Over the Moon - 1 nomination

Best Animated Feature Film - Glen Keane , Gennie Rim , Peilin Chou 

Over the Moon is the most underrated film of the year.  When I saw it, nobody had seen it or even heard about it.  The animation is exquisite and it is a musical to boot, with truly extraordinary Broadway singers singing gorgeous songs that somehow were also overlooked in the Original Song category.

The story is of a young girl, Fei Fei, a smart, wonderful kid still coping with the tragic loss of her mother (so Disney, amiright? Why does there always have to be a dead parent?  Sheesh.) who rockets herself (and her about to be step-brother) to the moon in search of her idol, the moon goddess Chang'e.  Chang'e has experienced grief and loss herself, and is awaiting a gift that will spark the return of her love, Houyi.  Chang'e tells Fei Fei that Fei Fei has a gift that Chang'e requires to bring Houyi back.  The girl and the goddess find that their shared experience of grief is what is holding each of them back, and they find peace when discovering all of the love they have in their lives, even without their lost loved ones.

I can't say enough good things about this film.  If you're like me, you remember how the colors of the movie Avatar affected you when you first saw them in all their 3-D glory.  The colors of this film - both audio and visual - burn so brightly that you don't need a child with you to justify watching it.  It's just magnificent.

Watch the trailer here.