The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences just announced the films that qualified for the Animated Oscar this year. Five nominees will be selected.
The front-runners currently are: “Incredibles 2,” “Isle of Dogs,” “Ralph Breaks the Internet,” “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” “Early Man,” “Smallfoot,” and “Mirai.”
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Wes Anderson‘s Isle of Dogs is soaked in the beauty of Japanese culture but is also very much a work ingrained in "Andersonville," a world that the talented writer-director has created over these last few years with masterworks such as "The Royal Tenenbaums," "Moonrise Kingdom" and "The Grand Budapest Hotel." However, the Anderson that will always be closest to my heart is the one that created 2009's stop-motion treat "The Fantastic Mr. Fox," which had his OCD-driven visual palette fitting almost too perfectly to his inner auteur voice.
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