TheWrap

Richard Linklater on ‘Battle’ With Academy Over ‘Apollo 10 1/2’: ‘If It’s Not Animated, What Is It?’

A version of this story about “Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood” first appeared in the Awards Preview issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine. The Academy made Richard Linklater play a waiting game with ...
Vulture

The Academy Revises Decision on What Exactly Counts As Animation

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has decided that animation can include such things as rotoscoping and shells with shoes on. Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood, Marcel the Shell With ...
AOL

‘Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood’ Review: Richard Linklater’s Sweet Animated Flashback to Growing Up in 1969

Everybody knows the name of the first man to step foot on the moon, but how many have heard the story of the kid who walked there before him? Richard Linklater’s “Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood” ...
IndieWire

‘Marcel the Shell,’ ‘Apollo 10 1/2,’ and ‘Eternal Spring’ All Qualify for Best Animated Feature Oscar

This past November, the Academy deemed the stop-motion shell eligible and reversed its previous decision on Richard Linklater's animated memoir. Nominations voting is from January 12-17, 2023, with ...
Yahoo

Mediawan Acquires Dutch ‘Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood’ Producer Submarine

France’s Mediawan has continued its acquisitions spree by acquiring Submarine, the international producer behind Richard Linklater’s animated film Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood. The deal, ...
The Inlander

Richard Linklater lovingly explores childhood memories in Apollo 10 1/2

Richard Linklater is so good at evoking nostalgia in movies like Boyhood and Dazed and Confused that he can make viewers feel a pensive longing for a time and place they never even experienced. He ...