Gloomy news. As several sharp readers here noted last week, Evangeline 1.0 had its premiere in Japan over 2 years ago, so it’s too late to the party. Tom O’Neil at Gold Derby confirms on word from the film’s co-distributor, Eleven Arts. That reduces the number of confirmed feature length animated releases to 15, one short of the magic number. (Unless A Town Called Panic comes along to shake things up again.)
In a year as strong for animation as 2009, seems as if there should be some other criteria besides basic math to determine the number of nominees. But I guess an evaluation of quality is asking too much. Can of worms, that. If quality were a factor for category shrinkage, not as many Hollywood songwriters would get a free bus pass to the Kodak year after year. And then we’d lose the spectacular highlight of the Annual Best Song Talent Show Extravaganza.
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if its three its going to get very competitive, itll be up coraline and…
Peter Travers review of Where the Wild Things Are is up: http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/21677529/review/30494716/where_the_wild_things_are
Disney needs to pull another “Tinkerbell” out of its ass. “Abu’s Agrabah Adventure” anyone?
According to a poster named Raul from Cartoonbrew, the Antonion Banderas produced “Missing Lynx” will have a qualifying run starting on Nov. 13th. If that’s true, then there’s our saviour.
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/ideas-commentary/2009-five-features-for-oscar.html
Mary and Max is VOD? Is it disqualified?
Wha? Where did you here that?
We’re talking about Evangelion not qualifying. Mary and Max and the other films would make fifteen total. Missing Lynx, since it only debuted in Spain in 2008, still has enough time to make sixteen (a week in LA and its in.)
Oh wait, you mean video on demand.
Che debuted in theaters and video on demand. So, if people back then called it an oscar-contender, then maybe Mary and Max’ll qualify by that logic.
Are they counting Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 or G-Force? The original Alvin made the shortlist.
The original Alvin was cut a few weeks after the list debuted. G-Force, maybe won’t make it at all.
On the other hand, since its the amount of animated CHARACTERS that counts, and the Squeakquel introduces the Chipettes, that might bring some new characters to consider.
Maybe.
(Speaking of Alvin, they should have a screening process to ensure films on the list STAY ON THE LIST. So, no Arthur and the Invisibles type incidents.)
A tangent on 3 vs. 5 nominees; what I don’t get is why the Visual Effects category is still relegated to only 3 nominees. Aren’t we at a point by now that there are at least 5 worthy VFX contenders in any given year?
This would blow chunks if we only had 3 nominees. This has been a brilliant year for animation, I think the Academy should acknowledge that.
And Mary and Max is still in the running. I believe there’s reason to hope there’ll be five (Alvin and the chipmunks, Avatar)
If there’s only three, Mary and Max is pretty much out. That saddens me incredibly.
If there are 3:
UP
Coraline
Princess and the Frog..
If there are 2 more:
Ponyo
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
Evangelion, not Evangeline. Clearly you’re not an anime buff.
There are too many qualifying films for there to just be three. Sadly, three may be all we get.
It would be an utter shame if the Academy limited it to three nominees. This has been a landmark year for animation, and these movies deserve that attention.
The problem with 3 nominations is that we might be relagated once again to only major studio releases. With 5, we have a chance for a couple interesting nods, this years Triplets of Belleville.
Well that sucks.
You should start a petition to get Avatar classified as animated, Kay. You’re the girl for the job.
It’s ridiciulous that a category like Original Song may have up to 5 nominees and animated feature in such a strong year, may have only 3. Are animated less important than docs, for example, that have always had 5 nominees?
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