Its Oscar success comes after it was named best animated feature film awards at the Baftas and the Golden Globes.

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Animated films are well represented on the list with four entries, led by WALL-E, which is nominated for a Best Animated Feature Film Oscar.

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The film featuring balding cheese-lover Wallace and his canine companion Gromit came out on top in the Academy Awards best animated feature film category.

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Studio Ghibli's "Spirited Away, " which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film in 2003, remains the top-grossing Japanese film in history, and Miyazaki, who co-founded the studio in 1985, has been called "Japan's Walt Disney" for his impact on the country's animation culture.

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Toy Story 3, the highest grossing film of 2010, won Best Animated Feature and Alice in Wonderland, the second highest earning film, won for costume design and art direction.

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The best animated feature went to "Ratatouille, " a computer-animated Pixar film directed and written by Oscar winner Brad Bird ("The Incredibles").

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Martin Scorsese was named best director for Hugo, a family film that marked his first 3D feature, while Steven Spielberg received the animated feature prize for The Adventures of Tintin.

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