Up is a 2009 American animated film directed by Pete Docter, who wrote the script with Bob Peterson. It stars the voices of Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai, and Peterson. The film centers on elderly widower Carl Fredricksen (Asner) and Wilderness Explorer Russell (Nagai), who go on a journey to South America in order to fulfill a promise that Carl made to his late wife Ellie. Along the way, they meet a talking dog named Dug (Peterson), and encounter a giant bird named Kevin, who is being hunted by the explorer Charles Muntz (Plummer).[1][2]
 Pete Docter (right) won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature while Jonas Rivera (left) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Wins | 43 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nominations | 70 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Up debuted at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival on May 13, 2009,[3] and was released in theaters in the United States on May 29.[4] It earned $735 million worldwide,[5] making it the sixth highest-grossing film of 2009.[6] On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Up holds an approval rating of 98% based on 297 reviews.[7]
Up garnered various awards and nominations, most of them in the Best Animated Picture and Best Music categories, the latter composed by Michael Giacchino. Up was nominated for five Academy Awards at the 2010 ceremony, winning two: Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score. It was the second fully-animated film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture; the first being Beauty and the Beast (1991).[8] Up became the third consecutive Pixar film to win the Academy Award for Animated Feature, after Ratatouille (2007) and WALL-E (2008).[9] The film also won the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature Film and Best Original Score at the 67th Golden Globe Awards. Up received nine nominations for the Annie Awards in eight categories, winning Best Animated Feature and Best Directing in a Feature Production. It also was selected as the Summer Movie Comedy at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards, and received three Grammy Award nominations at 52nd Grammy Awards, winning two. Rivera received the Producer of the Year Award at the Producers Guild of America Awards, while Docter, Peterson and Giacchino were honored with British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards for their work on the film.
Accolades
| Award | Date of ceremony | Category | Recipients | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Academy Awards[10] | March 7, 2010 | Best Picture | Jonas Rivera | Nominated |
| Best Original Screenplay | Pete Docter (screenplay/story), Bob Peterson (screenplay/story), and Tom McCarthy (story) | |||
| Best Animated Feature | Pete Docter | Won | ||
| Best Original Score | Michael Giacchino | |||
| Best Sound Editing | Tom Myers and Michael Silvers | Nominated | ||
| Annie Awards[11][12] | February 6, 2010 | Best Animated Feature | Pete Docter and Bob Peterson | Won |
| Best Animated Effects | Eric Froemling | Nominated | ||
| Best Character Animation in a Feature Production | Daniel Nguyen | |||
| Best Character Design in a Feature Production | Daniel López Muñoz | |||
| Best Directing in a Feature Production | Pete Docter | Won | ||
| Best Music in a Feature Production | Michael Giacchino | Nominated | ||
| Best Storyboarding in a Feature Production | Ronnie Del Carmen | |||
| Peter Sohn | ||||
| Best Writing in a Feature Production | Pete Docter, Tom McCarthy, and Bob Peterson | |||
| Artios Awards[13] | November 2, 2009 | Outstanding Achievement in Casting – Animation Feature | Natalie Lyon and Kevin Reher | Won |
| Austin Film Critics Award[14] | December 15, 2009 | Best Animated Film | ||
| Best Music | Michael Giacchino | |||
| Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards[15] | March 27, 2010 | Favorite Animated Movie | ||
| British Academy Film Awards[16][17] | February 21, 2010 | Best Animated Film | Pete Docter and Bob Peterson | |
| Best Film Music | Michael Giacchino | |||
| Best Original Screenplay | Pete Docter and Bob Peterson | Nominated | ||
| Best Sound | Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, and Michael Silvers | |||
| Chicago Film Critics Association Awards[18] | December 21, 2009 | Best Animated Feature | Won | |
| Best Original Score | Michael Giacchino | |||
| Best Original Screenplay | Bob Peterson | Nominated | ||
| Columbus Film Critics Association Awards[19] | January 7, 2010 | Best Score | Michael Giacchino | Won |
| Best Animated Feature | Up | |||
| Critics Choice Awards[20][21] | January 15, 2010 | Best Animated Feature | Won | |
| Best Picture | Nominated | |||
| Best Score | Michael Giacchino | Won | ||
| Best Original Screenplay | Pete Docter and Bob Peterson | Nominated | ||
| Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards[22][23] | December 16, 2009 | Best Animated Film | Won | |
| Eddie Awards[24] | February 14, 2010 | Best Edited Animated Feature Film | Kevin Nolting | |
| East West Players[25] | April 19, 2010 | Breakout Performance Award | Jordan Nagai | |
| EWP Visionary Award | Pixar | |||
| Florida Film Critics Circle Awards[26] | December 21, 2009 | Best Animated Feature | ||
| Golden Eagle Award[27] | January 21, 2011 | Best Foreign Language Film | Up | Nominated |
| Golden Globe Awards[28] | January 17, 2010 | Best Animated Feature Film | Pete Docter and Bob Peterson | Won |
| Best Original Score | Michael Giacchino | |||
| Golden Reel Awards[29] | February 20, 2010 | Best Sound Editing – Sound Effects, Foley, Music, Dialogue and ADR Animation in a Feature Film | ||
| Golden Tomatoes Awards[30] | January 10, 2010 | Wide Release | ||
| Grammy Awards[31][32] | January 31, 2010 | Best Instrumental Arrangement | Michael Giacchino and Tim Simonec | Nominated |
| Best Instrumental Composition | Michael Giacchino | Won | ||
| Best Score Soundtrack Album | ||||
| Hugo Awards[33] | September 5, 2010 | Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form | Pete Docter, Tom McCarthy, and Bob Peterson | Nominated |
| Irish Film and Television Awards[34] | February 20, 2010 | Best International Film | ||
| Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards[35] | January 3, 2010 | Best Animated Film | Won | |
| Producers Guild of America Award[36] | January 24, 2010 | Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures | Jonas Rivera | |
| Theatrical Motion Pictures | Nominated | |||
| National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Awards[37] | January 14, 2010 | Best Animated Feature | Won | |
| Online Film Critics Society Awards[38][39] | January 6, 2010 | Best Animated Film | Pete Docter | |
| Best Original Score | Michael Giacchino | |||
| Best Picture | Nominated | |||
| Best Original Screenplay | Bob Peterson | |||
| Palm Dog Award[40] | May 22, 2009 | Best Canine Performance during the Cannes Film Festival | "Dug" | Won |
| Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards[41] | December 22, 2009 | Best Animated Film | ||
| Best Original Score | Michael Giacchino | |||
| Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | Pete Docter and Bob Peterson | |||
| Satellite Awards[42] | December 20, 2009 | Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature | Nominated | |
| Best Original Screenplay | ||||
| Best Original Score | Michael Giacchino | |||
| Saturn Awards[43] | June 24, 2010 | Best Animated Film | Pete Docter | |
| Best Music | Michael Giacchino | |||
| Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards[44] | December 13, 2009 | Best Animated Feature | Won | |
| Teen Choice Awards[45] | August 9, 2009 | Choice Summer Movie: Comedy | ||
| Visual Effects Society[46] | February 10, 2010 | Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture | Gary Bruins, Pete Docter, Steve May, and Jonas Rivera | |
| Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature Motion Picture | Ed Asner, Carmen Ngai, Brian Tindall, and Ron Zorman | |||
| Outstanding Effects Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture | Alexis Angelidis, Eric Froemling, Jason Johnston, and Jon Reisch | |||
| Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards[47] | December 7, 2009 | Best Animated Feature | ||
| Best Film | Nominated | |||
| Best Original Screenplay | Pete Docter and Bob Peterson | |||
| Women Film Critics Circle[48] | December 9, 2009 | Best Family Film | Won |
