The Oscar nominations were announced this morning. Here are the noms related to Animation/VFX:

Best Animated Feature:

• “Persepolis” (Sony Pictures Classics) Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
• “Ratatouille” (Walt Disney) Brad Bird
• “Surf’s Up” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Ash Brannon and Chris Buck

Achievement in Film Editing:

• “The Bourne Ultimatum” (Universal) Christopher Rouse
• “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” (Miramax/Pathé Renn) Juliette Welfling
• “Into the Wild” (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment) Jay Cassidy
• “No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Roderick Jaynes
• “There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Dylan Tichenor

Best Animated Short Film:

• “I Met the Walrus” (A Kids & Explosions Production) Josh Raskin
• “Madame Tutli-Putli” (A National Film Board of Canada Production) Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski
• “Même Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)” (Premium Films, A BUF Compagnie Production) Samuel Tourneux and Simon Vanesse
• “My Love (Moya Lyubov)” (A Dago-Film Studio, Channel One Russia and Dentsu Tec Production) Alexander Petrov
• “Peter & the Wolf” (A BreakThru Films/Se-ma-for Studios Production) Suzie Templeton and Hugh Welchman

Achievement in Visual Effects:

• “The Golden Compass” (New Line with Ingenious Film Partners) Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood
• “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” (Walt Disney) John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier
• “Transformers” (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro) Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl and John Frazier