Aardman Animation's highly anticipated (and very long awaited) Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget is coming to Netflix this December, and it has much to live up to as a sequel to the most successful stop-motion animation film of all time: 2000's Chicken Run. The trailer for the film certainly suggests that the whimsy of the first film is intact (Babs (Jane Horrocks), in particular, seems as lovingly dimwitted as she ever has been). Like its predecessor, it's unlikely to be nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award, but in an interesting twist of fate, it is likely going to be in line for a Best Animated Feature Oscar, something Chicken Run couldn't fall back on. Why? Because the category simply didn't exist. But its exclusion from the Best Picture race was instrumental in creating the Best Animated Feature category going forward. How the cluck did this happen?
How ‘Chicken Run’ Changed the Oscars Forever
What the cluck!?