences}} has announced the 42 original songs from eligible feature-length films released in 2005 up for consideration for Oscars. Six are…

A new article at BackStage reveals that while the pair failed to make it to the list of seven movies eligible for the Best Visual Effects Oscar, both Tim Burton’s…

Yesterday, Melbourne animator Anthony Lucas was shocked upon learning that his project, The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello, had been nominated for the Best Animated Short Oscar. The Herald…

…nominee Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit to take home the Oscar on Sunday. “”I think the momentum is behind Wallace & Gromit because they won every category…

…Last Stand. This list will be pared down to the final three nominations which will be announced on January 23, 2007. The Oscar will be awarded on February 25, 2007….

Animated Views speaks with director, writer and animator Torill Kove, who took home the “Best Animated Short” Oscar for The Danish Poet last evening at the 79th Academy Awards. Much…

…Press. The Oscar “puts Norway on the map,” responds Jan Erik Holst of the Norwegian Film Institute. As for Poet director Torill Kove, she admits, “I am Norwegian, and there…

Four of the five nominees for Best Animated Short at the 2007 Academy Awards are available for download at the iTunes Store, including Oscar winner The Danish Poet. Also online…

Though the event is still several months away, early Oscar talk at The Envelope predicts that The Simpsons Movie and the Parisian-set Ratatouille will be the the main contenders this…

…Ratatouille being nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award. Specifically, the article ponders if the Best Animated Feature Oscar category will help or hurt the possibility of such a nomination….

Variety writes that the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has ruled that the motion-capture technology used to create Beowulf has not made it ineligible for Oscar consideration in…

Variety reports that the Motion Picture Academy’s visual effects branch has included Ratatouille and Beowulf among the contenders for the visual effects Oscar. The two animated films feature in the…

…and Trevor Wood for The Golden Compass. Be sure to check out Animated Views today for more Oscar talk: just added are conversations with Ratatouille‘s nominated Jan Pinkava and Michael…

…entry per Oscar season, reports Variety. While Disney has Wall-E and Bolt in contention, DreamWorks’ plans to launch campaigns that focus on the individual strengths of both of their submitted…

…Bolt Down to Earth, from WALL-E I Thought I Lost You, from Bolt The Traveling Song, from Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa The Oscar nominations will be announced on Thursday, January…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the films that will compete for the three Oscar nominations in the Visual Effects category at the 81st Academy Awards:…

Nine films have been named to the Oscar shortlist for the Foreign Language Film category at the upcoming Academy Awards. Included in that list is the animated Waltz with Bashir….

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…