The academy showed its independent streak this morning by nominating a pair of indies for best animated feature.
The nominees for Best Animated Feature are:
- Big Hero 6
- The Boxtrolls
- How to Train Your Dragon 2
- Song of the Sea
- The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
In the visual effects category, nominees are:
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Interstellar
- X-Men: Days of Future Past
The omission of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is sure to cause some consternation.
The nominees for the best animated short feature are:
- The Bigger Picture, Daisy Jacobs, director, and Christopher Hees, producer (National Film and Television School)
- The Dam Keeper, Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi, directors (Tonko House)
- Feast, Patrick Osborne, director, and Kristina Reed, producer (Walt Disney Animation Studios)
- Me and My Moulton, Torill Kove, director (Mikrofilm in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada)
- A Single Life, Joris Oprins, director (Job, Joris & Marieke)
The winners will be announced Feb. 22 in a gala ceremony at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles and televised live on ABC.
We’ll have more coverage later today, including reactions, on www.animationmagazine.net.
Congrats on those who have been nominated and even those who weren’t nominated, I have this say: “You did your best you could, sorry you weren’t in. But keep making more movies don’t give up on getting an Oscar nomination.”