“God forbid we should ever be anything other than the underdog,” said Beckman with a laugh. GKIDS has two of the five nominees this year, “Boy and the World” and “When Marnie Was There” they also notched two of the five last year with “Song of the Sea” and “The Tale of the Princess Kaguya,” and two in 2011 with “A Cat in Paris” and “Chico and Rita.” They’ve also scored nods for 2009’s “The Secret of Kells” and 2013’s “Ernest & Celestine.”Īll eight of the company’s Oscar nominees will be screened at the Laemmle Ahrya Fine Arts Theater in Beverly Hills beginning Feb.
“If you watch the movies, it shouldn’t be a surprise.”Īlso Read: From 'Inside Out' to 'Minions' to 'Anomalisa' - Oscar's Animated Films Square Off “Every year it’s amusing to me that our films get nominated and people say, ‘What a surprise!'” GKIDS president Eric Beckman told TheWrap. Since it launched in 2008, the company has landed a startling eight nominations with the kind of films that fly under the radar right up until the moment they’re announced as nominees. But you’d probably be surprised to learn who comes in second: Not DreamWorks Animation or Illumination or Blue Sky or Laika, but a small, eight-year-old New York-based company called GKIDS. Over the last seven years, Disney/Pixar has ruled the Oscar animation field with nine nominations and five wins. A version of this story first appeared in the Oscar Nominations issue of TheWrap’s Oscar magazine.
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