I’m rooting for Rango for Best Animated Feature Film. Kung Fu Panda 2 bored me and I did’t see Puss in Boots. Plus Rango was original. Those other two films are sequels. And both The Artist and Hugo are about Hollywood, which the voters tend to like. I think I would vote for Moneyball.
No win could be expected, but I wish they’d nominated it for Best Picture and given Alan Rickman a nomination for his role as Severus Snape.
The one nominated is a different Undefeated
Sorry, I can’t click on an IMDB link.
I’d call that astounding.
Also astounding.
Didn’t open in 2011 did it?
When, oh when, are Japanese animators going to learn how to use a dope sheet? It’s only been the standard method since Steamboat Willie!
Assuming you mean The Secret World of Arrietty, “the film is scheduled to be released in the United States on February 17, 2012, by Walt Disney Pictures.”
Bummer that Patton Oswalt (“Young Adult”) and Albert Brooks (“Drive”) both got shut out of Supporting Actor. That category is pretty competitive every year though.
The Tree of Life? Really? Though I shouldn’t be surprised, as watching it felt like that film was made solely to appeal to Oscar voters and no one else. If ever there was a film you can label “pretentious” it would be that one. It felt like a film school project, albeit one that was beautifully shot. Best Cinematography? Absolutely. Best Picture? Not in any way shape or form.
Koyaanisqatsi + Brad Pitt & Sean Penn = The Tree of Life.
Cool that Gary Oldman was nominated.
Glad there was nothing for Drive, one of the most over-praised films of the year.
Exactly the same as me. I saw all 10 Best Picture nominees before the nominations were even announced last year and this year I’ve only seen one of them! I have a lot of work to do.
Yeah! Go Kung Fu Panda!
What’s the deal with only 9 best pictures this year? Before when it was 5, they complained about not enough slots. Then it went to 10 and now they can’t even fill up all the spots!
Is there anywhere where the Oscars host all of the short film animated film, or short live action films? Most of these are complete mysteries to me but I remember some in the past being really good. I’ve found a few on youtube but not all
For instance, there was this one short animated film from maybe 10 years ago, might have been the Oscars or some other award show, that I thought was really amazing. It was about this little stick person who’s a faceless cog in a society, making an unnamed device over again over to the enrichment of his bosses. Every day to work he passes by the statue of the big boss, another stickman, who designed this gadget.
So he toils and toils in his workshop, then he comes up with a trinket too. It gets popular, he makes money, and soon enough he deposes the evil abusive boss that was forcing everyone to make those gadgets only to replace them with…his own gadget. His statue is put up, and he has minions slaving away enriching him. I think the last shot was another stickman, looking up at this guy’s statue, dreaming of the day when he’d be boss.
I’ve always wanted to find the music to that film but I don’t the name and where it was shown. Sound familiar to anyone?
I was also kinda hoping that Bridesmaids would sneak in as a Best Picture nominee. Not that it deserved to win, but I like to see the occasional comedy get nominated. At least Melissa McCarthy got a supporting nod.
If I’m understanding it right, last year they decided on an arbitrary 10 to increase interest and maybe get some nominations for the more popular films, and people felt that they were having to come up with some that might not be deserving just to fill out the slate. So this year the rule is there is no fixed number; any film that gets 5% of the voters’ first-place nominations is on the slate. I don’t know if I explained that right but I think I understand it.
Plus Best Original Screenplay.
My bit in parenthesis…It’s up for best picture, and it can’t be nominated twice I would assume.
The year Patton Oswald gets an oscar nom is the year I quit movies forever
In 2009 **Up **was nominated for Best Pictures & Best Animated Film and last year **Toy Story 3 **was also nominated for both awards.
It wasn’t nominated as Best Animated Film because it’s not an animated film. 
“The Secret World of Arrietty” (“Kari-gurashi no Arietti”) opened in Japan in 2010, in Britain in 2011, The Disney-fied version opens in the US in February. I don’t know how that comes into play as far as Oscar eligibility.
What? The post you misquoted was about The Adventures of Tintin not being nominated for Best Animated Feature Film. Not Hugo, which wasn’t even animated.
The rule is that the film can only be nominated the year it’s first shown in Los Angeles.
So if Disney ruins it, it won’t be nominated next year and it never gets the notice it deserves. That would be too bad.