20 Animated Movies Submitted for 2014 Oscar Consideration

From the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, comes a list of twenty features that have been submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 87th Academy Awards.

The submitted features, (listed in alphabetical order) are:

• “Big Hero 6”
• “The Book of Life”
• “The Boxtrolls”
• “Cheatin’”
• “Giovanni’s Island”
• “Henry & Me”
• “The Hero of Color City”
• “How to Train Your Dragon 2”
• “Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart”
• “Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return”
• “The Lego Movie”
• “Minuscule – Valley of the Lost Ants”
• “Mr. Peabody & Sherman”
• “Penguins of Madagascar”
• “The Pirate Fairy”
• “Planes: Fire & Rescue”
• “Rio 2”
• “Rocks in My Pockets”
• “Song of the Sea”
• “The Tale of the Princess Kaguya”

Category rules require at least eight eligible animated features theatrically released in Los Angeles County within the calendar year in order for the category to be activated.

The 87th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 15, 2015, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

The Oscars® will be held on Sunday, February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.

...And our 'Frozen' win the Oscar

Frozen took home the Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song Oscars Sunday night.

Frozen won the song category for “Let It Go,” with the winner announced just after the song was performed to a standing ovation by Idina Menzel.

Comments made by Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee and Peter Del Vecho in accepting the Oscar for Frozen:

“Lee: We’re gonna do this together because we’re collaborative, but we’ll be fast. Del Vecho: First, we want to thank each and every person at Walt Disney Animation Studios, our family. We are so proud of you for making the film as magical as it is. And we’re bringing this home to you. Lee: And for our personal families and dearest friends, thank you so much for supporting us through this hard work. And for really being our inspiration. Buck: And finally we’d like to dedicate this to our guardian angel, that’s my son, Ryder Buck. Thank you, Ryder. Lee: Thank you.”

Academy To Screen Nominated Animated Shorts; Panel on Animated Features

Leading up to The Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is presenting several public events celebrating this year’s animated nominees.  On Tuesday February 25th, actor Kevin Pollak will host screening and panel (with live action and animation directors) of the Oscar nominated shorts. Later that week, on Friday February 28th, actor John C. Reilly will host a panel devoted to the Best Animated Feature nominees.

Events will take place at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Here are more details:
Animated and Live Action Shorts
Tuesday, February 25, 7:30 p.m.
Hosted by actor Kevin Pollak.  Pollak's film credits include The Whole 10 Yards, 3000 Miles to Graceland, The Usual Suspects, and Casino.
The program includes screenings of all of the 2013 Oscar-nominated films in the Animated and Live Action Short Film categories, plus onstage discussions with the filmmakers (schedules permitting).  For more information, click here.
Animated Features
Friday, February 28, 7:30 p.m.
Hosted by actor John C. Reilly.  Reilly's credits include Wreck-It Ralph, Carnage, Chicago and Boogie Nights.
The nominees in the Animated Feature Film category (schedules permitting) will discuss how their films were developed, reveal their creative processes and present clips illustrating their techniques. For more information click here.

Thanks to Animation Scoop

WATCH: Frozen ‘Let It Go’ Sequence in Twenty-Five Languages

With Oscar nominations for Best Song  under its belt, adding to the worldwide phenomenon that it’s already become, Walt Disney Studios has released the full ‘Let It Go’ sequence from Disney’s Frozen in twenty-five different languages. Presented in order, the languages are: English, French, German, Dutch, Mandarin, Swedish, Japanese, Latin American Spanish, Polish, Hungarian, Castilian Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Korean, Serbian, Cantonese, Portuguese, Bahasa Malaysia, Russian, Danish, Bulgarian, Norwegian, Thai, Canadian French and Flemish.

            

86th Oscars Nominations Announced

The Oscar nominations were announced this morning and five nominees for Best Animated Feature were:

• The Croods Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco and Kristine Belson (Dreamworks/Fox)
• Despicable Me 2 Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin and Chris Meledandri (Illumination/Universal)
• Ernest & Celestine Benjamin Renner and Didier Brunner (Les Amateurs/GKids)
• Frozen Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee and Peter Del Vecho (Disney)
• The Wind Rises Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki (Studio Ghibli)

"Happy" from Despicable Me 2 and "Let It Go" from Frozen were nominated for Best Song.
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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.