Team Experience will be covering the various Oscar categories in the lead up to Oscar night. Here's Tim Brayton, Cláudio Alves, and Nathaniel R...
TIM BRAYTON: Hello Nathaniel and Cláudio! I'm thrilled to have the chance to discuss this year's slate of nominees for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars with you - animation is, I think it's fair to say, the most important form of filmmaking to me, and it's always fun to share it. Whether these exact five films represent animation at its peak, well, we'll just have to get into that as we go.
A quick recap for all of us and those of you reading, here are the five nominees:
Encanto, a CGI
feature produced by Walt Disney
Animation;
Raya and the Last Dragon, a CGI
feature produced by Walt Disney
Animation;
Luca, a CGI
feature produced by Pixar
Animation Studios and distributed by their corporate owners, the Walt Disney Company;
The Mitchells vs the Machines, a CGI
feature produced by Sony
Animation, who sold it off to Netflix. And then literally on the other side of the world,
Flee, a Danish documentary about politics and identity, largely consisting of interviews that were
animated in a cartoony 2D style by Sun Creature Studio. So my point, obviously, is that this isn't exactly the most stylistically or industrially diverse set of nominees this category has ever produced...
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