The One and Only Ivan - 1 nomination

Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Nick Davis 
Greg Fisher 
Ben Jones 
Santiago Colomo (as Santiago Colomo Martinez)

Who doesn't love talking animal movies? 

Ivan is a gorilla and the star of a tiny circus.  There's a whole family of animals in the show, and the audience continues to dwindle.  Mack (Bryan Cranston) comes up with a wonderful idea and obtains a baby elephant, bringing back ticket buyers and slightly revitalizing the small show.  But the baby elephant reminds Ivan of how he lost his freedom, and together they dream of a future living back in the wild.  The animals work together to help them find this perfect oasis, but the first step is figuring out how to escape their cages.

This is a wonderful children's movie, but it might not be for very young children who are not ready to see or understand an animal dying.  The visual effects are amazing - it really does look like these animals are talking and interacting with each other and with people.  Even as an adult I thoroughly enjoyed it, but I'm not sure that most adults would get all the way through it without a child by their sides.

Watch the trailer here.

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