by Nathaniel R
Italy's "Cinderella the Cat" which is aimed at adults
Twenty-six films have been deamed eligible for this year's Animated Feature Oscar competition which means we'll have 5 nominees yet again (only 16 eligible features are required to trigger the maximum category size). The only mild surprise was that Leap!, Nut Job 2, My Little Pony, and Spark were not submitted --usually, even if an American picture doesn't have a prayer in hell, the studios will submit it anyway. This year the rules are slighly different for the category as people that aren't within the animated branch can also take part in the nominating process. Consider this year a test to see if this new rule crowds out the little seen but artful and deserving foreign titles that the category has become known for. We fear that it might though we're currently predicting business as usual (three US pictures, two foreign)...
OSCAR ELIGIBLE ANIMATED FEATURES
If we've reviewed the picture, it's linked up below. Here are our current predictions in the category.
"Big Bad Fox" is definitely one to watch out for in the race
- The Big Bad Fox & Other Tales (France, GKids)
- Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (Spain, GKids)
- The Boss Baby (US, Dreamworks)
- The Breadwinner (Ireland, Cartoon Saloon)
- Captain Underpants The First Epic Movie (US, Dreamworks)
- Cars 3 (US, Pixar)
- Cinderella the Cat (Italy)
- Coco (US, Pixar)
- Despicable Me 3 (US, Illumination)
- The Emoji Movie (US, Sony Animation)
- Ethel & Ernest (UK, BBC/EuropaCorps)
- Ferdinand (US, Blue Sky/20th Century Fox)
- The Girl without Hands (France, GKids)
- In This Corner of the World (Japan)
- The Lego Batman Movie (US, Warner Bros)
- The Lego Ninjago Movie (US, Warner Bros)
- Loving Vincent (UK/Poland, Good Deed)
- Mary and the Witch’s Flower (Japan, GKids)
- Moomins and the Winter Wonderland (Finland/Poland)
- My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea (US. GKids)
- Napping Princess (Japan)
- A Silent Voice (Japan)
- Smurfs: The Lost Village (US, Sony Pictures)
- The Star (US, Sony Picture)
- Sword Art Online: The Movie – Ordinal Scale (Japan)
- Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming (Canada)
The Lego Batman movie was silly fun... but if they didn't nominate the original.
Do you think American pictures will do better this year? If they do do you think they'll nominated the Lego Batman movie or Despicable Me 3 or what?