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Toy Story 3 went in with five nominations to Sunday’s 83rd Annual Academy Awards, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.
The film was nominated in the following Oscar categories (wins in bold):
- Best Picture (Darla K. Anderson, producer)
- Best Animated Feature Film (Lee Unkrich, director)
- Adapted Screenplay (Screenplay by Michael Arndt. Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich)
- Original Song ("We Belong Together"; music and lyrics by Randy Newman)
- Sound Editing (Tom Myers and Michael Silvers)
Pixar's groundbreaking short Day & Night, directed by Teddy Newton and produced by Kevin Reher, was nominated in the Animated Short Film category.
John Lasseter with wife Nancy; Ed Catmull with daughter Jeannie.
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Toy Story 3 won two awards, for Best Animated Feature Film and Original Song.
This is the fourth consecutive year that a Pixar film has taken home the feature animation prize, created in 2001, and the sixth time in total.
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"Oh boy. I can't believe I'm actually saying this, but thank you to the Academy. I wouldn't be standing here if it weren't for the vision of three incredible guys. John Lasseter, Ed Catmull, and Steve Jobs, the founders of Pixar Animation Studios, which by the way, is the most awesome place on the planet to make movies."To my producer, Darla Anderson, screenwriter Michael Arndt, my cast and crew, everyone at Disney and Pixar, every single person who had absolutely anything to do with making Toy Story 3 and getting it out into the world, I share this with you. To my grandmother, who always insisted that she'd see me up here someday.To my parents, my wife, Laura, my kids, Hannah, Alice, and Max, I love you all so much."And finally, thank you to audiences all over the world who came out in historic numbers and embraced a movie about talking toys that hopefully had something very human to say. Thank you. Thank you! Thank you!"
The Twitterverse subsequently exploded with compliments for @leeunkrich and Pixar, making Toy Story 3 and Unkrich trending topics.
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"We Belong Together" won for Best Original Song l
ater on in the ceremony
. Randy Newman accepted the award and, in doing so, delivered the funniest acceptance speech of the night.
"I'm very grateful for this and surprised. My percentages aren't great. I've been nominated 20 times and this is the 2nd time I won. At the Academy, at the lunch they have for the nominees, where they have like a Randy Newman chicken by this time, the, Mr. Mischer said that it's not really good television to take a list out of your pocket and thank a lot of people. It's not my style anyway, but it is in this case. I mean to have worked for Pixar doing the six pictures I've done, this one Lee Unkrich and worked with Mitchell Froom, Chris Montan at Disney.
"I just have to thank these people. I don't want to, I want to be good television so badly, as you can see. I've been on this show any number of times and I've slowed it down almost every time. No wonder they only nominate 4 songs, what about cinematography. So there's 5. They could find a fifth song from someone. But hell with it. Think it might have beat me. Anyway, I thank you all very much for this. The Academy has been enormously kind to me as has the Music Branch and I love you all. Thank you very much."
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The win followed Newman's
performance of a shortened version of "We Belong Together", which, unfortunately, was
fraught with a sound mixing issue that rendered Newman's voice barely intelligible at times. It did no justice to Newman or to the song.
Sadly, Toy Story 3 did not go on to receive the top Oscar prize, Best Motion Picture of the Year.
But the much deserved recognition it got was definitely an honor. Everybody at the studio is celebrating tonight.
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Congratulations to Lee Unkrich, Darla K. Anderson, Michael Arndt, Randy Newman,
Teddy Newton, Kevin Reher,
and everyone at Pixar and The Walt Disney Studios who helped make Toy Story 3 and Day & Night the two real best pictures of the year!
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I saw all of the other short animated films few days ago, plus Urs and The Cow That Wanted To Be a Hamburger, and I think it's very nice that The Lost Thing won, although I liked The Gruffalo better than The Lost Thing. All seven short films were really great.
Congratulation Pixar!!
I really happy for winning.
My name is Emerson. I am Brazilian.
Congratulations everyone at Pixar!
Estou muito feliz pela Pixar!
Os prêmios foram muito merecidos, pois Toy Story 3 é sem dúvida o melhor filme de animação.
Apart from TS3 winning Best Animated Feature (and the production awards that Inception won), I am not happy with the Awards this year... again. King's Speech won Best Picture?! TS3 deserves it through and through, and if not TS3 then Inception. I haven't seen King's Speech (and I'm not even sure I want to) and I don't think that Social Network (although a good movie) would have deserved it either.
And then there's the Best Original Score awards. THE SOCIAL NETWORK WON?! Over HtTYD or Inception?! Those people at the Oscars are M E N T A L. Even further goes to show that if the Oscars won't let a movie like TS3 or Inception win Best Picture, then they don't deserve to exist (or they don't deserve to be so popular).
I didn't actually enjoy Inception as much as people said I would. Amazing effects, fun characters, but the plot itself was pretty linear. And, surprisingly, I actually understood everything, so it turned out to be pretty predictable.
I'm pleased this year, the King's Speech was a fantastic film, but I do agree that the Social Networks score was good, but Inception/HtTYD's score was better.
The one award of the night that I was really ticked about was Best Score. I'm all for rewarding hard work when it produces something great. But the composers actually say in the special features on the DVD that they didn't have to try very hard. That, combined with the fact that it's a minimalist score to begin with (which was the right way to go for that movie, don't get me wrong), makes it far less deserving of an award than the other candidates. John Powell was my favorite out of the pool, but I would've been happy with Desplat or Zimmer. So yeah, I was disappointed in the Academy on that front.
Anyway, enough negativity. Congrats to Pixar and to Newman for their respective wins. Both well deserved imo.
Congrats to the TS3 cast & crew! I agree that Randy Newman's speech was the funniest.
I agree with Darrel about The Social Network; it was good, but didn't blow me away. There was only one piece in the score that stood out to me. Best Original Screenplay for Inception would've been nice, too.
The Lost Thing was a nice enough film, but I thought Day & Night was far more deserving. At least a film I liked won Best Picture, but, of course, I thought the award should have gone to Toy Story 3.
Nevertheless - Congrats to Lee, Randy, and the rest of the Pixar crew!
A great night for Pixar and both speakers were class acts. Loved Newman's live performance and his acceptance speech as funny as I had hoped it would be.
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