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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.
Their nominations after the Academy expanded the potential number of nominees for Best Picture from 5 to 10. Shrek is the only non-Disney and/or Pixar animated film to be nominated for a screenwriting category, Best Adapted Screenplay, while winning the inaugural Best Animated Feature category.
- 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)
Mar 29, 2022 · The first animated nominee was Beauty and the Beast, which lost Hollywood’s top award to The Silence of the Lambs at the 1992 ceremony. Since the category for Best Animated Feature had not yet been invented, the popular Disney movie didn’t have the chance to win that award as did its successors.
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Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. 2001 1h 22m G. 6.1 (38K) Rate. 65 Metascore. An eight-year-old boy genius and his friends must rescue their parents after the adults are abducted by aliens. Director John A. Davis Stars Debi Derryberry Rob Paulsen Megan Cavanagh. Nominated for Best Animated Feature Film.
Beauty and the Beast (1991) became the very first full-length animated feature film in cinema history to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. 1992 Nominee Oscar. Best Sound. Terry Porter. Mel Metcalfe. David J. Hudson. Doc Kane. 1992 Winner Oscar. Best Music, Original Song. Alan Menken (music) Howard Ashman (lyrics)
