Academy Award noms for animation!

[Patrick McCart]

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

Shrek- Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman and Roger S.H. Schulman

SOUND EDITING:

Monsters, Inc.

ORIGINAL SONG:

If I Didn't Have You, Randy Newman ("Monsters, Inc.")

ORIGINAL SCORE:

Monsters, Inc., Randy Newman

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE:

Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius
Shrek
Monsters, Inc.

BEST ANIMATED SHORT SUBJECT:

Fifty Percent Grey
For The Birds
Give Up Yer Aul Sins
Strange Invaders
Stubble Trouble


Ok nominations, but I think Shrek's musical score by Harry Gregson-Williams deserved a nomination and Shrek's "Merry Men" deserved a Best Original Song nom ( :D ). Hey, if they could nominate "Blame Canada," why not Merry Men?

Also, the other animated films that could have been nominated for Best Animated Feature are:

Pokemon 3 (God forbid this film was even MENTIONED)
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Nice animation, awful script)
Final Fantasy (Same thing, but kind of pointless. Animation has to be a little cartoony!)
Osmosis Jones (Preferred over Jimmy Neutron...how did it even get NOMINATED???)
Waking Life (Again, preffered over Jimmy Neutron)

As for live-action categories...I'm deadlocked over Moulin Rouge and The Fellowship of the Ring. Both are excellent movies (LOTR has a whopping 13 nominations!).

What are your opinions on the animation categories and the other Oscar awards in general of this year?

[Gossamer]

Myself, I find it interesting that Shrek is considered the favorite to win Animated Feature, when Monsters, Inc. got more nominations! It probably is the favorite, but Pixar probably won't go home empty-handed: For The Birds is likely to win Animated Short. I hoe Pixar puts For the Birds on the Monsters, Inc. VHS and DVD release. They've done it before, with Geri's Game and others. Given that they're both up for Oscars this year, it's a good fit. Hopefully, Pixar sees things that way too.