Zootopia & Moana both nominated for Best Animated Feature
How far will Disney go?
shareZootopia will win, if one of them does (and I think Z has this).
Although I am a Disney fan, I don't think Moana's songs were all that great. So if, as expected, La La Land wins (not to say I actually prefer them to Moanas' though), I will instead take some schadenfreude from Golden Boy LMM not getting his EGOT his obnoxious fans so clearly feel he's entitled to.
Zootopia will easily win that category. Seems like Disney is dominating it - I think Pixar's Coco could potentially win it next year, if it's really good.
La La Land has two nominations for best original song, so it has more chances than Moana to win. And even while I consider La La Land the best movie of 2016, I must say, the songs weren't my favorite part. I would give that award to "How Far I'll Go" tbh.
I'm going to hold off on Coco till I know more about it. But with the current animation lineup it appears to be a shoe in at this point.
Far as Moana goes it does appear that Disney is working in different directions! Moana for Best Song and Zootopia for Best Animated Feature. If it happened to succeed that'd be the best case for keeping both fans and the company in general happy! Everyone wins...
Don't be so quick to count out the smaller (and better) movies. This is the toughest this category has been in a long time.
shareI think Kubo and the 2 Strings is favored for best animation. Disney doesn't seem to play well at the Oscars.
shareDisney won for the last two times they were nominated. Back in their renaissance, there was no best Animated Oscar, otherwise they'd have a string of victories from the nineties as well.
From 00's to 2010 or so was the time of Pixar, while Disney was having one of their dark ages. Now Dreamworks is basically gone from the stage, Illumination is making popular but brainless movies, and Pixar themselves have fallen a bit from the lime light. WDAS themselves are nowadays having a "revival" with no end in sight so far, hence their two nominations this year versus none for the other big studios.
But Beauty and the Beast did win Best Picture back then and became the first animated movie to do so. I think we rarely going to see something like that happening again for animation. That's why they have their own category.
While I enjoyed BH6, I don't really feel that win was earned compared to HTTYD 2 and Princess Kaguya imo.
BATB did not win Best Picture, that went to Silence of the Lambs.
Pixar did have another nomination for best picture I think, or maybe two, but that was after they raised the number of movies that get nominated from 5 to upwards 10 I think.
No comment on Kaguya as I haven't seen it, but for my money BH6 was easily better than HTTYD2, a very mediocre sequel to an already overrated movie.
You're right. It won for Best Original Score and Best Original Song instead. It's still rare for an animated movie to get nominated in that category.
shareDisney doesn't seem to play well at the Oscars.
What world are you living in? Disney and Pixar have won the Animated Feature award maximum number of times
Galaxy's princess
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Where did you get that information! LOL Only once has a stop motion film won and that was many years ago, and it did pretty good at the box office for it's time. Practically every year Disney or Pixar (also owned by Disney) has won the Academy Award in this category and very rairly do they surrender the crown.
shareThe whole Academy votes on the final round not just one section. The chances of a film that practically no one has heard of is very unlikely! Also what is "better" is subjective!
shareThis is why part of me felt there should be a separate category for foreign animation films around some point too. It's pretty ridiculous to think that another Studio Ghibli film or other foreign animation would actually have a fighting chance against an American one these days, especially Disney and Pixar. I mean if there could be a Best Foreign Language Film category for live action films....
shareFar as I know animated films can be selected for Best Foreign Language. They just have to make the cut. One thing I do know is every voting member of that section of the Academy has to watch every film that makes the cut. The others are only required to watch 60% for everything else I believe.
shareCouple of things that I like to say about this category...
1.) I'm surprised how movies like Finding Dory and Your Name didn't make the cut. The latter was even speculated to make the nom. Glad The Red Turtle made it, never heard of My Life as a Zucchini, and thank God Sausage Party didn't!
2.) Gee. Does Moana actually have a shot of winning anything in the future? There seems to be a slim chance that it could win in either categories. I like La La Land and the "City of Stars" song, so that's a tough call for me to choose. La La Land will certainly win other categories like Best Picture.
3.) I also like to see Kubo win in that category, but we all know that won't happen.
If Coco wins/Pixar wins, so does Disney. Disney owns Pixar.
shareThat was my point.
shareSorry, I misunderstood you. I thought you were saying normally Disney dominates it, BUT you thought Pixar's Coco had a chance next year. That's why I said that, but I just reread your statement and it was more like "Disney dominates it, and Coco will probably will next year, too" kinda thing. My bad?
shareLaLa Land wasn't my favorite movie but I agree that their songs were better than Moana's.
Ditto on LMM. Hamilton was good but shoot me if I hear another rabid fans claming it's the best thing they ever heard.