2016 Golden Globe Nominations for Animated Feature

2016 Golden Globe Nominations for Animated Feature

December 12th, 2016

Jerry Beck

Snubbing Pixar and Dreamworks, The Red Turtle and Your Name, The Hollywood Foreign Press Association today named the following five nominees for its annual Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature:

KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS
Laika; Focus Features

MOANA
Walt Disney Animation Studios; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI
Rita Productions / Blue Spirit Productions / Gebeka Films / KNM; GKIDS

SING
Illumination Entertainment; Universal Pictures

ZOOTOPIA
Walt Disney Animation Studios; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Dreamworks Trolls wasn’t completely shut out – it joined Sing and Moana for Best Song nominations (opposite strong contenders from live action rivals La La Land and Gold

“Can’t Stop The Feeling!”, TROLLS
Music by: Justin Timberlake, Max Martin, Shellback
Lyrics by: Justin Timberlake, Max Martin, Shellback

“Faith”, SING
Music by: Ryan Tedder, Stevie Wonder, Francis Farewell Starlight
Lyrics by: Ryan Tedder, Stevie Wonder, Francis Farewell Starlight

“How Far I’ll Go”, MOANA
Music by: Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lyrics by: Lin-Manuel Miranda

REACTIONS: Kubo Director/Producer Travis Knight’s reaction to this morning’s Golden Globe nomination news

“My heartfelt thanks to the Hollywood Foreign Press for honoring KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS with this wonderful distinction. Working with the team of wizards and geniuses at LAIKA to bring KUBO to the world has been the most rewarding, most moving experience of my professional life. I’m grateful for it. And I’m grateful that the lovingly handcrafted efforts and brilliance of our extraordinary cast and crew have been so meaningfully recognized with this nomination. At LAIKA, our great hope is that our stories reach, resonate with, and enrich the lives of people around the world, and so it means a great deal to us that the Hollywood Foreign Press, representing so many different countries and cultures, has found our work worthy of recognition. I’m elated.”

(More reactions to come)…

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Jerry Beck

Writer, cartoon producer and author of more than 15 books on animation history. A former studio exec with Nickelodeon and Disney; currently on the faculty at both CalArts in Valencia and Woodbury University in Burbank, California.