The Oscar nominations came out today and not only did "Ratatouille" get
nominated for Animated Feature Film, but it was also nominated for Original
Screenplay, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing and Original Score. The other two
animation nominees were "Persepolis" and "Surf's Up."

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In article aioe.org>,
Patrick Joseph Mc Namara yahoo.com> wrote:

Congratulations to "Surf's Up":
"Surf's Up" actually was a witty movie that carried out its mocumentary
format in an entrancing manner. I found it an entertaining watch. But this
was a penguin movie at the very wrong time, and so it went into boxoffice
obscurity. I'm glad to see that people were still able to remember this movie
for a nom.

Congratulations to "Persepolis":
Sony Picture Classics is being way to limited in its distribution of this
movie. I was worried that it would fall into obscurity. But thankfully the
academy noticed. I hope then that SPC will be inspired to try a wider
distribution. Say 100 theaters at least?

Juan F. Lara wrote:

I'm a little surprised myself, but that's life.

Kip W

Juan F. Lara wrote:

It was actually the mockumentary style that made the ex-Pixar
refugee/DW-wannabe jokes tolerably funny--
Where Shrek3 kept pushing the jokes in the audience's faces, the
"documentary" style let the penguins push their sitcom jokes in each
others' faces, and we could sit back at a more comfortable removed
distance behind safety glass. Much less tension.

Juan F. Lara wrote:

Derek Janssen wrote:

Assuming you mean "the average mainstream non-fan who saw the film"
(otherwise, you've named pretty much the only dialogue from the film
that aired in the commercials): the scene with Bart's penis. Now,
besides those two...

-- Don

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:49:22 +0000 (UTC), ljuan@ces.clemson.edu (Juan
F. Lara) wrote:

Antonio E. Gonzalez wrote:

Ah, good, they're adjusting nicely. Never figured them to be such good
sports.

Derek Janssen (Matt Groening, OTOH, has been muttering something about
"pipe bombs")
ejanss1@verizon.net

On Jan 22, 4:11 pm, Derek Janssen nospam.verizon.net> wrote:

Why are you so certain that Persepolis won't win? The nominating
committees are a VERY small part of the voting body, which will
ultimately decide the winner. That's why The Color Purple went 0 for
11 :-)

Terrence Briggs wrote:

Let's just say it was the first time in years...YEARS...I'd seen a
character's interest in cooking (even if non-professionally) treated as
a real obsessive-dream interest, and not as the usual lame Frasier-style
"metrosexual" joke: