The Academy made Richard Linklater play a waiting game with “Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood,” the playful and vaguely autobiographical fantasy of Stanley, a kid recruited by NASA to go on a trial ...
The Animation branch reversed its decision after earlier disqualifying the rotoscoped movie, which rankled many animation professionals in October. After no small controversy and outcry, the Oscars ...
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has decided that animation can include such things as rotoscoping and shells with shoes on. Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood, Marcel the Shell With ...
This past November, the Academy deemed the stop-motion shell eligible and reversed its previous decision on Richard Linklater's animated memoir. Nominations voting is from January 12-17, 2023, with ...
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Richard Linklater’s Apollo 10½ doesn’t meet the Academy’s “definition of animation,” despite relying exclusively on a 100-year-old hand-drawn 2-D animation technique. Photo: Netflix Linklater and ...
No more pencils, no more books, no more Oscar voters’ dirty looks! At least when it comes to accepting new forms of cinema. Too often, the industry hears, “It’s good, but not for the Oscars,” or “That ...
A version of this story about “Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood” first appeared in the Awards Preview issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine. The Academy made Richard Linklater play a waiting game with ...