Sentences with phrase «animated movie of the year»

«Ernest and Celestine» — The best animated movie of the year is this sweet, watercolor - rendered parable from France directed by Stephane Aubier, Vincent Patar, and Benjamin Renner based on a Belgian book series about a little mouse who befriends a big bear.

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.

Arriving as the best animated movie of the year, but destined to be remembered as one of the revered Studio Ghibli's finest achievements, Takahata's first feature in 15 years delivers an emotional wallop on par with that of his 1988 masterpiece Grave Of The Fireflies.

This may be the only Oscar contender to battle Inside Out for best animated movie of the year.

Not exact matches

Meledandri founded Illumination, now owned by Universal Pictures, in 2007, and has produced some of the most popular animated movies in recent years, including Despicable Me and Minions.

No other animated movie this year quite had this kind of raw emotion.

There's no shortage of animated movies coming to the big screen each year, and 2016 is ending in a big way with the release of Disney's Moana, a fantastic musical...

CATONSVILLE, MD, January 25, 2018 — In the nearly 60 years between the 1939 release of Hollywood's first animated movie, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and modern hits like Toy Story, Shrek and more, advances in animation technology have revolutionized not only animation techniques, but moviemaking as a whole.

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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.

His credits in the 1980s included Stalin in the 1980 TV movie FDR: The Last Year, Barbra Streisand's father in Yentl (1983), and the robust voice of Papa Mousekewitz in the 1986 animated feature An American Tail.

Though in the following years, Tom's voice could be heard in a variety of animated releases, onscreen performances in shows like Monk and movies such as Bad Santa proved that the increasingly active voice - over artist was still very much committed to her onscreen career as well.

Of course, Wall - E still went on to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, but it's interesting to note that this year, with so many great animated movies to choose from, the Annies decided to go back and honour Pixar's Up with their toAnimated Feature, but it's interesting to note that this year, with so many great animated movies to choose from, the Annies decided to go back and honour Pixar's Up with their toanimated movies to choose from, the Annies decided to go back and honour Pixar's Up with their top prize.

Warner Bros» The Lego Movie, considered one of the frontrunners for next year's best animated film Oscar, has six nominations.

«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.»

The move comes as Pixar is under mounting pressure to build on its early successes in an increasingly competitive marketplace; this year will see the wide theatrical release of 11 animated movies, up from six a decade ago.

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.

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

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»

WHY: DC Comics has been cranking out animated movies featuring its stable of heroes for several years now, so it was only a matter of time before some of its villains got a chance to step into the spotlight.

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Also new on DVD: M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender (Paramount), an adaptation of the animated TV series and one of the most critically reviled films of the year, the feature film version of Beverly Cleary's Ramona And Beezus (Fox), Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (Warner), Marina de Van's Don't Look Back (IFC) with Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci, The Lightkeepers (Image) with Richard Dreyfuss and Blythe Danner, Lau Kar - Leung's classic martial arts movie Shaolin Mantis (Vivendi) and the newly remastered The Endless Summer: Director's Special Edition (Monterey).

Tangled Rated PG for brief mild violence Available on DVD, Blu - ray and Blu - ray 3D You know it's a strong year for animated films when a movie like Tangled garners some of the strongest reviews of the year, makes over a half - billion worldwide, and still can't muster up an Oscar nom for best animated film.

Related Reviews: New: Sesame Street: 20 Years... and Still Counting • Greenberg • Chloe • Operation: Endgame • Jesse Stone: No Remorse Stop - Motion Animation, Film: Fantastic Mr. Fox (Blu - ray + DVD) • Coraline • The Nightmare Before Christmas (Collector's Edition) Stop - Motion Animation, TV: Shaun the Sheep: A Woolly Good Time • Jack Frost • The Easter Bunny is Comin'to Town • A Miser Brothers» Christmas 2009 Animated Films: Ponyo • Up • The Princess and the Frog • Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs • Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs • Planet 51 Toy Story (Blu - ray + DVD) • Toy Story 2 (Blu - ray + DVD) • Night at the Museum • Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (Blu - ray + DVD) Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters • Home on the Range • Renaissance • Teacher's Pet • Smurfs: Season One, Volume One

Easily one of the most unique and visually striking movies you'll see in theaters this year is writer - director Dash Shaw «s My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea, an animated comedy with a mouthful of a title that only just scratches the surface.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 2, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Lorax (PG for mild epithets) Danny DeVito stars as the title character in this animated adaptation of the Dr. Seuss classic about an idealistic 12 year - old (Zac Efron), raised in an artificial reality, who searches for a real tree in order to impress the girl of his dreams (Taylor Swift).

Both of those movies were nominated for the Best Animated Feature Oscar, and I'll be very surprised if «The Boxtrolls» isn't on the ballot this year.

Following on from its announcement at the San Diego Comic - Con and news of its voice cast, we now have the first teaser and a sneak peek for the upcoming DC animated movie Batman: Bad Blood, which you can see here... Batman: Bad Blood is set for release next year, with a voice cast that includes -LSB-...]

Even then in May, amongst the line - up of melodramas and arthouses from auteurs all around the world, it stood out as an entertaining and commercial thriller, though this is just the first take on live - action from the 39 - year - old South Korean director who packed on his back only several animated movies, most notably The King of Pigs and The Fake.

Few freak - out film experiences are more rarified that the forgotten oddity, and this year saw the release of a movie that's been begging to be re-discovered for decades: Belladonna Of Sadness, a 1973 Japanese animated feature conceived with the help of Osamu Tezuka and directed by his longtime collaborator, Eiichi Yamamotof a movie that's been begging to be re-discovered for decades: Belladonna Of Sadness, a 1973 Japanese animated feature conceived with the help of Osamu Tezuka and directed by his longtime collaborator, Eiichi YamamotOf Sadness, a 1973 Japanese animated feature conceived with the help of Osamu Tezuka and directed by his longtime collaborator, Eiichi Yamamotof Osamu Tezuka and directed by his longtime collaborator, Eiichi Yamamoto.

You expect a movie as disastrously under - attended as Mars Needs Moms to be wretched, so it's genuinely surprising to discover that not only is it not so bad, it even has more going for it than most of the year's highest - grossing animated films.

Shaun the Sheep Movie — Anomalisa is more insightful, but Shaun the Sheep Movie is my favorite stop - motion animated feature of the year because it's downright old - fashioned good - natured fun.

0:00 — Intro 4:05 — Headlines: Karl Urban is the New Judge Dredd, Sam Worthington to Star in Commando Remake, Terminator 3 - D Animated Remake, Lights Camera Jackson: The - 11 Year - Old Film Critic 20:35 — Review: The Expendables 57:45 — Review: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World 1:47:30 — Trailer Trash: Skyline, Enter the Void, Unstoppable 2:03:30 — Other Stuff We Watched: BBC's Sherlock, Man v Food: Season 3, Lock Up, 12th & Delaware, Marooned, Billion Dollar Brain, Cropsey, Johnny Handsome, Until the Light Takes Us, And the Pursuit of Happiness, The Last Lovecraft, Mad Monkey Kung Fu, Standard Operating Procedure, Spartan, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Cobra 3:05:45 — Junk Mail: Film Junk Mega Mix, Favourite and Best Actors, Devil Trailer, Movies with Right Wing Agendas, TIFF Tips 3:26:20 — Twitter Poll: Why did Scott Pilgrim Fail at the Box Office?

Catching on that traditional animated movies» days may be numbered and cashing in on the public's fascination with the CG process the whole scene looks positively crowded this year: 2004 sees the release of four entirely digital films - Shrek 2 and Shark Tale from DreamWorks, The Polar Express from Warner Bros., and of course The Incredibles.

After years of waiting, it's a pleasure to finally sink into «The peanuts Movie», the latest animated movie from Blue Sky Studios that radiates charm like no other film of its gMovie», the latest animated movie from Blue Sky Studios that radiates charm like no other film of its gmovie from Blue Sky Studios that radiates charm like no other film of its genre.

January 8, 2013 Frankenweenie Rated PG for thematic elements, scary images and action Available on DVD, Blu - ray and Blu - ray 3D This year saw several horror - based animated films including Hotel Transylvania and ParaNorman but the one that was most impressive was the Tim Burton directed stop - motion animated movie based on one of Burton's early short films.

It's mostly disappointing given the overall lackluster state of animated movies this year, especially after such a great selection of them last year.

The new year has begun and The Nut Job has the dubious reputation of being the first animated family movie of 2014.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 5, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS Alice in Wonderland (PG for fantasy, action, violence, scary images and smoking) Tim Burton directs this animated sequel to the Lewis Carroll children's classic revolving around now 19 year - old Alice's (Mia Wasikowska) return to the whimsical kingdom for a reunion with the White Rabbit (Michael Sheen) and other childhood friends, and to end the Red Queen's (Helena Bonham Carter) reign of terror.

No better or worse than other other ordinary animated movies released the year round all of which end up in the 70 - 80 % range, Panda 2 included, and more visually dazzling than most.

But Spielberg's achievement on this occasion is to fold into his own celluloid know - how an astonishing script by playwright Tony Kushner that animates the political process to a degree rarely encountered on screen: small wonder both men figure among the film's 12 Oscar nominations, the most of any movie this year.

Best Film: A Most Violent Year Best Director: Clint Eastwood — American Sniper Best Actor (TIE): Oscar Isaac — A Most Violent Year; Michael Keaton — Birdman Best Actress: Julianne Moore — Still Alice Best Supporting Actor: Edward Norton — Birdman Best Supporting Actress: Jessica Chastain — A Most Violent Year Best Original Screenplay: Phil Lord & Christopher Miller — The Lego Movie Best Adapted Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson — Inherent Vice Best Animated Feature: How to Train Your Dragon 2 Breakthrough Performance: Jack O'Connell — Starred Up & Unbroken Best Directorial Debut: Gillian Robespierre — Obvious Child Best Foreign Language Film: Wild Tales Best Documentary: Life Itself William K. Everson Film History Award: Scott Eyman Best Ensemble: Fury Spotlight Award: Chris Rock for writing, directing, and starring in — Top Five NBR Freedom of Expression Award: Rosewater NBR Freedom of Expression Award: Selma

Vertical Entertainment has debuted an official trailer for an animated movie titled Bilal: A New Breed of Hero, which premiered back in 2015 and 2016 at film festivals but is just getting a theatrical release in the US in February of 2018, this year.

The animated Metropolis is based on a 50 - year - old Japanese comic strip that took its title from the silent SF classic and, in fact, the designs of this futuristic, totalitarian city come from the Fritz Lang movie.

All modern animated content in movies, from Jabba the Hut to «Toy Story,» springs from those years of invention at Disney, he says: «The same principles apply everywhere, and those principles were all discovered under one roof, decades ago by a bunch of young punks jazzed up about creating something.»

Shaun the Sheep Movie: Based on the Nick Park TV series, the film accomplishes the daunting task of producing a dialogue - free feature film that's more compelling than 90 % of this year's far wordier animated fare.

This week's «The LEGO Batman Movie» is the first of an anticipated 16 mainstream animated movies set to be released this year.

So, hear me out: In this year of superhero saturation, sequels that didn't need to be made (and no one wanted to see) and talking animated animals, «Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates» is one of the best times I've had at the movies.

Wreck - It Ralph «s originality with the story, lovable characters, and perfect voice acting are all why this movie is leaps and bounds above any animated picture of recent years.

This year, Alan Moore and Brian Bolland's iconic Joker tale Batman: The Killing Joke will get the DC Universe Animated Original Movies treatment, and we now have the first image from the hotly - anticipated adaptation courtesy of Mark Hamill on Twitter... Meanwhile, CBR has confirmed that Hamill and his Batman: The Animated Series co-star Kevin Conroy -LSB-...]