Notable absence- Highest grossing animated film this year- Pixar's "Finding Dory" is not nominated.
Best Animated Feature Film
Kubo and the Two Strings
Moana
My Life as a Zucchini
Sing
Zootopia
Best Original Song - Motion Picture
"Can't Stop the Feeling" - Trolls
"City of Stars" - La La Land
"Faith" - Sing
"Gold" - Gold
"How Far I'll Go" - Moana
Haven't seen Sing yet or Zucchini, but I hope Kubo wins. It is superb.
shareKubo is the most under-appreciated film since "Citizen Kane". It's a phenomenal animated story which doesn't poison itself preaching a purely white-washed, skewed sociopolitical message ill-befitting the metaphorical contrast between the real-world topic and the fictional constructed world.
And I'll wager I don't even need to mention which film I'm referencing with regard to that little blurb, since everyone knows the truth about it even if they don't want to openly admit it.
I saw Zootopia with my kids and they came out of it asking 'so the predators aren't going to eat the prey anymore?'. It was Disney's 'written by committee' (and some film critics) belief that the film was really about racial tolerance and feminism. Not a kid on the planet 'got' that.
Kubo's a masterpiece clearly. Nothing else is in its class - certainly not generic adventure Moana (my kids fell asleep and I was bored stiff). The ending was heartbreaking but not a copout.
And when you realize what the "two strings" of the title refers to are... sob.
Sing might have a chance against Moana for best song but Zootopia will win for best feature.
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