First Animated Character to Win an Oscar

The 87th Oscars Ceremony is this Sunday! So in accolade of this almanac event, we did some digging on fiddling known animation facts nigh the Oscars!

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Walt Disney still holds the record for winning the near Academy Awards.

Walt Disney won a total of 32 Oscars including special and technical awards. He as well holds the record for near nominations at a whopping 59 nominations.

Walt Disney won his commencement Oscar at the 5th Academy Awards for All-time Curt Bailiwick (Cartoon) in 1932 for his Silly Symphonies, Flowers and Trees , and an additional Oscar for his cosmos of Mickey Mouse. His well-nigh memorable Oscar was a Special Achievement Award for the first feature length animation film, Snowfall White and the Seven Dwarfs . He won for his technical innovation of the multi-plane camera technique, 6-7 animation cels are layered on top of each other and then the background and foreground are in proportion to each other when the camera changes. The Academy honored him with a unique standard Oscar statuette with 7 miniature Oscar statuettes in tow.

Sources: Wikipedia Walt Disney Family Museum

Watch this beautiful 2D crude sketch sequence by the legendary Glen Keane of the Beast's transformation. (Goosebumps!)

Beauty and the Beast was the first Animated Feature Film nominated for Best Moving-picture show.

The category for Best Animation Feature Picture show did not exist until 2001. So to have an animation film as the All-time Feature Film at the 1992 Oscars was an anomaly and a attestation that an animation film tin can be considered a prestigious film. Alas, Dazzler and the Beast lost to Silence of the Lambs that year.

Lilliputian known fact:

Due to time constraints, the famous dance sequence with Belle and the Animate being was similar to the dance sequence with Princess Aurora and Prince Philip from Sleeping Beauty.

Source: IMDB

Pete Docter'due south Oscar win for Up and a prissy montage of all the characteristic animated films nominated at the 2010 Oscars

Pixar dominates with vii Feature Animation Oscar wins in xiv years.

The Best Animation Characteristic Film category started in 2001 due to the influx of 3D Blitheness films exploding into the mainstream film industry. Pixar Animation Studios won in almost every twelvemonth they released a film with the exception of 2 years where they lost to DreamWorks' Shrek in 2001 and Brute Logic'southward Happy Feet in 2006.

Up and Toy Story 3 were as well included in Best Picture category when the University upped the nominee count from five to 10 films.

2001: Monsters Inc. – Lost to Shrek
2003: Finding Nemo – Won
2004: The Incredibles – Won
2006: Cars – Lost to Happy Anxiety
2007: Ratatouille – Won
2008: Wall-Eastward – Won
2009: Up – Won
2010: Toy Story iii – Won
2012: Brave – Won

Wow.

Source: Wikipedia

Toy Story is the only animated moving picture to be nominated for All-time Original Screenplay. Um … and Joss Whedon rewrote it.

Toy Story is the first feature length 3D computer blitheness moving-picture show. Nobody had ever seen anything like it in 1995. Inspiring future 3D animators all around the world, written by Joss Whedon (what?!), Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow, John Lasseter, Pete Docter and Joe Ranft were nominated at the 1996 Oscars for a little story nearly a boy and his toys, Woody and Buzz Lightyear. Joss Whedon spent iv months with Pixar rewriting the script and amid his contributions were the creation of the lovable dinosaur, Rex, and the mutant toys. They lost to the Usual Suspects just history was already fabricated.

Little known fact:
Billy Crystal was originally asked to phonation Buzz Lightyear only declined the iconic function. After seeing the finished characteristic film, he regretted his determination. When John Lasseter chosen him for the role of Mike Wazowski, he immediately said, "Yes."

Sources: IMDB IndieWire

Watch this vintage behind the scenes special effects video of The Empire Strikes Back . Look for Dennis Muren and Phil Tippett talk about the stop-motility animation procedure with the Tauntauns at the 5 infinitesimal mark.

Dennis Muren is the only man alive who has the most Academy Awards.

Dennis Muren, THE visual effects guru even so holds the tape for most Oscar wins for a person who is nevertheless living. He won seven Visual Effects Oscars and two Special /Technical Accomplishment Awards throughout his career. Notably known for his piece of work for at Industrial Lite & Magic for the early Star Wars trilogy, Terminator: Judgement Day , and Jurassic Park , he helped usher in the new earth of CGI for film visual effects. Without his contributions in this industry, every blockbuster film y'all come across today would non exist.

1981: Special Achievement Award
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Shared with: Brian Johnson, Richard Edlund, Bruce Nicholson

1982: Technical Achievement Accolade
For the development of a Picture show Figure Mover for animation photography
Shared with: Stuart Ziff

1983: All-time Effects, Visual Effects
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Shared with: Carlo Rambaldi, Kenneth Smith

1984: Special Accomplishment Award
Star Wars Episode 5: Return of the Jedi
Shared with: Richard Edlund, Ken Ralston, Phil Tippett

1985: All-time Effects, Visual Effects
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Shared with: Michael J. McAlister, Lorne Peterson, George Gibbs

1988: Best Effects, Visual Effects
Innerspace
Shared with: Pecker George , Harley Jessup, Kenneth Smith

1990: Best Effects, Visual Effects
The Completeness
Shared with: Hoyt Yeatman, John Bruno, Dennis Skotak

1992: All-time Effects, Visual Effects
Terminator two: Sentence Twenty-four hours
Shared with: Stan Winston, Gene Warren Jr., Robert Skotak

1994: Best Effects, Visual Effects
Jurassic Park
Shared with: Stan Winston, Phil Tippett, Michael Lantieri

All bow down to Dennis.

Sources: Wikipedia IMDB

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