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97th Academy Awards: ‘The Wild Robot’ Earns Three Oscar Nominations, Underdog ‘Flow’ Nabs Two

January 23, 2025 / / 0 Comments

The 97th Oscars air live March 2, 2025 at 7 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. PT on ABC and Hulu in the United States and in more than 200 territories worldwide.

Rachel Sennott and Bowen Yang announced the nominations today at 5:30 a.m. PT, live from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Best Animated Feature Film:
Flow (Sideshow/Janus Films)
Nominees to be determined

Inside Out 2 (Walt Disney)
Kelsey Mann and Mark Nielsen

Memoir of a Snail (IFC Films)
Adam Elliot and Liz Kearney

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (Netflix)
Nominees to be determined

The Wild Robot (Universal)
Chris Sanders and Jeff Hermann

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‘Over the Garden Wall’ 10th Anniversary: Elijah Wood Returns as Wirt in Aardman Animation’s Stop Motion Short Film

November 19, 2024 / / 0 Comments

Synopsis: Welcome back to the Unknown. Walk through the familiar yet mysterious mist. Feel the gentle wind beckoning through the leaves. Listen closely to the birdsongs and whispered secrets. And join Wirt, Greg and Beatrice in their quest to answer life’s biggest question… are we all lost?

Directed by Mikey Please and Dan Ojari.
Written by Patrick McHale, Dan Ojari and Mikey Please.
Animated by Aardman Animations, creators of Wallace & Gromit and Shaun the Sheep.

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Aardman Animations acquires ‘Peter and the Wolf’ short film

December 10, 2007 / / 0 Comments

Aardman Animations has secured the worldwide TV, DVD and online rights to Peter and the Wolf, a half-hour stop-motion animated film produced by BreakThru Films.

This updated retelling brings Prokofiev’s tale into the 21st century with new twists and an environmental theme while staying true to the original story.

Peter and the Wolf has been short listed for an Academy Award and won the 2007 Annecy Cristal and the Annecy Audience Awards, as well as the Rose d’Or award at the 2007 Festival for Entertainment Television Programming.

It was also the recipient of the 2007 Pulcinella award for the Best European Program of the Year at the recent Cartoons on the Bay International Festival of Television Animation in Salerno, Italy.

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