Several previous recipients of this honor went on to win the best animated feature Oscar, including its last five winners: Ratatouille (2007), Wall-E (2008), Up (2009), Toy Story 3 (2010) and Rango (2011).
Carlos de Abreu, the founder and executive director of the Hollywood Film Festival, said: "It is a great pleasure to recognize Rise of the Guardians as the recipient of our animation award. This piece of avant-garde animation style surely will be another classic for generations to come."
That's pretty sweet. I'm even more excited about that film now, it's my most anticipated animated film of the year. But hopefully this and Ralph are going to be the best his year.
Several previous recipients of this honor went on to win the best animated feature Oscar, including its last five winners: Ratatouille (2007), Wall-E (2008), Up (2009), Toy Story 3 (2010) and Rango (2011).
Carlos de Abreu, the founder and executive director of the Hollywood Film Festival, said: "It is a great pleasure to recognize Rise of the Guardians as the recipient of our animation award. This piece of avant-garde animation style surely will be another classic for generations to come."
I knew that "Guardians" could steal the spotlight off "Ralph". Considering that Ralph comes out in less than 2 months, Disney has yet to release a 2nd trailer, & besides the olympic ads from the summer & the teaser 3 months ago, Disney has not done enough to promote Ralph. Disney will just try to shove everything in your face in October, but by that time the damage will be done. This is proof that DIsney's marketing team needs a Massive overhaul.
Rise of the Guardians looks TERRIBLE! I would be so surprised if it won Best Animated Feature at the Oscars. The trailers are laugh-out-loud funny, they are so bad!
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monorail91 wrote:Rise of the Guardians looks TERRIBLE! I would be so surprised if it won Best Animated Feature at the Oscars. The trailers are laugh-out-loud funny, they are so bad!
I knew that "Guardians" could steal the spotlight off "Ralph". Considering that Ralph comes out in less than 2 months, Disney has yet to release a 2nd trailer, & besides the olympic ads from the summer & the teaser 3 months ago, Disney has not done enough to promote Ralph. Disney will just try to shove everything in your face in October, but by that time the damage will be done. This is proof that DIsney's marketing team needs a Massive overhaul.
They've actually quite a lot to promote Ralph. that gameinformer interview with Rich Moore, the various conventions that ended up mentioned on this thread, the toys.
meanwhile, all i've seen of Guardians so far is posters and trailers, and they dont have the added benefit of exciting a croud of traditional internet geeks and nerds about that movie(I'm of course referring to the "G" word)
It's a hell of a lot more than they do for a lot of their movies.
edit: forgot this isnt the Wreck-it-ralph thread, so when I said "this thread" I meant that one.
Plus, the second Wreck-It Ralph trailer will very likely be released with Finding Nemo 3D next week. Disney tends to release the final trailers for their November releases in September.
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monorail91 wrote:Rise of the Guardians looks TERRIBLE! I would be so surprised if it won Best Animated Feature at the Oscars. The trailers are laugh-out-loud funny, they are so bad!
Think you're in the minority here.
Probably but I agree, I think it looks hilariously bad.
I'm predicting Paranorman or Guardians will take it. Brave wasn't up to Pixar's usual level and as for Ralph, pains me to say it, but the Academy doesn't really give a damn about Disney Feature Animation and I don't think a movie about video games will change their minds.
SWillie! wrote:
Think you're in the minority here.
Probably but I agree, I think it looks hilariously bad.
I think it looks cheesy. I mean the typical cliche "bad boy " hanging out with a "awesome " version of Santa Claus. Good for eleven year old boys; but not for the whole family.
Why are you dismissing Guardians so easily? It's not like it's the first time a William Joyce movie had questionable trailer decisions. In fact, it was the awful trailer for Robinsons and discovering the movie was actually really good that made me stop trusting mediocre trailers for the most part
Collider: Obviously DreamWorks’ Rise of the Guardians looks fantastic. What can you tease about it and do you want to say to people about it?
GUILLERMO DEL TORO: Well it’s the first movie that we were able to get from almost the get-go. Puss in Boots I came in about halfway through the process and we were able to do stuff that I thought was beautiful and unique and a little more crazy, experimental almost in movies of that size. With Rise of the Guardians, we were able to be there at inception. I think it’s a very beautiful movie, I think Peter Ramsay has created a world that is incredibly gorgeous and colorful.
It’s one that mixes better than any other with stuff I like and the themes that I like to approach; the idea that believing is seeing other than seeing is believing. The idea of faith, the idea of fear being a thing that you can acknowledge and deal with. The movie opens in such a beautiful, delicate, understated way—almost poetic—and we were watching the opening and we were giggling because we were thinking, “We got away with this!” We’re doing a movie that is this expensive, that is destined for a family audience and we were able to open with a dark and moody and poetic piece, and then we have other pieces like that throughout the movie. We had some radical ideas with it. I hope it can set a different tone for family movies, for entertainment movies.
And though "The Secret of Arrietty" may be ineligible for the Best Animated Feature Film competition, it does sport an eligible tune: "Arrietty's Song."
Also:
There are a trio of songs from Pixar's "Brave" to consider. "Into the Open Air" and "Touch the Sky" are both performed by Julie Fowlis and seem to me to have the best shot at recognition. "Learn Me Right," meanwhile, is performed by Birdy and Mumford & Sons. (NOTE: I've been told Disney only plans to qualify "Touch the Sky" and "Learn Me Right.")
Karen O's "Strange Love" from Frankenweenie is also eligible.
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Another award for Rise of Guardians. Will it be taking home the Oscar too?
The Rome Film Festival and Vanity Fair will award the new “Vanity Fair International Award for Cinematic Excellence” this year to Rise of the Guardians, the latest 3D film by DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. This new acknowledgment by the Festival is dedicated to a film that best expresses the innovative, artistic and strategic contribution made by production and distribution companies that have distinguished themselves in the world of contemporary cinema. Director Peter Ramsey will accept the award on behalf of the film and DreamWorks Animation.
“It is exhilarating to receive this recognition from Vanity Fair and we are honored that they share in our excitement for what we believe is an incredible film in Rise of the Guardians,” said Bill Damaschke, Chief Creative Officer at DreamWorks Animation. “We couldn’t think of a more thrilling place at which to make our international theatrical debut at the Rome Film Festival as we look forward to presenting Rise of the Guardians to audiences worldwide starting this holiday season.”
“Rise of the Guardians has been an incredible journey for the entire creative team and we are humbled by this early accolade by Vanity Fair and the Rome Film Festival,” continued the film’s Director, Peter Ramsey. “We are looking forward to the film making its international debut here in Rome.”
Wreck-It Ralph has not screened yet, so I'm rather annoyed by this world tour Katzenberg is on with Rise of the Guardians. If it is as good as they say it will probably deserve to win, but it's VERY difficult to imagine based on the trailer, which is mediocre at best.
Better than Paranorman and Frankenweenie? It could be just me, the designs look SO unappealing. In fact, I'm not even looking forward to seeing it. And I usually go see every animated feature.
PatrickvD wrote:Wreck-It Ralph has not screened yet, so I'm rather annoyed by this world tour Katzenberg is on with Rise of the Guardians. If it is as good as they say it will probably deserve to win, but it's VERY difficult to imagine based on the trailer, which is mediocre at best.
Better than Paranorman and Frankenweenie? It could be just me, the designs look SO unappealing. In fact, I'm not even looking forward to seeing it. And I usually go see every animated feature.
It's clear whats going on here. Dreamworks is screening Guardians for critics so it can shore up it's chances for good reviews & oscar-buzz. While Disney has been promoting Ralph for the movie going audience. These are the companys first original animated films in 2 years, Dreamworks is more concered with critical clam while Disney is going with fan reaction. All the buzz right now is for Ralph, if it wasn't for these critic screenings, there hasn't been anything promoted for Guardians since the 2nd trailer last july, besides some new posters. Keep the buzz up Ralph, you earn awards by quality of work, not by kissing critic's ass!
This seems like it's gonna be a lousy year as far as animated features are concerned. None of them scream Oscar worthy. Though chances are most likely Frankenweenie could be the winner. Curious to see if Rise of the Guardians lives up to the tour it's taking. I'm in the minority here but I think it looks really good and has potential.
toonaspie wrote:This seems like it's gonna be a lousy year as far as animated features are concerned. None of them scream Oscar worthy. Though chances are most likely Frankenweenie could be the winner. Curious to see if Rise of the Guardians lives up to the tour it's taking. I'm in the minority here but I think it looks really good and has potential.
I'm not to sure Frankenweenie will win the oscar, considering Corpse Bride, Coraline & Fantastic Mr. Fox didn't win in their repective years. The only films to win the oscar that was not a major CGI film was the anime "Spirited Away" & "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit". And neither of them had to go against any CGI film when they won in 2002 & 2005. Well, Ice Age was nominated when Spirited Away won, but at that time Ice Age was not the major franchise it is now.
Paranorman is the clear frontrunner in my opinion. I'd even daresay, Ralph is the only thing that could change that. But reviews will have to be overwhelmingly positive.
