Oscar Race – Cars 2 Out, La Luna In

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Greg

In somewhat surprising news, Cars 2 missed the cut when Academy Award nominations were announced this morning. This is the first time, since the Animated Feature Film category was created that Pixar has not had a film in the running.

On the bright side, Enrico Casorosa’s Pixar short, La Luna is amongst the five nominees in the Animated Short Film category. Winners will be announced on Sunday, February 26th.

Related posts:

  1. La Luna: New Clip!
  2. La Luna Still in Oscar Hunt!
  3. Toy Story 3 Earns 5 Oscar Nominations, Day & Night Also Honored
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  • Justin Allison

    I must say that while I enjoyed “Puss in Boots” and “Kung Fu Panda 2″ I thought that “Cars 2″ was better and “Adventures of Tintin” beat them all.  I for one was extremely disappointed with the Academy’s choices in the Best Animated Feature category.

  • Anonymous

    I feel that the Academy gave an intentional beat down to Pixar for Cars 2. They’re saying “You’ve raised the bar so high that when you want to produce a relatively low brow cash cow, we ain’t going for it.” There really is no other explanation as far as I can tell.

  • Anonymous

    No tin tin either. That might be the bigger surprise.

  • Doug

    @ richperrotti
    Here’s an explanation for you: the movie was awful. How was that?

  • Garrett79

    It’s not really surprising at all. Cars 2 was terrible and had been nominated by almost no professional or critical organizations in the Best Animated Film category.

  • Anonymous

    It seems that Tin Tin dared the Academy with the whole motion capture debate and lost. And as much as I will admit that Cars 2 wasn’t good per the high Pixar merit for story, it really was spectacular as far as technical innovation and graphic artistry. I thought that as a long shot, it might get a nomination based on that.

  • Jstrawn

    No surprise, no conspiracy… Cars 2 simply did not deserve to be nominated so + 1 for the academy. Good for La Luna… now if they’d just let us SEE it!

  • Anonymous

     Saw “La Luna” tonight as part of the Animated Shorts presentation that was released to theaters on Friday. If you go to shorts.tv and click on the link for the Live Action/Animated Nominated Shorts programs, you might find it playing in a nearby city.

    “La Luna” was absolutely wonderful, magical and original. The splot was very unexpected! The winner will either be this or an equally wonderful short, “The Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” (which you can find on Vimeo under Moonbot Studios at least as of a week ago.)

  • Anonymous

    Nice!!!