Studio Ghibli curse their luck at the Oscars

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At last night's Oscar film awards, anime movie Howl's Moving Castle missed out on the Best Animated Film award- losing out to clear favourite and the UK's very own Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
 
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I actually haven't seen any of the contenders for last night's award, but have a Howl's Moving Caste DVD sitting next to me now so that'll be sorted out sooner rather than later.

From what I've heard, W&G deserves the award and besides, it's nice to see an out and out British film win for once.
 
Predictably, people are objecting:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/php ... hp?t=22157

Yes it truly indeed got cheated. Well we can always fall back on Spirted Away. But claymation and british people beat high end technical graphics and excellent dialouge. Did you see the cornballs that acepted the thing? They had to br the corniest guys to ever butt-rape an excellently well executed movie. Damm you Oscars. Damm you Pat Robertson.
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lets just say, don't give up ur day job :p

even though i'm an anime fan i did want wallace and gromit to win. not because i like the film. but its nice for a local lad to win something big :)
 
It is disappointing to see Howl's lose out but in all honesty it's not the best they've done and W&G was a very entertaining film. The fact that plasticine characters are the most popular british film export right now says as much about the sorry state of the industry as it does about the talented people at Aardman! They're holding the flag for Britain so good on them.
 
As much as i love Curse (I've only seem both once) i did slightly prefer Howl's myself. Perhaps Curse was just so unlike the shorts that i was expecting something slightly different.

All the same i would say Curse deserved it. It is a massive achievement, and its got great charm. Howl's is a great film, but isn't unique in the way Curse was.

Personally i would have been perfectly happy had either of them won. Hence, i'm happy 8)
 
i didnt like the wallace and grommit movie. it just wasnt my thing, which is odd becuase i love the wrong trousers and a close shave. i thought it was to long. but then thats me.

i haven seen Howl's moving castle yet so i cant comment on how much better or worse it was and i dont even know who else was nominated.
 
Remember, this is Hollywood that generalises all non-English films into one minor category of "Foreign Language Film" even though each nation's cinema deserve credit for their individual qualities (probably just moaning because I don't like the idea of Japanese films in the same category as French! Lol)

It would have been nice to see Howl's Moving Castle take the award, but I must confess I was routing for Wallace And Gromitt...
 
The thing that is pissing people off is that Wallace & gromit has won an oscar every time its been nominated, he lost out on an oscar before because creature comforts was up against grand day out. Thats why it seems a fix when a stunning 2D animation didnt win and next year would be the same genius anime against wallace and gromit, wallace and gromit would win again.
 
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The thing that is pissing people off is that Wallace & gromit has won an oscar every time its been nominated, he lost out on an oscar before because creature comforts was up against grand day out. Thats why it seems a fix when a stunning 2D animation didnt win and next year would be the same genius anime against wallace and gromit, wallace and gromit would win again.
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But then, up till now Miyazaki's won every time he's been nominated.

..okay, okay, slightly different position, but y'know where I'm coming from :wink:
 
Really pleased Nick Park won because he comes from Preston. I wasn't really bothered which won though as I love them both.
 
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