Congratulations to Walt Disney Studios for receiving 12 Oscar nominations this morning including Best Picture for Toy Story 3! It was a big year for Disney with two animated films that became instant classics (and whose merchandising results fills my house) with Toy Story 3 and Tangled.
Here are Disney’s nominations. I haven’t yet seen The Tempest or Day & Night, but I will be looking them up soon 🙂 The rest I can easily concur with the nominating committee that these films are well deserving.
Toy Story 3 Best Motion Picture of the Year – Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney) A Pixar Production
Darla K. Anderson, Producer Best Animated Feature Film of the Year – Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney) Lee Unkrich Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song) – “We Belong Together” from Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney) Music and Lyric by Randy Newman Achievement in Sound Editing – Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney) Tom Myers and Michael Silvers Adapted Screenplay – Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney), Screenplay by Michael Arndt. Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich
Alice in Wonderland
Art Direction – Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney), Robert Stromberg (Production Design), Karen O’Hara (Set Decoration)
Achievement in Costume Design – Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney) Colleen Atwood Achievement in Visual Effects – Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney) Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips
Day & Night
Best Animated Short Film – Day & Night (Walt Disney) A Pixar Animation Studios Production Teddy Newton
Tangled
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song) – “I See the Light” from Tangled (Walt Disney) Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Glenn Slater
The Tempest
Achievement in Costume Design – The Tempest (Touchstone) Sandy Powell
TRON: Legacy
Achievement in Sound Editing – TRON: Legacy (Walt Disney) Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague
