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Feature film categories Best Picture. Animated feature films were nominated for Best Picture in only three cases: 1991, 2009 and 2010. Beauty and the Beast is the only animated-feature film Best Picture nominee before the inception of Best Animated Feature and in the five-nominee format.
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- Was Nominated: Beauty and the Beast (1991) The very first animated film to receive a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars was Disney’s 1991 classic Beauty and the Beast.
- Was Nominated: Up (2009) There was a major shakeup in the Best Picture landscape for the Oscars in 2010 (recognizing films from 2009), as the list of nominees was expanded from five to ten.
- Was Nominated: Toy Story 3 (2010) The following year saw the third animated film nominated for Best Picture; another Pixar movie, Toy Story 3. The expansion to ten nominees was still showing promising results, with other genre films such as Inception and True Grit receiving nominations as well.
- Should’ve Been Nominated: The Wind Rises. There is an argument to be made that pretty much every one of director Hayao Miyazaki’s films should have received a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars.
In 2009, when the nominee slots for Best Picture were doubled to ten, Up was nominated for both Animated Feature and Picture at the 82nd Academy Awards, the first to do so since the inception of the Animated Feature category.
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Academy Awards, USA. 2010 Nominee Oscar. Best Motion Picture of the Year. Jonas Rivera. 2010 Nominee Oscar. Best Writing, Original Screenplay. Bob Peterson (screenplay/story) Pete Docter (screenplay/story) Tom McCarthy (story) 2010 Winner Oscar. Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score. Michael Giacchino.
- 2001: Shrek. Studio: PDI/DreamWorks Production; DreamWorks. Oscar Went to: Aron Warner. Film’s Other Oscar Wins: none. Other Oscar Nods: adapted screenplay (written by Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio and Joe Stillman and Roger S.H.
- 2002: Spirited Away. Studio: Studio Ghibli Production; Buena Vista [Japan] Oscar Went to: Hayao Miyazaki. Film’s Other Oscar Wins: none. Other Oscar Nods: none.
- 2003: Finding Nemo. Studio: Pixar Animation Studios Production; Buena Vista. Oscar Went to: Andrew Stanton. Film’s Other Oscar Wins: none. Other Oscar Nods: original score (Thomas Newman); sound editing (Gary Rydstrom and Michael Silvers); original screenplay (screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson and David Reynolds; original story by Andrew Stanton).
- 2004: The Incredibles. Studio: Pixar Animation Studios Production; Buena Vista. Oscar Went to: Brad Bird. Film’s Other Oscar Wins: sound editing (Michael Silvers and Randy Thom)
Up was nominated for five Academy Awards at the 2010 ceremony, winning two: Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score. It was the second fully-animated film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture; the first being Beauty and the Beast (1991). [8] .
The 92nd Academy Awards | 2020. Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center. Sunday, February 9, 2020. Honoring movies released in 2019.
