Academy Award Talkback; RANGO and MORRIS LESSMORE win
UPDATE #1: The Oscar for Best Animated Feature was awarded to RANGO.
Accepting the award, Verbinski said, “Someone asked me if this film was for kids. I don’t know, but it was certainly created by a bunch of grown-ups acting like children.”
UPDATE #2: The Oscar for Best Animated Short was awarded to The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg (Moonbot Studios).
Joyce and Oldenburg seemed genuinely surprised at winning the honor. Joyce told the crowd “Look, we’re just these two swamp rats from Louisiana. We love the movies more than anything… and there are thousands of men and women, from the beginning of cinema, who inspire us. Everything we do everyday is to honor those people and those films. This is incredibly grand.”
In case you forgot, here were the results of Cartoon Brew’s Oscar Survey.
Read Cartoon Brew’s interviews with the five nominees of the Best Animated Short category. Congratulations to the winners and nominees.
Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis (Wild Life)
Grant Orchard (A Morning Stroll)
Bill Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg (The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore)