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Ratatouille is an animated film produced by Pixar and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. The film was released on June 29, 2007, in the United States as the eighth film produced by Pixar. It was directed by Brad Bird, who took over from Jan Pinkava in 2005. The plot follows Remy, a rat who dreams of becoming a chef and tries to achieve his goal by forming an alliance with a Parisian restaurant's garbage boy. Ratatouille was released to both critical acclaim and box office success, opening in 3,940 theaters domestically and debuting at #1 with $47 million, [1] grossing $206,445,654 in North America and a total of $624,445,654 worldwide. [2] The film is on the 2007 top ten lists of multiple critics, including Michael Sragow of The Baltimore Sun as number one, A.O. Scott of The New York Times , Carina Chocano of the Los Angeles Times and Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal as number two. [3]
It was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Original Score, Achievement in Sound Editing, Achievement in Sound Mixing, Original Screenplay and Animated Feature Film, losing to Atonement , The Bourne Ultimatum and Juno , respectively, winning the latter one. [4] Ratatouille was nominated for 13 Annie Awards, twice for the Best Animated Effects, where it lost to Surf's Up , and three times in the Best Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production for Janeane Garofalo, Ian Holm and Patton Oswalt, where Ian Holm won the nomination. [5] It won the Best Animated Feature Award from multiple associations including the Chicago Film Critics, [6] the National Board of Review, [7] the Annie Awards, [5] the Broadcast Film Critics, [8] the British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA) and the Golden Globes. [9]
Date of ceremony | Award | Category | Recipients | Result |
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February 24, 2008 | Academy Awards [4] | Best Original Screenplay | Brad Bird (screenplay/story), Jan Pinkava (story) & Jim Capobianco (story) | Nominated |
Best Animated Feature | Brad Bird | Won | ||
Best Original Score | Michael Giacchino | Nominated | ||
Best Sound Editing | Randy Thom & Michael Silvers | |||
Best Sound Mixing | Randy Thom, Michael Semanick & Doc Kane | |||
February 17, 2008 | American Cinema Editors [10] | Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical | Darren T. Holmes | |
February 8, 2008 | Annie Awards [5] | Best Animated Effects | Gary Bruins | |
Jon Reisch | ||||
Best Animated Feature | Pixar Animation Studios | Won | ||
Best Character Animation in a Feature Production | Michal Makarewicz | |||
Best Character Design in an Animated Feature Production | Carter Goodrich | |||
Best Directing in an Animated Feature Production | Brad Bird | |||
Best Music in an Animated Feature Production | Michael Giacchino | |||
Best Production Design in an Animated Feature Production | Harley Jessup | |||
Best Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production | Ted Mathot | |||
Best Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production | Janeane Garofalo | Nominated | ||
Ian Holm | Won | |||
Patton Oswalt | Nominated | |||
Best Writing in an Animated Feature Production | Brad Bird | Won | ||
February 14, 2008 | Art Directors Guild [11] | Feature Film – Fantasy Film | Harley Jessup | Nominated |
December 9, 2007 | Boston Society of Film Critics [12] | Best Screenplay | Brad Bird | Won |
February 10, 2008 | British Academy of Film and Television Arts [13] | Best Animated Film | ||
January 7, 2008 | Broadcast Film Critics Association [8] | Best Animated Feature | ||
January 11, 2008 | Central Ohio Film Critics Association [14] | |||
December 13, 2007 | Chicago Film Critics Association [6] | Best Animated Feature | ||
Best Original Screenplay | Brad Bird | Nominated | ||
Christopher Award [15] | Feature Films | Won | ||
December 17, 2007 | Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association [16] | Best Animated Feature | ||
Empire Awards [17] | Best Film | Nominated | ||
Best Comedy | ||||
January 13, 2008 | Golden Globes [9] | Best Animated Film | Brad Bird | Won |
Golden Trailer Awards [18] | Best Animation/Family TV Spot | Nominated | ||
February 10, 2008 | Grammy Awards [19] | Best Score Soundtrack Album | Michael Giacchino | Won |
October 27, 2007 | Hollywood Film Festival [20] | Animation of the Year | ||
January 12, 2008 | Kansas City Film Critics Circle [21] | Best Animated Film | ||
March 29, 2008 | Kids' Choice Awards [22] | Favorite Animated Movie | ||
December 21, 2007 | Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards [23] | Best Animated Film | ||
Best Family Film | ||||
December 9, 2007 | Los Angeles Film Critics Association [24] | Best Animation | Won (tied with Persepolis ) | |
February 21, 2008 | Motion Picture Sound Editors [25] | Best Sound Editing in Feature Film: Animated | Nominated | |
December 5, 2007 | National Board of Review [7] | Best Animated Feature | Won | |
January 9, 2008 | Online Film Critics Society Awards [26] | Best Animation | ||
Best Original Screenplay | Brad Bird | Nominated | ||
January 8, 2008 | People's Choice Awards [27] | Favorite Family Movie | ||
2008 | Phoenix Film Critics Society | Best Animated Film | Won | |
February 2, 2008 | PGA Awards [28] | Producer of the Year Award in Animated Motion Pictures | Brad Lewis | |
December 17, 2007 | Satellite Awards [29] | Best Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media | ||
Best Original Score | Michael Giacchino | Nominated | ||
Best Youth DVD | Won | |||
Saturn Awards | Best Animated Film | |||
Best Writing | Brad Bird | |||
February 21, 2008 | Visual Effects Society Awards [30] | Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Motion Picture (for "Colette") | Janeane Garofalo, Jaime Landes, Konishi Sonoko & Paul Aichele | |
Outstanding Effects in an Animated Motion Picture (for the rapids) | Darwyn Peachey, Chen Shen, Eric Froemling & Tolga Goktekin | Nominated | ||
Outstanding Effects in an Animated Motion Picture (for the food) | Jon Reisch, Jason Johnston, Eric Froemling & Tolga Goktekin | Won | ||
Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Motion Picture | Michael Fong, Apurva Shah, Christine Waggoner & Michael Fu | |||
2008 | Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association [31] | Best Animated Feature | ||
World Soundtrack Awards [32] | Best Original Song Written for Film (for the song "Le Festin") | Michael Giacchino & Camille | Nominated | |
Young Artist Awards [33] | Best Family Feature Film (Animation) | Won |
The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature is given each year for the best animated film. 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. The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature was first awarded in 2002 for films released in 2001.
Ratatouille is a 2007 American animated comedy-drama film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. The eighth film produced by Pixar, it was written and directed by Brad Bird and produced by Brad Lewis, from an original idea by Jan Pinkava, who was credited for conceiving the film's story with Bird and Jim Capobianco. The film stars the voices of Patton Oswalt, Lou Romano, Ian Holm, Janeane Garofalo, Peter O'Toole, Brian Dennehy, Peter Sohn and Brad Garrett. The title refers to the French dish ratatouille, and also references the species of the main character, a rat. Set mostly in Paris, the plot follows a young rat Remy (Oswalt) who dreams of becoming a chef at Auguste Gusteau's (Garrett) restaurant and tries to achieve his goal by forming an unlikely alliance with the restaurant's garbage boy Alfredo Linguini (Romano).
Toy Story 2: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack is the soundtrack album to the 1999 Disney/Pixar film Toy Story 2. The score for the film is composed by Randy Newman, who previously composed for its predecessor, Toy Story. It was released by Walt Disney Records on November 9, 1999. Although out of print in the U.S., the CD is available in the U.S. as an import and all but one song is available digitally.
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