Gloden Globes animation pics.

[dannavy85]

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Coraline

Fantastic Mr Fox

The Princess and the Frog

Up

Of these four, only Coraline and up deserve to be listed, the other two are a shock and worse.

Of course Astro Boy? Oh heck no, whatwould the Golden Globes be thinking?

Boooooooooooooooooooo!

[jeffbert]

I know nothing about any of those, nor do I care much about these awards. But I am now wondering about the criteria they used to select the winners.

[Laughing Dragon]

I agree Danny - BOOOO!!!!!! Princess and the Frog was weak Disney at best, Fantastic Mr Fox was a mangy-looking JOKE, and Cloudy has to be the most overrated movie I've ever seen. It was just okay; the animation, character design, story - NONE of those things compared to Astro Boy. This just sucks!!!!

[dannavy85]

Well Princess and the Frog hasn't even made it to the theaters yet! How can you judge the success of any movie that hasn't been seen yet?

Smells of one thing....bribes, bribes, bribes.

[jeffbert]

I hate to use wikipedia as a source, but according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award, popularity is not even a consideration. I could not find anything about the awards' selection criteria, at the Golden Globe website, so I emailed a question about it.

http://www1.goldenglobes.org/contact/

[Ninjatron]

As I understand it, Astro Boy was not submitted for consideration for the Golden Globes.
Don't know why and can't remember where I read that.
The movies all have to be submitted before they can be nominated. So if it wasn't submitted it's just not an option to nominate it.

Oh, and movies that are not released to theaters can be submitted and nominated thanks to pre-release screenings and festivals and things like that. As long as that happens within a certain location (Los Angeles, probably) by a certain date, there's no problem. That's why many films that are nominated for the Oscars don't actually get a wide release until around the time of the Oscar ceremony. A limited engagement screening of the finished would have to have been set up before the end of the year somewhere. These things are often set up simply so a film can qualify for award nominations, even if the plan to market the film won't be for awhile.

Sayonara.