Pete Docter Articles

Best Animated Feature, Up Pete Docter’s Up as the next Best Animated Feature Oscar winner is a foregone conclusion. The film about an old man traveling to the Amazon with his house (!) received excellent reviews, has won tons of awards, and became a blockbuster hit. You can’t have a more Academy-friendly pedigree than that. The competition this year, however, is unusually strong. The other [...]

Pete Docter’s Up was the best picture winner and Docter was the best director at the Annie Awards ceremony held Saturday evening at UCLA’s Royce Hall in Los Angeles. The favorite movie did win the top two prizes — but that was it. With three awards each, Coraline and The Princess and the Frog were the evening’s top animated feature winners. But at least Up’s [...]

Among the Oscar 2010 curiosities are the following: Ex Husbands and Wives James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow (above) are both competing in the best director category. About two decades ago, they were married for a couple of years. Cameron’s Avatar cost one trillion dollars to make and has earned about two trillion dollars at the box office. It’s now the biggest, all-time, for all eternity [...]

(500) Days of Summer, Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber The Hurt Locker, Mark Boal Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino A Serious Man, Joel and Ethan Coen Up, Pete Docter and Bob Petersen James Cameron, who failed to get a nomination for Titanic back in early 1998, may take the place of either the Coen brothers or the (500) Days of Summer screenwriters. It’s true that [...]