Remember chaps, the nominees for best animated film are...
Pixar's "Brave" Disney's "Wreck-It Ralph" Disney/Tim Burton's "Frankenweenie" Aardman Animation's "The Pirates! Band of Misfits" and Universal's "ParaNorman."
And to a lesser extent, the nominees for best animated short are...
Disney's "Paperman" The Simpsons' "The Longest Daycare" "Adam and Dog" "Fresh Guacamole" and "Head over Heels."
But I do wonder if anyone else here is interested. Seth McFarlane is hosting, but IDK if there is going to be another extremely boring presentation for the animated film/short awards (good thing Justin Timberlake's not here this year!) or not. Plus, there isn't anything in Cartoon News about it right now, and usually nobody replies there about it nowadays...
UPDATE: Pixar wins... yet again... with "Brave." Anyone willing to bet it won just because it was a Pixar movie? On the lighter side, "Paperman" won the Oscar for Best Animated Short. Then again, that's the kind of short animation the Academy now loves, the artsy black-and-white stuff.
Presented by two voice actors I don't really know, it was a bit dull. With Seth McFarlane hosting, you'd think they'd have done better.
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(This post was edited by WileECoyote on Feb 24, 2013, 7:05 PM)
I saw the Oscars and I wonder if they'll have a cartoon theme for next year? I'd like to see Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck give-out an Oscar sometime.
I don't know about Daffy, as I stopped watching the Oscars years ago, but Bugs has already presented the award for Best Animated Short Subject one year. Mickey Mouse also gave out the same award another year. I recall Snow White presenting an award once, and IIRC, the Simpsons did once also (or maybe that was the Emmys, I'm not sure).
A cartoon themed Oscars show seems unlikely, though. Hollywood generally considers its' premier award show to be too highbrow to be fully centered around mere cartoons. A more feasible hope is that one day the Annie Awards be televised.
I once saw Chicken Little and Abbie Mallard present Best Animated short subject once. It was actually really funny because Abbie was complaining about how ducks never get pants and Chicken Little decided to take his off to make her feel better. Then he felt embarrassed in front of everyone and made a pair of pants out of the envelope--and yes later he had to peek inside them to read the name.
As for Bugs presenting the award--Daffy was with him--and apparently thought he was at a shriner 's convention--Bugs had to explain to him where he was and Daffy then removed his fez.
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"Homer,we just brought Flanders back from the dead. Did you use the notebook to make a flock of penguins peck him to death?" Marge-"Murder He Wrote"-a Simpsons Comic story.
Bugs Bunny presented the Oscar for Best Animated Short twice: once in 1987 (solo) and again in 1995 (with Daffy.) Too bad we won't be seeing stuff like that anymore, just actors that barely know about animation like Paul Rudd and Melissa McCarthy...
Bugs Bunny presented the Oscar for Best Animated Short twice: once in 1987 (solo) and again in 1995 (with Daffy.) Too bad we won't be seeing stuff like that anymore, just actors that barely know about animation like Paul Rudd and Melissa McCarthy...
Um, how do you know that Paul Rudd and Melissa McCarthy barely know about animation? Do you have some sort of concrete proof of this, or are you just speculating?
And even if that is the case, again, knowledge of animation isn't a prerequisite for appearing on the Oscars, since the Oscars aren't primarily for animation nor are they primarily for fans of animation. That's what the Annies are for.
Similarly, how do you know that there won't be any more animated characters featured on award shows? Never say never; trends go in cycles, Roger Rabbit sparked a renewed interest in toons by Hollywood, who's to say that something like that won't happen again? All it would take is one hit animated movie to get mainstream Hollywood interested in cartoon characters again. With Tinseltown it's all about what's hot this week.
