Wreck-It Ralph et Brave dans le frame d'animation Oscar

Game changer? … Wreck-It Ralph. Photography: Disney

Some will say that we now live in a new golden age of animation, one favored by the arrival of CGI over ten years ago and now moved confidently in the beginning of the middle age. While Pixar, the San Francisco Bay Area-based precursor that landed in the 1990s as a bomb to fragmentation of energy and innovation, has plunged a little qualitative since four remarkable years in which Ratatouille, Wall-E, Up and Toy Story 3 all arrived in cinemas, its rivals have raised their games dramatically.

Wreck-It Ralphyear of Production: 2012countries: USACert (UK): PGRuntime: 108 minutesAdministration: Rich Moorecast: Alan Tudyk, Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch, John C Reilly, Sarah SilvermanMore on this film

Competition for the price of Academy of 2013 for the best animation film must be the closest in the history of the award, which was created in 2001, after the arrival of radical of Pixar, Dreamworks Animation and others on the scene. Three of the five nominees this year are Disney movies to a greater or lesser extent, demonstrating how impressive, the mouse House has recovered from the terrible days of Pocahontas 2: Journey to a New World and other villains of direct-to-video, even if it did not buy Pixar and install John Lasseter as big cheese in order to get out of jail.

Less predictable, three out of the five nominees are also the films of stop-motion, which just goes to show that the CGI revolution is not as deeply rooted thought. However, I believe that it is both generated by computer animation, Brave and Wreck - It Ralph, who have the best chance to take the top of the page gong, so we'll start there.

Courageous won Pixar the Golden Globe earlier this year and is a tale full of blood with a cast of voice cracking of the Scots originated, hearty, robust medieval fantasy fairy and a palette of beautiful colors built on pastelly blues, Greens and oranges that wonderfully evoke the Caledonian, crisp and beautiful countryside. He had the misfortune to follow Dreamworks blistering how to train your Dragon, which include heavy assistance from Scottish brogues, in cinemas and generally did not spark innovative's best work of the studio. However, it would not wonder if Pixar had to add another Oscar for their impressive collection.

Then comes Wreck-It Ralph of Disney, the story of a video game villain who aspires to prove his heroism. It is further evidence after bolt 2008 of that Disney doesn't need the stamp of Pixar on tariff animation to produce material of dazzling originality. Rich Moore cleverly designed and beautifully style film won the Annie best film last month - generally a good indicator of the success of Oscar - and should be the clear favorite. The film draws the impressive Tower of we have to worry about characters from video games just to simultaneously fun nature trope in prey of the environments they inhabit. Screenwriting is so strong that you could cut you when reading it and John C Reilly and Sarah Silverman give performances of remarkable humanity in cords - especially when you consider that it expresses a character who goes by the unfortunate moniker of Vanellope von Schweetz. Cynics might suggest it is little more than Toy Story with the characters of the game instead of toys, but Moore and his team seem to have too much love for the world of the latter to leave the slip of film on the territory of cynical exercise.

The next two candidates would have surely had a big crack at the prize in any year, but it might well have many similarities to get there in 2013. Frankenweenie is a hymn of stop-motion comic in the era of black and white horror that imagines what would happen if the famous Dr. Frankenstein was a pre-teen gothy in mourning for this beloved recently left dog. Laika ParaNorman also delves into the supernatural, imagining a vivid world of Philip Pullman-esque ghosts and ghouls. The story focuses on a young boy with the ability to see dead people, who soon realizes that it is perhaps the only hope for a lost soul murdered several centuries ago, but who still walks the Earth angry cries of purgatory. Both are excellent, but the innovative use of Laika from the effects of the stop-mo for a steamy scene of synapse in what hero Norman confronts a malicious ghost child could just move ParaNorman. There again, the Academy is probably just itching to give Burton an Oscar: it's the kind of industry insider who has the obligation to get one at some point before finally mixing off his mortal coil.

Last but not least (and a bit of a bet outside, to true to say) is The Pirates of Great Britain! In an adventure with scientists! These wonderful people at Aardman Animations. It is a noisy happy adventure with plenty of one-liners and earthy excitement that puts it right up there with the best of the studio.

One of these films would be very dignified Academy Award-winning, especially when you consider the range of this 2012 saw the triumph of rather average Rango on rivals that included pretty lame Puss of Dreamworks in Boots. Personally, I would plump for Wreck-It Ralph. What movie do you think merit emerge victorious on Oscar night?