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 ...

Hollywood, CA, September 06, 2011: The 15th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Film Awards, presented by Starz Entertainment, have announced that “Rango” will receive this year’s Hollywood ...

Rango took Best Animated Feature and The Simpsons was named Best General Audience Animated TV Production tonight at the 39th Annual Annie Awards, hosted by Patton Oswalt and held at UCLA’s Royce Hall.

It’s a strange year in the Oscar animated category, as there are so many sequels. The Annie Award nominations often become a bellwether of where the race could go. Thus Dreamworks had a very good day, ...

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 ...

Talk about the minis slaying the majors! It doesn’t get much more defined in those terms than in the financial divide between the nominees for this year’s Best Animated Feature Oscar. In one corner ...

There isn't another film quite like Rango, an animated Western that holds a clear reverence for the genre it emulates while barely managing to remain a family-friendly animated picture. One of the ...

After three hit pirate films with Johnny Depp, director Gore Verbinski made a risky animated feature in the same way he made his live-action films. He could have become roadkill, but now he's Oscar ...

There's a new sheriff in town. "Rango," director Gore Verbinski trippy animated Western, has won the Oscar for best animated feature at tonight's (Feb. 26) 84th annual Academy Awards. The animated ...

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