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...award for Best Animated Feature was established, DreamWorks got the first one, for Shrek. Since then, Katzenberg's products have been shut out (the studio distributed one Oscar winner, Nick Park's veddy English Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit), while Pixar has taken five: Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, WALL•E and Up. This year, DreamWorks' perky Monsters vs Aliens was not even one of the five finalists. "Each year I do one DreamWorks project," actor Jack Black told the crowd at the 2009 ceremony, "then I take all the money to the Oscars...
...studios also favor different kinds of stories. Pixar makes movies about couples - guy-guy in Toy Story, Monsters Inc., Cars, Ratatouille and Up, and guy-gal in Finding Nemo and WALL•E - who overcome initial antagonism and find a shared need. To wit, buddy stories and love stories. DreamWorks does workplace comedies about groups, in Shark Tale, Over the Hedge, Kung Fu Panda, Monsters vs Aliens, both Madagascar movies and the later Shreks. (See the new toys of Toy Story 3 at Techland.com...
...Harry Potter series, to be sure, but mainly the animated features from Pixar, Dreamworks and Aardman. These films did more than teach life lessons about the value of friendship, loyalty and initiative; they gave priceless instruction in what movies can be, and how to watch them. Seeing Finding Nemo, Kung Fu Panda and Chicken Run - not to mention this year's Up, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Coraline and The Princess and the Frog - should create in kids the demand that any movie aimed at them must be at least within shouting distance of those masterpieces. If the good doesn't drive...
...Oscar for Best Animated Feature in four of the past six years. (And in one of the two years it didn't win, it didn't release a film.) Pixar movies are not, however, the mammoth generators of box-office revenue that they used to be. The 2003 Finding Nemo earned $867 million worldwide - still tops for a Pixar feature - on a reported $94 million budget. WALL-E, which cost about twice as much to make, took in about 40% less. In worldwide ticket sales, the 1995 Toy Story, the studio's first feature, made more than 10 times...
...Arts and Sciences established an award for Best Animated Feature, DreamWorks got the first one, for Shrek. Since then, Katzenberg's homegrown product has been shut out (the studio distributed Nick Park's veddy English Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit), while Pixar has won four: Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Ratatouille and WALL-E. "Each year I do one DreamWorks project," actor Jack Black told the crowd at this year's ceremony, "then I take all the money to the Oscars and bet it on Pixar." But in the court of public opinion, where people vote with their...