‘Flee’ Makes Oscar History With Nominations For Animated Feature, Documentary, And International Feature
The nominations for the 94th annual Academy Awards have been announced, and it’s a banner year for the animation art form.
Animation was nominated in seven different categories: the standard three (animated feature, animated short, visual effects), as well as documentary feature (Flee), international feature (Flee, representing Denmark), original score (Encanto), and original song (“Dos Oruguitas” from Encanto).
Flee is easily the most remarkable story this morning. In addition to its other categories, it earned a third nomination in the animated feature category. No animated film has ever come close to pulling off this hat trick of key film category nominations. It’s a powerful statement about animation’s power as a storytelling medium and its ability to transcend even the Academy’s self-ghettoization of the art form.
Stay tuned to Cartoon Brew all morning for further in-depth analysis of all of the nominees, as well as reactions from the nominees. For now, here are all the nominees in the animation categories:
Animated Feature
- Encanto
Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Yvett Merino, Clark Spencer - Flee
Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen, Charlotte de La Gournerie - Luca
Enrico Casarosa, Andrea Warren - The Mitchells vs The Machines
Michael Rianda, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Kurt Albrecht - Raya and the Last Dragon
Don Hall, Carlos López Estrada, Osnat Shurer, Peter Del Vecho
Animated Short Film
- Affairs of the Art
Joanna Quinn, Les Mills (U.K./Canada) - Bestia
Hugo Covarrubias, Tevo Díaz (Chile) - Boxballet
Anton Dyakov (Russia) - Robin Robin
Dan Ojari, Mikey Please (UK) - Windshield Wiper
Albert Mielgo, Leo Sanchez (U.S./Spain)
Visual Effects
- Dune
Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor, Gerd Nefzer - Free Guy
Swen Gillberg, Bryan Grill, Nikos Kalaitzidis, Dan Sudick - No Time to Die
Charlie Noble, Joel Green, Jonathan Fawkner, Chris Corbould - Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Christopher Townsend, Joe Farrell, Sean Noel Walker, Dan Oliver - Spider-Man: No Way Home
Kelly Port, Chris Waegner, Scot Edelstein, Dan Sudick
Pictured at top: “Bestia,” “Flee,” “Affairs of the Art,” “Encanto”
