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…

‘Get a Horse!’ Screens at Telluride Film Festival

We’ve learned via the Walt Disney Animation Studios’ official Twitter feed that the new short film Get a Horse! is being screened this weekend at the prestigious Telluride Film Festival held annually in Telluride, Colorado. The 2013 festival runs August 29 – September 2, 2013.