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Best Motion Picture of the Year. Jonas Rivera. 2010 Nominee Oscar. Best Writing, Original Screenplay. Bob Peterson (screenplay/story) Pete Docter (screenplay/story) Tom McCarthy (story) 2010 Winner Oscar. Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score.
Up garnered various awards and nominations, most of them in the Best Animated Picture and Best Music categories, the latter composed by Michael Giacchino. Up was nominated for five Academy Awards at the 2010 ceremony, winning two: Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score.
AwardWinsNominations25291122Up was nominated for five Academy Awards at the 2010 Ceremony. It won two of these awards for Best Animated Feature and for Best Original Score. It was the second fully animated film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture after the 1991 movie Beauty and the Beast. [2]
AwardDate Of CeremonyCategoryRecipients And NomineesDecember 7, 2009Pete Docter and Bob PetersonDecember 7, 2009UpDecember 7, 2009UpFebruary 10, 2010Outstanding Effects Animation in an ...Alexis Angelidis, Eric Froemling, Jason ...Best Picture. Animated feature films were nominated for Best Picture in only three cases: 1991, 2009 and 2010. Beauty and the Beast is the only animated-feature film Best Picture nominee before the inception of Best Animated Feature and in the five-nominee format.
YearFilmAward Recipient (s)Studio2021 (94th)Disney2020 (93rd)Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon BatisteDisney, Pixar2018 (91st)20th Century Fox Animation, Indian ...2011 (84th)Nickelodeon Movies, Amblin Entertainment, ...- Plot
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Young Carl Fredricksen idolizes famous explorer Charles F. Muntz. When accused of fabricating the skeleton of a giant bird he brought back from Paradise Falls in South America, Muntz leaves, and vows not to return until he has captured one alive. Carl meets a girl named Ellie, also a Muntz fan, who confides her desire to move her "clubhouse"—an aba...
Ed Asner as Carl Fredricksen: A retired salesman and widower who flies his house to Paradise Falls to fulfill a childhood dream he shared with his late wife Ellie. Docter and Rivera noted Asner's t...Christopher Plummer as Charles F. Muntz: A renowned explorer who claims to have discovered a species of giant bird and has not been seen since vowing to bring a live specimen from South America. Th...Development
Director Pete Docter began writing Up in 2004 under the title of Heliums. He developed the fantasy of a flying house on the idea of escaping from life when it becomes too irritating, which stemmed from his difficulty with social situations growing up. Actor and writer Tom McCarthy aided Docter and Bob Peterson in shaping the story for about three months. Docter selected an old man for the main character after drawing a picture of a grumpy old man with smiling balloons.The two men thought an o...
Animation
Docter made Venezuela the film's setting after Ralph Eggleston gave him a video of the tepui mountains of Canaima National Park; tepuis were previously featured in another Disney film, Dinosaur. In 2004, Docter and eleven other Pixar artists spent three days reaching Monte Roraima by airplane, by jeep, and by helicopter. They also spent three nights there painting and sketching, and encountering ants, mosquitoes, scorpions, frogs, and snakes. They then flew to Matawi Tepui and climbed to Ange...
Up is the third Pixar film to be scored by Michael Giacchino, after The Incredibles and Ratatouille. What Pete Docter wanted most importantly out of the music was the emotion, so Giacchino wrote a character theme-based score that producer Jonas Rivera thought enhanced the story. At the beginning of the movie, when young Carl is in the movie theater...
When the film screened at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California, from May 29 to July 23, 2009, it was accompanied by Lighten Up!, a live show featuring Disney characters. Other tie-ins included children's books such as My Name is Dug, illustrated by screenwriter Ronnie del Carmen. Despite Pixar's track record, Target Corporation and Walma...
Box office
Up earned $293 million in the United States and Canada and $442.1 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $735.1 million. Worldwide, it was the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2009, the fourth-highest-grossing Pixar film, and the 24th-highest-grossing animated film. In the United States and Canada, Up is the 59th-highest-grossing film before inflation, the tenth-highest-grossing Disney film, the seventh-highest-grossing 3-D film, the sixth-highest-grossing animated film, the fifth-...
Critical response
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 98% approval rating based on 298 reviews, the highest rated film of that year on the website, with an average rating of 8.70/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "An exciting, funny, and poignant adventure, Up offers an impeccably crafted story told with wit and arranged with depth, as well as yet another visual Pixar treat." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 88 out of 100 based on 37 critics, i...
Accolades
Up won two awards at the 82nd Academy Awards, for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score. It is the second of three animated features to have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Beauty and the Beast and Toy Story 3 were also nominated for Best Picture in their respective years. Up also won Best Original Score and Best Animated Feature Film at the 67th Golden Globe Awards. It was nominated for nine Annie Awards in eight categories, winning two awards for "Best Animate...
On May 26, 2009, a video game of the same namewas released for multiple platforms. Another video game, Kinect Rush: A Disney–Pixar Adventure, was released on March 20, 2012, for the Xbox 360. It features characters from five of Pixar's films: Up, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, and Toy Story. In 2018, a Lego The Incrediblesvideo game was releas...
Dug Days
On December 10, 2020, on Disney Investors Day, an animated series taking place after the events of the film titled Dug Days was announced for Disney+. The series will focus on Dug and Carl as they reside in Suburbia. The series will premiere in the fall of 2021.
Up at IMDbUp at the TCM Movie DatabaseBroadcast Film Critics Association Awards. Won: Critics' Choice Award for Best Animated Feature. Won: Critics' Choice Award for Best Score - Michael Giacchino. Nominated: Critics' Choice Award for Best Picture. Nominated: Critics' Choice Award for Best Original Screenplay - Pete Docter, Bob Peterson.
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Feb 6, 2014 · Cameron Diaz and Steve Carell present Pete Docter with the Oscar for Animated Feature for Up at the 82nd Academy Awards.
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