19 Animated Features Submitted For 2013 Oscar Race

The qualified Oscar nominees have been announced. Nineteen features have been submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 86th Academy Awards:

• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
• The Croods
• Despicable Me 2
• Epic
• Ernest and Celestine
• The Fake
• Free Birds
• Khumba
• The Legend of Sarila
• A Letter to Momo
• Monsters University
• O Apóstolo
• Planes
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie — Rebellion
• Rio: 2096 A Story of Love and Fury
• The Smurfs 2
• Turbo

...but tere's movies that haven’t yet hit theaters, like Frozen and Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises.

The 86th Academy Awards nominations will be announced on Jan. 16, at 8:30 a.m. ET. The awards ceremony takes place on March 2.