Laika's First Four Features Each Landed an Oscar Nomination; Deadline Calls 'Wildwood' Its Most Ambitious
Laika is four for four with the Academy. The Oregon animation house, which specializes in stop motion, saw all four of its first features — Coraline, ParaNorman, Missing Link and Kubo and the Two Strings — land Best Animated Feature Oscar nominations. Deadline's review of the studio's newest film, Wildwood, calls it Laika's latest and unquestionably most ambitious project, and suggests the streak could well continue. The record, worth remembering, measures nominations rather than wins — four admissions to the category, no statement about what happens next. Still, for a house that works frame by frame rather than in a software pipeline, that consistency is the sort of thing that makes a next release feel like an event.
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Four nominations from four first features is the kind of record that turns a small studio's next release into an event for people who follow animation closely.
Deadline's 'could well continue' is an expectation written before any nomination exists, and the record counts nominations, not wins. Both are worth keeping straight.