Early Disney DVD Set contenders scarce despite rule change

As the first half of 2010 draws to a Disney DVD Set| Disney dvd, serious Academy Awards contenders have yet to emerge.

Admittedly, the 83rd annual Disney dvd collection ceremony, set for February 27, is a long way off. And traditionally most awards hopefuls arrive during the second half of the year.

But when the Academy of Motion Disney movies dvd and Sciences expanded its best picture race to ten nominees last year, it opened the door so that commercial hits could be rewarded alongside narrower, specialty fare.

At its March meeting, the Academy's board of Disney box set approved following the ten-best formula again. "It worked out really well last year," Academy president Tom Sherak says. "And, hopefully, it will work out really well this year. Disney dvd if it hadn't been as successful as it was, we always felt you had to try it for a couple of years."

Yet despite the Academy's open-door policy, the Disney collection industry hasn't been pumping out likely nominees.

"I don't think we're going to look back on the first Disney cartoons dvd and find anything," says one campaign consultant, who's been stymied in drawing up early tout sheets.

"Robin Hood," given the full red-carpet treatment at the Cannes Film Festival, may have reteamed Russell Crowe and director Disney animation dvd, but it paled next to their Oscar-winning "Gladiator." With more than $300 million in domestic grosses, "Iron Man 2" has moved ahead of the original's Disney on dvd at the same point in its release, but the sequel failed to generate the critical enthusiasm that greeted its 2008 Disney dvd box set.

Far from championing awards hopefuls, critics have spent the first half of Hollywood's summer movie season competing to see who could Family Guy DVD|Family Guy the most devastating put-downs of movies like "family guy dvd series" and "The A-Team."

All that should change this weekend, as family guy dvd box set releases Pixar's "Toy Story 3," the first blue-chip contender in the 2010 awards race. As of Thursday, it boasted a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes -- just like the first two installments in the franchise.

And just as Pixar's "Up" was the earliest family guy dvd complete release -- it opened on May 29 last year -- to go on to score a best picture nomination, the third "family guy box set" could become the first 2010 entry to make it into the circle of ten.

Last year, at this point, Oscar family guy dvd set were debating whether a cartoon could break out of the animated feature ghetto to score a best picture nomination. "Up," which ultimately lifted off with five noms, made that conversation family guy on dvd.

This year, the debate could well center on family guy new release more than one animated movie can hold down a spot in the best picture circle. DreamWorks Animation's "How to Train Your Dragon," racked up some of the best reviews of the year to date. And Sylvain Chomet's "looney tunes dvd," which Sony Pictures Classics will release toward year's end, is not only directed by the creator of 2003's "The Triplets of Belleville," which collected two Oscar nominations, it is based on an unproduced screenplay by late cinematic titan Jacques Tati.

Looking toward July, the next great Warner Bros Cartoons DVD| Warner Bros likely to stake its claim is Christopher Nolan's "Inception," starring Leonardo DiCaprio, which Warners opens July 16. Visually-arresting trailers have only hinted at what Nolan's original screenplay is all about -- something about invading dreams -- but the director has Warner Bros DVD such a loyal fan-base and devoted critical following that there will be cries of distress if the movie fails to deliver. (When the Academy failed to nominate his last film, "The Dark Knight," for best picture, it set off a fury of criticism that, in part, led to the new ten-picture field.)