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‘WALL-E’ wins Oscar for Best Animated Feature

February 23, 2009 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

During last night’s 81st Academy Awards, Pixar’s WALL-E took home the award for Best Animated Feature, marking Andrew Stanton’s second win in the category. In case you’re wondering, he also won for Finding Nemo. WALL-E was a huge hit for Disney/Pixar, raking in over $534MM worldwide and receiving a movie critic review average of 96% on RottenTomatoes.

Also announced at last night’s awards ceremony was the winner for Best Animated Short. The winner was “La Maison En Petits Cubes,” directed by Kunio Kato, which you can watch in its entirety here.

‘Monsters’s Inc.’ and ‘A Bug’s Life’ coming to Blu-ray May 19

February 20, 2009 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Disney has confirmed that both “Monster’s Inc.” and “A Bug’s Life” will make their Blu-ray Disc debut May 19; ten days, conveniently, before the theatrical release of Pixar’s latest “Up” — which just so happens to be tied directly to the releases, with each including free movie bucks for a screening of Up.

Both films will each be presented in their original aspect ratios (2.35:1 A Bug’s Life, 1.85:1 Monster’s Inc.) in 1080p video with 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio. Both discs will also feature a digital copy of each respective film that you can watch on a portable device such as an iPod, BD-Live access, and the brand new Filmmakers’ Roundtable.

In addition, A Bug’s Life will include a new bonus feature: an Original Story Treatment, while Monster’s Inc. will include the all-new “Ride and Go Seek: Building Monstropolis in Tokyo for Monster’s Inc.”

Video interview with Andrew Stanton

February 7, 2009 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Check out this interview with Andrew Stanton, the writer and director of Wall-E and Finding Nemo.

Brad Bird talks 1906, Toy Story 3 and Iron Giant

February 6, 2009 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

The guys over at Latino Review had the chance to interview the great Brad Bird recently, and asked about his live-action film 1906, Toy Story 3 and the possibility of an Iron Giant theatrical re-release. Here’s a snippet of the interview:

Question: So do you see a lot of the other stuff that Pixar is working on, like Toy Story 3?

Brad Bird: Oh, absolutely. Michael Arndt, who wrote Little Miss Sunshine, wrote the script to it, so it’s going to be really great.

Question: How far along is it?

Brad Bird: It’s about ready to go into production. They’re just about They’re just about finished with Up, and the animators will regain their sense for a few weeks…

Head on over to Latino Review to read the entire interview.

Pixar’s “UP” Super Bowl Commercial

January 31, 2009 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Check out the UP Super Bowl commercial below:

2nd poster for Pixar’s UP

January 30, 2009 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

WALL-E nominated for six Oscars

January 22, 2009 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

The morning it was announced that Pixar’s WALL-E had been nominated for six Academy Awards, including best Animated Feature. Competing against WALL-E are Disney’s Bolt and DreamWorks Animations’ Kung Fu Panda.

The other awards WALL-E was nominated for are:
Original Screenplay
Score
Song (Down to Earth)
Sound Mixing
Sound Editing.

WALL-E tied Beauty Beast as the animated movie with the most Oscar nominations. Rounding out the animated movie nominees were Waltz With Bashir for Foreign Language Film and La Maison de Petits Cubes, Lavatory – Lovestory, Oktapodi, Presto, and This Way Up for Animated Short Film.

2009 BAFTA nominees announced

January 15, 2009 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

The BAFTA nominees have been announced, and here are the nominations that matter, to us at least:

Animated Film:
– PERSEPOLIS
– WALL-E
– WALTZ WITH BASHIR

Film Not In The English Language:
– THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX
– GOMORRAH
– I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG
– PERSEPOLIS
– WALTZ WITH BASHIR

Music:
– THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
– THE DARK KNIGHT
– MAMMA MIA!
– SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
– WALL-E

Interview with Pixar producers Jim Morris and Lindsey Collins

January 14, 2009 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

‘Wall-E’ and ‘Waltz with Bashir’ win Golden Globes

January 12, 2009 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Congrats go out to everyone at Pixar and Sony Pictures Classics for winning Golden Globes at last night’s ceremony. Pixar’s Wall-E nabbed the Best Animated Feature Film award, while Sony Pictures Classics’s Waltz with Bashir won Best Foreign Language Film.

‘WALL-E’ wins Critics’ Choice Award

January 9, 2009 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

There’s no stopping Pixar’s little robot as he receives another award. At the 14th Critics’ Choice Awards, WALL-E won the award for Best Animated Feature. Waltz with Bashir, which was competing against WALL-E in the animation category, won Best Foreign Language Film. The rest of the animation nominees were Bolt, Kung Fu Panda, and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.

New Books: ‘The Art of Up’ and ‘The Art of Pixar Short Films’

January 1, 2009 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Two new books are now available for pre-order on Amazon. They are: The Art of Up and The Art of Pixar Short Films.

Below are the covers for each book. Click on the images to be taken to the Amazon pages where you can pre-order them at the discounted price.

New clip from Pixar’s “Up”

December 16, 2008 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

â€œUp” is a Pixar comedy adventure about 78-year-old balloon salesman Carl Fredricksen, who finally fulfills his lifelong dream of a great adventure when he ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away to the wilds of South America. But he discovers all too late that his biggest nightmare has stowed away on the trip: an overly optimistic 8-year-old Wilderness Explorer named Russell.

Up arrives in theaters on May 29th 2009.

‘WALL-E’ wins two more awards

December 15, 2008 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

With many awards already claimed, WALL-E nabbed two more over the weekend.

The New York Film Critics Online awarded WALL-E its Best Animated Feature of the Year award and also picked the film as one of the year’s Best Pictures.

The second award came from AFI via their annual Top 10 Movies Of The Year awards. Below are the films that AFI named the Top 10 of the year.

(Alphabetical Order)
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
THE DARK KNIGHT
FROST/NIXON
FROZEN RIVER
GRAN TORINO
IRON MAN
MILK
WALL-E
WENDY AND LUCY
THE WRESTLER

2009 Golden Globe animation nominees

December 11, 2008 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

The 66th Annual Golden Globe nominees have been announced and Kung Fu Panda, WALL-E and Bolt were nominated for Best Animated Film. Both WALL-E and Bolt were also nominated for Best Original Song. The nominated WALL-E song was co-written by Peter Gabriel and the “Bolt” song was co-written by Miley Cyrus.

The Golden Globes ceremony will be broadcast on Sunday, January 11th, 2009 at 8 PM EST on NBC.