But it also includes Toy Story 3 (in both the best picture and best animated picture categories).
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Meanwhile, the amusing and romantic Paperman will most likely win for winner of Best Animated Short.
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Paddington Bear has been voted Britain's best animated character of all time at the ninth British Animation Awards.
Its Oscar success comes after it was named best animated feature film awards at the Baftas and the Golden Globes.
The best adapted screenplay Oscar went to Chris Terrio for Argo, while Pixar's Scottish adventure Brave won best animated feature.
Elsewhere The Gruffalo, a BBC co-production based on Julia Donaldson's popular children's book, gets a nomination for best animated short.
Cartoon sequel Toy Story 3 is one of 15 titles in contention for next year's Academy Award for best animated film.
The best animated feature went to "Ratatouille, " a computer-animated Pixar film directed and written by Oscar winner Brad Bird ("The Incredibles").
Animated films are well represented on the list with four entries, led by WALL-E, which is nominated for a Best Animated Feature Film Oscar.
Adele's Skyfall could win best original song and Brits are well represented in the best animated feature category with Paranorman, The Pirates!
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It earned an 81 on Rotten Tomatoes and seemed like a shoo-in for a nod in the Best Animated Feature category.
Paddington Bear has been voted Britain's best animated character of all time.
The Disney-Pixar blockbuster "Up" won the Golden Globe for best animated movie.
The film featuring balding cheese-lover Wallace and his canine companion Gromit came out on top in the Academy Awards best animated feature film category.
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Only three films can be nominated for Best Animated Feature.
Last week the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences named Wreck-It Ralph as one of 21 features eligible for next year's best animated film Oscar.
And the category for Best Animated Film excluded A Cat In Paris and Ice Age: Continental Drift, which no doubt raised a few eyebrows.
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The Tale of the Three Brothers, part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, picked up the award for best animated sequence in a film.
Boyle and writer Simon Beaufoy get an adapted screenplay nod for 127 Hours, while The Illusionist - a UK-French co-production - is up for best animated feature.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, security staff at Hollywood's Dolby Theatre took issue with Kristina Reed for recreating the action of Paperman, this year's best animated short.
Toy Story 3, the highest grossing film of 2010, won Best Animated Feature and Alice in Wonderland, the second highest earning film, won for costume design and art direction.
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It was a huge year for animated motion pictures, with box-office hits like "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" and "Up" earning nominations in the best animated feature category.
With award season just around the corner, Disney has unveiled an aggressive campaign to earn Toy Story 3 a nomination in the Best Picture category instead of just in the Best Animated Feature category.
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Studio Ghibli's "Spirited Away, " which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film in 2003, remains the top-grossing Japanese film in history, and Miyazaki, who co-founded the studio in 1985, has been called "Japan's Walt Disney" for his impact on the country's animation culture.
And Variety thinks Happy Feet is one of the very best directed animated films on record.
To be fair, this was the fourth best opening weekend for an animated movie of all time (three of the top four are Shrek movies), and the mass appeal of Shrek may help it achieve longevity at the box office.
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Admittedly, animated series get cancelled even with the best of bookends (Allen Gregory was let go last week, after airing only seven episodes, despite its association with comedy powerhouse Jonah Hill).
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With terrific set designs and the best musical numbers of any of the old Rankin-Bass animated specials, it really holds up well even to this day.
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Composer Thomas Newman, best known for dramatic, dark film music was a bold choice for the animated Finding Nemo, Trudeau says.
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