On the 86th Academy Awards night, Gravity grabbed 7 Oscars under the categories – Best VFX, Best Cinematography, Best Direction, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mix
ing. Its then Hollywood witnessed Frozen taking away the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.
“It happened to be my transformative experience” added Alfonso Cuaron to his acceptance speech. Tim Webber (VFX Supervisor) and Emmanuel Lubezki (Dir of Photography) along with Cuaron invested 5 years for the making of film and finishing visual effects, no surprise this troupe had poured thick efforts to make the audience visualise such an eyes-widening flick. Computer animation, pretending to be in a weightless environment, animators scratching their heads, The Light Box machine (to control light on the set) and much was experimented and then executed while Gravity saw its concluding part.
Bouncing on to Frozen, Disney has now finally seen a victory under the Best Animated Feature category. 3rd of March, while Frozen, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s ‘The Snow Queen” collected $1 billion globally, it then simultaneously saw grabbing “Best Animated Feature” at The Academy Awards.
Making of a Snowman – Olaf was by a software called “Spaces” created by Disney itself solely for the film, then these astonishing characters –Anna, Elsa, Prince Hans had much to contribute. Adding to its accomplishments, Frozenalso tucked in an Oscar for “Best Original Song” for ‘Let it Go’ by Idina Menzel.
While all these biggies were rejoicing, French Short Film Mr Hublot nailed it by winning “Best Animated Short Film”. The makers of the film were Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares from Luxembourg. Mr Hublot is a semi-man-semi-robot protagonist in the film; Luxemborg claims to have taken more than 3 years to come up with this nerdish character.