A Bug's Life

A Bug's Life is a 1998 movie made by Pixar. It follows the conflict between ants and grasshoppers in the world of insects. It is a retelling of a fable by Aesop, The Ant and the Grasshopper.
Voice cast
Soundtrack
Roll to Me by Del Amitri
Basket Case by Green Day
Loser by Beck
Love in an Elevator by Aerosmith
Baba O'Riley by The Who
I Want It That Way by Backstreet Boys
La Cucaracha by Santana
Hey World! by Ziggy Marley
Blister by Jimmy Eat World
Born to Be Wild by Bruce Springsteen
The Time of Your Life by Lionel Richie
Release dates
Home media
This released on VHS and DVD on November 13, 2001.
Production
A Bug's Life was first considered in 1988, as a short movie to be based on Aesop's fable, but it was delayed by Toy Story. Almost a year after its release, Disney made an agreement with Pixar to make movies together. John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Pete Doctor, and Joe Ranft brought up the project idea, A Bug's Life in late 1994. The ideas for Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo and WALL-E were also brought up and the three decided to have the grasshoppers demand food instead of begging for it, as it is in the fable. Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai helped influence the project. A basic story treatment was completed in 1995, and production began soon after. The movie had many technical challenges. One of the biggest technical triumphs was the simulation of crowds of ants. It would be impossible for an animator to animate every single ant in a crowd of thousands. So the technical supervisors came up with a computer program that would make every single ant in the crowd different in small ways; for example, different eye color, skin color, weight, or height. They would also build several ants that could be animated. When randomly distributed through the crowds, these ants appear to be blinking, talking, or looking in different directions.
Awards
|-
! scope="row" | 1999
| Best Music, Original Musical or Comedy Score
| Academy Awards
|
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | 2000
| Best Achievement in Special Visual Effects
| British Academy Film Awards
|
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | 1999
| Best Fantasy Film
| Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films
|
| SA Website does not go back that far and is not in archives either
|
|-
! scope="row" | 1999
|
| Annie Awards
|
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | 1999
| Favorite Animated Family Movie
| Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
|
| IMDb is the only reference as Blockbusterawards no longer exists, and no archives prior to 2006.
|
|-
! scope="row" | 1999
| Bogey Award in Silver
| Bogey Awards
|
| IMDb is the only reference, I was able to find mention of it in German, but I do not understand the site and how it is laid out
|
|-
! scope="row" | 1999
|
| Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
|
| Tied with The Prince of Egypt for Best Animated Film
|
|-
! scope="row" | 1998
| Best Animation
| Los Angeles Film Critics Association
|
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | 1998
| Best Musical or Comedy Score - Randy Newman
| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
|
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | 1999
| Animated Voice-Over Casting - Ruth Lambert
| Casting Society of America - Artios Award
|
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | 1999
| Best Original Score -- Randy Newman
| Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
|
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | 1998
| Special Notice to 1998 animation features
| Florida Film Critics Circle
|
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | 1999
| Best Score Motion Picture - Randy Newman
| Golden Globe Awards
|
|
|
References
Other websites
1998 animated movies
1990s computer-animated movies
Pixar movies
1990s family movies
Movies about insects
Movies composed by Randy Newman
Movies directed by John Lasseter
Movies directed by Andrew Stanton