26 Films Eligible for Oscar's "Best Animated Feature"
Friday, November 10, 2017 at 4:00PM by Nathaniel R
Italy's "Cinderella the Cat" which is aimed at adults
Twenty-six films have been deamed eligible for this year's Animated Feature Oscar competition which means we'll have 5 nominees yet again (only 16 eligible features are required to trigger the maximum category size). The only mild surprise was that Leap!, Nut Job 2, My Little Pony, and Spark were not submitted --usually, even if an American picture doesn't have a prayer in hell, the studios will submit it anyway. This year the rules are slighly different for the category as people that aren't within the animated branch can also take part in the nominating process. Consider this year a test to see if this new rule crowds out the little seen but artful and deserving foreign titles that the category has become known for. We fear that it might though we're currently predicting business as usual (three US pictures, two foreign)...
OSCAR ELIGIBLE ANIMATED FEATURES
If we've reviewed the picture, it's linked up below. Here are our current predictions in the category.
"Big Bad Fox" is definitely one to watch out for in the race
- The Big Bad Fox & Other Tales (France, GKids)
- Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (Spain, GKids)
- The Boss Baby (US, Dreamworks)
- The Breadwinner (Ireland, Cartoon Saloon)
- Captain Underpants The First Epic Movie (US, Dreamworks)
- Cars 3 (US, Pixar)
- Cinderella the Cat (Italy)
- Coco (US, Pixar)
- Despicable Me 3 (US, Illumination)
- The Emoji Movie (US, Sony Animation)
- Ethel & Ernest (UK, BBC/EuropaCorps)
- Ferdinand (US, Blue Sky/20th Century Fox)
- The Girl without Hands (France, GKids)
- In This Corner of the World (Japan)
- The Lego Batman Movie (US, Warner Bros)
- The Lego Ninjago Movie (US, Warner Bros)
- Loving Vincent (UK/Poland, Good Deed)
- Mary and the Witch’s Flower (Japan, GKids)
- Moomins and the Winter Wonderland (Finland/Poland)
- My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea (US. GKids)
- Napping Princess (Japan)
- A Silent Voice (Japan)
- Smurfs: The Lost Village (US, Sony Pictures)
- The Star (US, Sony Picture)
- Sword Art Online: The Movie – Ordinal Scale (Japan)
- Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming (Canada)
The Lego Batman movie was silly fun... but if they didn't nominate the original.
Do you think American pictures will do better this year? If they do do you think they'll nominated the Lego Batman movie or Despicable Me 3 or what?
Reader Comments (14)
The fucking Emoji movie. Ugh...
I'm kinda upset Lionsgate didn't submit My Little Pony the Movie. While there was no chance in Tartarus that was getting nominated, it was still a lot of fun and one of my favorite movies of the year.
I wouldn't be surprised if under the new rules the Emoji Movie ends up with an Oscar nomination alongside other big studio films such as Boss Baby, Cars 3, Coco and Despicable M3.
I hope "The Girl Without Hands" is nominated. It's fantastic.
Coco and The Breadwinner seem like shoo-ins, but everything after that is a total question mark.
I always forget The LEGO Movie wasn’t nominated, and I often misremember that it won because it was the front runner pretty much the whole year.
in my dreams
COCO
THE BREADWINNER
THE BIG BAD FOX AND OTHER TALES
THE GIRL WITHOUT HANDS
LOVING VINCENT
shold be nominated.
Really rooting for Window Horses. It is such a poetic joy of a film. And very topical for the Academy's efforts in diversity and inclusion. #StickGirl4Oscar
My main bets that I think that the new voters will chose in their hearts and minds that are the best reviewed animated films of 2017 are.
* The Breadwinner
* Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
* Coco
* The Lego Batman Movie
* Mary and the Witch's Flower
If one of them won't be chosen for the nominations, I will be okay if it is a good movie but I just hope they don't chose The Emoji Movie, Cars 3 or Despicable Me 3 this year cause I am now really worried and scared for who will be chosen for the nominations for Best Animated Feature of the 90th Academy Awards.
Coco will win, because it's Disney mainstream but also "ethnic". My ideal pick would be either The Girl Without Hands or Ethel & Ernest. But if going stateside, I actually thought Captain Underpants was simple but effortless, and inspiringly animated.
My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea is so damn fantastic, I'd be over the moon if that got nominated. That thumbnail has me very interested in Cinderella the Cat, I might have to look for it. How is it that Your Name was only eligible for this category last year but is technically a 2017 release in the U.S.? Feels like it coulda swept with a year to build buzz and that titanium box office behind it.
Cannon could you stand to be a little less racist. Who the fuck uses ethnic to describe movies.
I haven't seen any of the foreign films on the list but this made me realize how boring American animated films are compared to last years. The only one of these I'd watch again is Lego Batman movie.
@beyaccount
I think the more pertinent questions is, who ascribes someone as racist for simply using the word "ethnic"?
I referred to Coco as much because that in part is what it is, based on the simple statistical fact of US demographics. And my point of derision was not at the movie for being ethnic (which I fundamentally have no problem with) but the Academy for its oft PC bent in selecting winners.
In other words, calm down.
So far I've watched 5 of them. A few I haven't heard of, but The Breadwinner and Coco will be around town soon:
The Girl without Hands (France, GKids)
In This Corner of the World (Japan)
The Lego Batman Movie (US, Warner Bros)
Loving Vincent (UK/Poland, Good Deed)
My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea (US. GKids)