Blogs and Podcasts – Animated Views https://animatedviews.com Mon, 13 Mar 2023 04:21:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.15 Oscar Night 2023 https://animatedviews.com/2023/oscar-night-2023/ Sat, 11 Mar 2023 15:32:53 +0000 https://animatedviews.com/?p=89681 Thanks to all who joined us in the chat tonight. And congrats to our two Oscar contest winners, lisa and marlomanners, who each got a score of 90.5%! (Head to our forum to see how the tie-breaker rules were applied.) If you played but didn’t win, check out the results to see how you did.

The big night is here! Oscar statuettes will be bestowed on lucky filmmakers this evening at the 95th Annual Academy Awards. And we’ll be covering it as part of our annual Oscar event, now in its 19th year!

Join us at 7:30pm ET for a live chat during the Oscar telecast in the Animated Views forum where you can join the AV staff and other readers as we discuss the people, the story-lines, and the awards.

If you entered our contest (for a chance to win a $50 Amazon of Fandango gift card!), you can view or print a PDF of all the nominees and your picks to check how you’re doing at home. You can also follow along during the show as we track the results of the contest online in real time as each award is announced.

Want a sneak peek at who might be taking home the trophies tonight? Here are the the consensus picks in each category according to people who entered our contest!

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The 2022 AV Readers’ Choice Poll https://animatedviews.com/avi/2022-readers-choice/ Mon, 19 Dec 2022 23:54:23 +0000 https://animatedviews.com/?p=89249 Oscar Night 2022 https://animatedviews.com/2022/oscar-night-2022/ Sun, 27 Mar 2022 04:01:23 +0000 https://animatedviews.com/?p=87319 UPDATE: Congratulations to our contest co-winners bill_peloquin, Bobbleheadbuddha, dnanni1, GeorgeMonkey, instlouis, jwvaughn007, and StevenB606 who each got 20 out of the 21 scored categories correct!

While all will be listed as champions in the record book, only one can win the prize. After applying the tie-breaker, congratulations again to bill_peloquin who got all three animation categories correct.

Tonight is the night. The winners of the 94th Annual Academy Awards will be announced tonight. And we’ll be covering it as part of our annual Oscar event, now in its 18th year!

Join us at 7:30pm ET for a live chat during the Oscar telecast in the Animated Views forum where you can join the AV staff and other readers as we discuss the people, the story-lines, and the awards.

If you entered our contest (for a chance to win a $50 Amazon of Fandango gift card!), you can view or print a PDF of all the nominees and your picks to check how you’re doing at home. You can also follow along during the show as we track the results of the contest online in real time as each award is announced.

And soon we’ll be revealing our selections for the Best of 2022 and your picks in the Readers’ Choice poll!

Want a sneak peek at who might be taking home the trophies tonight? Here are the the consensus picks in each category according to people who entered our contest!

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Animated Views’ 2022 Oscar Contest https://animatedviews.com/oscars/2022/ Wed, 09 Mar 2022 15:34:38 +0000 https://animatedviews.com/?p=87217 The 2021 AV Readers’ Choice Poll https://animatedviews.com/avi/2021-readers-choice Fri, 11 Feb 2022 15:53:01 +0000 https://animatedviews.com/?p=87105 Oscar Night 2021 https://animatedviews.com/2021/oscar-night-2021/ Sun, 25 Apr 2021 06:45:55 +0000 https://animatedviews.com/?p=85593 Click here for details on the contest winner!

It’s time — the winners of the 93rd Annual Academy Awards will be revealed tonight. And we’ll be covering it as part of our annual Oscar event, now in its 17th year!

Join us at 7:30pm ET for a live chat during the Oscar telecast in the Animated Views forum where you can join the AV staff and other readers as we discuss the people, the story-lines, and the awards.

If you entered our contest (for a chance to win a $50 Amazon of Fandango gift card!), you can view or print a PDF of all the nominees and your picks to check how you’re doing at home. You can also follow along during the show as we track the results of the contest online in real time as each award is announced.

Want a sneak peek at who might be taking home the trophies this weekend? Here are the the consensus picks in each category according to people who entered our contest!

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Animated Views’ 2021 Oscar Contest http://animatedviews.com/oscars/2021/ Mon, 12 Apr 2021 01:51:35 +0000 https://animatedviews.com/?p=85459 The 2020 AV Readers’ Choice Poll https://animatedviews.com/avi/2020-readers-choice/index.php Tue, 19 Jan 2021 04:13:01 +0000 https://animatedviews.com/?p=84657 What’s your view? Tell us in the comments! https://animatedviews.com/2020/whats-your-view-tell-us-in-the-comments/ Sat, 14 Mar 2020 04:24:03 +0000 https://animatedviews.com/?p=82581 There’s a new cyber-feature that all the hip websites are implementing these days called “comments”. Apparently the way it works is after you finish reading an article, you can actually leave your thoughts and opinions right there on the same page! Let it not be said that Animated Views isn’t on fleek when it comes to the latest trends you kids are into!

OK, so in reality we’re way behind the times when it comes this! While we’ve had message boards since our launch in 2003, we’ve been reluctant to add commenting. We worried about our readership’s conversations being split up in different places, with some people talking about a topic in the forums and others doing so in a comments section, with both groups having a diminished experience because of it.

After much (maybe too much!) deliberation, we’ve finally found a way to allay those concerns — by combining per article comments with the forum! Basically, when someone makes a comment on a website story, forum users will see it; when forum users make a comment about a website story, commenters will see it. A side benefit is one account allows you to post in both places, for those that choose to.

Commenting will be active on most reviews and feature articles going forward. We’re still working out details on how to add them to the news section. For now, you can try them out here below, on last week’s Onward review, and our recent Blazing Dragons retrospective.

We’ve been testing this for awhile now, but definitely be on the lookout for any issues and let us know abut them.

So dial up AOL, fire up Internet Explorer, sign up for an account, then speak up in the Animated Views community! It’s gonna be da bomb diggity!

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Oscar Night 2020 https://animatedviews.com/2020/oscar-night-2020/ Sat, 08 Feb 2020 05:09:30 +0000 https://animatedviews.com/?p=82002 UPDATE: Congratulations to this year’s winner, brobr6, who got 20 of 22 categories right! Thanks to all who entered. See how you fared on the contest results page!

It’s time — the winners of the 92nd Annual Academy Awards will be revealed this weekend. And we’ll be covering it as part of our annual Oscar event, now in its 16th year!

Join us at 7:30pm ET on Sunday for a live chat during the Oscar telecast in the Animated Views forum where you can join the AV staff and other readers as we discuss the people, the story-lines, and the awards.

Did you participate in our Readers’ Choice Poll of the best films of the decade? Those joining us during the chat will get a first look at the winners before they’re announced on the site.

If you entered our contest (for a chance to win a $50 Amazon of Fandango gift card!), you can view or print a PDF of all the nominees and your picks to check how you’re doing at home. You can also follow along during the show as we track the results of the contest online in real time as each award is announced.

Want a sneak peek at who might be taking home the trophies this weekend? Here are the the consensus picks in each category according to people who entered our contest!

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