Oscar 2026 Nominees for Animated Feature Film
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The French film Arco, a nominee under the Best Animated Feature category at the Oscars of 2026 is by design a meeting point for the two protagonists in the drama. Essentially, both Arco and Iris are characters of two different worlds – the former belonging to the distant future, and the latter belonging to the near present, almost connected by a rainbow like medium.
Occasionally when Disney chooses to, it does have the ability to play around with emotions and dish out something as heartwarming as this. In that regard, the new English film and Disney-Pixar’s latest offering isn’t groundbreaking or anything that you haven’t watched already. It plays to the basic emotions of loss, grief and imagination, the usual suspects in a Disney film, but each emotion is so raw and palpable, that it invariably finds the kid within you.
oining in the bandwagon and most definitely late to the party, the broader theme of the English animated Netflix film KPop Demon Hunters is a classic good versus evil template. And that is something which is ably conveyed through its title – ‘Demon Hunters’ is a straight up giveaway. But in the same moment, the word ‘KPop’ adds depth – not because it wishes to convey the global phenomena by the same name, but something more deeper that doubles up as our healing agent.
One distinct memory that I have of the 2016 English film Zootopia is its social subtext that did set it aside from all the other glitz and bursts of other films in this animated genre. For starters, it was an investigative drama using animation only as a medium to expand its horizons with respect to the age demographics of the film.