Brad Bird's The Incredibles (top); Robert Zemeckis' The Polar Express (bottom)
Eleven animated features are eligible to compete for the Best Animated Feature Film Oscar in the 2005 Academy Awards race. They are:
Clifford's Really Big Movie
Disney's Teacher's Pet
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Home on the Range
The Incredibles
The Legend of Buddha
The Polar Express
Shrek 2
Shark Tale
Sky Blue
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
Under the rules for this category, a maximum of three films can be nominated in a year in which the field of eligible entries numbers at least eight but fewer than sixteen.
The 2005 Academy Award nominations will be announced at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills on Tuesday, January 25, 2005.