Sep 19, 2022

I am asking about this year's anime feature Oscar race.

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This week marks the midpoint of the race to the Oscar, which will be held on 3/12 of next year. So we thought it was a good time to ask a few questions that Academy voters hope to consider when choosing this year's animated feature-length nominees.

1 – Netflix managed to get 1 nomination in 3 years, as Disney did last year - other than Disney, no other studio has pulled off the feat since the award was created in 2001. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio appears to have been guaranteed a nomination; Wendell & Wilde has a pedigree with Henry Selick and Jordan Peele and has received stellar reviews after its prestigious Toronto premiere; Chris Williams's Fantastic Sea Beast has been nominated for a Netflix award campaign. If it was an animation feature that would lead the line, it would be absolutely a contender in almost any other year.

2 – The Academy can ignore this year's biggest animated film from the biggest animated film franchise of all time - the Academy has shown no hesitation in nominating mediocre (at best) commercial films such as Ferdinand, Ralph Breaks The Internet, Bolt, and Boss Baby, so why the despicable Me? This franchise had one nomination over its first four – much better than a mediocre film- Indeed, if the films we listed deserve nominations, Minions: the Rise Of Gru earned more than99 billion at the box office and had a huge cultural impact, but it deserves similar recognition.

3- apple Will Regain Its Luck with an Ambitious awards campaign - Apple pushed hard last year to get the nomination for its first Skydance original short blush, but ultimately failed to win a nod. They push it hard at the studio's first feature, luck, which has not been well reviewed and won't get a wider theatrical release. Of course, Luck has some Oscar cred on producer John Lasseter, but it's hardly considered a "Lasseter movie" because it was already in development by the time he joined the upstart studio. Whether he brought Midas touch to Skydance will be fairer to judge for future Skydance animated titles.

4 – 3 stop-motion films could be Nominated in the same Year - we've already mentioned 2 nominees for Netflix, but with the exception of Wendell & Wilde and Pinocchio, it's powerful if Marcel's shell in shoes has enough stop-motion to qualify. It looks like a good candidate. This is the year's best-reviewed animation (hybrid) feature, which sits at 99% on Rotten Tomatoes, and with several famous festival appearances under its belt, Phil Tippett's Mad God is one of the most visionary animation features in recent years and one of the industry's most respected filmmakers. It comes from one person. even so...

5– This year's stop-motion field is the strongest in history - 2022 was the banner year for stop-motion features, with 4 high-profile titles boasting a realistic chance of being nominated. This is especially noteworthy in the year 1, when neither Aardman and Leica, the darling of the art form, released a qualifying film.

6 – Always overlooked, how anime will affect this year's award Season - Masaaki Yuasa has long been in and around the award conversation, with some films that the Academy might have recognized if it had paid more attention to non-Ghibli anime.

7– The Academy acknowledges the artistic turn that Dreamworks is taking in animation - although the smile remains, but the style of Dreamworks' traditional house the bad guys did not overwhelm with the box office and the puss in boots: the last wish is still a few months away, but the studio is not. It's certainly commendable that you're taking the risk of trying something new away from the often homogeneous look of previous films.

8– Is Disney's Best Chance for an Oscar It's no secret that Disney owns the animation feature category- one movie that doesn't put in theaters, and perhaps our guesses here are all wishful thinking and taking an Oscar and turning a red, light-years, or strange world. It is a futile exercise that ends in being. But if you take off your mouse-shaped glasses, the only Disney movie that feels worthy of consideration is Pixar's getting red (this is an absolute rock to be nominated and one of our favorites to win a Golden statue).1 We say we are warning that the strange world is still a huge question mark. If that movie couldn't impress upon release, Disney would have had 1 box office underperformer after demoting one of the most culturally significant animation features of the year to Disney+2.