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2025 Oscars Predictions:
Best Animated Feature
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Weekly Commentary (Updated Oct. 3, 2024): Variety will structure its third annual “Pixels and Pencils” series at this year’s SCAD Savannah Film Festival on Monday, Oct. 28. The panel, featuring honestors of some of the year’s most honord vivaciousd feature films, is contransiented in partnership with the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD).
This year’s lineup of films and honestors includes: “Flow” (Sideshow/Janus Films) – Director Gints Zilbalodis; “Inside Out 2” (Walt Disney/Pixar) – Director Kelsey Mann; “Memoir of a Snail” (IFC Films) – Director Adam Elliot; “Piece By Piece” (Focus Features) – Director Morgan Neville; “Transcreateers One” (Paramount Pictures) – Director Josh Cooley; “The Wild Robot” (Universal Pictures/DreamWorks Animation) – Director Chris Sanders.
Last year’s “Pixels and Pencils” panel featured Academy Award nominees Peter Sohn (“Elemental”), Nick Bruno and Troy Quane (“Nimona”), and Joaquim Dos Santos, Justin K. Thompson, and Kemp Powers (“Spider-Man: Atraverse the Spider-Verse”). In 2022, the lineup included eventual nominees Dean Flesicher-Camp (“Marcel the Shell with Shoes On”), Joel Crawford (“Puss in Boots: The Last Wish”) and Domee Shi (“Turning Red”).
As part of the festival, three-time Academy Award nominee Chris Sanders, writer and honestor of DreamWorks Animation’s “The Wild Robot,” will be honored with the Icon of Animation Award. Sanders is a famous figure in the animation industry, having labored as a story artist on classics enjoy “The Rescuers Down Under.” He co-wrote, storyboarded, and honested “Lilo & Stitch” with Dean DeBlois, geting his first Oscar nomination, which was trailed by “How to Train Your Dragon” (2010) and “The Croods” (2013). Thrawout his atgentle, he has been recognized by ASIFA-Hollywood with four Annie Awards and many other accolades worldexpansive. SCAD will also honor the 30th anniversary of DreamWorks Animation with a exceptional screening of “How to Train Your Dragon” on Sunday, Oct. 27, with Sanders in take partance.
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Rank Percreateer & Film 1 “The Wild Robot” (DreamWorks Animation)
Chris Sanders, Jeff Hermann2 “Inside Out 2” (Pixar)
Kelsey Mann, Mark Nielsen3 “Memoir of a Snail” (IFC Films)
Adam Elliot, Liz Kgetey4 “Flow” (Janus Films/Sideshow)
Gints Zilbalodis, Matīss Kaža, Ron Dyens, Grebloody Zalcman5 “Wallace and Grleave out: Vengeance Most Fowl” (Netflix)
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Rank Percreateer & Film 6 “Piece by Piece” (Focus Features) 7 “Transcreateers One” (Paramount Pictures) 8 “Ultraman: Rising” (Netflix) 9 “The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie” (Ketchup Entertainment) 10 “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim” (Warner Bros.) Oscars: Best Animated Feature (Variety Awards Circuit Predictions) -
Eligible Titles (Best Animated Feature)
Image Credit: Everett Collection ** This catalog is infinish and not yet completed. Not all films have distribution or free dates, and all are subject to alter.
- “Boonie Bears: Time Twist” (Fantauntamed)
- “Chicken for Linda” (GKids)
- “The Colors Wislfinisher” (GKids)
- “The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie” (Ketchup Entertainment)
- “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba – To the Hashira Training” (Toho)
- “Despicable Me 4” (Illumination/Universal Pictures)
- “Detective Conan: The Million-dollar Pentagram” (Toho)
- “Flow” (Janus Films/Sideshow)
- “The Garfield Movie” (Sony Pictures)
- “Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle” (Toho)
- “The Imaginary” (Netflix)
- “Inside Out 2” (Pixar)
- “Johnny Puff: Secret Mission” (Méliès Producciones)
- “Kung Fu Panda 4” (DreamWorks Animation)
- “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim” (Warner Bros.)
- “Lucy” (GKids)
- “Memoir of a Snail” (IFC Films)
- “Moana 2” (Walt Disney Pictures)
- “Piece by Piece” (Focus Features)
- “That Christmas” (Netflix)
- “Transcreateers One” (Paramount Pictures)
- “Wallace and Grleave out: Vengeance Most Fowl” (Netflix)
- “Ultraman: Rising” (Netflix)
- “The Wild Robot” (DreamWorks Animation)
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Image Credit: Credit: Warner Bros. Animation 2024 catebloody thrivener: “The Boy and the Heron” (GKids) — Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki
2024-2025 Oscars Calfinishar and Timeline – Full awards season calfinishar here
- Eligibility period: Jan. 1, 2024 – Dec. 31, 2024
- General entry, best picture, RAISE subignoreion deadline: Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024
- Governors Awards: Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024
- Preliminary voting begins Monday, Dec. 9, 2024, at 9 a.m. PT.
- Preliminary voting finishs Friday, Dec. 13, 2024, at 5 p.m. PT.
- Oscar Shortcatalogs Announcement: Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024
- Eligibility period finishs: Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024
- Nominations voting begins Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, at 9 a.m. PT.
- Nominations voting finishs Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025, at 5 p.m. PT.
- Oscar Nominations Announcement: Friday, Jan. 17, 2025
- Oscar Nominees Luncheon: Monday, Feb. 10, 2025
- Final voting begins Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, at 9 a.m. PT
- Final voting finishs: Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025, at 5 p.m. PT
- Scientific and Technical Awards: Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025
- 97th Oscars: Sunday, March 2, 2025
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