January 29, 2021

27 Animated Features are competing for a 2021 Oscar nomination

The Academy Awards, the well-known awards that will be announced this year at the end of April, presents the animated feature films that will compete for a nomination.

The event arrived at no. 93, due to the pandemic, has moved all its dates in the hope of being able to offer an award ceremony with an audience and, in the case of the section dedicated to the Best Animated Film, the five finalist will be communicated on March 15th.

The 2021 list includes these 27 animated features (last year there were 32):

- Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus
Direction: Dalibor Baric (Croatia)

- Bombay Rose [news]
Direction: Gitanjali Rao (India / UK / France / Qatar)

- Calamity [news]
Direction: Rémi Chayé (France / Denmark)

- The Croods: A New Age [news]
Direction: Joel Crawford (USA)

- Demon Slayer -Kimetsu No Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train [news]
Direction: Haruo Sotozaki (Japan)

- Dreambuilders
Direction: Kim Hagen Jensen, Tonni Zinck (Denmark)

- Earwig and the Witch [news]
Direction: Goro Miyazaki (Japan)

- Kill It and Leave This Town
Direction: Mariusz Wilczynski (Poland)

- Lupin III: The First [news]
Direction: Takashi Yamazaki (Japan)

- Mosley [news]
Direction: Kirby Atkins (New Zealand / China)

- My Favorite War
Direction: Ilze Burkovska Jacobsen (Norway / Latvia)

- Nos Ili Zagovor Ne Takikh (The Nose or Conspiracy of Mavericks)
Direction: Andrey Khrzhanovskiy (Russia)

- No.7 Cherry Lane (Jìyuántái qihào)
Direction: Yonfan (Hong Kong / China)

- On-Gaku: Our Sound (Ongaku)
Direction: Kenji Iwaisawa (Japan)

- Onward [news]
Direction: Dan Scanlon (USA)

- Over the Moon [news]
Direction: Glen Keane, John Kahrs (China / USA)

- Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs [news]
Direction: Sung-ho Hong, Moo-Hyun Jang, Young Sik Uhm (South Korea)

- Ride Your Wave [news]
Direction: Masaaki Yuasa (Japan)

- Scoob! [news]
Direction: Tony Cervone (USA)

- A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon [news]
Direction: Will Becher, Richard Phelan (UK / France / Belgium / USA / China)

- Soul [news]
Direction: Pete Docter, Kemp Powers (USA)

- The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run [news]
Direction: Tim Hill (USA / South Korea / Mexico / Japan / Spain)

- Terra Willy [news]
Direction: Eric Tosti (France)

- Trolls World Tour [news]
Direction: Walt Dohrn, David P. Smith (USA)

- A Whisker Away (Nakitai Watashi wa Neko o Kaburu) [news]
Direction: Junichi Sato, Tomotaka Shibayama (Japan)

- The Willoughbys [news]
Direction: Kris Pearn, Rob Lodermeier (Canada / USA / UK)

- Wolfwalkers [news]
Regia: Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart (Ireland / Luxembourg / France / Denmark / USA / UK)

The ceremony is currently scheduled for April 25, 2021.

[ Fra - source Oscar.com ]

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