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- brazilianwinter, on 11/11/2009, -2/+27Up will beat them all easily.
- taibo, on 11/12/2009, -1/+21"Alvin and the Chipmunks" and "Oscar" should never be in the same sentence.
Unless it's "Pixar beats creator of 'Alvin and the Chipmunks' to death with their Oscar." - yoshi8710, on 11/12/2009, -0/+14Why are so many films being nominated for the 2010 Pixar awards?
- michaelpinto, on 11/11/2009, -3/+12I'm rooting for Up, Ponyo, 9, Coraline and The Princess and the Frog.
- gankige, on 11/12/2009, -2/+11None of these stand a chance against "Up".
And I'm still not over how great "9" COULD have been, but just fell short. I feel like it would have made a far better video game. - wizardcombat, on 11/12/2009, -1/+9Rooting for Coraline.
- Gusbob, on 11/12/2009, -1/+7Up is a great movie. But I just like coraline better.
- Troyjinman, on 11/12/2009, -0/+5Well, i dont care who wins. I'm Just excited to have learned about more animated movies!! :)
- bobhopeisgod, on 11/11/2009, -0/+5One of the best things about recent animated films has been originality, which has been lacking in a lot of the recent "blockbusters". How many blockbuster movies these days are sequels, remakes, books to movies, games to movies, etc. Maybe it's the fact that animation allows for far more imaginative things to be done that plain CGI can't handle. But I for one am hoping the trend of animated movies continues. Especially those in the 3D realm.
- NextGenXbox, on 11/12/2009, -1/+5They shouldn't even bother and simply FedEx the Oscar to Pixar HQ.
- SpectreFire, on 11/12/2009, -4/+8Other animation studios makes animated movies.
Pixar makes magic... in movie form. - theword12, on 11/12/2009, -1/+5Nominated predictions: Up, Coraline, Ponyo, and maybe Princess and the Frog if it turns out to be good.
And I'm also rooting for Alvin and the Chipmunks /s - neonoodle, on 11/12/2009, -0/+3Shane Acker, is that you?
- ModernTenshi, on 11/12/2009, -0/+3Up, Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Princess and the Frog, Ponyo.
You heard it from me first. - hildenborg, on 11/12/2009, -1/+3I am a Studio Ghibli fan, but the first five minutes in Up beats all the competition easily. To describe a complete life cycle in so few minutes in such perfection, is just brilliant.
Ponyo is a great movie, but it is a remake of an old story (The little mermaid), and it is not really anything unique about it. - PhoenixAvatar2, on 11/12/2009, -1/+3You haven't even seen it. And no, it's not animated. It's live-action, even if there's significant CG.
- asgardshill, on 11/12/2009, -1/+3I agree, and I'm one of the biggest Miyazaki fans out there and was practically an evangelist for Ponyo when it released in Japan. But Up just blew me away from start to finish. I feel lucky that there is just so much great animation available today.
- PhoenixAvatar2, on 11/12/2009, -1/+33D will eventually be a legitimate part of films. Toy Story 1 and 2 were proof enough of that for me. But you're right, it needs to stop being treated as a gimmick first.
- Ajzzz, on 11/12/2009, -0/+2Coraline > Up. Even though Up is one of the best animated films I've seen. Monsters vs Aliens was surprisingly good.
- Monotonousblob, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1Hence why I said "might." I didn't know how much of the movie was live action (apparently 40%), trailer made it hard to tell (but that's a good thing I guess.)
- alexkorova, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1Mary and Max is the best one I've seen. It has a really great mood.
- smack1700, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1Saw that in 3d, that was one of the few 3d movies I actually enjoyed
- aero8, on 11/12/2009, -1/+29, UP and Ponyo have the biggest chance me thinks.
- ModernTenshi, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1Check /Film, they expanded it to 5.
You're right, that's what they usually do, but they also expanded it to 5 back in 2002. - tdogg241, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1Ah, you're absolutely right.
http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/11/11/twenty-films-s ... - Dagreenman, on 11/12/2009, -2/+3Up will win hands down. And everyone should track down a copy of Secret of the Kells because it is a ***** great movie with fantastic animation.
- thanakar, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1Would you mind explaining how you would have improved it?
- huntermcwhite, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1It would be stupid to not submit your own movie.
It's free publicity. For example I would not have known that tinkerbell movie existed. not that I care that it does, just saying - bobhopeisgod, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1i really didn't see Coraline being a gimmicky 3d movie. When it's just slapping into the movie to sell a few extra copies, then yeah, i understand (like nightmare on elm street), but when they do it for the intent of it enhancing the movie, then it's totally worth it.
- thanakar, on 11/12/2009, -1/+2Not sure why you are getting dugg down, I really enjoyed 9 also
- VSAMCluster, on 11/12/2009, -1/+2Yeah, is it just me or do studios just throw their hats in the ring hoping for some sort of miracle? An Alvin and the Chipmunks sequel as an Oscar contender? A Tinkerbell almost direct to video film? These things are just a waste of time. Even Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Monsters vs Aliens and Planet 51 are a long, long stretch (although I did enjoy Monsters vs Aliens).
Maybe there should be consequences for frivoulous submissions like the above mentioned beating... - EverGlow89, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1How did so many people enjoy 9!?
Christ, I thought it was such a gimmick. There was nothing special about it. it was FULL of cliches, plot holes, and undeveloped characters. - teamgwho, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1there's really only 3 contenders: Up, Coraline and perhaps Mr Fox. Early word is it's very good. I'm sure the smaller animated features are pretty good, but as they've reached a smaller audience, they're unlikely to win even if they are superior. Any animated movie that can bring a grown man to tears (as the opening scenes in Up nearly did it for me) is worthy of a best picture award IMHO.
- jbmcb, on 11/12/2009, -2/+2Coraline was good, but it had some major pacing issues. There needed to be more breathing room between major scenes, it feels like they lopped out chunks of the movie to cut down it's running time.
- tastybbq, on 11/12/2009, -3/+3Probably in the minority, but I'm really pulling for 9.
- daviz0, on 11/12/2009, -1/+1I really liked 9 so I wish it all the best
- skztr, on 11/12/2009, -0/+0I didn't know half of these had been released yet.. there's the economy for you
- goomba323, on 11/12/2009, -1/+1Norbit won an oscar.... :-(
- Yage2006, on 11/13/2009, -1/+120 freaking pages with a tiny little paragraph and pic on each .
***** off with this already nobody likes to click through that many pages I stop at page one and bury the article. - misstingting, on 11/12/2009, -1/+1Go Coraline!
- tdogg241, on 11/12/2009, -1/+1They usually only select 3 films for the animated film award nominees.
- cookingboy, on 11/12/2009, -2/+1I actually think Ponyo has a decent chance at beating it...I mean, I loved Up, but Pixar has been owning this category for the past many years, and Ponyo is by Miyazaki, whom the Academy loves, like when they gave Spirited Away an Oscar a few years back.
So I think the only other studio who can compete with Pixar is Studio Gibli (owned by Miyazaki)...3D vs 2D, western vs eastern, these are definitely two animation powerhouses. - joebus, on 11/12/2009, -2/+1I agree except for the 3D realm idea. The whole 3D thing just seems like a cheap gimmick to me.
- cCPanda, on 11/12/2009, -1/+0 If it was public opinion than I would give it all to Up, but Miyazaki is absolutely amazing and the academy shouldn't take into account the popularity. It is still a tough call because they are so different.
As a side note, I love Wallace and Gromit but "Howl's Moving Castle" was better overall IMO and should have one the best animated feature that year. - bmiami69, on 11/12/2009, -6/+1Cartoons should have its own category placed somewhere around childhood 9 years to 17.
- Monotonousblob, on 11/12/2009, -8/+1So does Avatar count as an animated film? Might be the only real competition Up would have. One of the best movies of the year, let alone animated.
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