15 films. 3 slots. The Oscar for 2010's Best Animated Feature

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have announced they are no longer taking any potential candidates to compete for the Best Animated Feature Oscar at the 83rd Academy Awards. They also announced the field of 15 movies that will compete for 3 nominations that will be announced come early next year. If the Academy accepted one more movie, the field would have expanded to five nominees if they scored well enough. Let's take a look at the list:

?Alpha and Omega?

?Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore?

?Despicable Me?

?The Dreams of Jinsha?

?How to Train Your Dragon?

?Idiots and Angels?

?The Illusionist?

?Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga?Hoole?
?Megamind?
?My Dog Tulip?

?Shrek Forever After?
?Summer Wars?

?Tangled?
?Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue?

?Toy Story 3?

Yes. That is Cats & Dogs 2 among the list of potential nominees. Let's discuss.
http://www.thewrap.com/awards/column-post/15-animated-features-qualify-3-oscar-slots-22530
 
The way I see it, the only two locks are Toy Story 3 and How to Train Your Dragon. The third spot is a toss-up between Despicable Me, Tangled, or some independent/foreign film. I would currently like the last spot to go to MegaMind, but I don't see that happening. However, this year, as unlikely as it maybe, I would be pleasantly surprised if, along with TS3, HTTYD was also nominated for Best Picture. Those two, along with Inception, have been, so far, some of my favorite movies of the year and all have reached my all-time top 20. I don't see it likely, but hey, a guy can wish...
 
I actually do hope one more movie pops up so they can extend it to 5 nominees. Afterall, there are quite a few films that do deserve the honor of atleast being nominated. I'd like to see "Despicable Me" get a nomination, it was a good film and it comes from a new studio... I have not seen "The Illusionist", but considering it's coming from the same minds as those behind "The Triplets of Belleville" that could say much about the film.
 
Huh, I guess Redline wasn't screened in time to get a nomination? I heard it was available for viewing at a film festival recently but I'm not entirely sure whether a film that hasn't even been released commercially in America might even qualify.

I'd like to hope Despicable Me makes the ballot and overcomes the odds by beating out the inevitable Dreamworks and Pixar nominees, but that seems like too much.
 
If Despicable Me, How to Train Your Dragon & Toy Story 3 are the 3 nominees, maybe the vote will be split on HTTYD & TS3 that Despicable Me ends up winning.
 
If the Oscars were really a representation of the best in film then My Dog Tulip would get a nomination (besides it would be nice for an adult animated film to get a nod).
 
I recall 'Alvin And The Chipmunks' being submitted for consideration back in 2008, just because it was animation-related, so I have the upmost faith that Cats & Dogs will definitely NOT get a nomination.

If it does, my brain will explode harder than it did after The Golden Compass won the Visual Effects award.

And a badly-drawn comic full of my disapproval would be on the way afterwards.
 
Yeah, since Toy Story 3 is one of the best reviewed films of the year, it'll definitely win.
HTTYD will get nominated no doubt, so I think the next nomination will be either Despicable Me, or one of the indie films, most likely The Illusionist. Chomet's previous film, Triplets of Belleville, was also nominated in the category years ago.

Cats and Dogs will get disqualified just like the Chipmunks films have been, since they don't have the right amount of animation or something.
 
TS3 will win, of course, but you don't think How to Train Your Dragon is a worthy nominee? And Summer Wars is excellent and I've heard good things about The Illusionist as well.
 
It'll be interesting. I have a friend who thinks How to Train Your Dragon was far superior to Toy Story 3. I admit that I haven't seen Dragon, it doesn't interest me, although I would be very uspet if anything but Toy Story wins. (If Legend of the Guardians so much as gets a nomination, I promise everyone here I will take up residence in a black hole)
 
Toy Story 3 feels like that kid who's just so much better at sports or a video game than you and decides to join in the small game you and your friends are playing right now. It's almost unfair to have it against other animated films, especially something as good and chance-deserving as How to Train Your Dragon.

TS3 was a great film, but so was Wall-e and Up!, and the main reason TS3 has the "It will definitely win hands down even versus HTTYD" aroma around it is because it's part of the Toy Story franchise and it's a good sequel. Threequel? It seems like that (Along with it being Pixar) gives it like, 10% bonus points which will just make it automatically win.

It would be exciting to see if they get close in a tie though.
 
Still think its silly that Cats and Dogs was in there.

Toy Story 3 gets the obvious win. Despicable Me will get the third nod.

Its definitely not going to be Shrek Forever After.
 
I haven't seen Despicable Me, but TS3 has an edge on HTTYD because TS3 did their job better. We discussed this before in another thread about Pixar vs. Dreamworks.

Until Dreamworks really start to up their game, it will be hard to defeat Pixar. Technologically, TS3 was awesome, while HTTYD gets kudos on cinematography and the texture of Toothless, the humans had flaws in little areas here and there. Plus I mean c'mon vikings with Scottish accents??
 
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