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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has pulled back the curtain on the films eligible for consideration in the Animated Feature, Documentary Feature and International Feature categories for the 97th Academy Awards next year.

The list includes 31 toon features, 169 docs and international pics from 85 countries. Preliminary voting for the 97th Oscars runs December 9-13, and all three shortlists will be revealed December 17. The Oscars will be handed out Sunday, March 2, at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood.

Here are the animated, documentary and international features eligible for the 2024 Oscars:

Best Animated Feature

Art College 1994

Captain Avispa

Chicken for Linda!

The Colors Within

The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

Despicable Me 4

Flow

The Garfield Movie

Ghost Cat Anzu

The Glassworker

The Imaginary

Inside Out 2

Kensuke’s Kingdom

Kung Fu Panda 4

Living Large

Look Back

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

Mars Express

Memoir of a Snail...

A total of 31 animated features, 169 documentary features and 85 international features are eligible for Oscar nominations this season, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences confirmed on Thursday.

In the animated feature category, high-profile studio films like Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 and Universal/DreamWorks’s The Wild Robot and acclaimed indies like Memoir of a Snail are joined in the running by longer shots like The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, a film jettisoned by Warner Bros. that wound up with the distributor Ketchup Entertainment.

The documentary feature race, meanwhile, includes titles that have dominated at the doc community’s precursor awards, including Nat Geo’s Sugarcane, Netflix’s Daughters and MTV’s Black Box Diaries; two that count Malala Yousafzai as an executive producer, Apple’s Bread & Roses and The Last of the Sea Women, and two that count Jennifer Lawrence as an EP,...

In “Avatar: The Way of Water,” Jack Champion stands out as Spider — and not simply because he’s frequently the only human in scenes with the computer-generated, nine-foot-tall Na’vi. Spider is a remnant of the Sky People left behind on Pandora after the events of the original film. Raised by Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and, rather reluctantly, his wife Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña) alongside their own children, Spider eventually faces a test of loyalty — side with his family or his species — a difficult decision that Champion skillfully depicts. It’s his biggest role to date in an acting career that began eight years ago, when he was a pre-teen, with a small part in “American Genius.” Next up, he’ll appear in horror sequel “Scream 6,” and with Pedro Pascal in “Freaky Tales,” from “Captain Marvel” directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. Just days after wrapping the latter film, Champion...

Written by Kim Newman | Art by Paul McCaffrey | Published by Titan Comics

The horror comics renaissance of recent times seemingly continues with the arrival of Anno Dracula by Kim Newman. Kim Newman should need no introduction to horror fans, being a critically acclaimed writer and critic, and the fact he is not just licensing but also writing his ‘baby’ obviously bodes very well indeed. This new series, together with some new Anno Dracula novels out this year too, will expand his fictional universe nicely.

Anno Dracula began life as an early 1990′s novel, with Kim Newman doing the Alan Moore-esque thing of intertwining a fictional narrative with real historical personalities, creating a different yet familiar alternate timeline. This is a world split, between humans who have chosen to ‘turn’, and those who have chosen not to. The initial book saw Jack the Ripper killing prostitutes, as per our real world history,...

A werewolf interrupts dinner for an eclectic cast of characters at a Montana diner in J. Spencer’s new short film, End of the Road. Featuring a massive lycanthrope that goes for the jugular, End of the Road is an unsettling take on the full moon transformation, and we have it for Daily Dead readers to enjoy.

“This character-focused flick—a project born from grassroots effort and an intense love of the genre—follows a small-town waitress (Tatum Langton of Grey’s Anatomy and others) whose kindness toward a mysterious drifter (American Genius and Revelation Trail‘s Daniel Van Thomas) unleashes a vicious and calculative werewolf upon the colorful population of a backwoods diner.”

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SAG nominee Sarita Choudhury Homeland, Learning To Drive, The Hunger Games Mockingjay - Part 1 has joined Academy Award nominee andGolden Globe winnner Kathleen Turner The War Of The Roses, The Virgin Suicides, Marley amp Me, Emmy nominee andDrama Desk Award winner David Morse The Hurt Locker, Disturbia, The Green Mile andSAG nominee andAmerican Movie Award winner Stelio Savante The Making Of The Mob NY, Eisenstein In Guanajuato, American Genius in the cast of Invictus Theater Company's reading of the new play Jeremiah 51.

Academy Award nominee amp Golden Globe winnner Kathleen Turner The War Of The Roses, The Virgin Suicides, Marley amp Me has joined Emmy nominee amp Drama Desk Award winner David Morse The Hurt Locker, Disturbia, The Green Mile amp SAG Nominee amp American Movie Award winner Stelio Savante The Making Of The Mob NY, Eisenstein In Guanajuato, American Genius in the cast of Invictus Theater Company's reading of the new play Jeremiah 51.

National Geographic Channel has another great event series for you in American Genius, a show dedicated to the rivalries that pushed progress forward throughout significant eras in American history, including our own.

The show focuses on specific developments, in varying eras, and details the genius, and geniuses, that were responsible for some of the most important and life-changing advancements in history.

Take a look below at the full list of episodes and dates.

Behind Great Geniuses Lie Even Greater Rivalries.

National Geographic Channel Reveals The Competitive Forces Behind History’S Most Remarkable Races For Innovation In New Miniseries Event American Genius

Eight-Part Event American Genius Premieres Monday, June 1, 2015, at 9 Pm Et/Pt on National Geographic Channel

(Washington, D.C. – May 6, 2015) For many of America’s boldest, most daring and most creative inventors, the greatest challenge wasn’t beating the odds — it was beating the competition. Behind these iconic innovators are rivals with vision,...