BEST MOVIES EVER ACADEMY AWARD 2011 UPDATE: YOGI BEAR DISQUALIFIED
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Only Three Slots Allowed For Academy Awards Animation Category – Yogi Bear Disqualified
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Only Three Slots Allowed For Academy Awards Animation Category – Yogi Bear Disqualified
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Best Movies Ever heard that Yogi Bear was being put into consideration for the 2011 Academy Award animation category and figured that the provocative poster might be too much for the ancient voters, but it was more complicated than that.
This year the 2011 Academy Award Animation category has been narrowed tremendously since Yogi Bear (we know, they wouldn’t have had a shot) was disqualified. We at Best Movies Ever have gone through the Oscar process (and Thoth won the Oscar in 2002 that we were part of) and sometimes it can be a very sticky prickly process. Just read this piece for the animation category. Under the rules of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, if 16 or more animated features films are deemed eligible – including a theatrical playdate in Los Angeles during the past year – then five features could be nominated for an Academy Award. If there are fewer than 16, the maximum number of nominees is three. So you know Toy Story 3 was quite happy since we’ve been saying since we saw the wonderful film that it would be an easy nomination and win.
Yogi Bear was thrown into the consideration category, but here’s the accompanying rule of why it was disqualified. Under Academy rules, for a live action film to be eligible in the animated feature category, “a significant number of the major characters must be animated and animation must figure in no less than 75% of the picture’s running time.”
Although “Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore” – a mixture of live action and animation – passed the 75% threshold, “Yogi Bear” apparently did not. So the main three players that will probably get the nomination will be Toy Story 3, Megamind and How To Train Your Dragon. Toy Story 3 will be an easy win against those other 2.
Here’s all the animated features that passes the test and can be considered, but no Boo Boo.
The 15 eligible features are:
“Alpha and Omega” – A 3-D computer generated tale of two wolves on a trek back home. The “road movie” even featured the voice of Dennis Hooper, his last film.
“Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore” – Talking pets save the world.
“Despicable Me” – Computer animation about a criminal mastermind (Steve Carell) and his little yellow minions.
“The Dreams of Jinsha” – A Chinese hand-drawn film which took five years to complete, that tells of a young boy who dreams himself 3,500 years back in time, when he must battle a “mysterious evil energy.”
“How to Train Your Dragon” - A fantasy of a young Viking who befriends rather than hunts dragons.
“Idiots and Angels” – A “cartoon-noir” feature by animator Bill Plympton, who has been nominated twice before for his outrageous hand-drawn shorts, “Your Face” (1987) and “Guard Dog” (2005).
“The Illusionist” – A critical favorite directed by Sylvain Chomet about a French magician’s adventure in Scotland, based on an unproduced screenplay by French comic filmmaker Jacques Tati. Chomet’s “The Triplets of Belleville” received two Oscar nominations in 2003.
“Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole” – Computer-animated fantasy based on the “Guardians of Ga’Hoole” book series by Kathryn Lasky.
“Megamind” – Will Ferrell and Brad Pitt (or rather their evil genius/superhero counterparts) send up “Superman” as they battle it out.
“My Dog Tulip” – Based on J.R. Ackerley’s memoir about his friendship with his Alsatian, the film features the voices of Christopher Plummer, Lynn Redgrave and Isabella Rossellini. Filmmakers Paul and Sandra Fierlinger went paperless – theirs is the first feature to be entirely hand drawn and painted on computers.
“Shrek Forever After” – Dreamworks’ latest installment in the green ogre and donkey sidekick series.
“Summer Wars” - Japanimation about a young math genius-computer hacker who enters a virtual world.
“Tangled” - A new Disney musical that sends up the fairy tale of Rapunzel, with songs by Alan Menken whose work on previous Disney musicals (“The Little Mermaid,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Aladdin,” etc.) has won him eight Academy Awards.
“Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue” – A new adventure starring Peter Pan’s favorite fairy.
“Toy Story 3″ - The latest in the popular series of adventures featuring Woody, Buzz Lightyear and a surfeit of classic toys.
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at 2:11 am
Also, to Palito, thank you for mentioning Summer Wars! Such a great film!
at 2:09 am
While I agree that Toy Story 3 was a good film, it wasn’t my favorite- of the 2010 films OR of the Toy Story trilogy. My favorite animated feature of 2010 is, hands down, How To Train Your Dragon, and while others would disagree, I believe it should get the Award. Just my opinion though.
My defense for it was that it wasn’t a sequel, it was an original idea (while based off a book, I don’t recall seeing too many viking/dragon animated films out there), and the character design and plot and scriptwriting were all excellent. The emotions portrayed by the characters were very real, and the ending was a real shock to me.
I think it deserves some major recognition.
at 1:43 pm
Megamind, suck big time, art direction is awful and the story itself is not engaging, as for How to train your Dragon, love the art style, and other many things, but like Chicken Little the story falls short, not so short as Chicken Little, but still lacking. Yeah, I know I work at the studio too but that shouldn’t make any difference.
My Picks are:
Toy Story 3
Tangled
Summer Wars
at 8:36 am
You can spot an idiot a mile away when they utter the word “Japanimation” instead of anime.
/facepalm
at 10:33 pm
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at 10:01 pm
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at 9:54 pm
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at 9:44 pm
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at 9:39 pm
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at 9:06 pm
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at 9:01 pm
Antoher Message: Toy Story in 1995 was the First Animated film have oscar nomination for a writing and won special oscar too. However the two Toy Storys were before the year 2001 where you began the Best Animated Feature Category. 1999 came Toy Story 2 where it was only nominated for Best Song. These Messeages are also for the Hollywood Press the Guild and other awards.
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at 8:53 pm
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at 8:40 pm
Here’s a Message to the Academy od Motion Picure Arts ans Sciences: WHY NOMINATED 3 FILMS FOR BEST ANIM ANIMATED FEATURE AGAIN!!!!? I Mean you have done a great job nominating 5 last year. I hope you give Pixar a break for this award. Because it had 3 year winning streak in that category. And if you nominate 3 again and still have 10 films nominated for Best Picture the category would be wimpy compared to it. I would say no more finalist The Visual Effects and Makeup Category shold have 5 too!
at 8:40 pm
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at 8:33 pm
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at 8:24 pm
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at 7:35 pm
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