The Hollywood Foreign Press came up with a more conventional list of nominees in the Best Animated Feature category this morning. Surprisingly enough, the Golden Globes completely shut out the bolder and unconventional options available this year—Sergio Pablos’ Klaus (Netflix/SPA) and Jeremy Clapin’s I Lost My Body (Xilam/Netflix) and opted for the more popular studio entries —Frozen 2 (Disney), Toy Story 4 (Disney/Pixar) How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (DreamWorks Animation/Univ.) and Missing Link (LAIKA). The big surprise was the inclusion of Disney’s The Lion King, which wasn’t promoted by the studio as an animated feature.
The nominees:
Animated Features
- Frozen 2 (Disney)
- How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (DreamWorks, Universal)
- The Lion King (Disney)
- Missing Link (LAIKA/ Annapurna, United Artists)
- Toy Story 4 (Disney/Pixar)
Best Original Song
- “Beautiful Ghosts” (Cats)
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Taylor Swift - “I’m Gonna Love Me Again” (Rocketman)
Elton John, Bernie Taupin - “Into the Unknown” (Frozen 2)
Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez - “Spirit” (The Lion King)
Timothy McKenzie, Ilya Salmanzadeh, Beyoncé - “Stand Up” (Harriet)
Joshuah Brian Campbell, Cynthia Erivo
Over the weekend, the Critics’ Choice Association also revealed the nominations for the 25th annual Critics’ Choice Awards. They are:
Best Animated Feature
Abominable
Frozen II
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
I Lost My Body
Missing Link
Toy Story 4
Best Animated Series
Big Mouth (Netflix)
BoJack Horseman (Netflix)
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (Netflix)
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (Netflix)
The Simpsons (Fox)
Undone (Amazon)
Best Visual Effects
1917
Ad Astra
The Aeronauts
Avengers: Endgame
Ford v Ferrari
The Irishman
The Lion King
Also announced this morning: The nominees for this year’s Art Directors Guild Awards, in the animated category are:
Abominable
Production Designer: Max Boas
Frozen II
Production Designer: Michael Giaimo
How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Production Designer: Pierre-Olivier Vincent
The Lion King
Production Designer: James Chinlund
Toy Story 4
Production Designer: Bob Pauley
In addition, the L.A. Film Critics Association picked I Lost My Body as the best animated feature of the year and its soundtrack as the best of the year as well.
