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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will use a preferential system to determine which of the 10 Best Picture Nominees gets the Oscar.

Which 20 animated films are up for this year's Oscar race? And which one of these will win? Animation Boy™ handicaps the best feature-length cartoons of 2009.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will shortly name the 2008 nominees for the Oscars. Now's time to test your knowledge of winners from the 1920s & 1930s.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has re-evaluated what constitutes an animated feature film after last year's controversies,.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presents "A Salute to Norman McLaren" on August 18 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Beverly Hills.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has decided that Beowulf is a contender for Best Animated Feature Film. But Alvin and the Chipmunks isn't.

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, WALL-E, Bolt, Horton Hears a Who and Kung Fu Panda are among the 14 animated films nominated for an Oscar.

Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis is no longer in the running for the Best Foreign Language Film at this year's Oscars. But it's still up for Best Animated Feature Film.

Both Beowulf and Ratatouille have made the fifteen film shortlist for Best Visual Effects category at this year's Oscars. Awards are handed out on February 24th.

Once again, Disney/Pixar contemplates a run for Oscar's big prize, this time for WALL-E. But do they have a chance?

Oscar highlights for women screenwriters include most Oscar wins, most nominations ever, and multiple Oscar wins extending out into other categories.

Hayao Miyazaki, Steve Box, John Canemaker among the 9 animators invited to join The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and vote for next year's Oscars.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced its short list for Best Animated Feature Film for next year's Academy Awards.

AMPAS has voted to give the Gordon E. Sawyer Award for technological merit to Disney Animation president and Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull.

In the founding years of the MGM Studios, Irving Thalberg was the sole producer behind every major film the studio generated.

Michael Moore almost single handedly made documentary movies "sexy" (meaning profitable), but his confrontational style has made many ask "What exactly is a documentary?"

In the past decade, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has rewarded an increasing number of actors for playing LGBT characters, and several have won Oscars.

The Great CG Glut of 2006 carries over into Oscar nominations, as sixteen movies have been short-listed for Best Animated Feature Film.

WALL-E's out of the Best Picture race, but it's nominated in 6 other categories. Where are the animated films at this year's Oscars?

In a year that featured a ton of look-alike, sound-alike CG animated movies, which one will walk home with an Oscar? Your fearless animation writer looks at their chances

Biography of Barry Fitzgerald, Oscar-winning Irish character actor and star of "Going My Way" and "The Quiet Man".

Since the 1st Academy Awards in 1929 nearly 250 Oscars have been given to screenwriters. Of those awards approx. 9% have been for films written or co-written by women.

The 2007 Golden Globes will have a new category for your consideration: Best Animated Feature Film. Three movies are nominated: guess who?

Satoshi Kon's Paprika will have a limited screening at 10 am at Laemmle's Grande 4-Plex in Los Angeles. This will make the anime movie eligible for the 2006 Oscars

This just may be the year actress Kate Winslet takes home an Oscar.

Now in its 18th year, the Florida Film Festival opens on Friday March 27 with original cinema and forbidden fruit.

Fox's Alvin and the Chipmunks pulled a surprising $44 million in its first weekend in theatres, despite generally unfavourable reviews.

Walt Disney's Enchanted gets bumped to 2nd position on the box office chart after three weeks in theatres. Movie has made $83 million.

Disney/Pixar's Toy Story 3 will be released in 3-D, as will the two previous movies. Lee Unkrich will direct flick, coming June of 2010.

Based in Providence, the annual Rhode Island International Film Festival is a showcase for independent filmmakers and their work.

The historic Santa Monica Hotel Shangri-La opens its doors for business again in October 2008 after a $30 million refurbishment providing ocean-front LA accommodation.

Dethroning the queen can be done as Miss Beyonce stomachs an Oscar snub...is B Irreplaceable?

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, the new film from acclaimed French film director, Julian Schnabel, testifies to the strength of the human spirit.

The 62nd Cannes Film Festival has chosen Disney/Pixar's Up to be the opening ceremony film on May 13th, the first animated film to be so honoured.

Avatar, James Cameron's new computer-generated, 3-D, sci-fi extravaganza is this generation's "WOW" movie, a film people will recall when they first saw it.

Disney/Pixar's Ratatouille, Sony Picture Classics' Persepolis and Twentieth Century Fox's Surf's Up are 2008's Oscar nominees.

The 18th Annual Florida Film Festival recently announced selections for its narrative and documentary feature films American Independent Competition.

The 18th Annual Florida Film Festival, presented by Enzian Theater, announced its line-up of special selections in non-juried feature films for this year's festival.

No other twenty year period in Academy Awards history probably had such a wide range of ages among its Oscar nominees. Here they are from Tatum O'Neal to Groucho Marx.

Featuring famous celebrities whose passing away falls on Christmas Day, December 25th. They include Joan Miro, Charlie Chaplin, W.C. Fields, Karel Capek, and Yoshihito.

Only 14 statuettes were handed out, but the recipients - Louis Milestone, Janet Gaynor & Charles Chaplin, among them - are still well known to classic movie fans today.

Graumann's Chinese Theater is one of the most easily recognized landmarks in Hollywood. The theater and the forecourt are believed to be haunted by several ghosts.

Hollywood has lost a true star. Respect the memory of this great man by showing kindness to family and friends.

"I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History" is the dry, gentlemanly memoir of Walter Mirisch, baby of one of Hollywood's most successful families

The controversial National Board of Review have decided that Andrew Stanton's WALL-E is the best animated film of the year.

The National Board of Review has named Disney/Pixar's Up as the best animated film, and one of the top 10 movies of 2009.

Writing honors for the 2009 Academy Awards were awarded to Dustin Lance Black, Best Original Screenplay, and Simon Beaufoy, Best Adapted Screenplay.

Sony Pictres Classics nabbed the distribution rights for Ari Folman's Waltz with Bashir, a film critics are calling this year's Persepolis.

Despite competition from the Golden Globe Awards, the Emmys, & others, Oscar night remains the premier entertainment event of the year. It wasn't always that important.

American playwright Horton Foote, born March 4, 1919, died a few days ago, on March 4, 2009.