{"id":7146,"date":"2012-01-24T22:02:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T02:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=7146"},"modified":"2012-01-24T22:02:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T02:02:26","slug":"animation-oscar-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2012\/01\/24\/animation-oscar-nominations\/","title":{"rendered":"Animation Oscar Nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Oscar nominations are in. Naturally I went directly to the &#8220;Best Animated Feature Film of the Year&#8221; category and got a bit of a shock. There was no nomination for <a href=\"\/fun\/2012\/01\/03\/the-adventures-of-tintin-movie-review\/\"><em>The Adventures of Tintin<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Really Hollywood? You honestly believe that <a href=\"\/fun\/2011\/05\/31\/kung-fu-panda-2-movie-review\/\"><em>Kung Fu Panda 2<\/em><\/a> was a better movie than <em>Tintin<\/em>? What have you been smoking? (Don&#8217;t answer that.)<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the problem is that the computer-generated animation in <em>Tintin<\/em> is just <em>too<\/em> realistic, so people really don&#8217;t think of it as an animated movie. But that&#8217;s just about the minimum level of realism needed to cross the Uncanny Valley. If people won&#8217;t accept it as animation then that doesn&#8217;t bode well for the future of CG animation as an art form.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe actual list of nominees:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Cat in Paris (2010): Alain Gagnol, Jean-Loup Felicioli<\/li>\n<li>Chico &#038; Rita (2010): Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal<\/li>\n<li>Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011): Jennifer Yuh<\/li>\n<li>Puss in Boots (2011): Chris Miller<\/li>\n<li>Rango (2011): Gore Verbinski<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s an unwritten rule that the winner has to be a big-budget Hollywood movie using computer-generated animation. (The only exception was <a href=\"\/fun\/2009\/03\/22\/spirited-away-anime-review\/\"><em>Spirited Away<\/em><\/a>, but that was in 2002, the first year that the Animation Oscar was awarded, and the voters didn&#8217;t know the rules yet.) So the possible winners are <em>KFP2<\/em>, <em>Puss in Boots<\/em> and <a href=\"\/fun\/2011\/03\/06\/rango-movie-review\/\"><em>Rango<\/em><\/a>. If the voters have any sense it will surely be <em>Rango<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oscar nominations are in. Naturally I went directly to the &#8220;Best Animated Feature Film of the Year&#8221; category and got a bit of a shock. There was no nomination&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2012\/01\/24\/animation-oscar-nominations\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[486,489],"class_list":["post-7146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","tag-adventures-of-tintin","tag-oscars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7149,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146\/revisions\/7149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}