2016 Oscar® nominations announced

14 January 2016 // News

Ben Mitchell

Editor in Chief

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have today announced their nominations for the 88th Academy Awards^®! As regards animation, the selected projects have been whittled down from sixteen shortlisted feature films and ten animated shorts. Announced by directors Guillermo del Toro and Ang Lee, the nominations for Animated Feature are as follows:

Anomalisa (Dir. Charlie Kaufman/Duke Johnson)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6wioFESEkU

Boy and the World (Dir. Alê Abreu)

Inside Out (Dir. Pete Docter/Ronnie del Carmen)

Shaun the Sheep: The Movie (Dir. Mark Burton/Richard Starzak)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZq4uuMP8ss

When Marnie Was There (Dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi)

Also nominated for Best Documentary was the animated documentary Last Day of Freedom (Dir. Dee Hibbert-Jones/Nomi Talisman):

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The nominations for Animated Short are:

Prologue (Dir. Richard Williams, Animation Masterclass)

World of Tomorrow (Dir. Don Hertzfeldt, Bitter Films)

Bear Story (Historia De Un Oso) (Dir. Gabriel Osorio, Punkrobot Animation Studio)

Sanjay’s Super Team (Dir. Sanjay Patel, Pixar Animation Studios)

We Can’t Live without Cosmos (Dir. Konstantin Bronzit, director, Melnitsa Animation Studio)

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In the related world of Visual Effects the following films have been nominated:

Ex Machina (Dir. Alex Garland)

Mad Max: Fury Road (Dir. George Miller)

The Martian (Dir. Ridley Scott)

The Revenant (Dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu)

Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Dir. J. J. Abrams)

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For the complete list of Oscar nominations including visit oscar.go.com
The 88th Oscars^® will be held on February 28th, 2016