WALL-E wins best animated film Oscar
scifiwire.com 2/23/2009 — WALL-E , the story about a robot in a post-apocalyptic world filled with trash, won the best animated feature award at the 81st Academy Awards on Sunday; director Andrew Stanton accepted the award and thanked his high school drama teacher. "It's ...

2009 Oscars Unsurprising... But At Least Wolverine Serenaded Batman [Oscars 2009]
io9.com 2/24/2009 — By now, you already know that Heath Ledger posthumously won Best Supporting Actor in last night's Oscars, but who else discovered a new golden friend? We look back at last night's winners (and losers). If you were watching last night's unusual ceremony (Hugh Jackman gave it his all, but still) ...

6 Science Fiction Classics To Help You Choose The Next President [Political Science (fiction)]
io9.com 10/8/2008 — We asked six political pundits, including Andrew Sullivan and DailyKos' Markos Moulitsas, to pick one piece of science fiction that you must read or watch before stepping into the voting booth next month. After all, science fiction often deals with ...

Heath Ledger, WALL-E lead Oscar genre wins
clubjade.net 2/23/2009 — No big shockers here : The late Heath Ledger received Best Supporting Actor and WALL-E Best Animated Film . Less predictable was The Curious Case of Benjamin Button winning Best Visual Effects over The Dark Knight and Iron Man . Button also took Art Direction and Makeup , while The Dark ...

Tuesday Link-a-Mania
blog.fph.co.uk 11/12/2008 — Animated Films Vie for Oscar nominations According to Variety the following 14 films have been put forward hoping to nab the three final Oscar nominations (to be announced on 22 January): WALL-E Kung Fu Panda Horton Hears A Who Madagascar: Escape 2 ...

Meet The Unsung Hero Of Wall-E's World [Burn-e]
io9.com 11/19/2008 — Forget that rusty trash compactor — the new robot rage in Pixar-land is BURN-E, the plucky welder whom you only glimpsed in the Wall-E movie. New pictures from the Disney short BURN-E give you a glimpse of the robot mayhem that appears as an extra on ...

Iron Man Leads Visual Effects Society Awards Nominations
blog.fph.co.uk 1/21/2009 — The Visual Effects Society (VES) has announced the nominees for the 7th Annual VES Awards ceremony for outstanding visual effects in film, animation, television, commercials and video games. Iron Man leads with five nominations. Outstanding ...

Star Trek Post Production Complete + Oscar-winner Ben Burtt Provided Sound Design
trekmovie.com 1/6/2009 — JJ Abrams’ Star Trek film is officially complete. According to sources, post production on the summer 2009 film was actually completed Christmas week, shortly after JJ Abrams posted his Holiday greeting on Facebook. The final step of the post ...

WALL-E helmer Andrew Stanton talks John Carter of Mars
scifiwire.com 1/13/2009 — WALL-E director Andrew Stanton told SCI FI Wire that he is working on a new draft of his proposed live-action John Carter of Mars movie and is aiming for a realistic feel to the live-action movie, his first. "[I'm] deep into it," Stanton said in ...

Video: BURN-E Short Film Based On Wall-E
booknewsblog.blogspot.com 11/16/2008 — A short telling the story of Burn-E, as seen in Pixar's WALL-E.