27 Films Are Competing for the Animated Feature Oscar – How Many Do You Know?
thewrap.com“Apollo 10 ½: A Space-Age Childhood”“Boyhood” and “Dazed and Confused” director Richard Linklater’s film is set in Houston in the summer of 1969, and it spends as much time detailing life for a kid in that era (from TV shows to rotary phones) as it does telling the story of a fourth-grader recruited by NASA for a secret, pre-Apollo 11 moon mission.
The film was shot in live action and then animated, which initially caused the Academy to rule it ineligible before reversing that decision in November. “The Bad Guys”The second-highest-grossing eligible film of 2022, at $250 million, is Universal’s release of DreamWorks Animation’s heist comedy featuring the voices of Sam Rockwell, Awkwafina and Craig Robinson.
Pierre Perifel makes his feature directorial debut in a film inspired by Aaron Blabey’s series of children’s books.“The Bob’s Burgers Movie”More than a decade after the animated television series “Bob’s Burgers” began its run on Fox, after two years of delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 20th Century Studios released Loren Bouchard’s feature spinoff from the series.
Many of the TV voice actors showed up, including Kevin Kline, Aziz Ansari, Zach Galifianakis and Nick Kroll.“Charlotte”Originally premiering at the Toronto Film Festival in 2021, this work of indie animation from Tahir Rana and Éric Warin features the voices of Keira Knightley and Marion Cotillard.
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