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Leading into the Academy Awards, it seems that there is not much that stands in the way of Toy Story 3 capturing the Best Animated Film Oscar. Earlier tonight, the 64th Annual BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Awards took place and handed out the big animation prize to Pixar’s latest, further cementing the film’s status as the best animated film (and one of the best films) of the year. [Read more...]
The British Film Academy announced their nominations in the wee-hours of the morning Tuesday. Similar in its prestige to the Academy Awards, the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) will feature three categories in which Toy Story 3 has received nominations! The animated film has been flying high lately, most recently named Best Animated Film at the Critics Choice Awards and the Golden Globes. That run looks like it is just getting started. [Read more...]
At the 68th Annual Golden Globes tonight, Toy Story 3 was nominated for an award. From the very first moments that viewers began to gaze upon Pixar’s latest film, there was talk of the film winning big awards. Critics across the country have lauded the film as the best animated film of the year, with some saying that it was the best film of the year. Part of that has been realized tonight, as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) has named Toy Story 3 the Best Animated Feature Film of 2010. [Read more...]
Toy Story 3 is smiling brightly, as it took home a big prize tonight at the 16th Annual Critics Choice Movie Awards. Director Lee Unkrich and Producer Darla K. Anderson were in attendance at the awards show voted on by the Broadcast Film Critics Association. Read on for a recap with a full transcript of the acceptance speech. [Read more...]
Each year, popular review-collecting site, Rotten Tomatoes, compiles lists of the best reviewed films and awards the best of them with Golden Tomato Awards. Continuing Pixar’s past success, Toy Story 3 was awarded the most coveted Golden Award: the best reviewed wide release film of the year! [Read more...]
Boy, Disney and Pixar were not joking when they said they would be aggressively releasing Toy Story 3 ‘for your consideration’ ads! After releasing over a dozen very creative ads referencing past Oscar Best Picture winners, here is another ad in the ‘Not since…” series. Midnight Cowboy is the film receiving honors this time:
The 2011 People’s Choice Awards were handed out tonight at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles. The people have spoken and they have given Toy Story 3 a People’s Choice Award! The Pixar film had been nominated in two categories: Favorite Movie and Favorite Family Movie. Read on to find out how the film’s night turned out. [Read more...]
The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced their nominations today, and Toy Story 3 bagged two of them! As the producer of the film, Darla K. Anderson, who has been at Pixar for over 15 years, was the nominee in both categories: [Read more...]
Given the sheer amount of awards Pixar’s Toy Story 3 is winning and has been nominated for, here is a comprehensive list of the film’s accolades. [Read more...]
A brand new ‘for your consideration’ ad for Toy Story 3 has debuted, and the creativity in the ad series has yet to die down. The previous ads referenced Shakespeare In Love, Titanic, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. This new ad evokes 1991 Best Picture winner The Silence of the Lambs:
While the other ads solely stated that Toy Story 3 was “The Best Reviewed Film of the Year,” this one has been updated to include the additional acclaim that has been piled on the film these past few weeks:
With several more print ads to come, I can hardly wait to see what the other ads will look like!
Thanks to Movielicious for the heads up about the new ad.
The accolades for Toy Story 3 keep on coming! Moviefone revealed their list of the top 50 films of the year and the animated film landed at the number one position. Read on for what the editors at the site had to say. [Read more...]
Toy Story 3 received a Golden Globe nomination today for ‘Best Animated Feature’ and the film’s director, Lee Unkrich, had a few public reaction statements. [Read more...]
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced their nominations for the 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards early this morning. Toy Story 3 garnered a nomination for ‘Best Animated Feature,’ but was shut out of all other categories. What happened? [Read more...]
Today was a huge day for Toy Story 3, as several critics associations announced their honorees and Pixar’s latest was well represented. Critics in Los Angeles and New York both agreed that Toy Story 3 was the Best Animated Film of the year. Additionally, the American Film Institute (AFI) announced that Toy Story 3 has been included as part of their Top 10 films of the year. [Read more...]
Richard Corliss of TIME put together his top picks for the best films of 2010. What film did he place at the very top of the list? None other than Lee Unkrich’s Toy Story 3!
“Right through its incendiary and genuinely emotional endgame, Toy Story 3 teaches morals of holding and sharing and personal responsibility to the greater social good. But the movie’s most important lesson is for Hollywood: Watch this and see how it’s done.”
That’s quite the amount of flattery from Mr. Corliss. It is great to see Toy Story 3, director Lee Unkrich, and Pixar as a whole continue to get the recognition that they have earned.
To read his full blurb on what he thought of Toy Story 3 and to see what other films he placed on his Top 10 list, visit TIME’s official website.
Toy Story 3‘s got some serious awards season momentum behind it now! The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures announced their 2010 award winners today and Pixar once again captured the top animation prize this year, as Toy Story 3 was chosen by the board as the Best Animated Feature of the year. [Read more...]
The WIN (Women’s Image Network) Awards are handed out each year in order to help promote positive public opinion of women and girls. The 2010 nominees were recently announced and Toy Story 3 made the list!
The category that Pixar’s latest film smashed into follows:
Film Produced By A Woman:
Denise Di Novi, Ramona and Beezus
Darla K. Anderson, Toy Story 3
Bonnie Arnold, How To Train Your Dragon
Lesley Chilcott, Waiting For Superman
Suzanne Todd and Jennifer Todd, Alice in Wonderland
The 12th Annual WIN Awards show takes place January 18, 2011 on the Broad Stage in Santa Monica, California.
Nominations for the 2011 People’s Choice Awards were announced earlier today and Toy Story 3 was well represented. The Disney/Pixar film is nominated in two categories:
Favorite Movie:
Favorite Family Movie:
Walt Disney Studios has made it clear that they will be pushing Toy Story 3 for award considerations. Now they have relaunched their awards website with information and behind-the-scenes material for Toy Story 3 and the Day & Night short.
Stills, music samples, and review quotes are collected for both films (along with several other Disney films). A highlight is the entire screenplay for Toy Story 3, which you can download and view here. Normally, I wouldn’t say that reading screenplays is particularly exciting, but screenwriter Michael Arndt did such a fantastic job that I’ll personally be downloading this onto my phone for reading while traveling!
Visit the Walt Disney Studios Awards website.
The awards season is about to get underway and Toy Story 3 is already beginning to generate buzz. While the largest awards show of the year, the Academy Awards, is still months away, the 14th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Awards (which the New York Times calls “the first mandatory stop in the awards season”) is fast approaching. According to Hollywood News, Toy Story 3 is poised to receive the “Hollywood Animation Award” at the awards show. [Read more...]
