Los Angeles, June 12 (IANS) Oscar-winner Tom Hanks, who has voiced Woody in Toy Story 5, explained that multiple voice actors have the chops to take home an Oscar in one of the current acting categories at the 98-year-running award show.
“I think they have enough categories. The truth is, a voice actor can win Best Actor. The judgment is, ‘any performance that moved you’,” Hanks told Gold Derby.
Hanks used Andy Serkis as an example, given his performances in the Lord of the Rings and Planet of the Apes franchises, reports deadline.com.
“Even though he does not appear as Andy Serkis, he gives all the raw material for it. There’s been people who have been close to being nominated that do not appear on camera. That could happen to a pure-vocal actor,” added Hanks.
Hanks’ comments come as he reprises his voice performance as Woody in Toy Story 5, premiering June 19 in theaters, more than 30 years after the first Toy Story premiered in 1995.
Since the first Academy Awards were held in 1929, no voice actor has ever won in the acting categories, although the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences added the Best Animated Feature category to 2002’s ceremony.
Meanwhile, the Best Animated Short Film category goes back to 1932, previously referred to as Short Subjects, Cartoons and Short Subjects, Animated Films.
Talking about Toy Story, it began in 1995 with the release of the animated feature film of the same name. The film revolves around a diverse group of toys featuring a classic cowboy doll named Sheriff Woody and a modern spaceman action figure named Buzz Lightyear.
It has six animated feature films, including Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3, Toy Story 4. Toy Story 5 and the spin-off film Lightyear.
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