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Richard Linklater speaks out after the Academy rejects Apollo 10 ½ from Best Animation category
Richard Linklater's latest animated movie doesn't qualify for an animation Oscar, and the director isn't happy about it. Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood was released on Netflix in March this year. Set during the 1969 Moon Landing, the film explores the fantasies of children on Earth who watched the historic televised event and is loosely based on the director's own childhood. The movie is made in a similar style to Linklater's rotoscoped films, A Scanner Darkly and Waking Life, and takes inspiration from kids' Saturday morning cartoons.