Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
| Academy Award for Best Animated Feature | |
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| Presented by | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |
| Country | United States |
| Official website | oscars.org |
The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature is one of the annual awards given by the Los Angeles-based professional organization, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Academy Awards, or Oscars, which are the oldest awards given to achievements in film, included the Best Animated Feature category for the first time for the 2001 film year (With the first winner being Shrek). Animated films can be nominated for other categories but have rarely been so: Beauty and the Beast (1991), Up (2009) and Toy Story 3 (2010) are the only animated films ever to be nominated for Best Picture, while Waltz with Bashir (2008) is the only animated picture ever nominated for Best Foreign Language Film (though it failed to earn a nomination in the Best Animated Feature category).
Until 2011, the award category had to be activated by the Awards Board each year, whereas now it is a standard category[1] . The award is given only if there are at least eight animated feature films (with a theatrical release in Los Angeles). For the purposes of the award, only films over 40 minutes long are considered to be feature films. If there are 16 or more films submitted for the category, the winner is voted from a shortlist of five films (which has thus far happened only in 2002, 2009, and 2011), otherwise there will only be three films on the shortlist.[2]
People in the animation industry and fans expressed hope that the prestige from this award and the resulting boost to the box office would encourage the increased production of animated features. Some members and fans have criticized the award, however, saying it is only intended to prevent animated films from having a chance of winning Best Picture. This criticism was particularly prominent at the 81st Academy Awards, in which WALL-E won the award but was not nominated for Best Picture, despite receiving overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics and moviegoers and being generally considered one of the best films of 2008.[3] This led to controversy over whether the film was deliberately snubbed of the nomination by the Academy. Film critic Peter Travers commented that "If there was ever a time where an animated feature deserved to be nominated for Best Picture, it's WALL-E". However, official Academy Award regulations state that any movie nominated for this category can still be nominated for Best Picture.[2] In 2009 when the nominee slots for Best Picture were doubled to 10, Up was nominated for both Best Animated Feature and Best Picture at the 82nd Academy Awards, the first film to do so since the creation of the category. This feat was repeated the following year by Toy Story 3.
Computer-animated films have been the big winner in this category, with eight wins in the ten-year history of the award. The only exceptions were in 2002 and 2005, with winners Spirited Away, a traditionally animated anime film, and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, a stop-motion animation film. Both non-CG films were also non-U.S.; Spirited Away came from Japan (it is also the only film not originally created in the English language to win the award) and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit came from Britain.
In 2010 the Academy slated a new rule regarding the performance capture technique employed in films such as A Christmas Carol from Robert Zemeckis and The Adventures of Tintin from Steven Spielberg, and how they might not be eligible in this category in the future. This rule was possibly made to prevent live-action films that heavily relied on motion capture, such as James Cameron's Avatar, from getting in.
Pixar Animation Studios has been the most successful organization in the history of Best Animated Feature. Eight out of nine feature films made by Pixar between 2001 and 2011 have been nominated for the award and only two have lost (Monsters Inc. lost to Shrek, and Cars lost to Happy Feet). Cars 2 was the first Pixar animated film to not be nominated for an Academy Award.
The Golden Globes and BAFTA Awards have followed the Academy's example, both now presenting similar awards. At the BAFTAS the only animated feature to be nominated for Best Film was Shrek, 2 others received nominations in Best British Film, Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (the latter won in its year).
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[edit] Results
The following table displays the nominees and the winners in bold print with a yellow background.
[edit] Computer animated nominees
[edit] Pixar
From the Best Animated Feature award's 2001 inception through 2010, every feature film released by Pixar was nominated for the award, with six resulting wins and two losses. In 2011, Cars 2 was the first Pixar feature film not to receive a nomination.
- Monsters, Inc. (2001) – Lost to Shrek
- Finding Nemo (2003)
- The Incredibles (2004)
- Cars (2006) – Lost to Happy Feet
- Ratatouille (2007)
- WALL-E (2008)
- Up (2009)
- Toy Story 3 (2010)
Up was the second animated film in the history of the Academy Awards, and the first computer-animated film, to receive a Best Picture nomination. (The first was 1991's Beauty and the Beast.) Toy Story 3 was the third animated film to receive a Best Picture nomination, and is the only sequel to have ever won Best Animated Feature.
[edit] DreamWorks
- Shrek (2001)
- Shrek 2 (2004) – Lost to The Incredibles. So far, it is the only sequel to a nominated feature that won.
- Shark Tale (2004) – Also lost to The Incredibles
- Kung Fu Panda (2008) – Lost to WALL-E
- How to Train Your Dragon (2010) - Lost to Toy Story 3
- Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) - Lost to "Rango"
- Puss in Boots (2011) - Also lost to "Rango"
[edit] Nickelodeon
- Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001) – Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies; lost to Shrek
- Rango (2011) - Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies
[edit] Other films
- Ice Age (2002) – 20th Century Fox, Blue Sky Studios; lost to Spirited Away
- Happy Feet (2006) – Warner Bros., Animal Logic
- Surf's Up (2007) – Sony Pictures Animation; lost to Ratatouille
- Bolt (2008) - Walt Disney Animation Studios; lost to WALL-E
[edit] Stop-motion nominees
- Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) Aardman and DreamWorks
- Corpse Bride (2005) – Warner Bros. and Laika. Lost to Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
- Coraline (2009) – Focus Features and Laika. Lost to Up
- Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) – 20th Century Fox. Also lost to Up
[edit] Motion-capture nominees
- Monster House (2006) – Sony Pictures Imageworks; lost to Happy Feet
[edit] Traditionally-animated nominees
[edit] American-made
- Lilo & Stitch (2002) – Lost to Spirited Away
- Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) - The only one made by DreamWorks; also lost to Spirited Away
- Treasure Planet (2002) – Also lost to Spirited Away
- Brother Bear (2003) – Lost to Finding Nemo
- The Princess and the Frog (2009) – Lost to Up
[edit] Foreign Films
- Spirited Away (2002) – Made in Japan
- The Triplets of Belleville (2003) – Made in France, Belgium, and Canada; lost to Finding Nemo
- Howl's Moving Castle (2005) – Made in Japan; lost to Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
- Persepolis (2007) – Made in France; lost to Ratatouille
- The Secret of Kells (2009) – Made in France, Belgium, and Ireland; lost to Up
- The Illusionist (2010) - Made in United Kingdom and France; lost to Toy Story 3
- A Cat in Paris (2011) - Made in France, Netherlands, and Belgium; lost to Rango
- Chico & Rita (2011) - Made in Spain and the Isle of Man; lost to Rango
[edit] Notes
- ^ Nikki Finke (2011-06-14). "OSCAR SHOCKER! Academy Builds Surprise & Secrecy Into Best Picture Race: Now There Can Be Anywhere From 5 To 10 Nominees". Deadline Hollywood. MMC. http://www.deadline.com/2011/06/oscar-academy-builds-surprise-into-best-picture-race/. Retrieved June 15, 2011.
- ^ a b Academy Awards Rules for Best Animated Feature, Retrieved April 26, 2011
- ^ "The 2008 Top Tens". http://www.moviecitynews.com/awards/2009/top_ten/00scoreboard.htm. Retrieved 2009-05-27.[dead link]
[edit] See also
- Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
- List of animated feature-length films
- Annie Award for Best Animated Feature
- BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film
- Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film
- Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year
[edit] External links
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