TheWrap Screening Series: Best Animated Feature Nominees on Being ‘Dazzled by the Array of Different Styles’ | Video

2023 was an unprecedented year for animated features, when technology emboldened filmmakers to craft stories beyond imagination and audiences responded to those stories accordingly. (The second and third highest grossing movies at the domestic box office were animated features.) These breakthroughs are clearly evident in the crop of films nominated for the Best Animated Feature Oscar and TheWrap was lucky enough to sit down with filmmakers from each of those movies to talk about the state of the medium and how lucky they all were to be acknowledged. You can watch the full conversation here.

Kemp Powers, one of the directors of “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse;” Nick Bruno, one of the directors of “Nimona;” Peter Sohn, the director of “Elemental;” Pablo Berger, director of “Robot Dreams;” and Toshio Suzuki, producer of “The Boy and the Heron” (and co-founder of Studio Ghibli) all spoke about the process of getting their films made – and the surprises along the way.