Oscar for Best Animated Feature 2021

[D82]

Eight categories, including the animated short one, won't be telecast live at the Oscars.

Oscars: Eight Awards Won’t Be Telecast Live This Year
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie ... 235097888/

That's very disappointing. All the categories should be announced live. There are other ways of making the ceremony shorter and more entertaining for the audience.

[Farerb]

Disney Threat Allegedly Forced Oscars To Pull Categories, Including Short Animation, From Live Telecast

This governor says that he was told that ABC had warned the Academy that it would cancel the Oscars telecast, via a clause in the Academy and ABC’s deal for the Oscars’ broadcasting rights, if 12 categories were not removed from the show. “We were told we’d have to sacrifice something or we were going to lose the whole show,” this governor recalls.

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/disn ... 13962.html

[Avaitor]

Between this and Disney backing Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill, the company is really making themselves look worse and worse.

[D82]

Annie Awards livestream: https://annieawards.org/watch-it-live

Apart from the Annies, this weekend we'll also know the winners of the BAFTA and the Critics' Choice Awards, since both ceremonies will take place tomorrow. I wonder why the Critics' Choice decided to move their ceremony to the same day as the BAFTAs, by the way. Especially when their president complained when the Golden Globes did the same to them, which finally didn't happen since the Critics' Choice were postponed due to the pandemic. They could've scheduled their awards show for today, for example or last weekend, which wasn't too crowded with awards. Now the people nominated to both awards will have to choose between the two, because they can't attend both events.

It'll be interesting to see which animated film wins at each ceremony. Encanto seems to be the frontrunner and could win at all three, but I think it's even possible each one selects a different winner.

Edit: The Mitchells vs. the Machines was the big winner at the Annies with 8 awards including Best Animated Feature. The only categories it didn't win were Music, Character Animation and Storyboarding, which all went to Encanto. Flee received the award for Best Indie Feature. Luca, Raya and the Last Dragon, Vivo and the rest of animated films went home empty-handed.

[Sotiris]

Encanto won the BAFTA for Best Animated Film.


Source: https://twitter.com/BAFTA/status/1503117545360052235

[D82]

I'm glad Encanto won the BAFTA! The Critics Choice Award went to The Mitchells vs. the Machines.

[Sotiris]

That is quite an upset. It seems like Encanto and The Mitchells vs. the Machines are neck and neck for the Oscar.

[D82]

Yeah, that's true. I still think Encanto has a slight lead over The Mitchells vs. the Machines after the Golden Globe, the numerous guild awards it has received over the last couple of weeks and now the BAFTA, but it's not the clear frontrunner anymore. Now the only stop before the Oscars, I think, it's the Producers Guild Awards next Saturday. We'll see which film wins there.

[Farerb]

This might be an unpopular opinion here but between these two I actually prefer that The Mitchells vs The Machines wins rather than Encanto. In my opinion, Encanto is the weakest film out of all the nominees this year, and one of Disney's laziest films. I would even prefer if Raya and the Last Dragon won because at least it tried and there was more effort put into it despite the mixed result.

[Sotiris]

This doesn't make any sense as the song wasn't even submitted to the Oscars. I guess this is another attempt to raise ratings.

First Live Performance of ‘We Don’t Talk About Bruno’ From ‘Encanto’ Set for 2022 Oscars
https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/ ... 235045016/

[Disney's Divinity]

Probably Disney trying to advertise Encanto more. And an admission they screwed up what they submitted to the Oscars. Maybe this wouldn't have happened if they'd submit everything good that was available to be submitted rather than pushing one thing only.

[Sotiris]

Oscar voters anonymously reveal who they voted for in the animated feature category. I will be updating this post as more become available. Flee might actually win this.

Animated Feature: It’s between “Flee” and “Mitchells vs. The Machines” for me. I think the latter might win, but “Flee” would be a great historic win as an adult animated documentary feature. It probably won’t happen, but it would be incredible if it did. You can’t deny the power of that movie and it’s actually the film which shows what is happening right now in Ukraine.

Source: https://www.indiewire.com/2022/03/anony ... 234706678/

Best Animated Feature: Encanto is charming, but Flee deserves recognition in this category, as much as any of the three it’s nominated for, because it uses animation in such a unique way to tell its story.

Source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie ... 235116095/

Best Animated Feature: I was really high on The Mitchells vs. the Machines, but then I watched Encanto and I was just completely blown away — the animation and the music floored me. Lin[-Manuel Miranda] is just so good — it’s almost like he should write a musical! (Laughs.)

Source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie ... 235117316/

Best Animated Feature: Out of the four that I saw, the best one of the bunch, as a movie, is Flee. It’s probably not the most impressively animated, but I don’t care — I want it to win something. The subject matter is so powerful, and it’s always refreshing to see an animated film for adults, like Waltz with Bashir a few years ago.

Source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie ... 235117324/

Best Animated Feature: I saw them all, and I loved them all. I just thought The Mitchells vs. the Machines was very relevant, as far as family dysfunction. I see families out to dinner, and every single person is on their phone. I even see it with people dating. It’s such a disconnection. So I thought the subject matter and the animation were both fantastic.

Source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie ... 235117325/

Best Animated Feature Film: There’s no doubt in my mind that my vote will go for Flee. It’s so funny because it’s likely that Flee’s not going to win anything, but I’m going to vote for it in all three categories. It’s absolutely remarkable and incredibly moving. I don’t remember any animated film ever making me feel so deeply, emotionally, and not the kind of manipulative emotion that you get from Disney movies. I’m perfectly capable of getting choked up when the score swells and tells me I should feel something. But Flee is in a different category altogether.

Source: https://awardswatch.com/anonymous-oscar ... idiculous/

Best Animated Feature Film: I really liked The Mitchells vs. The Machines. Flee was great, too. Flee was obviously a very different kind of movie than the rest. This category is so weird because you have the Disney movies, and then you have Flee. So this is a tough category. I thought the Disney movies were very sweet, but I really enjoyed Mitchells. It was hilarious, smart, and also moved me. It was one of the most entertaining films, moment-for-moment, that I’ve seen in a long time.

Source: https://awardswatch.com/anonymous-oscar ... ther-vote/

Best Animated Feature: Encanto. But I was really close with "The Mitchells vs. the Machines." That film, from a technical perspective, had such extremely impressive execution. How they made it look like a dimensionalized comic…it was enjoyable stylistically. But "Encanto" was just too good.

Source: https://www.nextbestpicture.com/latest/ ... ar-ballots

Best Animated, Documentary & International Feature: Flee. It's such a strong and original film in all of its categories. There have been animated documentaries before, but the way they employ animation here was just so unique. I voted for it everywhere and figured it has to win somewhere. It should've been in the Best Picture lineup too.

Source: https://www.nextbestpicture.com/latest/ ... ar-ballots

Best Animated Feature: Flee

Source: https://www.nextbestpicture.com/latest/ ... ar-ballots

Best Animated Feature: Flee

Source: https://www.nextbestpicture.com/latest/ ... ar-ballots

Best Animated Feature: The Mitchells vs. the Machines

Source: https://www.nextbestpicture.com/latest/ ... ar-ballots

Best Animated Feature: Raya and the Last Dragon

Source: https://www.nextbestpicture.com/latest/ ... ar-ballots

Best Animated Feature: The Mitchells vs. the Machines

Source: https://www.goldderby.com/forum/movies/ ... 1204876180

Best Animated Film: Luca

Source: https://www.goldderby.com/forum/movies/ ... 1204856998

Documentary, International and Animated: Flee

Source: https://www.goldderby.com/forum/movies/ ... 1204834697

[D82]

In case anyone's interested in watching the animated shorts nominated for the Oscar, I've seen that three of them are available online for free (links below). The other two are also online, but not for free. Robin Robin is on Netflix and Bestia, the one that won the Annie, is on Vimeo On Demand and not for all regions. However, if you search on the regular Vimeo website you can find it there for free as well, though you'll need to have an account; otherwise it won't let you watch it since that video is not rated.

• The Windshield Wiper (option 1) (You need a Google account to watch it)
• The Windshield Wiper (option 2) (Censored version)
• Affairs of the Art (It's in French, but you can choose the option of translating the subtitles Youtube offers)
• Boxballet (It's at the beginning of the video)

Oscar voters anonymously reveal who they voted for in the animation categories. I will be updating this post as more become available.

I don't know if these votes are too indicative of what the Academy as a whole votes or not, but it's interesting to see the reasons each member gives for voting what they voted for. And what the first person said about Flee is true; the film makes you think of the current war in Ukraine, so it's possible that might increase its chances. Though, the three categories it's nominated for look quite locked, so we'll see.

This doesn't make any sense as the song wasn't even submitted to the Oscars. I guess this is another attempt to raise ratings.

First Live Performance of ‘We Don’t Talk About Bruno’ From ‘Encanto’ Set for 2022 Oscars
https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/ ... 235045016/

Yeah, it's clearly an attempt to raise ratings. Personally, I don't like it. It's a bit disrespectful to "Dos Oruguitas", which is the song from the film that's actually nominated. Not to mention, to the other nominees in the category. Some of the other songs will most likely be shortened for their live performance, as they usually do with the least famous ones, while Encanto will get two performances, and I bet "We Don't Talk About Bruno" at least will be performed in full.

Plus, as Disney's Divinity said, it's like admitting they submitted the wrong song, which I don't like either and I don't think is necessarily true. The popularity of "We Don't Talk About Bruno" maybe would've made it win if it had been submitted and nominated, but we'll never know for sure. The Academy's taste in music is a bit different than the public's and they don't always like the same things. The Academy, for example, tends to prefer ballads and they also take into account the role the song has in the film, and in that last aspect I think "Dos Oruguitas" has an advantage over "We Don't Talk About Bruno".

I think Disney should've submitted both. Though "We Don't Talk About Bruno" hadn't become the phenomenon it is now, it was already the most praised song by critics, so they could've guessed it was going to be the most popular one. But they, of course, feared a vote split. I wonder if this will affect what songs they submit in the future. I guess it'll depend on whether "Dos Oruguitas" wins or not.

[Farerb]

I wasn't watching live, but now catching up with some announcements on YouTube, and the presentation for Best Animated Feature was basically three live action Disney Princesses saying that animated films are for kids and joke about how parents have to endure and suffer rewatching them all the time.

[Farerb]

During The Biggest Oscar Trainwreck In History, ‘Encanto’ And ‘The Windshield Wiper’ Won Oscars (Commentary)

On a disaster of an evening where Worldstar-style attacks figured into the live ceremony and the entire #MeToo movement was undermined and trivialized by abhorrent bad taste, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences also made it abundantly clear that it has zero respect for animation as an art form.

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/ideas-comme ... 14531.html

[DisneyEra]

So they complain when those actresses that played Disney Princesses presented Encanto the Oscar, But when Woody & Buzz Presented Inside-Out with the Oscar for 2015, they had no issue with that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-wowSRBfrY

[Farerb]

I don't see how one relates to the other? They didn't have an issue with the actresses and what characters they played. They had an issue specifically with promoting a live action remake of an animated film (the insinuation that animated films don't really matter) and then literally saying that animated films are solely meant for kids and that parents suffer because of them.

[DisneyEra]

I don't see how one relates to the other? They didn't have an issue with the actresses and what characters they played. They had an issue specifically with promoting a live action remake of an animated film (the insinuation that animated films don't really matter) and then literally saying that animated films are solely meant for kids and that parents suffer because of them.

That I can see. Those jokes are tasteless. Zoe Salandra was teasing The Rock about crying like a baby while watching the Lion King, when they presented Big Hero 6 with the Oscar years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lZaqk4ar-8

[carolinakid]

Flee and The Mitchells got much more audience applause than all 3 Disney nominees.

[Disney's Divinity]

I only remember Flee getting big applause. Anyway, I wouldn't say the show was a trainwreck. I'd say it was one of the best they've had in years. Schumer, Sykes, and Hall need to come back again next year, they were awesome.