At the least, I really hope Toy Story 3 doesn't win. It wasn't bad or anything, but that really cheap 'forced' attempt to get the audience to cry near the end and only pull a bait and switch is in incredibly poor taste on PIXAR's part.

This is a really strong year for animated films, which isn't always the case (GD Happy Feet took the Oscar for animated feature 2006 beating out pathetic opponents Cars and Monster House.)

GO HOSODA.
He's one of my favorite directors.
I'm writing a school report on him, for gosh sakes. WIIIIIIIN D:

Sorry but Toy Story 3 will get the award

There are two counts of improper apostrophe usage in this news item. Find them and win!

While I have no interest in the Toy Story flicks personally, audiences and critics both loved it. It's gonna win. My vote would go to SW too, but TS3 is going to take it.

Don't know why people don't want Toy Story 3 to win. Look, we (and by we, I mean the rest of you) all want an anime movie to win, but Toy Story 3 was genuinely amazing and deserves every award it gets. Anyone who hated Toy Story 3 was probably born without a soul anyways.

@Gee-Man

100% agree.

@Bacon5200
"...you have a somewhat heated selection for this years'"
&
"While we know that the Annie's are no Oscars"

What the fuck do I win? :D

I thought Summer Wars was great, and since I usually think that anime movies just aren't as good/interesting as anime TV series, that's a high compliment coming from me. But as good as Summer Wars was, I still think Toy Story 3 is a better film, and if it wins the award, it'd be well-deserved.

I still have to see "How to Train Your Dragon." Dreamworks kinda fell out of favor with me over the years (I liked their 2D animation films though!) and I thought HTTYD would be more of the same, but apparently it's actually quite good. And I mean, yeah, dragons are cool. My 8th grade self who drew dragons on the back of homework would pre-emptively call it "a riveting film."

Veering off topic, when I saw the trailers for Tangled, they didn't spark my interest -at all-. But so far, I've not heard a single negative review from friends who have seen it - everyone seems to think it's great. It even has charming musical numbers, which is a feature I sorely miss in Disney films when they aren't there. Any Jtor readers seen it yet?

@Marc
You win the Green Squiggly Line Award for Punctuational Tomfoolery.

Toy Story 3 deserves to win this one. How to train your dragon was a very competent film, but very average. Summer Wars really didn't really impress me, it had way too many clichés. Both Evangelion and Kara no Kyoukai are much more competent projects, why haven't they been nominated in their release years??

Toy Story 3 made me bawl my eyes out, and it's very, VERY rare for a movie to touch me like that.

So yeah I'm rooting for Unkrick for this one.

I'm already happy with a nominee for Summer Wars. (Yes, toy story 3 will win and dragons was great but not impressive enough. On a more happier note I ordered the Bluray yesterday. I hope Mamoru Hosada like money.)

This is a tough choice for me, too. I loved all three of these films, and I think that when you take them as a whole package (script, animation, characters, etc.), Toy Story 3 deserves the victory. I'm a little bit disappointed (as much as I love Pixar, it's a bit boring seeing them win EVERY animation-related award since, what, 2006?), but I think it'll win. HTTYD, while amazing given Dreamworks' track record, was pretty meh compared to other studios, and Summer Wars, while undeniably a treat for the eyes, had a rather unoriginal plot (and there's the obscurity factor going against it).

The Illusionist was gorgeous. It's French but there's literally like two lines of dialogue in it if any of you want to track it down.

I'll track down the Illusionist :D