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Bees, Rats, Ogres, Simpsons Get Oscar 'Toon Up
When it comes to the 2008 Academy Awards, there's a lot of buzz to go around. Literally.
Jerry Seinfeld's Bee Movie has made the shortlist of contenders vying for the Best Animated Feature Oscar, a field that also includes the smash hits Ratatouille, Shrek the Third and The Simpsons Movie, as well as Robert Zemeckis' upcoming and much-anticipated Beowulf.
All told, there are a dozen 'toons competing for the three nomination slots.
Bee Movie, a DreamWorks-Paramount coproduction, opened last weekend with $38 million and should hold up well into the holiday movie season.
The rodent-powered Ratatouille, Pixar's latest computer-animated wonder, directed by Incredibles Oscar winner Brad Bird, has grossed $580 million worldwide. Fox's The Simpson Movie has also been an international smash, with $525 million. DreamWorks' Shrek the Third is the biggest of them all, gobbling up $793 million in global ticket sales.
Also on the list are a few other anthropomorphic animal adventures: the Shia LaBeouf-voiced penguin adventure, Surf's Up; the latest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle entry, TMNT; and the upcoming Alvin and the Chipmunks.
The other semifinalists are Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters the Japanese animé Tekkonkinkreet and the festival fave Persepolis.
While CGI films continue to dominate, this year's batch includes several traditional hand-drawn entries: The Simpsons Movie, the big-screen version of Adult Swim's popular Aqua Teen 'toon, Tekkonkinkreet and Persepolis. The latter, a French-English-Persion coproduction, could be a darkhouse. Already submitted as Iran's Best Foreign-Language Picture contender, the film is a stylized, black-and-white coming-of-age drama about a young Iranian girl growing up during the Islamic Revolution and features the voice of Catherine Deneuve.
On the flip side, Beowulf—an amped-up retelling of the Old English heroic epic—utilizes the state-of-the-art performance capture technology Zemeckis pioneered in 2004's The Polar Express. Chipmunks, based on the popular TV cartoon, combines live-action with animation and stars Jason Lee.
According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' rules, because fewer than 16 films are eligible, there will only be three nominees on the final Oscar ballot, instead of the traditional five. The finalists will be unveiled along with the rest of the nominations on Jan. 22.
The 80th Academy Awards is set to air live on ABC from the Samuel Goldwyn Theater on Feb. 24.
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