Oscar battle for animation giants
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DreamWorks and Walt Disney have three films each in the running for best animated feature Oscar.
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"The Incredibles," an animated film  about a family of superheroes, was a surprise pick on Wednesday  when the Producers Guild of America announced its nominations  for its best movie of the year award.
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An alliance of four stunt organizations is petitioning the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to create a new Oscar category, that of best stunt coordinator.
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Visual-effects pioneer Ray Feeney will receive an Oscar for his contributions to film.
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Oscar season is only just getting under way, but a presumptive front-runner would have to be Clint EastwoodÂs the World War II epic about the men who raised the flag on Iwo Jima.
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More than 5,000 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will soon get their official ballots for the 79th Academy Awards.
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Shares in DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., the producer of the Shrek movies, rose as much as 41 percent as investors bet the company can use $700 million of proceeds from its initial stock sale to challenge Pixar Animation Studios.
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Better hurry. There's just 30 moviegoing days left till the Academy Awards. Studios behind the five best-picture Oscar nominees announced Tuesday are rushing their films out to more theaters this weekend, counting on the awards attention to pad the box-office haul on some of the movies by tens of millions of dollars.
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Writer/director Brad Bird (&quot;The Iron Giant&quot;) and the wizards at Pixar Animation Studios (&quot;Toy Story,&quot; &quot;Monsters, Inc,&quot; and &quot;Finding Nemo&quot;) have created a marvelous movie that works for children
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Computer animation pioneers Pixar and Dreamworks have set the stage for a potentially bruising box office battle after both studios changed their schedules this week to target summer releases, analysts said on Thursday.
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Computer animation pioneers Pixar and Dreamworks have set the stage for a potentially bruising box office battle after both studios changed their schedules this week
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Two small studios recovering from corporate upheaval shone brightly in the Academy Award nominations on Tuesday.
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Warner Bros. just can&#39;t catch a break when it comes to animation. You could forgive them for thinking that with Polar Express they had a sure fire winner - after all it combines a much-loved children&#39;s book with cutting edge technology and Tom Hanks.
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The global success of Shrek, Finding Nemo and the recent Shark Tale has prompted Indian film-makers to try their hand at the animation industry.
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Hollywood had a wide-open race on  Tuesday as Oscar nominations pitted two powerful dramas by  veterans Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood against the charm  of films about wine tasting, Peter Pan and Ray Charles.
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Some of this year's most  interesting Oscar battles revolve around what Academy Award  voters hear -- rather than see.
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Expectations for Pixar Animation  Studios' latest computer-animated creation, superhero satire  "The Incredibles," are running so high that the pressure for  blockbuster success is, well, incredible.