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"Toy Story 3," it turns out, will have to top only two other nominees to win the Oscar next year for Best Animated Feature Film. The Academy has accepted 15 animated features for consideration, Oscars organizers announced Monday --...

By Michael Cavna | 04:45 PM ET, 11/15/2010 | Permalink | Comments ( 0)
Categories: The Animation, The Animation | Tags: Oscars animation, The Academy Awards

Posted at 02:01 PM ET, 03/07/2010

OSCARS 2010: Will Wallace & Gromit win the big cheese? We pick the Best Animated Shorts

By Michael Cavna

Death becomes Oscar. Well, death and coffee. In each Best Animated Short nominee for tonight's Academy Awards, either mortality or caffeine proves to be the fixation of many pixels. And in the case of France's "Logorama," both do. Even...

By Michael Cavna | 02:01 PM ET, 03/07/2010 | Permalink | Comments ( 0)
Categories: The Animation, The Animation | Tags: A Matter of Loaf and Death, Academy Awards, Best Animated Shorts, French Roast, Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty, Logorama, The, The Lady and the Reaper

Posted at 11:10 AM ET, 03/05/2010

OSCARS 2010: Best Animated Film: 'And the winner is...'

By Michael Cavna

NOTE: Some weeks back, we handicapped the animation nominees for the Golden Globes. Today, we update our picks for the Academy Awards... tweetmeme_style = 'compact'; Foxes and frogs, 2-D wolf-girls and 3-D robo-dogs. The Oscars race for feature film...

By Michael Cavna | 11:10 AM ET, 03/05/2010 | Permalink | Comments ( 0)
Categories: The Holly Word, The Holly Word | Tags: Academy Awards, Bob Peterson, Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, John Musker, Neil Gaiman, Oscars, Princess and the Frog, Ron Clements, Secret of Kells, Tomm Moore, Up, Wes Anderson

Posted at 09:35 AM ET, 03/01/2010

THE OSCARS RANT: Sure, 'Avatar' is art -- but is it animation?

By Michael Cavna

It's a distinction you will little find elsewhere -- but perhaps one that will soon force rule changes for the assorted Hollywood awardgasms. With the Oscars less than a week away -- and with "Avatar" and "Up" both poised...

By Michael Cavna | 09:35 AM ET, 03/01/2010 | Permalink | Comments ( 0)
Categories: The Holly Word, The Holly Word | Tags: Academy Awards, Avatar, Disney/Pixar's Up, James Cameron, Jon Landau, Visual Effect Society honors

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