Chris Sanders On The Significance Of An Oscar Nom For ‘The Wild Robot’: “All The Reasons I Got Into Animation Are Contained Within This Film”
Director Chris Sanders on being nominated for 'The Wild Robot', a film that contains all the reasons he got into animation.
While most people woke up very early for the Oscar nomination announcements this morning, Chris Sanders watched the feed from Tokyo, Japan. As the last stop on his tour of premiering , being nominated for Best Animated Feature was a perfect bookend to the trip.
“[On Monday] we were screening the film and introducing it to the very first audience here, and now to get this nomination has been amazing,” says Sanders. “Three nominations, it’s incredible.”
In addition to Best Animated Feature, The Wild Robot is also nominated for both score and sound. “We all screamed when we heard that score was nominated, and so deservedly. The lack of dialogue meant that one of the biggest voices in this film is the music and that was going to be handled by Kris Bowers. He had a massive job, just the scale of it, but the nuance, the beauty, the sensitivity and the strength of what he did is nothing I’ve ever heard before.”
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