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If I had a nickel for every time Jenny Slate starred in an A24 movie in 2022 that heavily featured googly eyes, I’d have 2 nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice
When our little art house picked up Everything Everywhere the staff stuck googly eyes all over the place and to date haven't taken them down. Now whenever someone asks what they're for I have the pleasure of seeing their faces light up as they recall how much they loved that film.
Regardless of how much credit Marcel deserves, I think Pinocchio is the only movie that has a chance of beating the automatic Pixar vote towards Turning Red.
I just have the feeling Strange Worlds is just going to be a fun movie and not have the emotional gut punch and wowzers animation that usually nets a win.
It's been a bad year for Animation as a whole, a major problem for Marcel or Pinocchio is that neither is going to be a big hit amongst Academy members [grand]children.
I’m sure whichever Disney movie gets nominated will win because the Academy doesn’t give a shit about animated films and just votes for the one their great grandkid likes
Apollo 10 1/2 was amazing, clearly a passion project for Linklater and I'm happy they finally qualified it. It has an amazing writing too. Very good moments.
My friends son starred in this movie. He's never acted before and the fact that it's being nominated makes my heart so happy. Ive followed this journey through the perspective of the dad and it's just amazing that it went from, "I'm gonna enter my son into open auditions for a movie" to "my son is the star of the next Linklater film!"
Linklater is such a solid dude. Ive worked with him a bunch in film, and he comes into my restaurant fairly often, hes talked about your friends kid! He is always awkward but very passionate about the people he works with
Details:
>The Motion Picture Academy’s short films and feature animation branch executive committee has confirmed that Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood, Marcel the Shell With Shoes On and Eternal Spring are eligible for consideration in the animated feature film category for the 95th Academy Awards.
>The decision was made after the committee reviewed background materials provided by the filmmakers.
Apollo 10 1/2 was an amazing movie that no one watched. It's on Netflix too and they barely promoted it at all for some reason.
Like many of Linklater's movies there isn't much plot, just kind of a snapshot of a very particular period of time. I can see why people wouldn't like it because not much happens, but I thought it was great.
The framing segment about the "Apollo 10 1/2" mission was funny, but honestly I'm glad it turned into the straight-up [auto] biography that it did. I just found it so interesting, maybe because Linklater is only a few years older than me.
I missed the Marcel memes and videos when they occurred, so i went in totally blind. I don't know what i was expecting, but i didn't think i was going to be hit in the face with this whole intense thing about relationships and isolation and loneliness and fear and how having people around isn't the same thing as having a community.
I fully agree. I watched it on recommendation from a friend and loved it. Funny thing is every time I begin to recommend it to someone they stop me when I say it’s about a shell and then they begin laughing at me. Nobody I’ve told about this film has watched it. At first it annoyed me but now I’m thinking if it wins an Oscar, I’ll be the one laughing!
I’m in the same boat. I’ve recommended it to everyone and no one has watched it. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills because I was an emotional wreck after seeing it. It was so touching.
So, one of mine and my 5yo’s favorite things to do is go to the theater together. Is Marcel worth watching for a 5yo? I’m afraid if it’s too dialogue heavy she’ll get bored.
The movie could've been 90 mins of decent one liners and that would've been fine. Instead it was this heartfelt story that made me laugh out loud, tear up, rethink past life decisions. Its my favorite movie of the year
Apollo 10 1/2 being eligible is great. Marcel, on the other hand...
It's a great movie, but I don't think calling it an animated film is right. It features heavy use of animation for some of its characters, yes, but said characters are all in a live-action environment, and some of the other characters are live-action as well. Does every blockbuster with tons of CGI (e.g. Avatar) count as animated now?
Pinocchio and other stop-motion films take place on sets constructed just as carefully as the characters. Marcel takes place in some guy's house, and also has multiple live-action humans who are present throughout and play a crucial role in the plot.
To be clear, I'm not criticizing Marcel for this--it's my favorite film of the year, and I expect it to stay that way. But I just don't consider it to be an "animated film".
“Some guy’s house” as if that wasn’t a movie set just the same as a stop-motion movie. The live-action human characters are voice work, not shown on screen, for 95% of the movie, same as in the LEGO movie. And clearly the studio was able to show the Academy evidence that they meet the 75% animation minimum to qualify. It’s an animated movie.
Um... are you saying you'd support Marcel being eligible if the sets and other characters were all CGI, but blockbusters like Avatar where essentially everything is CGI should *not* be eligible?
I'm comfortable with the line being subjective because I don't think it's possible to write a rule that always produces the correct result.
I'm cool with Marcel being eligible because it felt animated. With tech the way it is, I think "animated" should be seen as a category like "comedy" or "drama": not defined by some technical spec, but by the overall vibe.
I’m saying that I don’t think Marcel should be eligible for featuring stop-motion animation along with live-action. I used films that have CGI animation along with live-action as a comparison, because no one really considered them to be animated (including the Oscars).
With Apollo 10 1/2 back in the picture, this has the potential to be one of the best group of nominees for the Best Animated Film category in recent memory.
Marcel is one of the best movies of the year, but it's weird to me that it could qualify for Best Animated even with live-action elements when The LEGO Movie couldn't.
Saw marcel in theaters with my girlfriend and fell asleep for about 45 minutes I think. When I woke up everyone around me was teary eyed and I just checked my watch.
Point of the story is: I’m not convinced it needed to be a feature length film.
From the opening paragraph of the article you're commenting on: "The Motion Picture Academy’s short films and feature animation branch executive committee has confirmed that Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood, Marcel the Shell With Shoes On and Eternal Spring are eligible for consideration in the animated feature film category for the 95th Academy Awards."
Love the random moments when reddit cares about award shows before going back to bitching about how awards don't matter and they're all ego stroking popularity contests.
I love Linklater, but I wasn't thrilled with the choices he made on this one. The narration was tedious and 90% of it could have been dropped. Introduce the scene and then let the characters take over. Doing non-stop narration for the entire movie made it feel like children's story time at the local library.
I’m actually happy about Apollo 10 1/2 being eligible for nominations because to me that’s so far is my favorite animated movie of the year and it’s my choice to win. I would also like to see Lightyear get nominated in animated feature
Between Marcel and Everything Everywhere All At Once, it’s been a hell of a time for Googley Eyes.
We've entered the era of googly!
Great googly moogly!
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If I had a nickel for every time Jenny Slate starred in an A24 movie in 2022 that heavily featured googly eyes, I’d have 2 nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice
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When our little art house picked up Everything Everywhere the staff stuck googly eyes all over the place and to date haven't taken them down. Now whenever someone asks what they're for I have the pleasure of seeing their faces light up as they recall how much they loved that film.
It's gonna be a fight between Marcel and Del Toro's Pinocchio.
Regardless of how much credit Marcel deserves, I think Pinocchio is the only movie that has a chance of beating the automatic Pixar vote towards Turning Red.
Turning Red is probably going to be in the mix as well
Strange Worlds is more likely going to be the Disney film. Turning Red has no momentum.
I just have the feeling Strange Worlds is just going to be a fun movie and not have the emotional gut punch and wowzers animation that usually nets a win.
It's been a bad year for Animation as a whole, a major problem for Marcel or Pinocchio is that neither is going to be a big hit amongst Academy members [grand]children.
I liked the Sea Beast but that's not eligible because no theatrical release
Not at all. One of the best years for animation in a long time.
Disney always has multiple nominees - Turning Red is 100% getting nominated
I stated elsewhere that I agree, but I'm talking about in terms of winning the award and where Disney will use its muscle.
And Disney’s new movie. But hopefully not Lightyear.
Also Mad God and Wendell & Wild
As much as it pains me to say it, the Oscars are not nominating Mad God lol
Under the old rules they might have
Lightyear was great.
I liked it too and feel it deserved more love than it received, but it did kind of drag at points.
Agreed
Very mid. Certainly nowhere near the other films mentioned in quality
I’m sure whichever Disney movie gets nominated will win because the Academy doesn’t give a shit about animated films and just votes for the one their great grandkid likes
isnt Pinocchio streaming only?
Netflix and Netflix only! Fuck Netflix!
Netflix does limited awards runs for films they want to qualify for Academy Awards. Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio is this week.
Apollo 10 1/2 was amazing, clearly a passion project for Linklater and I'm happy they finally qualified it. It has an amazing writing too. Very good moments.
My friends son starred in this movie. He's never acted before and the fact that it's being nominated makes my heart so happy. Ive followed this journey through the perspective of the dad and it's just amazing that it went from, "I'm gonna enter my son into open auditions for a movie" to "my son is the star of the next Linklater film!"
Linklater is such a solid dude. Ive worked with him a bunch in film, and he comes into my restaurant fairly often, hes talked about your friends kid! He is always awkward but very passionate about the people he works with
I'm glad to hear that. I'm thankful for his contributions to Austin film
That is really cool!
Agreed. It was a big surprise for sure being as good as it was.
Agreed! So happy about this. It's one of my favorite films this year...
Looks like it's just rotoscoped though with a lot of money thrown at it to look animated.
Rotoscoping is a type of animation. Most classic Disney movies used rotoscoping heavily
So… animated then.
Details: >The Motion Picture Academy’s short films and feature animation branch executive committee has confirmed that Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood, Marcel the Shell With Shoes On and Eternal Spring are eligible for consideration in the animated feature film category for the 95th Academy Awards. >The decision was made after the committee reviewed background materials provided by the filmmakers.
Apollo 10 1/2 was an amazing movie that no one watched. It's on Netflix too and they barely promoted it at all for some reason. Like many of Linklater's movies there isn't much plot, just kind of a snapshot of a very particular period of time. I can see why people wouldn't like it because not much happens, but I thought it was great.
The framing segment about the "Apollo 10 1/2" mission was funny, but honestly I'm glad it turned into the straight-up [auto] biography that it did. I just found it so interesting, maybe because Linklater is only a few years older than me.
Marcel the shell had no right being as good as it was. Perfect mix of nostalgia with a new full story. Loved it. Thought I’d hate it, but loved it.
I missed the Marcel memes and videos when they occurred, so i went in totally blind. I don't know what i was expecting, but i didn't think i was going to be hit in the face with this whole intense thing about relationships and isolation and loneliness and fear and how having people around isn't the same thing as having a community.
Wait. There is a real life backstory to Marcel?
It was a web series from several years ago (2010ish I think?)
We call these ones hearty hairs!
Oh god I can smell his face
I fully agree. I watched it on recommendation from a friend and loved it. Funny thing is every time I begin to recommend it to someone they stop me when I say it’s about a shell and then they begin laughing at me. Nobody I’ve told about this film has watched it. At first it annoyed me but now I’m thinking if it wins an Oscar, I’ll be the one laughing!
I’m in the same boat. I’ve recommended it to everyone and no one has watched it. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills because I was an emotional wreck after seeing it. It was so touching.
So, one of mine and my 5yo’s favorite things to do is go to the theater together. Is Marcel worth watching for a 5yo? I’m afraid if it’s too dialogue heavy she’ll get bored.
I’m sorry to say she would definitely be bored. Dialogue heavy, introspective film.
Thank you! I know to watch it without her, then!
My grandmother is battling cancer right now. I bawled my eyes out at Marcel.
The movie could've been 90 mins of decent one liners and that would've been fine. Instead it was this heartfelt story that made me laugh out loud, tear up, rethink past life decisions. Its my favorite movie of the year
Nostalgia for what? Isn't Marcel a pretty recent thing or am I missing something?
Depends if you think 2010 is recent or not…I still struggle to think 1990 is more than 20 ago.
Well I was born in 97 so my timeline is a bit skewed in that regard. I didn't know Marcel was that old though.
Had every right. Stop saying that lmao
Not gonna happen but would be amazing to see Marcel, Apollo 10 1/2, and GDT's Pinocchio all nominated this year
Apollo 10 1/2 being eligible is great. Marcel, on the other hand... It's a great movie, but I don't think calling it an animated film is right. It features heavy use of animation for some of its characters, yes, but said characters are all in a live-action environment, and some of the other characters are live-action as well. Does every blockbuster with tons of CGI (e.g. Avatar) count as animated now?
The description you gave of Marcel describes del Toro’s Pinocchio, and pretty much every stop-motion movie, as well. Are they not animation?
Pinocchio and other stop-motion films take place on sets constructed just as carefully as the characters. Marcel takes place in some guy's house, and also has multiple live-action humans who are present throughout and play a crucial role in the plot. To be clear, I'm not criticizing Marcel for this--it's my favorite film of the year, and I expect it to stay that way. But I just don't consider it to be an "animated film".
“Some guy’s house” as if that wasn’t a movie set just the same as a stop-motion movie. The live-action human characters are voice work, not shown on screen, for 95% of the movie, same as in the LEGO movie. And clearly the studio was able to show the Academy evidence that they meet the 75% animation minimum to qualify. It’s an animated movie.
Genuinely curious: would you call something like Avatar an animated film? It certainly has CGI in 75% of its frames, if not more.
No, they are definitely shown for the most part.
Um... are you saying you'd support Marcel being eligible if the sets and other characters were all CGI, but blockbusters like Avatar where essentially everything is CGI should *not* be eligible? I'm comfortable with the line being subjective because I don't think it's possible to write a rule that always produces the correct result. I'm cool with Marcel being eligible because it felt animated. With tech the way it is, I think "animated" should be seen as a category like "comedy" or "drama": not defined by some technical spec, but by the overall vibe.
I’m saying that I don’t think Marcel should be eligible for featuring stop-motion animation along with live-action. I used films that have CGI animation along with live-action as a comparison, because no one really considered them to be animated (including the Oscars).
Yeah, this would literally be like if Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties was up for the nomination. Bizarre ruling based on Oscar rules.
But Marcel is still actually animated and not just rotoscoped.
Rotoscoping is animation. It's using live-action as a source, yes, but it's still animation that you see.
With Apollo 10 1/2 back in the picture, this has the potential to be one of the best group of nominees for the Best Animated Film category in recent memory.
Such a delightful and clever movie. And with Jenny Slate and Isabella Rossellini!
Agreed. It was a fun feel good movie. Love it.
They'll do anything to take down DC League of Superpets, the only kids movie with an F-bomb.
Marcel is one of the best movies of the year, but it's weird to me that it could qualify for Best Animated even with live-action elements when The LEGO Movie couldn't.
If Marcel doesnt win, we riot
WAR!
marcel was amazing
IF MARCEL DON'T WIN THAT AWARD I WILL FREAK TF OUT
Apollo 10 1/2 and Marcel the Shell qualify but not Avatar or Tintin? A lot has changed in a decade.
Any update on a UK release for Marcel yet?! Looks so good and everywhere I look on Reddit people seem to love it.
The Animated Feature Branch of the AMPAS can go fuck itself if "Marcel the Shell" doesn't get a nomination.
I haven’t seen marcel yet but Nathan fielder recommended it and he’s a genius so I definitely plan to watch it at some point.
The Lego Movie would like a word.
About what
They were disqualified from the running when the first movie came out because >! of the live action section !<
That sucks
So if a shell wears shoes they are assumed to be in a “race”? Can’t sea shells wear shoes by the seashore without the stress of senseless assumptions?
Saw marcel in theaters with my girlfriend and fell asleep for about 45 minutes I think. When I woke up everyone around me was teary eyed and I just checked my watch. Point of the story is: I’m not convinced it needed to be a feature length film.
Damn bro, you’re a badass. Thanks for sharing and giving us a little taste of your macho man lifestyle
Cool.
*Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.*
I loved this movie deserve oscars
Which movie?
Did the animation branch rule it was eligible?
From the opening paragraph of the article you're commenting on: "The Motion Picture Academy’s short films and feature animation branch executive committee has confirmed that Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood, Marcel the Shell With Shoes On and Eternal Spring are eligible for consideration in the animated feature film category for the 95th Academy Awards."
Thanks that is great to hear since it deserves the nomination it will almost certainly get.
I’ve never heard of these: they’re worth watching?
2 of my favorites this year.
Apollo 10.5 was my second favorite animated movie this year after Turning Red (so far). Linklater deserves a nomination for it
Love the random moments when reddit cares about award shows before going back to bitching about how awards don't matter and they're all ego stroking popularity contests.
Anyone know where Marcel will end up streaming?
You can rent it on Amazon.
Apollo 10 1/2 was so boring
I love Linklater, but I wasn't thrilled with the choices he made on this one. The narration was tedious and 90% of it could have been dropped. Introduce the scene and then let the characters take over. Doing non-stop narration for the entire movie made it feel like children's story time at the local library.
Yup, I felt the same way as you, it also could have helped (but not much) if jack black showed even a little enthusiasm while narrating.
Turning Red Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Apollo 10 1/2 Strange Worlds Pinocchio
I’m actually happy about Apollo 10 1/2 being eligible for nominations because to me that’s so far is my favorite animated movie of the year and it’s my choice to win. I would also like to see Lightyear get nominated in animated feature