Anyone watch the Oscars? Animation Highlights
Well, they were not terribly interesting this year. I feel for Martin Scorsese, I wonder if he is ever going to be recognized for his work by the academy. You know they are going to have to give him a lifetime achievement award at some point.
Did anyone else feel it was a really strange format with presenters in the audience? I feel it broke things up too much and created some really awkward moments. Hell, for best Animated Short Film, we did not even get to see any clips... or Best Picture for that matter!
All-and-all it was a pretty ho-hum ceremony this year.
Ok, I'm going to keep this on-topic -- here are the Animation Highlights from the Oscars:
Shrek gets screentime with Charlie Chaplin. Nice little bit of CG work having him play "hacky sack" with Chaplin.
Brad Bird takes home two Oscars for The Incredibles - Best Original Screenplay and Best Animated Feature.
Pierce Brosnan presents costume design award with Edna Mode (from The Incredibles).
Ryan wins Best Animated Short Film. (Anyone see this film?)
The best animation moment of the night goes to a very animated comic, Robin Williams. Before presenting for Best Animated Feature, he went off on a short tirade about the controversy over SpongeBob allegedly being gay:
"They tell me now that SpongeBob is gay. SquarePants is not gay. Tight pants maybe. SpongeBob Hot Pants? You go, girl!"
"What about Donald Duck? Sailor top, no pants. Hello?" "Chip and Dale, never apart, live in a tree, run around gathering nuts? Hello?" (ed: don't recall the exact quote on this one and can't find it, sorry) "Bugs Bunny. More dresses than J. Edgar Hoover at Mardi Gras. Hello?"
I think if ABC allowed him sing his originally planned song in "the voice of a preacher" it would have been even funnier... but ABC showed the usual spinelessness associated with the post-Jackson-nipple era by cutting the whole thing. Read more here.
The cut song included the lines:
"Pinocchio's had his nose done! Sleeping Beauty is popping pills! The Three Little Pigs ain't kosher! Betty Boop works Beverly Hills!" "Fred Flintstone is dyslexic, Jessica Rabbit is really a man, Olive Oyl is really anorexic, and Casper is in the Ku Klux Klan!" "Chip 'n Dale are both strippers," "Bugs Bunny's a sexaholic," and "Josie and the Pussycats dance on laps."
Now that's comedy.
Did anyone else feel it was a really strange format with presenters in the audience? I feel it broke things up too much and created some really awkward moments. Hell, for best Animated Short Film, we did not even get to see any clips... or Best Picture for that matter!
All-and-all it was a pretty ho-hum ceremony this year.
Ok, I'm going to keep this on-topic -- here are the Animation Highlights from the Oscars:
Shrek gets screentime with Charlie Chaplin. Nice little bit of CG work having him play "hacky sack" with Chaplin.
Brad Bird takes home two Oscars for The Incredibles - Best Original Screenplay and Best Animated Feature.
Pierce Brosnan presents costume design award with Edna Mode (from The Incredibles).
Ryan wins Best Animated Short Film. (Anyone see this film?)
The best animation moment of the night goes to a very animated comic, Robin Williams. Before presenting for Best Animated Feature, he went off on a short tirade about the controversy over SpongeBob allegedly being gay:
"They tell me now that SpongeBob is gay. SquarePants is not gay. Tight pants maybe. SpongeBob Hot Pants? You go, girl!"
"What about Donald Duck? Sailor top, no pants. Hello?" "Chip and Dale, never apart, live in a tree, run around gathering nuts? Hello?" (ed: don't recall the exact quote on this one and can't find it, sorry) "Bugs Bunny. More dresses than J. Edgar Hoover at Mardi Gras. Hello?"
I think if ABC allowed him sing his originally planned song in "the voice of a preacher" it would have been even funnier... but ABC showed the usual spinelessness associated with the post-Jackson-nipple era by cutting the whole thing. Read more here.
The cut song included the lines:
"Pinocchio's had his nose done! Sleeping Beauty is popping pills! The Three Little Pigs ain't kosher! Betty Boop works Beverly Hills!" "Fred Flintstone is dyslexic, Jessica Rabbit is really a man, Olive Oyl is really anorexic, and Casper is in the Ku Klux Klan!" "Chip 'n Dale are both strippers," "Bugs Bunny's a sexaholic," and "Josie and the Pussycats dance on laps."
Now that's comedy.
