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Oscars: Why the Sound Nod for ‘The Wild Robot’ Is Such an Unusual Nomination
Will 'The Wild Robot' become just the second fully-animated movie to win an Oscar in sound?
It’s not completely unusual to see animated contenders in the Academy Awards sound race–Guillermo del Toro’s 2022 retelling of “Pinocchio” was the last to make the short list and Pixar’s 2020 film “Soul” was the last to be nominated–but it’s been two decades since Pixar’s 2004 hit “The Incredibles” became the only fully-animated movie to win the category (then called sound editing). “The basic challenge in animation is that you have to create the whole sonic world of the film from scratch,” explains Thom, who is nominated for “The Wild Robot” alongside Brian Chumney, Gary A. Rizzo and Leff Lefferts. Early on, Thom and Sanders (“Lilo and Stitch”) began to discuss the specifics of the sound of Roz, the central robot.
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