The 1st of four short-posts today. The Hollywood Foreign Press released 15 animated films that could be nominated for Best Animated Feature at the upcoming Golden Globe awards in January 2010. The 15 considerations are:
- 9
- Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
- Battle For Terra
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
- Coraline
- Disney’s A Christmas Carol
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
- Mary and Max
- The Missing Lynx
- Monsters VS Aliens
- Planet 51
- Ponyo
- The Princess and the Frog
- Up
Riding the excess waves of the Academy Awards (their gluttonous expansion of 10 Best Picture nominees), the Golden Globes have 5 Best Animated Feature nominee slots this year. The Oscars and Globes sure are desperate to eat up airtime. Anyhow, here are my predictions for Best Animated Feature: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, A Christmas Carol, Fantastic Mr Fox, The Princess and the Frog, Up
Granted, I didn’t watch all of the films (didn’t even hear of Battle For Terra or The Missing Lynx until today) but I believe Ponyo won’t make the cut. A couple of months back I gave Ponyo a 7 out of 10 rating and I think even that was a little generous. In my opinion, it was definitely Miyazaki’s weakest piece. Especially with Up campaigning for a spot on the 10-seater Best Picture limousine at the Oscars, winning Best Animated Feature at the Golden Globes won’t be surprising, anyone other film is just playing catch up. (no one REALLY cares about the Globes, they nominated Tom Cruise for Best Supporting Actor last year for goodness’ sake!). Then again, seeing how random the Globes are, all of my predictions are as plausible as Ditto morphing into Agumon (click the links, they’re funny). So Ponyo has as good of a chance to be nominated as the rest of the 14.
-phibz.
