"Tangled" is Disney's 3D animated movie for 2010

Posted on February 18 2010 at 12:35 AM

Disney Animation Studios has announced the title for its 2010 animated movie will no longer be called "Rapunzel" and will now be known as "Tangled". The character of Rapunzel will be voiced by Mandy Moore, and the animated movie is intended to be a modern re-imagining of the classic tale. The movie will have digital 3D effects, and is scheduled for release in November 2010.

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Animated movie nominations: 2010 Academy Awards

Posted on February 02 2010 at 08:30 PM

The Oscar nominations for the 2010 Academy Awards are out!

The nominations for Animated Feature Film are: Coraline; Fantastic Mr. Fox; The Princess and the Frog; The Secret of Kells; Up. (we are tipping Up to win)

The nominations for Animated Short Film are: French Roast, Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty, The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte), Logorama, A Matter of Loaf and Death.

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Animated movies

Animated movies are now treated as a serious artistic endeavour, with their own award categories at the Academy Awards (Oscars) since 2001, the Golden Globe Awards since 2007, and the BAFTA Awards since 2007. An animated movie, Beauty and the Beast, was nominated in the main Best Picture category in 1991, and in 2008 the animated feature Waltz with Bashir was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.

And the Academy Award winners for Best Animated Feature are:

2001 - Shrek

2002 - Spirited Away

2003 - Finding Nemo

2004 - The Incredibles

2005 - Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (the only claymation film on the list)

2006 - Happy Feet

2007 - Ratatouille

2008 - WALL-E

3D animated movies hit the mainstream in 2009 with the DreamWorks blockbuster Monsters vs Aliens.

Don't forget to see the latest feature length claymation animated movie Mary and Max by Academy Award winning Australian animator Adam Elliot.

See the Mary and Max trailer by clicking here.

The latest Disney Pixar animated movie is Up. Released at the end of May 2009, Up is Pixar's first 3D animated movie. See the official trailer for Up below!