The nominations are out, and The Adventures of Tintin has been snubbed. Well, there is one award, for Best Music Score.
After a Golden Globe victory, the film received no animation or visual effects nominations.
According to New Zealand Media, animators behind the film think the Academy has made a mistake. “I think that was a really big oversight… Not to recognise those achievements,” says Joe Letteri, senior visual effects supervisor for Weta Digital.
Mr Letteri’s Weta team was responsible for the Tintin motion-capture animation, and he has a theory about why they missed out.
“The visual effects branch didn’t recognise it, because they thought it was animation, and the animation branch didn’t recognise it because it was using performance capture and visual effects techniques.” (via)
Before you feel too bad for Spielberg, his War Horse epic did receive a Best Picture nomination.
Still, no love for the Captain, our favorite reporter, and our favorite pooch.
Fans, weigh in. What do you think?
Have you considered that it might be because the film was not put forward for that category. I think films have to be nominated to then become nominated (if that makes sense)?
It was in the category best Animated Feature, but did not made into the shortlist.
Wow someone really dropped the ball there, I’d class it as one of the best computer animated films I’ve ever watched. The only other nomination for best animation I’ve seen is Puss in Boots which was nowhere near as good as Tintin. It’s good that it got nominated for something, but I found the soundtrack to be the least memorable part of the film.
Really glad to hear that Tintin missed out on Oscars as it was a terrible film! If Tintin deserves oscars then so do other mindnumbing action films like Transformers and why not give a best actor Oscar to Jason Statham for Transporter 3 as well?
Actually, I have not seen the movie yet and will have to force myself to do it.
In the trailer, when I saw Haddock’s face (his nose…), I shivered. Impossible to recognize MY Captain.
This was the tremendous difficulty to change graphic heroes into movie characters. The drawings always simply liven up by themselves in our child imagination…
It’s pretty sad that it does not got the recognition from the Academy. I thought it was a pretty fun movie and very well executed.
I asked my son which movie he like most “Puss, Panda or Tintin?”, “I like Tintin the most, it is the best!”