Pixar does it again: 'Inside Out' is the studio's 16th Oscar win
The Academy loves Pixar, just like the rest of us.
To no one's real surprise, Inside Out won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature at the 88th Academy Awards. This marks Pixar's 16th Oscar win overall, and its eighth for Best Animated Feature.
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"This film was really born from watching our kids grow up, which is not easy," co-writer/co-director Pete Docter said as he and producer Jonas Rivera accepted the award.
Docter added a hopeful message for all those young future creators out in the audience. "Anyone out there who is in junior high school [or] high school working it out, suffering, there are days you're going to feel bad, you're going to feel angry, you're going to feel scared.
"That's nothing you can choose. But you can make stuff -- make films, draw, write. It will make a world of difference."
Pixar has only lost in this category twice before. Cars came up short against Happy Feet in 2007, while Monsters, Inc. lost to Shrek in 2002, the first year the category existed.
The biggest threat to an Inside Out win was Anomalisa, an offbeat, stop-motion drama/comedy from Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson. An R-rated story that falls outside Hollywood's usual kid-friendly animated fare, Anomalisa's heavy critical acclaim wasn't enough to win over Academy voters.
The rest of the nominees -- Boy and the World, Shaun the Sheep Movie and When Marnie Was There -- had a rough race. Pixar is tough to beat in any year, and Anomalisa carries arthouse cred thanks to Kaufman's involvement and the unusual-for-the-category R rating.
The fifteenth Pixar film overall, Inside Out plays like an animated re-telling of the obscure '90s sitcom Herman's Head. The story peers into the mind of a young girl as five personified emotions -- joy, sadness, fear, anger and disgust -- attempt to guide her through life's twists and turns.
Inside Out was also up for an award in the Best Original Screenplay category, but it lost to Spotlight.
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