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LAIKA’s ‘Kubo and the Two Strings,’ Disney’s ‘Inner Workings’ and ‘Zootopia,’ and Pixar’s ‘Finding Dory’ among 28 awards for distinguished achievement.

Contenders in the animated feature, animated short and visual effects categories share their initial reactions to their nominations for Oscar gold.

Animated contenders for the Cinema Audio Society’s 53rd Annual CAS Awards for outstanding achievement in sound mixing are ‘Finding Dory, ‘Kubo and the Two Strings,’ ‘Moana,’ ‘The Secret Life of Pets’ and ‘Zootopia.

Pixar’s ‘Finding Dory,’ LAIKA’s ‘Kubo and the Two Strings,’ and Disney’s ‘Moana’ and ‘Zootropolis’ (‘Zootopia’) receive nominations for best animated feature; British short animation nominees are ‘The Alan Dimension,’ ‘A Love Story’ and ‘Tough.’

LAIKA’s ‘Kubo and the Two Strings’ and Disney’s ‘Moana’ and ‘Zootopia’ receive nominations for best edited animated feature film.

Disney films pick up awards for best animated feature and best visual effects; Netflix’s ‘BoJack Horseman’ receives award for best animated series.

Directed by Leo Matsuda, ‘Inner Workings’ uses combination of hand-drawn and CG animation previously employed in the Oscar-winning shorts ‘Paperman’ and ‘Feast.’

With some projects yet to complete their qualifying run, a record 27 features are submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 89th Academy Awards.

The Mouse House posts its biggest year ever at the global box office with $5,851.4 million through Nov. 1, surpassing the studio’s previous calendar-year record of $5,843.8 million set in 2015.

Talks and workshops at the 2016 edition of Italy’s largest computer graphics conference to include ‘Finding Hank’ with Pixar supervising technical director John Halstead, The Visual Design of ‘The Good Dinosaur’ with director of photography Sharon Calahan, and The Making of ‘Open Season: Scared Silly’ with director David Feiss.