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...Animated short film. Pixar makes shorts too, and usually wins. This year?s Pixar short is One Man Band. But I?d give an outsider?s chance to John Canemaker?s The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation. The director is a popular animator and historian, and this is his Squid and the Whale: a pained, funny memoir of his demanding father (voiced by Eli Wallach...
...TEARJERKER TEST Scan the Web for info on documentary and live-action shorts. If the synopsis makes you cry, vote for it. For animated short, try One Man Band. It's by Pixar...
...have all the pixels gone? That's what cartoon mavens were asking about the Oscar finalists for animated feature. At a time when computer-generated imagery (CGI) bedazzles the box office, when Disney dumps its 75-year-old traditional-animation unit and spends $7.4 billion to buy CGI leader Pixar, the three nominees are defiantly old-fashioned and handcrafted: two delightful stop-motion movies--Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Tim Burton's Corpse Bride--as well as a hand-drawn fantasy, Howl's Moving Castle, from Japanimator Hayao Miyazaki. Meanwhile, three big-studio CGI hits...
...animators are older, and computers have a stigma," says Tim Miller, creative director of Blur Studio, which copped a nomination last year for its short Gopher Broke. "I hate seeing political motivation influencing what's chosen." Perhaps the main reason no CGI film was nominated is that Pixar postponed the release of Cars--its only feature scheduled for 2005--to 2006. But the other CGI studios still won where it counts: worldwide box office for Madagascar, Chicken Little and Robots together was more than $1 billion. That means their makers can cry all the way to the piggy bank...
...Matthew O’ Callaghan (Universal Pictures) Although still lovable and the epitome of cute, Matthew O’ Callaghan’s “Curious George” is a bit bland for anyone over the age of six. Universal Pictures could have easily followed the Pixar design with its movie version of the classic, dictating a spiced-up, CGI-ed kind of glory, with a wisecracking George hip to all sorts of slang. Fortunately, the creators of “Curious George” have gone old-school, deciding to return to 2-D, hand-drawn animation...