The nominations for the Academy Awards was announced this morning, and Ratatouille received 5 nominations, including Best Animation Feature Film. Here's the full list:
* Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
* Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
* Achievement in Sound Editing
* Achievement in Sound Mixing
* Original Screenplay
Enchanted received 3 nominations, but they are all in the SAME CATEGORY - Best Original Song! Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz will be competing against themselves and 2 others! Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End receives 2 - Makeup and Visual Effects.
The full list can be found here.
Zz.
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It seems that anyone who searches the internet for insider Disney info stumbles across Jim Hill. He has a long and dicey history with Disney (which I'll leave out in the interest of staying focused.) He's a frequent podcast guest because much like RATATOUILLE'S Anton Ego, his criticism is often fun to read.
But while he claims to be a fan of the mouse, his articles often paint a different picture. (This is the guy who wrote article after article about what an embarrassing failure RATATOUILLE was before finally admitting to its tremendous success.)
What has me hopping mad now is a recent post to his site (Jim Hill : Oscar Watch '08: Miramax maxes out while the Mouse gets skunked) about the Oscar nominations. He writes about "a pretty impressive performance by Miramax Films. Particularly when you take into consideration the meager number of nominations that the Walt Disney Pictures side of the studio received this year."
FACT: Buena Vista earned 10 nominations, tied with Warner Bros. for 3rd. Only Miramax and Paramount Vantage received more, and he credits the Max with PV's nominations.
While he lists each and every Miramax nomination to make it look so impressive, he waves off Disney with a simple, "The Walt Disney Pictures side of the studio had to settle for a number of tech-related nominations."
"To just to recap here ... If you work for the Miramax Films side of the Mouse House, Tuesday was a very "good news day" indeed. If -- on the other hand -- you work for the Walt Disney Pictures side of the studio and/or ABC ... Well, let's just say that Blue Monday arrived one day late."
The article is just mean, mean, mean. I can only read into it that Jim Hill has some kind of grudge with Disney and doesn't miss an opportunity to take cheap shots.
I don't disagree with you here.
I do read JHM. He certainly has insider information on things that can announced way in advance, and he certainly has insights that are unique. However, if you've read many other posts that I have in my blog on Ratatouille, I certainly made allusions to "someone" claiming of it being a "failure". In my opinion, it is ANYTHING but a failure.
And since when is the success of a movie is being judged by the box office success alone? Considering that Jim Hill has repeated criticized Disney for putting profit ahead of quality, I'm surprised this issue would even be brought up as far as Ratatouille is concerned. This is certainly verified by the fact that Rotten Tomatoes has declared that Ratatouille is the best-reviewed widely-released movie of 2007.
I'd say that that is as clear as an evidence that it is a damn fine movie. And to me, that is how I judge its success.
Zz.
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