SAN FRANCISCO--When he started making his new film "Rango," director Gore Verbinski knew he wanted it to look and feel much like many of the Westerns it evokes: gritty, dirty, and sweaty. "He wanted ...

Jennifer Yuh Nelson is named best director for “Kung Fu Panda 2.” By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor Rango was named best animated feature, and won three additional competition categories for writing, ...

The first animated feature from Industrial Light & Magic, the film is richly detailed, from the dirt billowing across the desert to the way the animal characters’ eyes dart back and forth. How did the ...

Defying every convention of the animated genre, Gore Verbinski’s PG-rated $135-million Rango opened well, at $38 million. Why? As Verbinski (who jumped ship on Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean ...

While there aren’t too many changes in this week’s best picture countdown things are heating up in the best animated feature race. The Academy announced 18 films that had qualified for the animated ...

"Rango," starring Johnny Depp as the voice of a pet chameleon who tries to bring law and order to a town in the Wild West, won the Oscar for best animated feature film on Sunday. Feb. 26, 2012, 9:54 ...

In light of the Best Animated Film Academy Awards nomination it just received this morning, Paramount Pictures is re-releasing Gore Verbinski's Rango in just one theater in Los Angeles starting this ...

Academy voters got a closer look Thursday at what went into creating the unique look of Rango as Paramount released a behind-the-scenes featurette highlighting its CGI progression. By Todd Gilchrist, ...

Rango This isn’t just a line from an animated film — it’s a truth dressed as dialogue. In Rango, this moment marks the ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Rango," starring Johnny Depp as the voice of a pet chameleon who tries to bring law and order to a town in the Wild West, won the Oscar for best animated feature film on ...