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Major Oscar Battle Looms in the Animated-Feature Category
Major Oscar Battle Looms in the Animated-Feature Category
By Steve Pond Forget about best picture for a moment. There’s a battle royale shaping up among Oscar’s feature-length cartoons. The magazine and website Time Out London, in collaboration with director Terry Gilliam, has just published a list of the 50 greatest animated films of all time. The Japanese film “My Neighbor Totoro” is number one, Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” is number two, and “Toy Story” and “Fantasia” ...
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Animated feature forecast: could be ‘Cloudy’
In Contention — ... Over at The Odds (The Wrap’s new Oscar blog, in case you haven’t been reading), Steve Pond brings up the fierce competition of this year’s animated feature category and brings up an intriguing tidbit worth considering. ...

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