Coraline (top); Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (middle); Jim Carrey in A Christmas Carol (bottom)
Fifteen animated features are up for consideration in the Best Animated Feature category for 2010 Golden Globe Awards, Hollywood Foreign Press Association president Philip Berk has announced. They are:
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Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
Battle for Terra
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Coraline
A Christmas Carol
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Mary and Max
The Missing Lynx
Monsters vs. Aliens
Planet 51
Ponyo
The Princess and the Frog
Up
Also, this year there will be five nominees in the Best Animated Feature category, instead of the usual three. (Twenty animated films have been submitted for the 2010 Academy Awards. Those missing from the Golden Globes list are Astro Boy, The Dolphin – Story of a Dreamer, The Secret of Kells, Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure, and A Town Called Panic.)
Nominations for 2010 Golden Globe Awards will be announced at 5:00 a.m. PT on Tuesday, December 15.
Hosted by Ricky Gervais, the 2010 Golden Globe Awards ceremony will be broadcast live coast to coast Sunday, January 17, on NBC (5 to 8 pm PT, 8 to 11 pm ET) from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.
It's incredible that Astro Boy was not included in the list, when abysmal tripe like Planet 51, the latest Ice Age installment and the Chipmunks got a nod. :0 Astro has much more to commend it when it comes to animation, story, voice acting, musical score…one wonders by what criteria the nominees were chosen. Box office? But Coraline underperformed and Fox is a box-office flop. Really, there is no excuse. The Globes have lost their luster.