by Nathaniel R
With just 12 days till Oscar most of the big ticket races are feeling quite locked up apart from arguably Best Documentary Feature and Best Animated Feature. The latter is particularly volatile...
Missing Link won the Globe and Laika has never won the Oscar so why not hand it to them?
I Lost My Body is the unique indie / critical darling.
Klaus is super fresh in its visual look, combining classic and new styles of animation. Plus it just proved the surprise winner at the Annie Awards.
Toy Story 4 is a box office juggernaut from a beloved series. On the other hand Oscar has already gone here multiple times (the series has already won 3 Oscars) and this category will increasingly look stingy if it's just the "Best Pixar Award" (they've won exactly 50% of the time) every year so why not spread the wealth?
Just about the only title that seems far-fetched for an actual win is How to Train Your Dragon The Hidden World (which is the 12th nominee from Dreamworks, though they've won only once). And should that actually feel so far-fetched given that it's a successful series finally achieving closure and the other two installments both looked like runner-ups for the win in their years. Perhaps it could shock for the stealth win?
Who are you rooting for and which do you think will win? Though the safest bet is surely Toy Story 4 (in the last nailbiter year, 2012, Brave triumphed) we genuinely think the votes will be quite scattered this year.