Oscar Contenders for Best Animated Feature in Discussion at Free VIEW Conference PreVIEW Event

24 February 2022 // Hot off the Press

Skwigly

Animation Magazine

VIEW Conference, in partnership with OGR, is proud to present a virtual discussion with a distinguished panel of the directors and producers behind five of this year’s Academy Award® contenders for Best Animated Feature. This FREE online event takes place on Friday, March 4th, 2022 at 10am PST / 6pm UK / 19:00 CET.

Register for the FREE online session “5 Oscar Contenders for Best Animated Feature”

https://www.viewconference.it/pages/five-oscar-contenders

The panel includes Byron Howard, director of Disney’s ENCANTO, plus co-director/co-writer Charise Castro Smith and producer Yvett Merino. Representing the Danish animated docudrama FLEE are director Jonas Poher Rasmussen and producer Charlotte de La Gournerie. Director Enrico Casarosa and producer Andrea Warren join the panel with Disney and Pixar’s LUCA, while director/co-writer Mike Rianda and producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller represent Netflix and Sony Pictures Animation’s THE MITCHELLS VS THE MACHINES. Also participating are RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON directors Carlos López Estrada, producer Osnat Shurer and co-writer Adele Lim. The moderator is Dan Sarto, editor-in-chief of Animation World Network.

Online resources for the nominated films:

• The Art of RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON
• The Art of LUCA
• The Art of ENCANTO
• The Art of THE MITCHELLS VS THE MACHINES
• FLEE (trailer)

“This year’s list of Oscar contenders is truly breathtaking,” says Conference Director Dr. Maria Elena Gutierrez. “I have been blown away by the depth of creative thinking that has gone into their production, and by their capacity to address important issues of inclusion and diversity. How lucky we are to be able to enjoy animated features that are not only entertaining and beautiful to look at, but also thematically rich.”

Get on-demand access to over 150 session recordings from VIEW Conference 2021: https://www.viewconference.it/pages/registration

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences first acknowledged the potential of animated features at the 11^th Academy Awards in 1939, when Walt Disney received an Honorary Oscar for his groundbreaking motion picture SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS. In the following decades, other animated features were occasionally honoured with Special Achievement awards. The modern category of Best Animated Feature was introduced in 2002, at the 74^th Academy Awards, at which producer Aron Warner received the iconic gold statuette for DreamWorks Pictures’ SHREK.

An international community of over 10,000 artists, filmmakers and executives, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded in 1927, with Douglas Fairbanks as its first president. The 94th Oscars is scheduled to take place on Sunday, March 27, 2022, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland in Hollywood. The ceremony will be televised live on ABC and worldwide in over 200 territories.