The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has announced that 18 Animated films have been submitted for this year’s Best Animated Feature category. If all of the films meet Oscar criteria, there will be five nominees because the number is over 16. However, some of the considerations are not even fully animated.
“The Adventures of Tintin”, “Mars Needs Moms” and “Happy Feet Two” all use motion capture technology, and “Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked” and “The Smurfs” are a mix of CGI and live-action. There’s never been a live-action/CGI nominee, but past winners “Happy Feet” and “Wall-E” featured brief scenes of real people.
Here are the well-known candidates:
“Arthur Christmas” (which still has to play in LA to qualify)
“Cars 2”
“Gnomeo & Juliet”
“Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil”
“Kung Fu Panda 2”
“Puss in Boots”
“Rango”
“Rio”
“Winnie the Pooh”
And here are the smaller/foriegn considerees:
“Alois Nebel”
“A Cat in Paris”
“Chico & Rita”
“Wrinkles”
The Academy will announce the five (or possibly three) nominees in January, but here are my early predictions:
If it’s only three “Cars 2” will likely be left out. I’m guessing (as of now): “Rango”, “Pooh” and “Puss”. If there are five, “Cars 2” and “Gnomeo” get added (though that could change).