53 Animation Pros Invited To Join Academy’s Animation And VFX Branches
Women, Black, and Asian artists were mostly overlooked in the animation branch.
Women, Black, and Asian artists were mostly overlooked in the animation branch.
“Animation is the very definition of film,” actor Dwayne Johnson told the audience.
It’s Oscar day, the one day of year where Hollywood has to collectively grit its teeth and spend a few moments acting like they respect and appreciate animation.
Mickey, Donald, Buzz, Woody, and even Snow White have announced Oscar winners over the years.
While two of the categories feel like locks this year, the animated short race is still relatively open.
Best animated feature nominees are: ‘Pinocchio,’ ‘Marcel the Shell,’ ‘Puss in Boots,’ ‘The Sea Beast,’ and ‘Turning Red.’
The Academy also unveiled the ten films shortlisted for the visual effects category.
Just three distributors/producers are responsible for nearly half of the contenders.
Our fourth look at contenders that have qualified for the 2023 Oscars.
The other seven categories dropped from last year’s live broadcast will also be back for March’s awards ceremony.
These shorts have impressed at festivals around the world, and three have already scored Student Academy Awards.
Producer Tommy Pallotta says dealing with the Academy is like being “caught in a Kafkaesque nightmare where someone is saying something isn’t real and I know it’s real.”
The video revisits several now-legendary vfx horror stories and suggests ways that a collapse of the industry may be avoided.
Luxembourg’s Oscar Selection Commission picked the film for “its artistic and aesthetic qualities as well as for its narration.”
If the Academy wants to shed its reputation for being dismissive towards animation, these are some key questions it should consider.
The film will represent Canada in the Academy Awards category for international feature.
These nine Oscar-contending animated shorts have built momentum heading into awards season.
Thoughts on who might make an impact at the 2023 Oscars.
Here are all the people who have been invited to the Short Films & Feature Animation and Visual Effects departments.
After this year’s Oscar debacle, Lord and Miller are asking for “a respected filmmaker to present the award and frame animation as cinema.”