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Oscar Nominees for 96th Academy Awards Include ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ and Pixar’s ‘Elemental’

Nominees for the 96th Academy Awards have been announced and there’s one pleasant surprise: Robot Dreams, directed by Pablo Berger.

The other nominees for Animated Feature Film are Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Elemental, Nimona and Hayao Miyazaki’s final film, The Boy and the Heron.

The nominees for Animated Short Film are:

Letter to a Pig directed by Tal Kantor

Ninety-Five Senses directed by Jared Hess and Jerusha Hess

Our Uniform directed by Yegane Moghaddam

Pachyderme directed by Stéphanie Clément

War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko directed by Dave Mullins

The ceremony will be held March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood and will be televised live on ABC and in more than 200 territories worldwide.

Ten Short Films Vie for Oscar Nonimation

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 animated short films will advance in the voting process for the 84th Academy Awards. Forty-four pictures had originally qualified in the category.

The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title:

Dimanche/Sunday
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat
La Luna
Luminaris
Magic Piano
A Morning Stroll
Paths of Hate
Specky Four-Eyes
Wild Life

The Short Films and Feature Animation Branch Reviewing Committee viewed all the eligible entries for the preliminary round of voting in screenings held in New York and Los Angeles. Short Films and Feature Animation Branch members will now select three to five nominees from among the 10 titles on the shortlist.

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Toy Story 3, How to Train Your Dragon among Oscar nominees

The nominees for this year’s Academy Awards were announced earlier today and there aren’t any surprises, with “Toy Story 3,” as expected, leading the animated pack.

Pixar’s “Toy Story 3,” “The Illusionist,” and DreamWorks Animation’s “How to Train Your Dragon” were nominated today for Best Animated Feature. “How to Train Your Dragon” also earned a second nomination for Best Original Score.

Toy Story was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Sound Editing, and Best Original Song for “We Belong Together” by Randy Newman. Disney’s Tangled also nabbed a nomination for Best Original Song for “I See the Light.”

Pixar also nabbed a Best Animated Short nomination for “Day & Night.” The other four animated films nominated alongside Pixar are “The Gruffalo,” “Let’s Pollute,” “The Lost Thing,” and “Madagascar, carnet de voyage.”

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14 animated films submitted for Oscar consideration

Fourteen features have been submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 81st Academy Awards.

The 14 submitted features are:
“Bolt”
“Delgo”
“Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!”
“Dragon Hunters”
“Fly Me to the Moon”
“Igor”
“Kung Fu Panda”
“Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa”
“$9.99”
“The Sky Crawlers”
“Sword of the Stranger”
“The Tale of Despereaux”
“WALL-E”
“Waltz with Bashir”

“Bolt,” “Delgo,” “Dragon Hunters,” “$9.99,” “The Sky Crawlers,” “The Tale of Despereaux” and “Waltz with Bashir” have not yet had their required Los Angeles qualifying run. Submitted features must fulfill the theatrical release requirements and meet all of the category’s other qualifying rules before they can advance in the voting process.

Under the rules for this category, a maximum of 3 films can be nominated in a year in which the field of eligible entries numbers at least 8 but fewer than 16.

Films submitted in the Animated Feature Film category also may qualify for Academy Awards in other categories, including Best Picture, provided they meet the requirements for those categories.

The 81st Academy Awards nominations will be announced on Thursday, January 22, 2009, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2008 will be presented on Sunday, February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, and televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.

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