Three animated films have been nominated for Best Picture.
Disney's Beauty and the Beast (1991) was the first animated movie to be nominated for Best Picture. It lost to The Silence of the Lambs.
Pixar's Up (2009) lost to The Hurt Locker.
Pixar's Toy Story 3 (2010) lost to The King's Speech.
The first animated Disney film nominated for a Golden Globes is Oliver & Company (1988). It was nominated for Best Song. The first animated Disney film nominated for a Golden Globes in the Best Picture (Comedy/Musical) category is 1989's The Little Mermaid.
"Toy Story 3," the first sequel nominated for Best Picture without nominations for previous movies, won two 2010 Academy Awards. It was presented the Best Animated Feature award and won the Best Original Song category for Randy Newman's "We Belong Together."
Patton, Airport, Five Easy Pieces, Love Story and M.A.S.H. were the five movies nominated for the Best Picture Oscar for 1970
Very few horror movies have been nominated for an Oscar. The Exorcist (1973) was the only horror movie nominated for Best Picture. The 1991 film, "The Silence of the Lambs" swept the Bests: Best Picture, Best Actor (Anthony Hopkins), Best Actress (Jodie Foster), Best Director (Jonathan Demme), and Best Writing (Ted Tally). To date (June 2009), the last horror film to be nominated for Best Picture was "The Sixth Sense" in 2000.
The 2007 Best Picture nominees were: Atonement Juno Michael Clayton * No Country for Old Men There Will Be Blood
In all likelihood, 5 movies will be nominated for Best Picture by the Academy Awards. All five films will probably be "Serious Human Drama" movies that are not animated, not documentaries and all communicate in the English language.
There's no definitive reason. It could be argued that no other animated films were good enough to me nominated but I also think the Academy has a prejudice against movies that aren't long epics or are completely serious endevors.
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As director: Unforgiven, Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby and Letters from Iwo Jima. He was nominated as actor for the two that won Best Picture.
The category Best Animated Feature wasn't created until 2001. However, 1992 was the year that Beauty and the Beastwas nominated for Best Picture, making it the only animated film to do so.
The first animated Disney film nominated for a Golden Globes is Oliver & Company (1988). It was nominated for Best Song. The first animated Disney film nominated for a Golden Globes in the Best Picture (Comedy/Musical) category is 1989's The Little Mermaid.
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Rocky (that won Best Picture), Bound for Glory, All the President's Men and Taxi Driver.
Toy Story 3.
The "Best Animated Feature" nominees for 2010 are:"Up""Coraline""Fantastic Mr. Fox""The Princess and the Frog""The Secret of Kells"
"Toy Story 3," the first sequel nominated for Best Picture without nominations for previous movies, won two 2010 Academy Awards. It was presented the Best Animated Feature award and won the Best Original Song category for Randy Newman's "We Belong Together."
The nominees were: "Amadeus," "The Killing Fields," "A Passage to India," "Places in the Heart" and "A Soldier's Story." The Best Picture award went to "Amadeus."