February 23, 2015

Oscar 2015: "Big Hero 6" crowned best animated film

"Big Hero 6" today won the Oscar for best animated film with his sophistication of superhero stories in which it is the first animated series to the big screen a story of Marvel Comics adaptation.


The story of young Hiro and his robot friend Baymax beat "The Boxtrolls", "How to train your dragon 2," "Song of the sea" and "The tale of the Princess Kaguya".

Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Conli have welcomed the award onstage John Lasseter, "the best boss in the world".



This is the second Oscar for the Disney factory, which despite its tradition and weight, got his first Oscar for best animated feature last for "Frozen" year.

And this year won the Oscar among a group of nominees that are a smorgasbord of styles that show the richness and variety of the current animated film, which has evolved into stories and movies that can compete in originality and quality with any kind of cinema.

Just look at the data box office to check. "How to train your dragon 2," the sequel to the Viking funny story Dreamworks, grossed $ 618 million, and "Big Hero 6" Disney came to 521 million.

Two films characterized by large amounts of action and humor, along with a technique to capture any story and character with great realism.

And as with the live-action film, these blockbusters and independent films smaller face.

This is the case of "The Boxtrolls" a smart, funny and made with an aesthetic preciousness that recovers the atmosphere of the film classic tales.


It is the work of Laika studios, responsible for two other jewelry animation, "Coraline" (2009) and "ParaNorman" (2012), also Oscar nominated no luck.

Or "The tale of the Princess Kaguya" by the prestigious Japanese studies Ghibli, whence have come all productions animation master Hayao Miyazaki.

The delicacy of the drawings is the main feature of this film based on the Japanese folktale "The Bamboo Cutter", also known as The Tale of Princess Kaguya.

And the fifth nominated for an Oscar this year has been "Song of the Sea", the second animated feature Irish Tom Moore, this time with Paul Young, with a particular and dramatic use of color.

An example of animation is done in Europe, where they have come nominees as the French "Ernest et CĂ©lestine" and "The Illusionist" or the Spanish "Chico & Rita".