"for other categories, but have rarely been so; ""Beauty and the Beast"" (1991) was the first animated film ever nominated for Best Picture. ""Up"" (2009) and ""Toy Story 3"" (2010) also received Best Picture nominations after the Academy expanded the number of nominees from five to ten. ""Waltz with Bashir"" (2008) is the only animated film ever nominated for Best Foreign Language Film (though it did not receive a nomination for Best Animated Feature). ""The Nightmare Before Christmas"" (1993) and ""Kubo and the Two Strings"" (2016) are the only two animated films to ever be nominated for Best Visual Effects."
"award for Best Animated Feature Film at the Golden Globe Awards that year. It is the first non-Pixar film to win the award since the category was first introduced. Jackson has been announced to direct the second film. Spielberg followed with ""War Horse"", shot in England in the summer of 2010. It was released just four days after ""The Adventures of Tintin"", on December 25, 2011. The film, based on the novel of the same name written by Michael Morpurgo and published in 1982, follows the long friendship between a British boy and his horse Joey before and during World"
"films have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature since its inauguration in 2001, with nine winning; this includes ""Finding Nemo"" and ""Toy Story 3"", along with ""The Incredibles"" (2004), ""Ratatouille"" (2007), ""WALL-E"" (2008), ""Up"" (2009), ""Brave"" (2012), ""Inside Out"" (2015), and ""Coco"" (2017). ""Monsters, Inc."" (2001) and ""Cars"" (2006) are the only two films that were nominated for the award without winning it, while ""Cars 2"" (2011), ""Monsters University"" (2013), ""The Good Dinosaur"" (2015), ""Finding Dory"" (2016), and ""Cars 3"" (2017), were not nominated. ""Up"" and ""Toy Story 3"" were also the respective second and third"
"Pixar has won the most awards in this category with the current exceptions being """" in 2005, ""Happy Feet"" in 2006, ""Rango"" in 2011, ""Frozen"" in 2013, ""Big Hero 6"" in 2014, and ""Zootopia"" in 2016. In 2013, the March 7 issue of ""The Hollywood Reporter"" magazine published the ballots of eight different Oscar voters in the Academy. Of those eight, four voters abstained in the Best Animated Feature category due to inadequate knowledge of the subject. They admitted to not having seen all of the nominations, one person stating ""that ended when I was 6."" Such disregard for animated"
"animated motion picture was only instituted for the year 2001, and awarded during the 74th Academy Awards in 2002. It was won by the film ""Shrek"", produced by DreamWorks and Pacific Data Images. Disney/Pixar have produced the most films either to win or be nominated for the award. The list of both awards can be obtained here: Several other countries have instituted an award for best-animated feature film as part of their national film awards: Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Animation (since 2008), BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film (since 2006), César Award for Best Animated Film (since 2011),"
"""God of Love"", ""In a Better World"", ""Inside Job"", ""The Lost Thing"", ""Strangers No More"", and ""The Wolfman"" with one. The telecast garnered almost 38 million viewers in the United States. The nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards were announced on January 25, 2011, at 5:38 a.m. PST at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California by Tom Sherak, president of the Academy, and actress Mo'Nique. ""The King's Speech"" led the nominations with twelve, followed by ""True Grit"" with ten. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 27, 2011. ""Toy Story 3"" became the third animated"
"Winnie the Pooh (2011 film) Winnie the Pooh is a 2011 American animated musical comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 51st Disney animated feature film. Inspired by A. A. Milne's stories of the same name, the film is part of Disney's ""Winnie the Pooh"" franchise, the fifth theatrical ""Winnie the Pooh"" film released, and a stand-alone sequel to the 1977 film ""The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh"". It is also their most recent film to be made using traditional animation. Jim Cummings and Travis Oates reprise their vocal"
"39th Annie Awards The 39th Annual Annie Awards honoring the best in animation of 2011 were held February 4, 2012, at Royce Hall in Los Angeles, California. Rango - Paramount/Nickelodeon Movies, Blind Wink, GK Films - DreamWorks Animation Adam and Dog – Lodge Films Twinings ""Sea"" – Psyop The Simpsons - Gracie Films Jake and the Never Land Pirates – Disney Television Animation The Amazing World of Gumball – Cartoon Network in Association with Dandelion Studios, Boulder Media & Studio Soi Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet – Shadow Planet Productions, Gagne/Fuelcell Kevin Romond - """" - Amblin Entertainment, Wingnut Films and"
"Motion Picture Arts and Sciences introduced a new Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. The three contenders for first honoree in this award were all CGI feature films: ""Shrek"", by DreamWorks, ""Monsters, Inc."", by Disney and Pixar, and """", by Nickelodeon and Paramount. The award that year went to ""Shrek"". Films that year which were passed up included the acclaimed adult oriented film ""Waking Life"" and the photorealistic CGI film """". Hayao Miyazaki's critically acclaimed ""Spirited Away"" won the Oscar in 2002. Disney/Pixar's ""Finding Nemo"" received the 2003 award, defeating nominees ""The Triplets of Belleville"" and ""Brother Bear"". Since then,"
"the film held the record for the greatest number of Oscar nominations for a computer animated feature film, breaking the previous record held by ""Monsters, Inc."", ""Finding Nemo"", and ""The Incredibles"" at four nominations, but tied with ""Aladdin"" for any animated film. In 2008, ""WALL-E"" surpassed that record with six nominations. As of 2013, ""Ratatouille"" is tied with ""Up"" and ""Toy Story 3"" for animated film with the second-greatest number of Oscar nominations. ""Beauty and the Beast"" still holds the record for most Oscar nominations (also 6) for an animated feature film. Furthermore, ""Ratatouille"" was nominated for 13 Annie Awards"
"animation, and Randy Newman's musical score. It became the second Pixar film (after ""Up"") and third animated film overall (after ""Beauty and the Beast"" and ""Up"") to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. The film received four more Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Sound Editing, Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song, winning the latter two. ""Toy Story 3"" grossed over $1 billion worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of 2010—both in North America and worldwide—and the fourth-highest-grossing film at the time of its release, as well as the fourth-highest-grossing animated film of all time, the"
"in four categories: Best Animated Feature, Directing in an Animated Feature Production, Writing in an Animated Feature Production, and Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production for Julie Kavner. All four awards were won by ""Ratatouille"". It was nominated for Best Animated Feature Film at the 65th Golden Globe Awards, the BAFTA for Best Animated Film, and the Producers Guild Award for Animated Theatrical Motion Picture. It also received nominations for the Satellite Award for Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature, the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Feature, and the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best"
"million budget. The film was the highest-grossing animated feature film of the year and was nominated for the 2011 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 84th Academy Awards, losing to ""Rango"". It was followed by ""Kung Fu Panda 3"" in 2016. Lord Shen, the scion of a peacock clan that rules Gongmen City in ancient China, seeks to weaponize his family's recently invented fireworks. After discovering from the court's goat soothsayer that ""a warrior of black-and-white"" will defeat him if he does not change his ways, Shen leads an army of wolves to exterminate the panda population to"
"a renewed interest in traditional animation. In the same year, ""Coraline"" and Wes Anderson's ""Fantastic Mr. Fox"" (also Academy Award nominated) renewed interest in stop motion animation. However, in 2011, Disney's ""Winnie the Pooh"", while critically acclaimed, was only a moderate success in the box office, and as of now, there are no traditionally animated films planned for Walt Disney Animation Studios for the foreseeable future. Today, traditionally animated feature films are rare in America, but is still widespread all around the world, from Europe to Japan. In recent years, there are some traditional animated features released later in the"
"for best picture it's Wall-E."" Only three animated films, 1991's ""Beauty and the Beast"" and Pixar's next two films, 2009's ""Up"" and 2010's ""Toy Story 3"", have ever been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. A reflective Stanton stated he was not disappointed the film was restricted to the Best Animated Film nomination because he was overwhelmed by the film's positive reception, and eventually ""The line [between live-action and animation] is just getting so blurry that I think with each proceeding year, it's going to be tougher and tougher to say what's an animated movie and what's not"
"world)"", Evgenia Vlasova for the Ukrainian version, ""Мій світ (My world)"", and for the Bulgarian version, "" Добре дошъл в моя свят (Dobre doshŭl v moya svyat)"". Winnie the Pooh (2011 film) Winnie the Pooh is a 2011 American animated musical comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 51st Disney animated feature film. Inspired by A. A. Milne's stories of the same name, the film is part of Disney's ""Winnie the Pooh"" franchise, the fifth theatrical ""Winnie the Pooh"" film released, and a stand-alone sequel to the 1977 film ""The"
"2010s, with """" in 2015, """" in 2017, and ""Teen Titans Go! To the Movies"" in 2018, coincidentally all based on animated TV shows. Historically, despite the continuation of the Best Animated Short Subject category, animated feature films seldom received much recognition from the Academy Awards for anything other than musical scores. The unprecedented nomination of Disney's ""Beauty and the Beast"" for Best Picture and five other awards changed things, even though it only won two Oscars for its song score. Animation had become so widely accepted by the beginning of the 21st century that, in 2001, the Academy of"
"marking the first time for each. In related events, the Academy held its second annual Governors Awards ceremony at the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood and Highland Center on November 13, 2010. On February 12, 2011, in a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Marisa Tomei. ""Inception"" and ""The King's Speech"" won four awards each with the latter film winning Best Picture. Other winners included ""The Social Network"" with three awards, ""Alice in Wonderland"", ""The Fighter"", and ""Toy Story 3"", with two awards, and ""Black Swan"","
"nomination was followed by two more Best Animated Feature nominations at the 84th Academy Awards, Spanish-language ""Chico and Rita"" and French-language ""A Cat in Paris"". Both nominations were considered highly surprising by film insiders, beating out such notables as ""The Adventures of Tintin"" and ""Cars 2""—the first eligible Pixar film not to be nominated since the category's founding. This marked the first time that an independent distributor had two films in the Best Animated Feature category in the same year, a decision which ""Puss in Boots"" director Chris Miller said indicated the Academy's ""respect for diversity."" In September 2011, GKIDS"
"nominated for Best Special Visual Effects at the 50th British Academy Film Awards. ""Toy Story 2"" won a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and earned a single Academy Award nomination for the song ""When She Loved Me"" performed by Sarah McLachlan. The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature was introduced in 2001 after the first two ""Toy Story"" installments. ""Toy Story 3"" won two Academy Awards – Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song. It earned three other nominations, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Sound Editing. It was the third animated film"
"Animated Feature, but also for Best Picture. This makes ""Toy Story 3"" not only the first animated sequel in history to be nominated for Best Picture, but also just the third animated film to ever be so nominated (following ""Beauty and the Beast"" and ""Up""), with ""Toy Story 3"" becoming the second Pixar film to be nominated for both awards. ""Toy Story 3"" also became the first ever Pixar film—and the first animated feature film since ""Shrek""—to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, though six of Pixar's previous films were nominated for the Best Original Screenplay:"
"statement on exceptionalism vs. mediocrity, and the perils of the nanny state… And yet it all hangs together. No part feels perfunctory or stupid. It’s all deeply felt."" He would also later name the film as the ""greatest action movie of the aughts, with [""Hero""] and [""Kung Fu Hustle""] following close behind."" The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, beating two DreamWorks films, ""Shrek 2"" and ""Shark Tale"", as well as Best Sound Editing at the 77th Academy Awards. It also received nominations for Best Original Screenplay (for writer/director Brad Bird) and Best Sound Mixing (Randy Thom,"
"""Toy Story 3"" (2010), the first animated film to pass $1 billion, ""Frozen"" (2013), the current highest grossing animated film of all time, as well as ""Zootopia"" (2016), ""Finding Dory"" (2016) and ""Incredibles 2"" (2018). He has won two Academy Awards, for Best Animated Short Film (for ""Tin Toy""), as well as a Special Achievement Award (for ""Toy Story""). In November 2017, Lasseter took a six-month sabbatical from Pixar and Disney Animation after acknowledging ""missteps"" in his behavior with employees. According to various news outlets, Lasseter had a history of alleged sexual misconduct towards employees. In June 2018, Disney announced"
"including the win for Best Animated Feature. The New York Film Critics Circle awarded ""Inside Out"" for Best Animated Film and it was named by National Board of Review with also winning Best Animated Film. The film was runner-up for Best Animated Film at Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards and at San Diego Film Critics Society Awards. It received four nominations from Satellite Awards including Best Original Screenplay, Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature, and Best Original Score. It took the Satellite Award for Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature. The film won the award for Best Animated Film"
"for various awards and won a number of them, including several for Best Animated Feature. The song ""Remember Me"" was particularly praised. At the 75th Golden Globe Awards, it won Best Animated Feature Film while it was nominated for Best Original Song for the song, ""Remember Me"". It led the 45th Annie Awards with most nominations, garnering thirteen, among them Best Animated Feature, Outstanding Achievement for Directing in an Animated Feature Production, Outstanding Achievement for Writing in an Animated Feature Production, and Outstanding Achievement for Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production for Gonzalez. At the 90th Academy Awards, it"
"the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature (a category started in 2001), as well as the first feature-length motion picture from the studio to win an Academy Award since ""Tarzan"" and the first to win multiple Academy Awards since ""Pocahontas"". It was released in theaters with ""Get a Horse!"", a new ""Mickey Mouse"" cartoon combining black-and-white hand-drawn animation and full-color CGI animation. The studio's next feature, ""Big Hero 6"", a CGI comedy-adventure film inspired by the Marvel Comics series of the same name, was released in 2014. For the film, the studio developed new light rendering software called Hyperion, which"
"film won the 2006 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, the 2006 BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film and was nominated for the 2006 Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film. The trio were nominated in the Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures category for ""Happy Feet"" at the Producers Guild of America Awards 2006. Following the release of ""Happy Feet Two"" in 2011 they were nominated for the 2012 Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Animated Feature Film. Mitchell received another Academy Award for Best Picture nomination with George Miller for . The film was nominated for"
"and the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. It won Best Animated Feature Film at the 66th Golden Globe Awards, 81st Academy Awards, and the Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 2008. It was nominated for several awards at the 2009 Annie Awards, including Best Feature Film, Animated Effects, Character Animation, Direction, Production design, Storyboarding and Voice acting (for Ben Burtt); but was beaten out by ""Kung Fu Panda"" in every category. It won Best Animated Feature at the 62nd British Academy Film Awards and was also nominated there for Best Music and Sound. Thomas Newman and Peter Gabriel won"
"2"" (2011). He has won two Academy Awards, for Animated Short Film (""Tin Toy""), as well as a Special Achievement Award (""Toy Story""). Lasseter has been nominated on four other occasions—in the category of Animated Feature, for both ""Monsters, Inc."" (2001) and ""Cars"", in the Original Screenplay category for ""Toy Story"" and in the Animated Short category for ""Luxo, Jr."" (1986)—while the short ""Knick Knack"" (1989) was selected by Terry Gilliam as one of the ten best animated films of all time. In 2008, he was honored with the Winsor McCay Award, the lifetime achievement award for animators. Disney announced"
"color, you know, and it's really wonderful when that kind of thing happens where they don't have to play that up and make it like a thing or a joke, which happens a lot."" ""Up"" won two awards at the 82nd Academy Awards, for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score. It is the second of three animated features to have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. ""Beauty and the Beast"" and ""Toy Story 3"" were also nominated for Best Picture in their respective years. ""Up"" also won Best Original Score and Best Animated Feature Film at"
"Mamihasina Raminosoa and Andriamanisa Radoniaina’s ""Dzaomalaza et le Saphir Bleu"" (""Dzaomalaza and the Blue Sapphire"", 2011), Malawian Charles Shemu Joyah’s ""Seasons of a Life"" (2010), and South African Minky Schlesinger’s ""Ugugu no Andile"" (Gugu and Andile, 2009). The Best Animation Award has gone to ""Gamba Trista"" (Loser Leg) by Francesco Filippi of Italy (2011), ""Lost and Found"" by Philip Hunt of the United Kingdom (2010), which also won the Silver Mboni Award for the second best children's film and the Audience's Choice Award, ""Zlamana Pieczpc"" (""The Broken Seal"") by Pawel Czarzasty of Poland (2009), ""Max's Words"" by Galen Fott and"
"2011, including Japan Media Arts Festival Grand Prize in the Animation Division, the second television program to win that award. At the Mainichi Film Awards, the Animation Film Award was won by ""Hotarubi no Mori e"" and the Ōfuji Noburō Award by ""663114"". ""From Up on Poppy Hill"" won the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year. Internationally, ""Children Who Chase Lost Voices"" was nominated for the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Animated Feature Film. Anime News Network's editor picks, the two series of the year were ""Angel Beats!"" and ""Bunny Drop"" with ""Hana-Saku Iroha"" and ""Cross Game"""
"the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 75th Academy Awards, making it the first (and so far only) hand drawn and non-English language animated film to win such award; the Golden Bear at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival, tied with ""Bloody Sunday""; and is in the top 10 on the British Film Institute's list of ""Top 50 films for children up to the age of 14"". In 2016, it was voted the fourth best film of the 21st century as picked by 177 film critics from around the world, making it the highest ranking animated film on"