It’s funny that last year the International Animated Film Society snubbed one of the best Pixar films, WALL-E, in favor of the entertaining but middle-of-the-road Kung Fu Panda while this year they overlooked the superior Coraline and Fantastic Mr. Fox for Pixar’s second-string Up.
Up was fine, but if you take away the first 10 minutes [...]
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LiC favorites Fantastic Mr. Fox and Coraline will compete with Up, The Secret of Kells, The Princess and the Frog and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs for the International Animated Film Society’s Annie Award for Best Animated Feature on February 6, 2010.
For those of you who like to know these things, Disney’s The Princess [...]
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Skidoosh!
I don’t care how much you liked Kung Fu Panda (I liked it a lot more than I expected to), you didn’t see this coming: Dreamworks’ Kung Fu Panda won all 15 Annie Awards it was nominated for last night (including a couple of videogame awards) leaving Pixar’s WALL-E and Disney’s Bolt to go home [...]
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I’m still not ready for awards season, but here are some more. This time it’s the Hollywood chapter of the International Animated Film Society whose Annie Awards are a reliable predictor of future Oscar glory.
Awards types seem surprised that DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda scored 16 nominations (17 if you count the animated videogame nomination) [...]
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