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Oscar Predictions: Animated Feature — ‘The Wild Robot’ and ‘Inside Out 2’ Continue to Push Beyond Category, While ‘Flow’ is Critical Darling


2025 Oscars best animated feature predictions include "The Wild Robot," "Inside Out 2," "Flow," "Memoir of a Snail" and "Ultraman: Rising."

Shannon Tindle’s “Ultraman: Rising,” an adaptation of the famous Japanese superhero franchise, is already generating buzz, along with its anime counterpart “The Imaginary” from director Yoshiyuki Momose, which has garnered solid reviews. Additionally, Simon Otto’s “That Christmas,” from a screenplay by Richard Curtis and an original song by Ed Sheeran, along with Merlin Crossingham and Nick Park’s stop-motion sequel “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” round out their offerings. Attendees were treated to early footage of “Moana 2” and capitalized on other hopefuls such as Michel Hazanavicius’ “The Most Precious of Cargoes,” which Peter Debruge, Variety’s chief film critic, praised in his review.

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