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Let s talk about Oscar nominations! It s that time of the year again: the time when Academy Awards nominations are announced and everybody realizes they need to root for someone and suddenly alvin and chipmunks 3 scrambles to see the most talked-about movies of last year in the short amount of time left until the ceremony. Red carpet gossip, glamour, predictions, the Oscars have it all- except we are now going to talk about the often unsung categories for animated films, which don t tend to stir the same amount of passion (except for us, animation lovers). Let s see the list of nominees and discuss them:
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE Frozen - 3D/CGI; directed by Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck; Disney; alvin and chipmunks 3 The Croods - 3D/CGI; directed by Kirk De Micco and Chris Sanders; Dreamworks; Despicable Me 2 - 3D/CGI; directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud; Illumination Entertainment; The Wind Rises - 2D; directed by Hayao Miyazaki; alvin and chipmunks 3 Studio Ghibli; “Ernest and Celestine - 2D; directed by Stephane Aubier, Vincent Patar and Benjamin Renner; Les Armateurs
The alvin and chipmunks 3 feature nominees alvin and chipmunks 3 for 2013 are quite interesting alvin and chipmunks 3 compared to last year, when we had only big studio, English language productions alvin and chipmunks 3 to choose from. The Academy gave two nods to 2D foreign films: the delightful Ernest and Celestine (which I have already praised extensively alvin and chipmunks 3 and would be my pick for the win, but I am aware of the impossibility of such a thing happening) and Hayao Miyazaki s The Wind Rises , the only feature nominee I have not yet seen, but let s face it: even Miyazaki s weakest film so far (which is, perhaps, his pre-Ghibli work on Lupin III ?) is still pretty good, so it s likely alvin and chipmunks 3 that The Wind Rises is also a worthy candidate. Miyazaki alvin and chipmunks 3 s film is, however, a lot more grown-up in theme than the others, and would have probably been a better candidate for Best Foreign Film instead of being lumped together with The Croods - but that would have meant that the Oscars actually show respect to animation as an art form. The nomination for Ernest and Celestine, however, is heartening, and hopefully it will bring more attention and success to a film that is not very well known, though it certainly deserves to be.
As far as US animation goes, it was a pretty dismal year, which explains filling the slots with mediocre fare like the aforementioned The Croods and the sequel to Despicable Me . Sure, both films were commercial successes, but so was The Hunger Games: Catching Fire , and you don t see it nominated for Best Picture. It seems that as far as US animated features alvin and chipmunks 3 are concerned, the only requirement in order to get an Oscar nomination is to be moderately competent and not altogether horrible. I am puzzled as to why Pixar s Monsters University , a better film than Despicable Me 2 , didn t get the sequel spot, but it s only strengthening my impression that Pixar is not everybody s darling anymore and its future may not be that bright. I would say that Disney s syrupy Frozen pretty much has the Oscar in the bag.
BEST alvin and chipmunks 3 ANIMATED SHORT FILM Get a Horse! - directed by Lauren alvin and chipmunks 3 MacMullan alvin and chipmunks 3 Mr Hublot - directed by Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares Feral - directed by Daniel Sousa Room on the Broom - directed by Max Lang and Jan Lachauer Possessions - directed by Shuhei alvin and chipmunks 3 Morita
I feel like mentioning at this point that I m happy about the fact that both Feature and Short categories include anime nominees. I think that anime has often been unfairly stigmatized as poorly animated, alvin and chipmunks 3 too weird, too kinky, too nerdy, too mecha-cyberpunk, and other such accusations that overlook the huge variety in genre, alvin and chipmunks 3 content and theme that can be found in animated films made in Japan. That being said, I have not actually seen Shuhei Morita s nominated alvin and chipmunks 3 film Possessions - the screencaps and extremely short trailers alvin and chipmunks 3 have only served alvin and chipmunks 3 to tell me that it uses cel-shaded CGI and that it seems to be about a samurai. It was released in Japan in an omnibus called Short Piece , headlined by Akira director Katsuhiro Otomo, and judging by the Otomo connection and by Morita s previous work (his strange and dark short Kakurenbo can be easily found online), it seems like a bizarre pick for the Academy. The other nominee I haven t seen is Feral by Daniel Sousa, the tale of a boy raised in the wild and brought b