Reviewing the award-winning movies, the first conclusion is that Disney, who has received seven Oscars, being the most recent the award given to ‘Brave’ in 2013, has led the monopoly on this part of the industry, both with films on traditional technique, as in digital animations by his alliance with Pixar films.
However, other studies also have been heard at the Academy Awards. Such is the case of Dreamworks, responsible for ‘Shrek’ and ‘Wallace & Gromit’; Warner Bros. with ‘Happy Feet’; Paramount, producing ‘Rango’; and Ghibli, the only non-American company whose signature supports the Japanese film ‘Spirited away’.
For the edition of 2014 that will deliver the statuettes on March 2, Japan has returned to the competition with a work of the same director of’ the Spirited away’, Hayao Miyazaki (of whom was also nominated the film ‘Itinerant Castle’ in 2005). Four more movies are nominated; from Disney, ‘Frozen’, and Dreamworks, with ‘The Croods’, as its nearest competitor.
Also Illumination Entertainment, which has found in Gru a character to exploit. Once the first part of ‘Despicable me’ was ignored by the Academy and the third part is in production, the second installment is nominated.
The ‘ousider’ of this race is ‘Ernest & Celestine’, which is postulated as the European Production in traditional 2D animation with a low budget in relation to its competitors. None has been nominated for best film, something that the films ‘Up’ and ‘Toy Story 3’ achieved in recent years.
