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Next year’s Best Animated Feature Oscar race just gained a surprise contender. Awards outlet Gold Derby exclusively reports that Warner Bros. Pictures’ new Looney Tunes live-action/animation hybrid “Coyote vs. Acme” has been ruled eligible by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and can now be submitted for consideration. The decision comes as a surprise because the film’s distributor and producers initially believed its extensive live-action footage might disqualify it, prompting them to hold off on submitting it for review. They later reconsidered, and the film has now cleared the Academy’s eligibility process.
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Under the Academy’s Best Animated Feature rules, animation involving the primary characters must appear in at least 75% of a film’s running time—a threshold “Coyote vs. Acme” has evidently met. Should it ultimately land a nomination, it would become only the second live-action/animation hybrid nominated in the category’s 25-year history, following “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On.” It would also mark the first Oscar nomination for a feature-length Looney Tunes movie.
via： Goldderby