Animated Film Oscar™ Contenders

Here are the ten films in the running for the 2005 Oscar™ for Best Animated Film:

• Corpse Bride
     Laika/Warner Brothers
  
• Wallace & Gromit The Curse of the Were Rabbit
     Aardman/DreamWorks
  
• Madagascar
     Dreamworks
• Chicken Little
     Disney
• Howl's Moving Castle
     Studio Ghibli/Disney
  
• Valiant
     Vanguard Animation/Disney
  
• Robots
     Blue Sky/20th Century Fox
  
• Hoodwinked
     Weinstein Company
  
• Gulliver's Travels
     Pentamedia Studios
  
• Steamboy
     Triumph Films/Sony Pictures
  

Quite a mix this year. Two stop-motion films, two 2-D films enhanced with 3-D effects, and a bunch of CG films. All of these will be wittled down to three films. Very tough call. I personally would choose Howl's Moving Castle, Corpse Bride, and Wallace & Gromit just because those are the only three that I've seen that I liked enough. Steamboy was cool up to a point until it just went on too long. The CG films were pretty lame this year.