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Sotiris wrote: ↑Mon Dec 09, 2024 8:36 am Six nominees are too many. There should always be just five.

They started to have six last year, right? Yeah, they already had more nominees than most awards ceremonies, at least in the acting categories, since they have them divided into drama and comedy; they didn't need to add more slots as well. In more than one category there's some nominee that doesn't seem totally worthy of a nomination. Like Moana 2 in the animation one, for example. I didn't expect it would get in, although I shouldn't have been surprised since they nominated Wish last year. I don't think this will happen at the Oscars, though, since there's one less slot there and they tend to nominate movies with better reviews.

Farerb wrote: ↑Mon Dec 09, 2024 10:50 am Am I the only one who thinks The Wild Robot is overrated??
I am fond of Lilo and Stitch, but Chris Sanders' DreamWorks films just don't do anything for me. Neither The Wild Robot nor How to Train Your Dragon and definitely not The Croods.

Apparently, The Wild Robot is tied with Beauty and the Beast as the second most-nominated animated film in the history of the Golden Globes. Though, that's in part thanks to the Cinematic and Box Office Achievement category, which was introduced last year.

I haven't seen the film yet, so I can't comment on its quality, but I'm not as big a fan of Chris Sanders as most people either. I do like Lilo & Stitch and How to Train Your Dragon (the first one, which is the only one he directed), but they're not among my favorite films from Disney and Dreamworks, respectively. I've looked it up and all the animated movies he's directed have been nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars, so The Wild Robot would be his fourth nomination. That might help him win too, because he feels overdue for the award by now.

Good for him, but I know that I won't be happy about it. Although I know that there are big chances he will because most of the times they go with mainstream movies (unless the movie was made by a known director like Guillermo del Toro or Hayao Miyazaki) so it's basically either The Wild Robot or Inside Out 2.

Musker and Clements were also due to win and they never did.

Yeah, it's a shame the best animated feature category didn't exist back when The Little Mermaid or Aladdin were released. Then, they most likely would've won. The Annie Awards already started awarding animated films in 1992, but the Oscars didn't do it until a decade later.

Personally, right now I'm rooting for Inside Out 2 to win since I really liked it. I thought it was almost as good as the first one. But there are many contenders I still haven't seen, so I might end up liking some other film more.

The Critics' Choice Awards nominations are out. Same nominees as the Golden Globes ones minus Moana 2. Flow also scored a nomination for Best Foreign-Language Film.


Source: https://x.com/CriticsChoice/status/1867201782184845754

How Many Votes Will It Take to Get an Oscar Nomination in 2025?
https://www.thewrap.com/how-many-votes- ... tion-2025/

Best Animated Feature

The Short Films and Feature Animation Branch was split this year, with 677 voters in the new Animation Branch and another 202 in the Short Films Branch. Normally, the 677 members that would mean that 113 votes would secure a nomination – but voting in this category is open not only to all members of the branch, but to all Academy members outside the branch who volunteer to take part in the voting. Prospective voters were divided into four groups, and each group was required to see an assigned group of seven or eight films out of the 31 that qualified. The number required to land a nomination depends entirely on how many members participated in that process.

Sotiris wrote: ↑Thu Dec 12, 2024 6:48 am The Critics' Choice Awards nominations are out. Same nominees as the Golden Globes ones minus Moana 2. Flow also scored a nomination for Best Foreign-Language Film.

I wonder why the animation category is the only one with five nominees instead of six. Although, I've looked it up and some years they have five nominees in the category and others they have five, so I guess they must have some rule similar to the Academy one that limits the number of slots.

It's likely the same films will be nominated at the Oscars. Flow continues to do very well. I wonder if it could get the international film nomination at the Oscars as well after all.

The Oscar shortlists are out. Flow also got shortlisted in the International Film category while The Wild Robot in the Sound category. For the Song & Score categories, go here.

Animated Short Film

Au Revoir Mon Monde
A Bear Named Wojtek
Beautiful Men
Bottle George
A Crab in the Pool
In the Shadow of the Cypress
Magic Candies
Maybe Elephants
Me
Origami
Percebes
The 21
Wander to Wonder
The Wild-Tempered Clavier
Yuck!

Visual Effects

Alien: Romulus
Better Man
Civil War
Deadpool & Wolverine
Dune: Part Two
Gladiator II
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Mufasa: The Lion King
Twisters
Wicked

Source: https://press.oscars.org/news/97th-osca ... -announced

The Annie Award nominations are out. No Moana 2 or Mufasa in the top category.

Best Feature

Inside Out 2
Kung Fu Panda 4
That Christmas
Ultraman: Rising
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot

Best Feature (Independent)

Chicken for Linda!
Flow
Kensuke’s Kingdom
Look Back
Mars Express
Memoir of a Snail

Source: https://www.awn.com/news/52nd-annual-an ... -announced

The BAFTA shortlists are out. Flow got shortlisted in the Film Not in the English Language category, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl got shortlisted in the Outstanding British Film category while The Wild Robot got shortlisted in the Original Score category as well.

Animated Film

Despicable Me 4
Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Moana 2
That Christmas
Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot

Children's & Family Film

Flow
Kensuke's Kingdom
Piece by Piece
Spellbound
That Christmas
Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot
Young Woman and the Sea

Source: https://www.bafta.org/stories/longlists ... ilm-awards

Flow won the Golden Globe for Best Animated Motion Picture.


Source: https://x.com/goldenglobes/status/1876098452503056689

Visual Effects Society Announces Nominees for 23rd Annual VES Awards
https://www.vesglobal.org/press-release ... es-awards/

Visual Effects Society Announces Winners of the 23rd Annual VES Awards
https://www.vesglobal.org/press-release ... s-winners/

The BAFTA nominations are out. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl got nominated in the Outstanding British Film category while The Wild Robot got nominated in the Original Score category as well.


Source: https://x.com/BAFTA/status/1879501744398598447


Source: https://x.com/BAFTA/status/1879500627992367433

2025 PGA Awards: Motion Pictures and Television Categories Nominees
https://producersguild.org/2025-pga-awa ... -nominees/

‘The Wild Robot’ Is the Second Animated Pic Ever Nominated for Scripter Awards
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/ ... er-awards/

‘The Wild Robot’ Wins Saturn Award for Animated Feature
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/ ... d-feature/

Cinema Audio Society Awards: ‘A Complete Unknown,’ ‘The Wild Robot’ Among Film Winners
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie ... 236144412/

Oscars: Why the Sound Nod for ‘The Wild Robot’ Is Such an Unusual Nomination
https://variety.com/2025/artisans/award ... 236267956/

The Oscar nominations are out. Flow got nominated in the International Feature Film category while The Wild Robot got nominated in the Sound category as well. For the Song & Score categories, go here.

The Walt Disney Company Earns 15 Academy Award Nominations
https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/2025-o ... minations/


Source: https://x.com/TheAcademy/status/1882424095415181603


Source: https://x.com/TheAcademy/status/1882421927844970933


Source: https://x.com/TheAcademy/status/1882424477512061433

The Wild Robot won the Critics' Choice award for Best Animated Feature.


Source: https://x.com/CriticsChoice/status/1888036614599053525

The Wild Robot and Flow won the Annie award in the top categories. You can check the rest of the winners, here.


Source: https://x.com/AnnieAwards/status/1888472553582190977


Source: https://x.com/AnnieAwards/status/1888471516372672697

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl won the BAFTA for both Animated Film and Children's & Family Film.


Source: https://x.com/BAFTA/status/1891211784855470270


Source: https://x.com/BAFTA/status/1891206825392951307

Flow won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film.

Behind ‘Flow’s’ Surprise Oscar Win, The First For Latvia
https://variety.com/2025/artisans/news/ ... 236325205/


Source: https://x.com/TheAcademy/status/1896360188233523211


Source: https://x.com/TheAcademy/status/1896360790179131409


Source: https://x.com/TheAcademy/status/1896387667304358278