{"id":856,"date":"2014-01-17T15:08:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T13:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=856"},"modified":"2014-01-17T15:08:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T13:08:53","slug":"frozen-heats-up-the-2014-awards-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2014\/01\/17\/frozen-heats-up-the-2014-awards-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Frozen Heats Up The 2014 Awards Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Walt Disney Company Africa is proud to share the news that Disney Animation Studios\u2019 latest animation, <a title=\"Frozen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/film\/1719\" target=\"_blank\"><b><i>Frozen<\/i><\/b><\/a>, continues to receive worldwide popular and critical acclaim, by earning two Academy Award nominations announced today, Thursday 16 January.<\/p>\n<p>The big-screen comedy adventure is in the running for <b>Best Animated Feature Film of the Year<\/b> and\u00a0 <b>Best Original Song<\/b> (for \u2018Let it go\u2019). <b><i>Frozen<\/i><\/b> features the fearless<b> <\/b>optimist Anna (voice of Kristen Bell) who sets off on an epic journey\u2014teaming up with rugged mountain man Kristoff (voice of Jonathan Groff) and his loyal reindeer Sven\u2014to find her sister Elsa (voice of Idina Menzel), whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom of Arendelle in eternal winter. Encountering Everest-like conditions, mystical trolls and a hilarious snowman named Olaf (voice of Josh Gad), Anna and Kristoff battle the elements in a race to save the kingdom. In cinemas now, Disney\u2019s <b><i>Frozen<\/i><\/b> continues to be well received by audiences, with over US $700 million in worldwide and over R25m in local box-office sales \u2013 it\u2019s no doubt Summer\u2019s coolest film, in spite of the current heat!<\/p>\n<p>The nominations come hot on the heels of the film\u2019s win earlier this month as the Best Animated Feature Film at the 71<sup>st<\/sup> Golden Globe Awards, and its announcement as a nominee in the 2014 Best Animated Film category at the BAFTA awards.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring Walt Disney himself as the voice of Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney Animation Studios\u2019 <b><i>Get A Horse!<\/i><\/b> rounds off the animation nods for Disney this year with its nomination in the <b>Best Animated Short<\/b> category. Shown before <b><i>Frozen<\/i><\/b>, the ground-breaking animated short follows Mickey and his favourite gal pal Minnie Mouse (voice of Marcellite Garner) and their friends as they delight in a musical haywagon ride. With both classic black-and-white, hand-drawn animation and up-to-the-minute technical wizardry\u2014often in the same frame\u2014this short takes us back to a timeless age, captivating audiences of every age. Click <a title=\"blocked::http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hiTwhXfgHPc\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hiTwhXfgHPc\">here<\/a> to get a sneak preview.<\/p>\n<p>In the technical categories, Marvel Studios\u2019 billion box-office spectacular <b><i>Iron Man 3<\/i><\/b> scored a nod in the <b>Best Visual Effects<\/b> category, whilst Disney\u2019s wild-west adventure epic <b><i>The Lone Ranger<\/i><\/b> receives the accolade as one of the nominees for <b>Best Make-up and Hairstyling<\/b>. Both are currently available nationwide in leading retailers on DVD and Blu-ray.<\/p>\n<p>The Academy Awards will be announced on Sunday, 2 March 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Walt Disney Company Africa is proud to share the news that Disney Animation Studios\u2019 latest animation, Frozen, continues to receive worldwide popular and critical acclaim, by earning two Academy Award nominations announced today, Thursday 16 January. The big-screen comedy adventure is in the running for Best Animated Feature Film of the Year and\u00a0 Best&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2014\/01\/17\/frozen-heats-up-the-2014-awards-season\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Frozen Heats Up The 2014 Awards Season<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}