Oscar Nominees Announced for Best Animated Feature Film

Five animated features have been nominated for this year’s Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film. Here are the nominees with links to the films’ official websites or Facebook pages.

Oscar Nominees Announced for Best Animated Short Film

Five animated short films have been nominated for this year’s Oscar for Best Animated Short. Here are the nominees with links to the films’ official websites (if available) or a preview.

2014 Oscar Nominations Announced

The nominees were announced today for the 2014 Academy Awards. In the animation categories, five feature films and five short films were nominated (see below). Also, two songs from animated films have been nominated in the Original Song category: “Happy” from Despicable Me 2 and “Let It Go” from Frozen. And Pixar Animation Studios was snubbed again by not receiving any nominations for the great Monsters University and their beautiful short film The Blue Umbrella.  Here are the animation nominees…

Short List Announced for Best Animated Short Oscar

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (The Oscars) recently released their short list of candidates for the Best Animated Short Film category.

19 Films Submitted for Best Animated Film Oscar Race

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (The Oscars) recently released the names of the 19 films that are vying for this year’s Best Animated Feature Film award. 

And the Winner is… Animation?

If you haven’t heard, the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have changed some of the rules in the Best Animated Feature category for 2013’s Academy Awards. The most drastic change is that the Academy members will not have to attend screenings in LA to vote on the films. They will have the option of viewing the movies on DVD, thus opening up the voting pool to many more of the 6,000 members who don’t reside in SoCal. The members also only have to view 66% of the films to vote as opposed to the 80% in previous years.

Academy Hosts 25th Anniversary Reunion For Roger Rabbit

It’s hard to believe it has been 25 years since the world was introduced to a rabbit named Roger and his crazy world in which we learned that Weasels die from laughing, “Patty Cake” is far from child’s play and sexy cartoon vixens aren’t bad, they’re just drawn that way.