Alrighty! Variety reports that “The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the 25 animated features submitted for consideration in this year’s Oscar race.”
Last year, COCO won and I wasn’t too thrilled with that. Don’t get me wrong, I love Pixar movies, and I also loved COCO when it was BOOK OF LIFE. COCO was good, but the writers so shamelessly borrowed from BOOK OF LIFE and passed it off as their own original story. I feel like that should count against it when being considered for an Oscar, but apparently not. Sure, Pixar did add a few elements to make it a little more tear jerky but get this: young man aspires to become a musician, family disapproves, and that is somehow fixed by traveling to the land of the dead. If you’ve seen both, you wouldn’t know which I was talking about because they are THE SAME.
Anyways, take a look at the list of the Features in the race!
“Ana y Bruno”
“Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch”
“Early Man”
“Fireworks”
“Have a Nice Day”
“Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation”
“Incredibles 2”
“Isle of Dogs”
“The Laws of the Universe – Part I”
“Liz and the Blue Bird”
“Lu over the Wall”
“MFKZ”
“Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms”
“Mirai”
“The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl”
“On Happiness Road”
“Ralph Breaks the Internet”
“Ruben Brandt, Collector”
“Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero”
“Sherlock Gnomes”
“Smallfoot”
“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”
“Tall Tales”
“Teen Titans Go! To the Movies”
“Tito and the Birds”
Holy heck, you guys. Even I have some catching up to do! Some of these aren’t even out yet, but I think the Oscar folk already have copies of them.
~Big Eyes
