My favorite
animated film of the year and one of the best films of the year.
Easily one of the best
animated films of the year that is filled with enough emotion that will make you want to pull out your Nintendo systems for a Super Mario Bros. session.
Seamless noir mystery, moral fable and, yes, Disney animal cartoon, Zootopia is the best
animated film of the year.
From the purposely stiff animation in Wreck - It Ralph's game, to the hyper realistic looking Hero's Duty, to the colorful Sugar Rush, Wreck - It Ralph is the most visually superb computer
animated film of the year.
Amour was voted best foreign - language film, Searching for Sugar Man best documentary, and ParaNorman the best
animated film of the year.
Mike Gencarelli: Just wanted to tell you how much I loved this film and that Media Mikes had voted «Wreck it Ralph» the best
animated film of the year.
It's certainly not even close to being one of the best
animated films of the year, but it is funny from time to time and sure keeps the kiddos entertained.
Directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams and produced by Roy Conli, «Big Hero 6» was released in October 2014 and became the biggest
animated film of the year with over $ 657 million worldwide.
Some have forecasted a heated battle against Anomalisa for
animated film of the year (and that even excludes When Marnie Was There, a fantastic film that's also in this feature), but it seems like a relative shoo - in for Inside Out, especially with the film garnering Best Picture nomination predictions for the Oscars — the new model nod for cultural transcendence in animated film.
First
animated film of the year in this category.
This looks great can not wait for this one I think it could possibly be at least the second best
animated film of the year.
When the discussion over the best
animated film of the year swung back to Pixar's masterful «Inside Out» (our # 2 film of the year overall, to be fair), it felt like Kaufman's film kind of fell under the radar.
Zootopia — My favorite
animated film of the year has a clever script, a quick pace with plenty of inventive sequences, interesting characters, and a timely message.
«Ferdinand» It's the last big
animated film of the year.
Not exact matches
The rest
of Disney's lineup over the next few
years includes a mix
of animated films, superheroes, reboots, sequels, and multiple trips to a galaxy far, far away.
Revenue for the first quarter
of the Walt Disney Company's 2015 fiscal
year jumped 9 % as sales
of merchandise from the hit
animated film Frozen dominated the holiday season.
What you need to know: Frozen remains one
of Disney's (DIS) hottest properties more than a
year after it became the highest - grossing
animated film of all time.
This
year, I decided it would be fun to turn the candy / toy filled basket into a cute Garden Themed one in honor
of the new
animated film, SHERLOCK GNOMES!
It still falls back into those traps you see in so many bad
animated films... unnecessary dance sequences, the pop culture references and catchphrases that are two
years to late and using real world music in a fantasy world
of birds.
The bombast
of the G.I. Joe and Transformers franchises might suggest no, but after an uninspired
year for
animated movies, The Lego Movie is a 3 - D
animated film that connects, as an homage to the ingenious Danish - born construction game, along with a subversively flippant story about thinking outside the blocks.
So three cheers for Megamind for saving us from the dumbed - down, dopey, or straight - up boring
animated children's
films we've seen march in and out
of theaters this
year!
Deneb's Review: You may recall, a few
years back, there being a lot
of hoopla over a certain
animated film.
If an
animated film cuts footage in its final edit, it lost months if possible
years of toil.
The legendary Japanese director has created some
of the most critically - acclaimed
animated films of the last 20
years, including PRINCESS MONONOKE and SPIRITED AWAY (for which he won an Oscar), but I've foolishly avoided his work.
Its savvy comic flair and subversion
of familiar genre tropes also make this one
of the better superhero
films,
animated or otherwise, to be released in recent
years.
It's both the best children's
animated film this
year since «Inside Out» — you might call it «Outside In» — and, unexpectedly, a more stirring depiction
of the deadening modern megalopolis than most heal - the - world documentaries.
Best
animated film nominee The Croods, Fox's highest - grossing
film last
year (though with just $ 587 million worldwide, good for 11th place overall), was one
of just two Oscar nominations for the studio (the other came for John Williams» Book Thief score).
One
of the most beautiful
animated films in
years, with each poem given a separate interpretation by a different master animator.
ANIMATED FEATURE
FILM Winner: Coco (MPAA: PG) This colorful story follows Miguel (voice
of Anthony Gonzalez), a 10 -
year - old Mexican boy who wants to do is become a musician, despite his family's wishes.
This was a golden
year for
animated films and it's good to see all
of them get some love.
Warner Bros» The Lego Movie, considered one
of the frontrunners for next
year's best
animated film Oscar, has six nominations.
Since first citing
year - end cinematic achievements in 1929, NBR has recognized a vast selection
of outstanding studio, independent, foreign - language,
animated and documentary
films, often propelling recipients such as George Miller's visionary 2015 Best Film winner MAD MAX: FURY ROAD into the larger awards conversation.
«Coco» may not only be the
animated film this
year, but it's making an aggressive run to be one
of the very finest
films of any medium this
year.
Nobody expected it to be good, much less one
of the best
films of the
year —
animated or not.
«Inside Out — Pixar's delightful tale
of a little girl's emotions trying to steer her through a turbulent time for her family is one
of the funniest and most critically - acclaimed
films of the
year — and certainly the most vivid depiction
of developmental psychology in a movie,
animated or otherwise.»
From Laika (The Boxtrolls), this is one
of the most beautiful, sophisticated
animated films in many
years.
Other incarnations, from stage and screen's The Wiz to the $ 60 M CG -
animated feature Legends
of Oz: Dorothy Returns that has been «coming soon» for
years, have produced or will produce their detractors, unquestionably being judged harshly against the magic and marvels
of the iconic, enduring Judy Garland
film.
The French
animated film «Ernest & Celestine» was named the
year's best animation over Hayao Miyazaki's «The Wind Rises,» which had taken most
of the previous critics awards.
Especially good to see were screenplay nominations for two
of the
year's most inventive and original
films, the science - fiction brain twister «Ex Machina» and the inside - the - brain
animated triumph «Inside Out.»
We started with one
of this
year's Razzie firsts, THE EMOJI MOVIE being the first
animated film to vie for the worst picture award before moving on to the industry's love - hate relationship with Rotten Tomatoes; Adam Sandler's opinion
of his fans; how Wilson has dealt with a steady diet
of bad
films for the last 38
years; the odd timing
of FIFTY SHADES FREED's release; and who the Razzies consider to be fair game.
«This
year our studio reached some key milestones, including the release
of three vibrant Paramount franchise pictures and our first original CGI
animated film.
BEST NARRATIVE
FILM Boyhood Birdman Calvary *** The Grand Budapest Hotel *** A Most Violent
Year Selma Whiplash BEST DOCUMENTARY
FILM Citizenfour Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me Jodorowsky's Dune *** Life Itself *** The Overnighters BEST
ANIMATED FILM Big Hero 6 The Boxtrolls How to Train Your Dragon 2 *** The Lego Movie *** The Tales
of Princess Kaguya
Rango Unusual character designs, a witty script, and a ton
of well - placed allusions to past
films elevate this
film past a lot
of its
animated competitors — definitely one
of the
films I've enjoyed most this
year, and I look forward to revisiting it again.
It was a huge hit and spawned, inevitably, a sequel, «Kung Fu Panda 2,» which debuted at Cannes and is, thus far, the No. 1
animated film, and the 12th highest - grossing
film of this
year.
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse
of the Were - Rabbit is the most enjoyable
animated film I have seen all
year, and that's a tall order to fill.
As always, Pixar has created the
animated movie
of the
year, this time going where family - aimed
films rarely dare to go as it deals directly with death.
WAFCA also honored the cast
of «Barbershop» as the best acting ensemble, while selecting «Lilo and Stitch» as Best
Animated Feature and dishonoring the George Clooney / Steven Soderbergh
film «Solaris» as the
year's biggest disappointment.
Animated feature «The Croods» «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Frozen» «Monsters University» «The Wind Rises» Action movie «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Iron Man 3» WINNER: «Lone Survivor» «Rush» «Star Trek Into Darkness» Actor in an action movie Henry Cavill — «Man
of Steel» Robert Downey Jr. — «Iron Man 3» Brad Pitt — «World War Z» WINNER: Mark Wahlberg — «Lone Survivor» Actress in an action movie WINNER: Sandra Bullock — «Gravity» Jennifer Lawrence — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» Evangeline Lilly — «The Hobbit: The Desolation
of Smaug» Gwyneth Paltrow — «Iron Man 3» Comedy WINNER: «American Hustle» «Enough Said» «The Heat» «This Is the End» «The Way Way Back» «The World's End» Actor in a comedy Christian Bale — «American Hustle» WINNER: Leonardo DiCaprio — «The Wolf
of Wall Street» James Gandolfini — «Enough Said» Simon Pegg — «The World's End» Sam Rockwell — «The Way Way Back» Actress in a comedy WINNER: Amy Adams — «American Hustle» Sandra Bullock — «The Heat» Greta Gerwig — «Frances Ha» Julia Louis - Dreyfus — «Enough Said» Melissa McCarthy — «The Heat» Sci - fi / horror movie «The Conjuring» WINNER: «Gravity» «Star Trek Into Darkness» «World War Z» Foreign language
film WINNER: «Blue Is the Warmest Color» «The Great Beauty» «The Hunt» «The Past» «Wadjda» Documentary feature «The Act
of Killing» «Blackfish» «Stories We Tell» «Tim's Vermeer» WINNER: «20 Feet from Stardom» Song «Atlas» — Coldplay — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Happy» — Pharrell Williams — «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Let It Go» — Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson - Lopez — «Frozen» «Ordinary Love» — U2 — «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom» «Please Mr. Kennedy» — Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver — «Inside Llewyn Davis» «Young and Beautiful» — Lana Del Rey — «The Great Gatsby» Score WINNER: Steven Price — «Gravity» Arcade Fire — «Her» Thomas Newman — «Saving Mr. Banks» Hans Zimmer — «12
Years a Slave»
Best motion picture
of the
year «Amour» «Argo» «Beasts
of the Southern Wild» «Django Unchained» «Les Misérables» «Life
of Pi» «Lincoln» «Silver Linings Playbook» «Zero Dark Thirty» Performance by an actor in a leading role Bradley Cooper in «Silver Linings Playbook» Daniel Day - Lewis in «Lincoln» Hugh Jackman in «Les Misérables» Joaquin Phoenix in «The Master» Denzel Washington in «Flight» Performance by an actress in a leading role Jessica Chastain in «Zero Dark Thirty» Jennifer Lawrence in «Silver Linings Playbook» Emmanuelle Riva in «Amour» Quvenzhané Wallis in «Beasts
of the Southern Wild» Naomi Watts in «The Impossible» Performance by an actor in a supporting role Alan Arkin in «Argo» Robert De Niro in «Silver Linings Playbook» Philip Seymour Hoffman in «The Master» Tommy Lee Jones in «Lincoln» Christoph Waltz in «Django Unchained» Performance by an actress in a supporting role Amy Adams in «The Master» Sally Field in «Lincoln» Anne Hathaway in «Les Misérables» Helen Hunt in «The Sessions» Jacki Weaver in «Silver Linings Playbook» Achievement in directing «Amour,» Michael Haneke «Beasts
of the Southern Wild,» Benh Zeitlin «Life
of Pi,» Ang Lee «Lincoln,» Steven Spielberg «Silver Linings Playbook,» David O. Russell Best foreign language
film of the
year «Amour,» Austria «Kon - Tiki,» Norway «No,» Chile «A Royal Affair,» Denmark «War Witch,» Canada Best
animated feature
film of the
year «Brave,» Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman «Frankenweenie,» Tim Burton «ParaNorman,» Sam Fell and Chris Butler «The Pirates!
For me, it was still great to see «Life,
Animated,» my # 3
film of last
year, mentioned on Hollywood's biggest night.