Up is a 2009 American 3D computer-animated comedy-adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.
 Directed by Pete Docter, the film centers on an elderly widower named Carl Fredricksen (Ed Asner) and an earnest young "Wilderness Explorer" (a fictional youth group similar to the Boy Scouts) named Russell (Jordan Nagai).
 By tying thousands of balloons to his home, Carl sets out to fulfill his dream to see the wilds of South America and complete a promise made to his late wife, Ellie.
 The film was co-directed by Bob Peterson, with music composed by Michael Giacchino.
Alexandra Day (born 1941) is an American children’s book author.
 Alexandra Day is a pseudonym; her real name is Sandra Louise Woodward Darling.
 She is the author of Good Dog, Carl, which tells the story of a Rottweiler named Carl who looks after a baby named Madeleine.
 The book was first published in 1985 by Day’s own publishing company, Green Tiger Press.
 Good Dog, Carl has been followed by a whole series of popular Carl books, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Mehrdad Raissi Ardali (Persian: مهرداد رئیسی اردلی‎ ‎ ), born (1978--)20 1978 in Iran, is a prolific Iranian voice actor, dubbing director, founder, director, CEO and Quality Control Manager of Glory Entertainment (The Association of Tehran Young Voice Actors).
 He has also provided Persian voices for several animation characters, including famous characters such as Donkey in "Shrek", Marty in "Madagascar", "" and "", Buck in "", Bolt in "Bolt", Carl Fredricksen in "Up", Flynn Rider in "Tangled", The Once-ler in "The Lorax", RJ in "Over the Hedge", Francesco Bernoulli in "Cars 2", Mr. Ping in "Kung fu Panda", Ramon in "Happy Feet 2", The Man in the Yellow Hat in "Curious George", Raoul in "A Monster in Paris", Kevin in "", Barry in "Bee Movie", Bunnymund in "Rise of the Guardians", Guy in "The Croods" and Kristoff in "Frozen (2013 film)".
"Up" is a 2009 computer-animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.
 The film, which premiered on May 29, 2009, in North America, became the first animated 3D film to open the Cannes Film Festival.
 It was directed by Pete Docter, co-directed by Bob Peterson, and produced by Jonas Rivera.
 The film centers on an elderly widower, named Carl Fredricksen, and a young Wilderness Explorer, named Russell, who fly to South America in a house suspended by helium balloons.
 The movie received both critical acclaim and box office success, opening in 3,766 theaters in the US, debuting at number one with $68,108,790 and grossing over $731 million worldwide.
Peter Hans "Pete" Docter (born October 9, 1968) is an American film director, animator, screenwriter, producer and voice actor from Bloomington, Minnesota.
 He is best known for directing the animated feature films "Monsters, Inc." (2001), "Up" (2009) and "Inside Out" (2015) and as a key figure and collaborator at Pixar Animation Studios. "
The A.V. Club" has called him "almost universally successful".
 He has been nominated for eight Oscars (two wins thus far for "Up" and "Inside Out" – Best Animated Feature), seven Annie Awards (winning five), a BAFTA Children's Film Award (which he won), and a Hochi Film Award (which he won).
 He has described himself as a "geeky kid from Minnesota who likes to draw cartoons."
Viewfinder by Raymond Carver is one of the short stories in the What We Talk About When We Talk About Love compilation.
 It is told in the first person perspective of a man who is visited by an elderly man with hook hands.
 The man comes to his house to try and sell him a picture of the narrator's house.
 The narrator is obsessed with the fact that the elderly man has hook hands and invites him into his house to see how he will hold a cup of coffee with his hook hands.
 The narrator decides to have the hookhanded man take more pictures in his house.
 The story ends with the narrator climbing onto the roof so that his picture could be taken as he throws a rock off the roof.
Odd Tablet (as David Hawkes translates his pen name), or more literally, Elderly Maimed Tablet (畸笏叟), was a mysterious commentator of the 18th-century Chinese novel "Dream of the Red Chamber".
 He sometimes signed himself as merely 畸笏 ("Maimed Tablet").
 Together with Zhiyanzhai, they were regarded as the two most significant commentators of the Rouge manuscripts.
 Apparently quite old and an elder (叟 means "Elderly Man"), his comments, like Zhiyanzhai's, were often also in red ink in some Rouge manuscripts.
Sten Ivar Ljunggren (born 16 October 1938) is a Swedish character actor.
 He played Henrik in the long-running Swedish drama TV series "Svenska hjärtan", which aired between 1987 and 1998.
 Other notable roles includes criminal inspector Lennart Thorin in the TV mini-series based on the Lasermannen events, the retired doctor Axel Holtman in "Skärgårdsdoktorn", the voice of Carl Fredricksen in the Swedish dub of "Up", the voice of Sykes in the Swedish cinema dub of "Oliver & Company", and the evil principal in "Kenny Starfighter".
In the Presence of a Clown (Swedish: Larmar och gör sig till ) is a television film by Ingmar Bergman, and was recorded for Swedish television in 1997 with Bergman as a director.
 It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.
 It tells the story of a man named Carl, who is a professor and a mental patient sentenced to a mental ward for attempted murder.
 In the hospital he is in, he befriends another person, Osvald, and they attempt the making and promoting of a film.
George & A.J. is a short film created by Pixar which uses characters from the film "Up" to tell what Nurses George and A.J. did after Carl Fredricksen left with his house tied to balloons in the feature film.
 Instead of being released on DVD like "Partly Cloudy", "Dug's Special Mission", or any other Pixar short film, "George & A.J." was initially released on iTunes as an extra feature that came with a purchase of the film.
 It was later released to fans of Disney/Pixar on their Facebook page and later to the official Disney/Pixar YouTube page.
 It was later released on "Pixar Short Films Collection Volume 2".
 All of the animation is done in a limited "storyboard" style, with some objects moving by keyframes, while other things like characters and their mouths barely move at all; however, the characters' expressions and the story are still conveyed.

Question: A movie about an elderly man named Carl Fredricksen was directed by a director who has been nominated for how many Oscars?
Answer: eight