Everything is Awesome nominated for original song Oscar, but The Lego Movie gets snubbed - The Verge Everything is Awesome nominated for original song Oscar, but The Lego Movie gets snubbed Linkedin The nominees for the 2015 Oscars were just announced , and while The Lego Movie picked up an original song nomination for the catchy and subversive " Everything is Awesome ," the movie was conspicuously left off the list for animated feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences named five films as nominees for the award: Big Hero 6, The Boxtrolls, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Song of the Sea, and The Tale of the Princess Kaguya. The first three were also nominated for the Golden Globes' best animated feature film category (which Dragon won), but this time around Song of the Sea and Kaguya got the nods from the Academy instead of Lego and the Guillermo del Toro-produced The Book of Life. The song was written by Mark Mothersbaugh, Tegan and Sara, and The Lonely Island.

It's nominated alongside "Glory" (Selma), "Grateful" (Beyond the Lights), "I'm Not Gonna Miss You" (Glen Campbell: I'll be Me), and "Lost Stars" (Begin Again). The animated feature film snub has already sparked enough of a reaction on Twitter that Lego writer and director Phil Lord has already tried to stamp the outrage while praising his team: This is not a tragedy. Congrats to incredible crew and cast of The Lego Movie, who made a classic. — philip lord (@philiplord) January 15, 2015 More From The Verge ‘Everything Is Awesome’ for Shawn Patterson, the most unlikely of best original song Oscar nominees - The Washington Post ‘Everything Is Awesome’ for Shawn Patterson, the most unlikely of best original song Oscar nominees The inside track on Washington politics. Be the first to know about new stories from PowerPost. Sign up to follow, and we’ll e-mail you free updates as they’re published. You’ll receive free e-mail news updates each time a new story is published. You’re all set!

Got it By Jeff Weiss February 20, 2015 LOS ANGELES — Consider this year’s list of Oscar nominees for best original song. Your eyes gravitate to the clear favorites, John Legend and Common, who penned “Glory” from “Selma.” There’s the sentimental choice, country great Glen Campbell, celebrated for a song written during his late-stage deterioration from Alzheimer’s disease. You can’t dismiss seven-time nominee Diane Warren (“Grateful” from “Beyond the Lights”) or Gregg Alexander, frontman of late-1990s alternative rockers the New Radicals, up for “Lost Stars” from “Begin Again.” Finally, there’s Shawn Patterson, who invariably triggers the question: Who is Shawn Patterson? The short answer is he’s the composer and lyricist of “Everything Is Awesome,” the gold-plaque-burnished, Grammy-nominated, worker-bee anthem from “ The Lego Movie .” The longer answer is that he’s a former plastic-factory laborer who gambled on Los Angeles two decades ago, with a few contacts and $400 in his pocket.

He began as a production assistant on the “Alvin and the Chipmunks” cartoon and slowly ascended through the animation world. Now, he’s about to walk the red carpet as the lone unknown in his field. Shawn Patterson, composer of “Everything Is Awesome,” the Oscar-nominated theme from “The Lego Movie,” worked on music for “The Ren & Stimpy Show” in the 1990s. (Mark Davis/Getty Images ) “It wasn’t one of those songs where I felt instantly strong about it,” Patterson concedes at a friend’s studio in the San Fernando Valley. Wearing jeans, a navy button-up, several tattoos and a closely trimmed beard, the 49-year-old vaguely resembles Russell Crowe cast as a music conservatory professor. “I thought it had some good moments,” the father of three says. “But I had no idea that it would grow into the creature that it did — where Joaquin Phoenix would tell me at an awards show how much he loved it.” He still has neither agent nor manager. He wrote a song about how everything was awesome amid withering divorce proceedings — making it the “ Here, My Dear ” of subversive pop confections written for toy adaptations.

Patterson started playing music as a teenager and practiced up to 10 hours a day, eventually expanding his repertoire and knowledge of theory through intense study and brief stints in music school. But his early career was defined by odd jobs that occupied his days and nights: guitar lessons, security guard shifts, toil at a plastic factory and at a furniture assembly plant, on the hydraulic presses. “I never lasted anywhere. Any hour I worked was an hour not put into music. But I had to survive,” Patterson says. “One time in the factory, I was closing a chair with a giant, old-school press and my finger got caught on the edge of the chair. I managed to pull my hand out in the nick of time, immediately walked downstairs, and told my bosses, ‘I’m out of here.’ ” In 1990, he settled in L.A. Since first hearing John Williams’s “ Star Wars ” score, Patterson dreamed of composing for the big screen. He started about as far away from “Star Wars” as one could get; an “Alvin and the Chipmunks” production assistant gig was all the 24-year-old could land.

His “welcome to Hollywood” rude awakening involved taking the boss’s Porsche 911 for detailing in Beverly Hills, frantically composing in his spare time and trying to pitch songs anywhere he could. The future Oscar nominee’s first official sale was “Rock the House,” a rap written for a 1991 Chipmunks album. After that show folded, Patterson snared another P.A. job at Spumco, the fledgling animation house that produced “ The Ren & Stimpy Show .” Eventually, Patterson rose to music-editor duties. “It was an amazing learning experience. I’d sit there for eight hours a day, watching the show with 3,000 CDs next to me,” Patterson says. “I’d honor the ‘Ren & Stimpy’ sound, but cut in stuff like Stravinsky, and they loved it.” In 2010, Adult Swim’s “ Robot Chicken ” hired Patterson for what became his most consistent job. Scoring the series’s final three seasons, he wrote songs for guests such as Kesha and the RZA and reunited with an old acquaintance, director Chris McKay.

When the latter was brought in to co-direct “The Lego Movie,” he recruited Patterson to conjure something that blended sly wit with the communal euphoria of the Lego world. “We needed something poppy and hooky, but when you have a song called ‘Everything Is Awesome,’ it’s very easy to turn that into something that parodied and looked down on that songwriting,” McKay says. “We didn’t want that. The first version of the song was so earnest and joyous, you just knew that he had the perfect tone. He just got it.” But “Everything Is Awesome” does gently lampoon the antiseptic sleekness of Radio Disney pop. Its empty-headed glee pokes fun at the market-tested positivity of Top 40. The rap bridge doubles as a roll call of “Stuff White People Like.” Performed by Tegan and Sara and the Lonely Island , humor was clearly the intent. It’s catchy, too. “I tried to wrap my head around the psychology of this plain guy — Emmet, the construction worker outcast who really loves scooters, kazoo and teamwork,” Patterson says. While Patterson denies that his divorce severely impacted the song’s sardonic bite, he admits that something may have seeped in.

“It was ongoing, difficult, and my three kids were right in the middle. I know some sarcasm crept in,” Patterson says. “But it benefitted the song: ‘Everything really isn’t awesome right now, but we’re still going to have fun with it.’ ” Since its release last winter, “Everything Is Awesome” has become almost prophetic. Managers and agents have come calling. In addition to the Oscar and Grammy nods, it has won several critics society awards, sold over 500,000 copies and crashed the Billboard charts in the United States, Canada, Britain, Ireland, New Zealand and Australia. But rather than gloat, Patterson’s immediate concern is the next deadline for his latest show, “The Adventures of Puss in Boots.” And as much as he’d like to win the Oscar, you sense he’d rather find a producer for the musical he’s been writing over the past three years: a “ South Park ”-like fable about Jesus touching down in Alaska to vanquish evil with Sarah Palin. Sure, Patterson’s savoring the belated praise, but he’s also aware that this is just another passing moment. “One day, I just woke up and realized this is what I do.

I didn’t have this grand trajectory. I didn’t say, ‘I’ll start with animation, then sidestep to film after the Academy Awards,’ ” Patterson says. “I wish I could’ve mapped that out, but things don’t work like that. My parents taught me the value of hard work and tenacity, so that’s just what I’ve always done. What reason is there to give up . . . so you can live a life being the guy at the end of the bar going, ‘I had a band back in the day?’ ” Weiss is a freelance writer. lifestyle The Lego Movie song 'Everything is Awesome' written during an 'ugly' divorce | The Independent The Lego Movie song 'Everything is Awesome' written during an 'ugly' divorce Everything was far from awesome when Shawn Patterson wrote the track Friday 13 February 2015 15:02 BST Click to follow The Independent Culture 'Everything is Awesome' from The Lego Movie is nominated for Best Original Song at the Oscars 2015 It’s nominated for an Oscar and insanely catchy, but “Everything is Awesome” was actually written during a decidedly rubbish time.

Songwriter Shawn Patterson penned the upbeat track for The Lego Movie while going through a “very ugly divorce”, a process he describes as “very therapeutic”. “All of us, I’m assuming, have gone through horrible breakups at some point,” he told The Hollywood Reporter during an interview with the Best Original Song nominees. “Part of what we do, I guess, with our tools and what we feel and have studied, is we create. I wrote pages and pages and pages of lyrics, trying different concepts. Patterson admitted that there were “definitely elements of darkness” in his words including a big dose of “heavy f**king sarcasm”. “I was like, ‘Hold on, don’t get too sarcastic in this part’,” he said.

“That’s why I had pages and pages.” Oscars 2015 nominations Oscars 2015 nominations 1/28 Birdman - 10 nominations Academy Award nominated for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Emma Stone), Best Actor (Michael Keaton), Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Cinematography, Original Screenplay, Best Director (Alejandro González Iñárritu) Rex 2/28 The Grand Budapest Hotel - 10 nominations Academy Award nominated for Best Director (Wes Anderson), Best Picture, Film Editing, Production Design, for Makeup and Hairstyling, Costume Design, Cinematography, Original Screenplay, Original Score Martin Scali 3/28 The Imitation Game - 8 nominations Academy Award nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor (Benedict Cumberbatch), Best Supporting Actor ( Keira Knightley) Best Director (Morten Tyldum), Film Editing, Production Design, Adapted Screenplay, Original Score Snap Stills/REX 4/28 American Sniper - 6 nominations Oscar nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor (Bradley Cooper), Film Editing, Sound Mixing, Adapted Screenplay Warner Bros 5/28 Boyhood - 6 nominations

 Academy Award nominated for Best Picture, Actress in Supporting role (Patricia Arquette) Film Editing, Best Director (Richard Linklater), Original Screenplay 6/28 Whiplash - 5 nominations Academy Award nominated for Best Picture, Film Editing, Sound Mixing, Adapted Screenplay AP 7/28 The Theory of Everything - 5 nominations Oscar nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor (Eddie Redmayne), Best Actress (Felicity Jones), Adapted Screenplay, Original Score Working Title Films 8/28 Foxcatcher - 5 nominations Oscar nominated for Best Director (Bennett Miller), Best Actor (Steve Carrell), Original Screenplay, Makeup and Hairstyling YouTube Oscar nominated for Best Picture and Best Original Song Paramount Pictures Oscar nominated for Production Design, Costume Design, Cinematography, Original Score 11/28 Wild Reese Witherspoon is Oscar-nominated for best actress in a leading role and Laura Dern is nominated for best supporting actress 12/28 Two Days, One Night Marion Cotillard has been nominated in the best actress category film still Oscar nominated for Original Screenplay AP Rosamund Pike is Oscar nominated for best actress in a leading role Twentieth Century Fox Nominated for Visual

 Effects, Sound Editing, Production Design, Sound Mixing, Original Score Warner Bros Best actress in a leading role nomination for Julianne Moore 17/28 The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies Oscar nominated for Sound Editing Warner Bros Oscar nominated for Production Design, Costume Design, Best Supporting Actress (Meryl Streep) PA/Disney 19/28 Captain America: The Winter Soldier Robert Redford and Chris Evans film is nominated for Special Effects AP 20/28 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Nominated for an Oscar in the Visual Effects category 20th Century Fox Oscar nominated for best song 'Everything Is Awesome' but snubbed in best animation category Rex Features 22/28 X-Men, Days of the Future Past Oscar nominated in the Visual Effects category Alan Markfield / 2013 Marvel & Subs / 20th Century Fox Film Corp.

23/28 Begin Again Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo in Begin Again which is Oscar nominated for best original song ©Weinstein Company/Everett/REX 24/28 Guardians Of The Galaxy Nominated for Visual Effects, for Makeup and Hairstyling AP Photo/Disney-Marvel Oscar nominated for Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Cinematography Rex Features 26/28 How To Train Your Dragon 2 Oscar nominated for Animated Feature Film 27/28 Maleficent Oscar nominated for Costume Design © Disney Enterprises, Inc. The Oscar Warrior: Shocking Nomination Surprises and Snubs! - ComingSoon.net The Oscar Warrior: Shocking Nomination Surprises and Snubs! January 15, 2015 SHARE The 87th Annual Oscar nominations were announced this morning by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and as usual, it left a lot of mouths ajar, not just because of what movies and performances and technical achievements were nominated but also which ones were completely ignored or forgotten or just considered not up to the Academy’s standards.

There were a lot of big upsets, but the fact that Christopher Miller and Philip Lord’s animated The LEGO Movie would get nominated for its catchy original song “Everything is Awesome,” but not get a nominations in the animated feature category has left the millions of LEGO fans–who already had to contend with an upset at the Golden Globes–fairly outraged. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves a little bit and we probably should look at the overall picture first and then get back to some of the individual categories. As in the past few years, the Academy created a rule that would allow for between five and ten Best Picture nominations and since that rule was created, there have been nine nominations in that category. This year, so many movies seemed to be getting support, some thought that we might actually get our first year with ten Best Picture nominees since the category was first expanded. Nope! The Academy only named eight films for Best Picture and there were a lot of obvious omissions and yet, one particular movie got into the eight selected despite having been snubbed by all the industry guilds before that.

There had been a lot of talk lately about how Ava DuVernay’s Selma , which had not been nominated for a single award from the Screen Actors Guild, hadn’t gotten recognized by the Producers (PGA), Directors (DGA) or Writers Guild (WGA). This normally would be a bad sign that the movie just didn’t have the support it needed. Those who had seen the movie, which has received as many positive reviews as some of the other movies in consideration, were starting to lose hope that it would get recognized at the Oscars. While DuVernay didn’t get a nomination for her directing and David Oyelowo was snubbed for his amazing performance as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the movie still received a Best Picture nomination. The only other nomination it received was for its song “Glory.” Now that’s fairly confounding, but even moreso may be the absence of a thriller that was huge at the box office and had received support from at least three of the guilds – David Fincher’s Gone Girl . Actress Rosamund Pike continued her streak with a nomination in the leading actress category, but that was about it.

Many already felt that David Fincher wouldn’t receive his third Oscar nomination but Gillian Flynn’s adaptation of her own novel seemed like a sure thing. It was noticeably missing from the Adapted Screenplay category this morning but also didn’t received a Best Picture nomination despite having support from the WGA and PGA. Then there’s the odd case of Foxcatc her , Bennett Miller’s eerie drama starring Channing Tatum, Steve Carell and Mark Ruffalo. The movie debuted at the Cannes Film Festival last May (after being delayed from 2013) and it had a lot of critical support… until the critics started handing out awards and mostly ignored it. Ruffalo had been getting the most awards attention for his supporting role, but the movie wasn’t listed among the Critics Choice Awards for Best Picture and Carell was snubbed despite their extended category. Carell was back in the mix with an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of eccentric billionaire John Du Pont and the movie received an Original Screenplay nomination and Bennett Miller even was nominated for his direction—something which few saw coming—and yet Foxcatcher didn’t get a Best Picture nomination. Go figure.

That’s almost unheard of these days with the five directors nominated by the Academy being a good indicator of which movie has the strongest support to win Best Picture. Except that Foxcatcher wasn’t even nominated, making this the inverse of the famous controversy when Argo was nominated for Best Picture (which it won) but director Ben Affleck didn’t receive a nomination. It shouldn’t be too surprising since only directors vote for other directors and the entire Academy votes for Best Picture, but it’s odd to think that other directors with Best Picture nominations weren’t nominated. Like Ava DuVernay for instance. The biggest boost from the Oscars had to be for Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper , which–as luck would have it–opens nationwide tomorrow with sneak previews tonight. Reviews for the movie haven’t been great with 73% on Rotten Tomatoes , compared to much higher numbers for other Best Picture nominees. But the Academy apparently loved the movie, not only including it among their eight Best Picture nominations but also nominating Bradley Cooper for his third Oscar nomination in an incredibly packed Leading Actor category. It also received nominations for its screenplay, editing and for its sound design and mix … and yet, that’s all the support it got with a still-impressive six nominations.

Clint Eastwood didn’t receive a nomination for his direction, despite receiving a DGA nomination earlier this week, nor was its cinematography cited, which means it can’t really be considered a serious contender to win Best Picture. Getting into some of the acting categories, Jennifer Aniston had been doing a ton of campaigning for her quirky drama Cake (out next week) and had been receiving tons of earlier nominations including a Golden Globe, SAG and Critics Choice nomination. But she was left off the final nominations in favor of previous winner Marion Cotillard, whose movie Two Days, One Night didn’t even make it to the short list for the Foreign Language category. This isn’t the first time that a non-nominated Foreign Language film had received nominations in other categories either. Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler , which had been receiving a lot of support in the earlier categories, specifically nominations for Jake Gyllenhaal and some of his supporting cast, did not receive an acting nod for Gyllenhaal nor the suspected Best Picture nomination and only received a nod for Gilroy’s Original Screenplay.

Other than that and Bradley Cooper’s nomination, the only other big surprise was that Laura Dern, who many thought early on would get a nomination for her supporting role in Wild … she actually was nominated! The only reason that’s a surprise is because SAG, the Golden Globes and the Critics Choice completely ignored her in their nominations so many people felt that her chance at a second Oscar nomination had passed. The huge support for Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel , which tied Alejandro Iñarritu’s Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) with nine nominations each, is only surprising because the movie was released way back in March after premiering at the Berlin International Film Festival. Normally, a movie released so early in the year would already be forgotten, but apparently everyone loved that movie whether they were critics, journalists or in the industry and it would be surprising if it didn’t win one or two Oscars. By comparison, Anderson’s much-lauded Moonrise Kingdom only received one nomination, for its writing.

Now as someone who gave Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash my only 10 out of 10 of the year, I wasn’t even remotely surprised by its Best Picture nomination and it got support in the technical categories, particularly editing and sound mixing. It’s a shame that Damien Chazelle didn’t get nominated for his direction, but at least his screenplay was nominated in the Adapted category despite a last-minute move from the Original category where other groups nominated it. Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken has been doing great at the box office, but many already thought it was out of the running for Best Picture and a nomination for its direction, but it still received three technical awards, two in the sound categories and the 12th nomination for the Susan Lucci of the Oscars, cinematographer Roger Deakins.

Another regular Oscar nominee, Alexandre Desplat, had already received six nominations for his film scoring and this year, he doubled down by being nominated twice, for The Imitation Game and The Grand Budapest Hotel (He also scored Jolie’s Unbroken, oddly enough.) One would think that this would be his year to finally win an Oscar, but he’s going up against The Theory of Everything composer Jóhann Jóhannsson, who just won the Golden Globe in the same category, and previous winner Hans Zimmer with his score for Interstellar (which also was honored only in technical categories). One huge snub that clearly showed the divide between the film industry and film critics was the lack of a nomination for Steve James’ documentary Life Itself , which covered the career and last days of beloved film critic Roger Ebert who passed away in 2013. The Foreign Language category was fairly straightforward with Pawel Pawlikowsky’s Ida getting a little added support with an unexpected additional nomination for its black and white cinematography. There were a couple surprises in the Original Song category including Glenn Campbell’s new song “I’m Not Gonna Miss You” from the doc Glen Campbell… I’ll Be Me.

Anyway, going back to that first and possibly biggest snub we mentioned earlier, The LEGO Movie wasn’t nominated as an animated feature, but GKIDS once again scored two nominations for smaller and lesser-seen movies Song of the Sea and The Tale of the Princess Kaguya along with DreamWorks Animation’s Golden Globe-winning How to Train a Dragon 2 , Disney’s Big Hero 6 and LAIKA’s The Boxtrolls all getting their expected nominations. THE LEGO MOVIE co-director Philip Lord didn’t seem too phased, as he tweeted his own LEGO Oscar: It’s okay. Made my own! pic.twitter.com/kgyu1GRHGR — philip lord (@philiplord) January 15, 2015 Hopefully, Jennifer Aniston, David Fincher and the other “snubees” accepted their lack of a nomination with similar grace and spirit. The Oscar winners will be announced on Oscar Sunday, February 22. animation - Why was The Lego Movie not nominated at the Oscars? - Movies & TV Stack Exchange Why was The Lego Movie not nominated at the Oscars?

up vote 30 down vote favorite 3 Given that The Lego Movie displayed a new style of animation, was there any specific technical reason why it was not nominated in the category of "Best Animated Feature Film" at the 87th Academy Awards I'm not looking for a general opinion on if the movie was good enough or not. I am more curious if the movie lacked something on a technical front (if any) that didn't let it get nominated. Have partially-animated films ever been nominated? – Catija Feb 23 '15 at 3:24 1 To answer my own question, no. – Catija Feb 23 '15 at 3:29 1 to expand on Catijas comment, there was a sequence at the end of the movie that used human actors... dont know how that relates to the rules... – vzn Feb 23 '15 at 3:33 8 "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" won three oscars.

– Lee Daniel Crocker Feb 23 '15 at 21:02 1 I'd have argued that (a little like Toy story 3) it would have qualified in the Best Picture category never mind Best Animated Picture. It's omission counts as a major snub or a major error in the nominations. – matt_black Feb 23 '15 at 23:53 up vote 33 down vote accepted Here's a Variety article on this very thing with 5 reasons: “Lego” landed just one mention — in the song category for its infectious “Everything Is Awesome” anthem — but not in the animated feature category, where many were predicting that the toon blockbuster might win. That oversight comes as a total shock to Oscar pundits — arguably the year’s biggest snub, alongside the fact that “Selma” placed in only two categories (for which theories abound). From the point of view of the animation community, however, there was always a risk.

The reasons reported are as follows: Animation professionals pick the nominations A record number of eligible toons means tougher competition Voters watch all 20 contenders, so the best rises The animation branch loves handmade movies Traditional forms and classical storytelling win out The original report is here: Great article find! – Catija Feb 23 '15 at 9:44 1 So where are the reasons? Better incorporate the reason from the link into your answer. – Ankit Sharma♦ Feb 23 '15 at 10:42 Ok, done. Doesn't make too much sense without the exposition from the article, but I'm not inclined to just cut/paste the original. – The Wandering Dev Manager Feb 23 '15 at 11:10 Thanks for the link, I read that one too. Sad they didn't cut it, I thought the style of animation was unique and great idea.

Here's a link of Neil acknowledging the Lego movie being snubbed - thewrap.com/… – Tivep Feb 23 '15 at 12:50 the rules require: An animated feature is defined by the academy as a film with a running time of more than 40 minutes in which characters' performances are created using a frame-by-frame technique, a significant number of the major characters are animated, and animation figures in no less than 75 percent of the running time. It's possible that the live-action sections added up up to over 25% of the film's content, and caused it to be out of the running. That being said, I have a difficult time believing, from my memory, that the live-action portion was 25% of the film. Edit: As noted by Ankit Sharma in the comments, my memory is correct. The film was 100 minutes and the live action section was only 10 minutes long, making it only 10% of the running time. This means that this technical reason is not a possible explanation for why the film wasn't nominated.

Thanks for that @Catija, that's what I thought, the live-action content would have been about 10%. Will Ferrell and his son don't show up till the end. Let me look up more in this direction and get back.. +1 btw – Tivep Feb 23 '15 at 3:43 5 To the best of my knowledge, this isn't for a technical reason. There could be things that affected the Academy's decision (like the fact that it's entirely about a product), but AFAIK the film didn't fail any written criteria, otherwise they would've advertise that fact. And although I find this excuse lame (I did like the film), it is possible that there just wasn't any room in a year with a lot of entries, some of which are more 'classically' animated. – Walt Feb 23 '15 at 4:44 1 Movie runtime 100 minutes, non-animation part 10 minutes, making it only 10%.

– Ankit Sharma♦ Feb 23 '15 at 5:47 @AnkitSharma I don't want to delete this because it's still useful, even if it's wrong. Should I rephrase somehow? I ask because it's getting downvoted. – Catija Feb 23 '15 at 9:10 2 @Catija This discussion is all around and you answer seems what majorly people thinking, i am not against it just presented my point and i think this answer should be retained. – Ankit Sharma♦ Feb 23 '15 at 9:26 Oscar nominations 2015: Broad animation field leaves out 'Lego Movie' - LA Times Oscar nominations 2015: Broad animation field leaves out 'Lego Movie' 'Song of the Sea' was nominated for an Oscar for animated feature GKIDS "Song of the Sea" was nominated for an Oscar for animated feature. "Song of the Sea" was nominated for an Oscar for animated feature.

(GKIDS) Academy Awards The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated "Big Hero 6," "The Boxtrolls," "How to Train Your Dragon 2," "The Tale of The Princess Kaguya" and "Song of the Sea" for best animated feature, a diverse list of films which nevertheless omits a popular favorite, "The Lego Movie." In a year with no film from frequent contender Pixar Animation and some very strong movies from industry outsiders and newcomers, the category reflects the tastes of the academy's animation nominating committee, a group that tends to select films with an eye toward the roots of the craft in stop-motion and hand-drawn techniques. "The Lego Movie," the first film from the newly rebooted feature animation division at Warner Bros., is the highest grossing animated movie of the year, having collected $257.8 million domestically, and it's among the best reviewed, with a 96% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Oscars 2015: List | Top nominees | Reactions | Snubs/surprises | Live updates | Full coverage "In previous years there’s been an obvious front-runner in the animation race," said Eric Beckman, president of GKIDS, the tiny New York-based distributor of Japan's Studio Ghibli movie "Princess Kaguya" and Ireland's Cartoon Saloon film "Song of the Sea." "Without 'Lego' in the race, I'm at a loss as to who that is." The animation nominating committee, which is composed of both members from the animation branch and from other branches, selected two computer-animated movies at large studios -- Disney's "Big Hero 6" and DreamWorks Animation's "How to Train Your Dragon 2" -- and three smaller films made with the industry's oldest techniques, Laika's stop-motion "The Boxtrolls" and GKIDS' two hand-drawn films. "We’re in a time where the CG film is the main expression of animation these days, and in a weird way, the old stands out as new," said Graham Annable, who directed "The Boxtrolls" with Anthony Stacchi.

The branch may have stumbled on "The Lego Movie's" genesis as a film about a toy brand, or on its mostly CG animation, which was produced by Animal Logic Studios in Australia. "It's less about box office or popularity or visibility," said "How to Train Your Dragon 2" director Dean DeBlois. "The nominating committee are absolute lovers of animation. They get together and carefully watch each film." Oscars 2015: List | Top nominees | Reactions | Snubs/surprises | Live updates | Full coverage The animation world is a small and tightknit one -- Chris Williams, who directed "Big Hero 6" with Don Hall, was recently in DeBlois' wedding -- but it's been growing rapidly, which may have also affected "The Lego Movie's" prospects. "The Lego guys are so insanely talented," Williams said. "I was saddened to see that. But it’s one of those years where there's so many great animated films. Pixar and [Disney and Pixar chief creative officer] John Lasseter have been really important as far as raising the bar and pushing what an animated movie can be, and a lot of other studios have answered that call and raised their game.

I see an industry that is so strong right now." "The Lego Movie" did earn one nomination, for its original song, "Everything is Awesome" by Shawn Patterson. But its filmmakers, Chris Miller and Phil Lord, expressed their disappointment on Twitter about their omission from the animation category. Congrats to "Everything is Awesome" though currently the title of the song doesn't seem especially accurate! — Chris Miller (@chrizmillr) January 15, 2015 It's okay. Made my own! pic.twitter.com/kgyu1GRHGR 'Lego Movie' snubbed for an Oscar, so director builds his own - CNET CNET 'Lego Movie' snubbed for an Oscar, so director builds his own 'Lego Movie' snubbed for an Oscar, so director builds his own Phil Lord has the best response to being left out of the running for best animated film, but "The Lego Movie" could still take home a statue for the super-catchy song "Everything is Awesome".

Up Next Chelsea Manning's sentence commuted by Obama "Lego Movie" co-director Philip Lord thinks everything is awesome even when you have to build your own Oscar.Photo by twitter.com/philiplord It's Oscar season! Gadget fans will be pleased to see biopics of tech heroes Alan Turing and Stephen Hawking up for a hatful of Academy Awards . But one movie is conspicuous by its absence -- so the director of the snubbed "The Lego Movie" has simply made his own Oscar. "The Lego Movie", written and directed by Christopher Miller and Philip Lord, has surprisingly been left out of the category for best animated movie. But in the spirit of the legendary brick-based toy, Lord quickly tweeted, "It's okay. Made my own!" along with the picture above. 55 Every geek movie we're excited about in 2015 Lego of the past Lego Rube Goldberg machine tackles physics through plastic Of course, he probably didn't actually make that Lego Oscar, but you know what he means. Lord also thanked the cast and crew of the film, which took a reported $469 million at the global box office.

Perhaps dismissing the Lego film as a big toy advert, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences instead gave the nod to animated movies "Big Hero 6", "The Boxtrolls", "How to Train Your Dragon 2", "Song of the Sea", and "The Tale of the Princess Kaguya". The Lego film is still in with a shout to claim one of the famous golden statues however, as the relentlessly catchy theme song "Everything is Awesome" has been nominated for best song. 2014 saw not one but two heroes of science and technology celebrated at the pictures: " The Imitation Game " told a fictionalised version of the wartime breakthroughs of cryptographer and computing pioneer Alan Turing; while "The Theory of Everything" looked at the life and love of physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking. Both films are nominated for best picture and best adapted screenplay, while Benedict Cumberbatch and Eddie Redmayne have both been nominated for best actor for their turns as Turing and Hawking respectively. The ceremony, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, takes place on Sunday 22 February at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, California.

Oscar Nomination Snub for Lego Movie: 5 Reasons Why | Variety Print January 15, 2015 | 09:24AM PT It’s the morning that the Academy announces its Oscar nominations, and “The Lego Movie” is on the ballot. No surprise, right? Wrong. Thing is, “Lego” landed just one mention — in the song category for its infectious “Everything Is Awesome” anthem — but not in the animated feature category, where many were predicting that the toon blockbuster might win. That oversight comes as a total shock to Oscar pundits — arguably the year’s biggest snub, alongside the fact that “Selma” placed in only two categories (for which theories abound). From the point of view of the animation community, however, there was always a risk, and here’s why. 1. Animation professionals pick the nominations. At this stage in the Oscar race, it’s the die-hard animation pros who decide the noms.

“The Lego Movie” may have been the year’s top animated movie in the public’s eye, earning more than $257 million and placing second highest on Rotten Tomatoes’ (adjusted) best-reviewed list of 2014 with a 96% fresh rating, but that doesn’t mean it represents the kind of artistry that the industry wants to celebrate. 2. A record number of eligible toons means tougher competition. Back in 2001, when the Academy first added the best animated feature category, it wrote in a rule that in a year when fewer than eight toons opened in theaters, the prize wouldn’t be awarded at all. In retrospect, that seems laughable, considering how the medium has boomed, resulting in an all-time high of 20 Oscar-qualifying submissions fighting for five slots in 2014. 3. Voters watch all 20 contenders, so the best rises. Unlike normal audiences (or the Academy at large, who often pick a widely seen film to win), the animation branch is obliged to screen all eligible contenders. Each film is scored on a 10-point scale, and the five that receive the highest score go on to be nominated.

That means each toon is considered on its own merits, and for this group, technique is perhaps the most important. In other categories, nominations go to the five films that received the most first-place votes, resulting in a diversity of choices, but in this category, it’s literally the five movies the branch likes best. 4. The animation branch loves handmade movies. This is the second time popular “Lego” directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller have been edged out of the Oscar race by a pair of tiny toons most moviegoers haven’t heard of: The same thing happened in 2009, when “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs” got shut out in favor of “The Secret of Kells.” While the “Lego” team licks its wounds, the folks no doubt celebrating today are New York-based indie distributor GKids, which released two of the nominees: “Song of the Sea” (a dazzling, highly stylized 2D toon from “Kells” helmer Tomm Moore) and “The Tale of Princess Kaguya” (a career-crowning hand-drawn beauty from Japanese animation maestro Isao Takahata).

Also celebrating today is Portland-based Laika Studios (“Coraline,” “ParaNorman”), which earned its third nomination for its third feature, “The Boxtrolls.” Industry pros love stop-motion. It’s by far the most painstaking form of animation there is, whereas the computer-animated “LEGO” was cheekily designed to parody bad stop-motion. 5. Traditional forms and classical storytelling win out. “Song of the Sea,” “Princess Kaguya” and “Boxtrolls” were always going to be nominated. That left just two slots open for the remaining 17 movies. The very same reasons the general public loved “Lego” — its jokey tone, quick pace and irreverent sensibility — probably worked against it with that group. After all, how often does that kind of movie get rewarded in other Oscar categories? By contrast, “Big Hero 6” and “How to Train Your Dragon 2” are both relatively traditional, well-told stories hailing from studios (Disney and DreamWorks, respectively) with a long tradition of Oscar support. “Lego” fans shouldn’t conclude that the Academy doesn’t like that movie; it’s just that they respected five films more.

Oscars 2015: John Legend to perform Selma song 'Glory' during ceremony | The Independent Oscars 2015: John Legend to perform Selma song 'Glory' during ceremony Adam Levine will also perform his nominated song 'Lost Stars' at the awards Wednesday 28 January 2015 10:50 BST Click to follow John Legend performs in Los Angeles Getty Images John Legend will perform his Oscar-nominated song “Glory” at the Academy Awards next month. The “All of Me” singer will take to the stage to perform the uplifting song from Ava DuVernay ’s Martin Luther King biopic starring British actor David Oyelowo . Legend is the second artist confirmed to perform at the ceremony next month. Maroon 5’s Adam Levine will also take to the stage to give a rendition of his Oscar-nominated song “Lost Stars” from Begin Again. The three other nominated songs in the Original Song category are “Everything is Awesome” from The Lego Movie, “Grateful” from Beyond the Lights and “I’m Not Gonna Miss You” from Glenn Campbell…I’ll Be Me.

Selma has been widely snubbed at this year’s Oscar, receiving just two nominations including one for Best Picture. The Academy drew criticism for nominating twenty white actors in the acting categories, with no recognition for Oyelowo’s performance, or for the film’s black female director Ava DuVernay.

Oscars 2015 nominations Oscars 2015 nominations 1/28 Birdman - 10 nominations Academy Award nominated for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Emma Stone), Best Actor (Michael Keaton), Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Cinematography, Original Screenplay, Best Director (Alejandro González Iñárritu) Rex 2/28 The Grand Budapest Hotel - 10 nominations Academy Award nominated for Best Director (Wes Anderson), Best Picture, Film Editing, Production Design, for Makeup and Hairstyling, Costume Design, Cinematography, Original Screenplay, Original Score Martin Scali 3/28 The Imitation Game - 8 nominations Academy Award nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor (Benedict Cumberbatch), Best Supporting Actor ( Keira Knightley) Best Director (Morten Tyldum), Film Editing, Production Design, Adapted Screenplay, Original Score Snap Stills/REX 4/28 American Sniper - 6 nominations Oscar nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor (Bradley Cooper), Film Editing, Sound Mixing, Adapted Screenplay Warner Bros 5/28 Boyhood - 6 nominations Academy Award nominated for Best Picture,

 Actress in Supporting role (Patricia Arquette) Film Editing, Best Director (Richard Linklater), Original Screenplay 6/28 Whiplash - 5 nominations Academy Award nominated for Best Picture, Film Editing, Sound Mixing, Adapted Screenplay AP 7/28 The Theory of Everything - 5 nominations Oscar nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor (Eddie Redmayne), Best Actress (Felicity Jones), Adapted Screenplay, Original Score Working Title Films 8/28 Foxcatcher - 5 nominations Oscar nominated for Best Director (Bennett Miller), Best Actor (Steve Carrell), Original Screenplay, Makeup and Hairstyling YouTube Oscar nominated for Best Picture and Best Original Song Paramount Pictures Oscar nominated for Production Design, Costume Design, Cinematography, Original Score 11/28 Wild Reese Witherspoon is Oscar-nominated for best actress in a leading role and Laura Dern is nominated for best supporting actress 12/28 Two Days, One Night Marion Cotillard has been nominated in the best actress category film still Oscar nominated for Original Screenplay AP Rosamund Pike is Oscar nominated for best actress in a leading role Twentieth Century Fox Nominated for Visual Effects, Sound Editing, Production Design

, Sound Mixing, Original Score Warner Bros Best actress in a leading role nomination for Julianne Moore 17/28 The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies Oscar nominated for Sound Editing Warner Bros Oscar nominated for Production Design, Costume Design, Best Supporting Actress (Meryl Streep) PA/Disney 19/28 Captain America: The Winter Soldier Robert Redford and Chris Evans film is nominated for Special Effects AP 20/28 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Nominated for an Oscar in the Visual Effects category 20th Century Fox Oscar nominated for best song 'Everything Is Awesome' but snubbed in best animation category Rex Features 22/28 X-Men, Days of the Future Past Oscar nominated in the Visual Effects category Alan Markfield / 2013 Marvel & Subs / 20th Century Fox Film Corp.

23/28 Begin Again Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo in Begin Again which is Oscar nominated for best original song ©Weinstein Company/Everett/REX 24/28 Guardians Of The Galaxy Nominated for Visual Effects, for Makeup and Hairstyling AP Photo/Disney-Marvel Oscar nominated for Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Cinematography Rex Features 26/28 How To Train Your Dragon 2 Oscar nominated for Animated Feature Film 27/28 Maleficent Oscar nominated for Costume Design © Disney Enterprises, Inc.

Everything is awful: Lego Movie snubbed by the Oscars - Telegraph Oscars Everything is awful: Lego Movie snubbed by the Oscars The Lego Movie, the most successful and critically acclaimed animation of 2014, has inexplicably missed out on a nomination for Best Animated Feature Not awesome: The Lego Movie missed out on a nomination for Best Animated Feature in the 2015 Oscars Photo: Courtesy of Warner Bros Pictures By Telegraph reporters 3:26PM GMT 15 Jan 2015 It took almost half a billion dollars at the global box office, won the hearts of critics and is the favourite to take the Bafta for Best Animated Film when the awards are handed out in February. But The Lego Movie - which was the highest grossing film in the UK last year - has been frozen out by voters for the 87th Academy Awards, failing to pick up a nomination for either Best Animated Feature or Best Picture.

(Its title tune, 'Everything is Awesome!!!', was nominated in the category for Best Original Song.) There is speculation that the film's relatively distant release date (it came out on February 7 2014 in the US and February 14 2014 in the UK) may have been a factor in its absence from the list of nominees, with ageing Oscars voters - whose median age is 62 - unable to recall the merits of a film that came out at the beginning of last year. Perhaps there was a split in the vote between those who thought it deserved a Best Animated Feature nod and those who saw it as a potential Best Picture - although winning a place in both categories has not proven impossible in the past, with Toy Story 3 achieving a double nomination in 2011. Some have suggested that a roughly 10-minute-long live-action sequence at the end of the film may have cost it a nomination in Best Animated Feature; however the Academy's guidelines state that animation only needs to feature in 75 per cent of a film's running time to make it eligible.

Aside from its stellar box-office success, The Lego Movie won praise from critics around the world; the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes currently lists it as having 96 per cent positive reviews. There is a sequel planned for 2018, and a spin-off film featuring the character of Batman (voiced by Will Arnett) is to be released in 2017. The snub has provoked a strong reaction on social media, with scores of Twitter users expressing their dissatisfaction with the decision. Related Articles

Question: What was nominated for its song, 'Everything Is Awesome', but not in the best animation category?
Answer: The LEGO MOVIE