Toon Talk: Toy Story 10th Anniversary DVD - Sep 6, 2005

Toon Talk: Toy Story 10th Anniversary DVD
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Toy Story - The Awards:

And the nominees are … (winners noted by *)

Academy Awards:

  • Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen: Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow; Story by John Lasseter, Peter Docter, Andrew Stanton and Joe Ranft
  • Original Score - Musical or Comedy: Randy Newman
  • Original Song: “You’ve Got a Friend in Me�?, Randy Newman
  • *Special Achievement Award: John Lasseter - “For the development and inspired application of techniques that have made possible the first feature-length computer animated film.�?

Golden Globe Awards:

  • Best Picture - Musical or Comedy: Bonnie Arnold and Ralph Guggenheim, producers
  • Original Song: “You’ve Got a Friend in Me�?, Randy Newman

Producers Guild of America:

  • *Special Achievement Award: Bonnie Arnold and Ralph Guggenheim, producers

Annie Awards:

  • *Best Animated Feature
  • *Best Individual Achievement - Directing: John Lasseter
  • *Best Individual Achievement - Writing: Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow, Andrew Stanton and Joss Whedon
  • *Best Individual Achievement - Animation: Pete Docter
  • *Best Individual Achievement - Music: Randy Newman
  • *Best Individual Achievement - Producing: Bonnie Arnold and Ralph Guggenheim
  • *Best Individual Achievement - Production Design: Ralph Eggleston
  • *Best Individual Achievement - Technical Achievement

MTV Movie Awards:

  • Best On-Screen Duo: Tim Allen and Tom Hanks (ironic as the actors are not actually seen “on-screen�?)

American Film Institute:

  • AFI 100 Years, 100 Movies (1998)
  • AFI 100 Years, 100 Laughs (2000)
  • AFI 100 Years, 100 Songs: “You’ve Got a Friend in Me�? (2004)
  • AFI 100 Years, 100 Movie Quotes: “To infinity and beyond!�? (2005)

More Easter Eggs can be found on Disc 2 by clicking on the stars found on each menu screen or, if you’re a lazy egg hunter, you can access all of them through the handy Index feature. Billed here as Toy Story Treats, these are all promotional interstertials produced as commercial “bumpers�? for ABC Saturday mornings. Hanks and Allen do not voice our heroes in these, and you won’t see Mr. Potato Head or Slinky Dog either, but you will hear John Ratzenberger as Hamm and Wallace Shawn as Rex and see a lot of the aliens, plus the mutant toys, who must have escaped from Sid’s room. Funniest of the bunch: the gang comes face to face with their own miniaturized Happy Meal doppelgangers.

More hair on the heads of the filmmakers means that Making ‘Toy Story’ was made at the time of the film. Lasseter recollects the first time he saw computer animation in Tron and states what was likely the first of many times he has said that computer animation is part of the animation medium, not separate, and that story and characters are still the most important aspect of such films. Early Pixar shorts Luxo, Jr. and the Oscar-winning Tin Toy are glimpsed before we get into the evolution of this Toy’s story, which originally starred Tinny from Tin Toy and a pre-Buzz “Lunar Larry�?. When Woody first came on the scene, he was a ventriloguist dummy a la Charlie McCarthy. Early test footage of Hanks’ dialogue from Turner and Hooch coming out of Woody’s mouth and the animators waddling along on boards to simulate the green army man “walk�? is also seen. Best quote, from Lasseter: “We all agreed that Sid was the kind of kid who would grow up to be an animator�?.

Lasseter is joined by fellow Pixar MVPs Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter and Joe Ranft in the new The Filmmakers Reflect, a retrospective look back at their time on the film, which has been made bittersweet by the recent tragic death of Ranft, a huge talent that will be missed. The feature closes on some goofy outtakes from the group.

Deleted Scenes for an animated film are usually seen only in story reel format, but two brief animated sequences can be found here, both from late in the film when Buzz and Woody are trapped in Sid’s room. Of note from the story reels present are several ideas (a Buzz Lightyear cartoon, Woody’s nightmare) that would eventually find their way into Toy Story 2.

Behind the Scenes is divided into several sections, including the new Designing ‘Toy Story’, which includes several Design Galleries for Characters (including 3-D turnarounds), Sets (including 3-D tours) and Color (including Concept Art and Color Scripts). In Story, one can see Ranft present the Storyboard Pitch for the green army men sequence (which is practically identical to the final film, amazing considering it was one of the first scenes boarded) as well as Story Reels of Buzz’s introduction and the climactic chase scene.

A Production Tour shows the progression from story reel to layout to animation to final composite, followed by a Multi-Angle feature. How technical problems were solved can be found in Layout Tricks, plus an Animation Tour of Pixar Studios.

A Multi-Language Reel gives you the opportunity to hear the characters in over 30 different languages, including Buzz in French, Woody in Swedish, Rex in Korean, Slinky in German, Mr. Potato Head in Norwegian, Bo Peep in Polish and Hamm in Cantonese.

The Music and Sound section includes the Randy Newman/Lyle Lovett “You’ve Got a Friend in Me�? Music Video as well as Newman’s early demo recordings (audio only) of the three songs heard in the film plus two unused tunes, “Plastic Spaceman�? (an early version of “I Will Go Sailing No More�?) and “The Fool�? (which became “Strange Things�?). Designing Sound reveals how each character had their own distinctive sound and that Skud was “voiced�? by Buster, sound designer Gary Rydstrom’s pet dog.