Early this morning the nominations for the 88th Annual Academy Awards were released with Pixar receiving three nominations for Best Animated Short Film (Sanjay’s Super Team), Best Animated Feature (Inside Out), and Best Original Screenplay (Inside Out).
We are thrilled to have Pixar return to the Best Original Screenplay category as previous nominations include, Up, Ratatouille, and Wall-e (to name a few).
Unfortunately, Inside Out was overlooked for the Best Picture category as well as The Good Dinosaur‘s exclusion from the Best Animated Feature category. Inside Out and The Good Dinosaur were also both excluded for Best Original Score, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing – nominations we thought would have been very well deserved.
Sanjay’s Super Team advanced in the Best Animated Short Film category along with Bear Story, Prologue, We Can’t Live Without Cosmos, and World of Tomorrow. From a historical standpoint, Pixar has won the Best Animated Short Film category three times for Tin Toy (1988), Geri’s Game (1997) and For The Birds (2001) – let’s hope Sanjay’s makes this the fourth victory.
The Best Original Screenplay category includes Inside Out, Bridge of Spies, Ex Machina, Straight Outta Compton, and Spotlight.
The Best Animated Feature category includes Inside Out, Anomalisa, Boy and The World, Shaun the Sheep Movie, and When Marnie Was There.
Below is a summary of the Animated Feature Film history with the Academy Awards.
History of Pixar Wins & Nominations at the Academy Awards
FEATURE FILMS
| Toy Story | • Original Score: Randy Newman – Nominated • Original Song: “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” – Nominated • Original Screenplay – Nominated • Special Achievement Award: John Lasseter – Won |
| A Bug’s Life | • Original Score: Randy Newman – Nominated |
| Toy Story 2 | • Original Song: “When She Loved Me” – Nominated |
| Monsters, Inc. | • Animated Feature Film – Nominated (Shrek, Won) • Original Score: Randy Newman – Nominated • Original Song: “If I Didn’t Have You” – Won • Sound Editing – Nominated |
| Finding Nemo | • Animated Feature Film: Andrew Stanton – Won • Original Score: Thomas Newman – Nominated • Sound Editing – Nominated • Original Screenplay – Nominated |
| The Incredibles | • Animated Feature Film: Brad Bird – Won • Sound Editing: Michael Silvers & Randy Thom – Won • Sound Mixing – Nominated • Original Screenplay – Nominated |
| Cars | • Animated Feature Film – Nominated (Happy Feet, Won) • Original Song: “Our Town” – Nominated |
| Ratatouille | • Animated Feature Film: Brad Bird – Won • Original Score: Michael Giacchino – Nominated • Sound Editing – Nominated • Sound Mixing – Nominated • Original Screenplay – Nominated |
| WALL•E | • Animated Feature Film: Andrew Stanton – Won • Original Score – Nominated • Original Song: “Down to Earth” – Nominated • Sound Editing – Nominated Best Sound Mixing – Nominated • Original Screenplay – Nominated |
| Up | • Animated Feature Film: Pete Docter – Won • Best Picture – Nominated • Original Score: Michael Giacchino – Won • Sound Editing – Nominated • Original Screenplay – Nominated |
| Toy Story 3 | • Animated Feature Film: Lee Unkrich – Won • Best Picture – Nominated • Original Song: “We Belong Together” – Won • Sound Editing – Nominated • Original Screenplay – Nominated |
| Cars 2 | No Academy Award nominations |
| Brave | • Animated Feature Film: Mark Andrews & Brenda Chapman – Won |
| Monsters University | No Academy Award nominations |
| Inside Out | • Animated Feature Film: Pete Docter & Jonas Rivera – Nominated • Original Screenplay – Nominated |
SHORT FILMS
| Luxo, Jr. | Nominated (A Greek Tragedy, Won) |
| Tin Toy | John Lasseter & William (Bill) Reeves – Won |
| Geri’s Game | Jan Pinkava – Won |
| For The Birds | Ralph Eggleston – Won |
| Mike’s New Car | Nominated (The ChubbChubbs!, Won) |
| Boundin’ | Nominated (Harvie Krumpet, Won) |
| One Man Band | Nominated (The Moon & The Son: An Imagined Conversation, Won) |
| Lifted | Nominated (The Danish Poet, Won) |
| Presto | Nominated (La Maison en Petits Cubes, Won) |
| Day & Night | Nominated (The Lost Thing, Won) |
| La Luna | Nominated (The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, Won) |
| Sanjay’s Super Team | Nominated |
Congratulations to the talented artists at Pixar Animation Studios on this incredible honor and for a wonderful year in animation. Be sure to share your thoughts with other Pixar fans in the Pixar Post Forum or leave a comment below – should Inside Out have received a nod for Best Picture in your opinion?
