Animated Events: 2020 Academy Awards Nominees

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This week, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released the nominations for the 92nd Annual Academy Awards.

The following are the films nominated for Best Animated Feature and Best Animated Short Film. 

Best Animated Feature:

• How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World - Dean DeBlois, Bradford Lewis, and Bonnie Arnold
• I Lost My Body - Jeremy Clapin and Marc Du Pontavice
• Klaus - Sergio Pablos, Jinko Gotoh, and Marisa Roman
• Missing Link - Chris Butler, Arianne Sutner, and Travis Knight
• Toy Story 4 - Josh Cooley, Mark Nielsen, and Jonas Rivera

Best Animated Short:

• Dcera (Daughter) - Daria Kascheeva
• Hair Love - Matthew A. Cherry and Karen Rupert Toliver
• Kitbull - Rosana Sullivan and Kathryn Hendrickson
• Memorable - Bruno Collet and Jean-Francois le Corre
• Sister - Siqi Song

Additionally, the following two animated feature films had nominations in the category of Music (Original Song):

• 'I Can't Let You Throw Yourself Away' from Toy Story 4; Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
• 'Into The Unknown' from Frozen II; Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez

As always, for those who would like to see these short films before the awards ceremony, they will be playing at the Detroit Institute of Arts' Detroit Film Theater in January and February.

The schedule from the DIA's website is as follows:

• Friday, January 31, 2020 - 7:00 PM
• Saturday, February 1, 2020 - 2:00 PM
• Saturday, February 1, 2020 - 7:00 PM
• Sunday, February 2, 2020 - 1:00 PM
• Sunday, February 2, 2020 - 6:00 PM
• Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - 7:00 PM
• Friday, February 7, 2020 - 7:00 PM
• Saturday, February 8, 2020 - 7:00 PM
• Sunday, February 9, 2020 - 1:00 PM
• Wednesday, February 12, 2020 - 7:00 PM
• Thursday, February 13, 2020 - 7:00 PM
• Friday, February 14, 2020 - 7:00 PM
• Saturday, February 15, 2020 - 7:00 PM
• Sunday, February 16, 2020 - 1:00 PM

The Academy Awards will be broadcast on Sunday, February 9, 2020.

Congratulations to all the nominees and to all the filmmakers who submitted their films for consideration.

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