Linklater originally conceived “Apollo 10 1/2” as a live-action project, but realized early on that it needed to be animated to capture the Kodachrome-like vibe he had in mind.

Meanwhile, “Apollo 10 ½” isn’t the only recent animated feature that has a direct relationship to live action footage, as A24’s “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On” uses stop-motion ...

The Academy made Richard Linklater play a waiting game with “Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood,” the playful and vaguely autobiographical fantasy of Stanley, a kid recruited by NASA to go on ...

Deeply personal in a way that should resonate with anyone who lived through the era (and maybe few others), Richard Linklater’s “Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood” captures the infinite ...

Richard Linklater’s rotoscoped Netflix movie ‘Apollo 10½’ didn’t meet the Oscars’ “definition of animation,” despite relying on a 100-year-old hand-drawn 2-D animation technique.

After initially being rejected by the Academy, Richard Linklater's animated movie Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood can now qualify for Best Animated Feature Film at the Oscars. Two other movies ...

‘Apollo 10½’ and ‘Marcel the Shell’ Prove the Academy Needs to Embrace the Evolution of Animation Awards Circuit Column: Animated and documentary branches need to update their rules and ...

How To Train Your Dragon 2 marks the first feature created using DreamWorks Animation‘s new Apollo animation platform, developed and implemented over the course of the past five years. And this ...

Richard Linklater's latest animated movie doesn't qualify for an animation Oscar, and the director isn't happy about it. Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood was released on Netflix in March this year.

Richard Linklater’s “Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood” revisits the 1969 moon landing through the memories of a boy who imagines traveling there himself. It premiered at the SXSW Film Festival in ...