How to Train Your Dragon’s Live-Action Leap and The Race for Best Animated Feature (Ep. 294)

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In this episode of Fine Tooning, Jim Hill and Drew Taylor dive into the biggest stories in animation, including: The live-action How to Train Your Dragon – Drew shares behind-the-scenes details from his visit to the Universal lot, where he sat in the editing bay with director Dean DeBlois. The Academy Awards race heats up! With the Oscars just two weeks away, The Wild Robot and Flow battle for Best Animated Feature. Box office updates: Ne Zha 2 smashes records in China, surpassing Frozen 2’s worldwide gross in just 18 days. The return of Feathers McGraw! Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl wins big at the BAFTAs, and Drew uncovers how Aardman revived the iconic villain. Disney blinks! Elio moves its release date after the first How to Train Your Dragon trailer drops. Tune in for exclusive industry insights, awards buzz, and deep dives into animation’s biggest stories! Be Our Guest Vacations Planning your next Disney vacation? Be Our Guest Vacations is a Platinum-level Earmarked travel agency with concierge-level service to make every trip magical. Their team of expert agents plans vacations across the globe, from Disney and Universal to cruises and adventures, ensuring you have the best possible experience without the stress. Learn More Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Welcome back to fine tuning with Drew Taylor, your one-stop shop when it comes to animation
0:34.7	news and commentary. I'm entertainment writer Jim Hill and Mr.
0:40.3	Taylor, whose writings in the industry you can regularly read over on the rap and whose musings
0:45.0	on the Mission Impossible films you can listen to on the Light the Fuse podcast. He and I are recording
0:51.7	this week's episode on Sunday, February 16th, which Drew puts us just two weeks out from the 97th Academy Awards, which will air on ABC, two weeks from tonight, Sunday, March 2nd.
1:08.0	And do I have this right that the voting actually ends?
1:13.1	Well, the day that this podcast goes live, right?
1:16.2	Uh, Tuesday, February 18th, what, five in the afternoon?
1:19.9	Uh, is that right?
1:21.2	Jeez, I got a, I got, I got some stuff I got to put up, uh, before.
1:26.0	That's right.
1:34.7	Okay. Oh, I, all right no pressure uh that said though as i understand it just under 10,000 members of the academy will be voting in 23 different categories
1:40.8	including best animated feature and bestated Short. And I have to say,
1:48.9	I've enjoyed some of the campaigns they put together to promote some of the films this year.
1:54.4	But I only just in this past week saw the one for Inside Out 2, The Choose Joy.
2:01.8	Oh, yeah, that's a good one.
2:03.0	I thought so, too.
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