— evident in the old-school animation, storybook settings and pitch-perfect use of Burl Ives — that it's easy to forgive his self-conscious touches." Ann Hornaday from The Washington Post calls it a "self-consciously quirky movie that manages to be twee and ultra-hip at the same time, it qualifies as yet another wry, carefully composed bibelot in the cabinet of curios that defines the Anderson oeuvre." Peter Howell from the Toronto Star stated that "[i]n an age when everything seems digital, computer-driven and as fake as instant coffee, more and more artists (Spike Jonze and John Lasseter among them) are embracing the old ways of vinyl records, hand-drawn cartoons and painstaking stop-motion character movements." In 2011, Richard Corliss of Time magazine named it one of "The 25 All-Time Best Animated Films". Awards The film was nominated for the 2010 Critics Choice Awards for Best Animated Feature, the 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, the 2010 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and Academy Award for Best Original Score; but ultimately lost all the nominations to Up. It was also nominated for the Grand Prix of the Belgian Syndicate of Cinema Critics. Alexandre Desplat won Soundtrack Composer of the Year and World Soundtrack of the Year at the 2010 World Soundtrack Awards. On January 14, 2010, the National Board of Review awarded Anderson a Special Filmmaking Achievement award. After giving his acceptance speech, the audio of the speech was used in a short animation of Anderson's character (Weasel) giving the speech, animated by Payton Curtis, a key stop-motion animator on the film. References External links Fantastic Mr. Fox: Vulpine Nature an essay by Erica Wagner at the Criterion Collection 2009 films 2009 animated films 2000s American animated films American children's animated comedy films Animated films about foxes Animated films about revenge American animated films Films based on works by Roald Dahl 2000s stop-motion animated films Films about badgers Films set in 2006 Films set in 2008 Films set on farms Animated films directed by Wes Anderson Films scored by Alexandre Desplat Films with screenplays by Wes Anderson Films produced by Wes Anderson Films produced by Allison Abbate Annecy Cristal for a Feature Film winners 20th Century Fox films 20th Century Fox animated films Films based on British novels Indian Paintbrush (production company) films Regency Enterprises films Animated films based on novels Animated films about rats 2000s English-language films