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NEWS: Disney's Frozen, 'Mr. Hublot' Win Animated Oscars

I was perfectly fine with Frozen winning. Haven't seen any of the animated shorts; thinking of checking out this one (because it won) and Feral.

But, um...Does the lip syncing seem a bit off to anyone else? It might be because I've seen this sequence a few times in English. In any case, it's okay. It's difficult to hold a candle to the original, anyway.

Since this is an anime site and forum, I guess most of people here would be pro to Miyazaki's The Wind Rises. The Wind Rises is beautifully done and all (and it has historical value too), but it just didn't have enough impact (at least for me).

It's a dub of a foreign film. CGI is too costly to lipsync properly sometimes.....or they were just too lazy to. It wasnt a bad performance but there's much better Japanese singers they could've used. Shame really. By origiinal I assume you mean the broadway singer chick and not the overautotuned Demi Lovato version.

While the other nominees... The Croods, it just doesn't have enough appeal. Despicable Me 2, most of people would just watch it because of the overrated minions. I haven't watch Ernest & Celestine, but it does look interesting (especially the art style) so I might check it as well.

Yeah, I really wish The Wind Rises won. I know the Oscars value basically nothing that I do, so I shouldn't expect the things I like to be recognized by them, but I'd really like to see drawn animation win sometimes, and in general see things I really like win sometimes.

The Wind Rises to me is a truly sublime film. I think it's actually one of my top 3-5 favorite movies ever. I have so much to say (which I'll post eventually) that I can't really touch on everything, but it's depiction of someone with the spark of creativity venturing to express himself in a world only sometimes and only tangentially interested was amazing. I also love how it explored the ultra long-term nature of certain kinds of creativity: the present society's immediate desires may run orthogonal to yours, but in the long run, after what they physically created is obsoleted and reduced to simplistic and context-dependent memories, the ideas of your progress remain to inspire and enable others.

Since this is an anime site and forum, I guess most of people here would be pro to Miyazaki's The Wind Rises. The Wind Rises is beautifully done and all (and it has historical value too), but it just didn't have enough impact (at least for me).

Every year that Hayao Miyazaki has had a film nominated, I liked at least one of the competing films more (yes, I'm in the minority who didn't care much for Spirited Away, which I found disjointed and scattershot).

Ponyo, which wasn't nominated, is my favourite of the Miyazaki films from this century that I've seen, but, even if that one had been nominated, I'd still have been rooting for Fantastic Mr. Fox over it.

But I am much more of a fan of anime TV series than I am of anime films, and Miyazaki hasn't really worked much in the TV medium since the days of Future Boy Conan and Sherlock Hound.

it's been my observation that a nice chunk of people on these boards and vocal hardcore anime fans in general tend to kind of reject Miyazaki, often seemingly because they don't like how much more attention he gets in comparison to their favorite directors.

Case in point being the vocal minority who thought Puella Magi Madoka Magica should have been nominated instead of The Wind Rises (something that, for good or ill, never would have happened).

And when Disney guns on an award, they just about always get it. They were behind Spirited Away winning in the first place!