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Kubo and the Two Strings

Index Kubo and the Two Strings

Kubo and the Two Strings is a 2016 American 3D stop-motion action fantasy film directed and produced by Travis Knight (in his directorial debut) and written by Marc Haimes and Chris Butler. [1]

69 relations: Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, Action film, Amnesia, Art Parkinson, BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film, Beetle, Ben-Hur (2016 film), Bon Festival, Brenda Vaccaro, British Board of Film Classification, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Charlize Theron, Chris Butler (filmmaker), Christy Lemire, CinemaScore, Dario Marianelli, Deadline Hollywood, Dunkleosteus, EBay, Empire (film magazine), Eyepatch, Fantasy film, Film score, Focus Features, Gashadokuro, George Takei, Glenn Kenny, History of Japan, IGN, Industrial robot, Ink wash painting, Japanese macaque, Laika (company), List of film periodicals, Magnet, Matthew McConaughey, Melbourne International Film Festival, Metacritic, Minae Noji, Origami, PostTrak, Ralph Fiennes, Regina Spektor, Roger Ebert, Rooney Mara, Rotten Tomatoes, Samurai, Shamisen, Shannon Tindle, ..., Stag beetle, Stop motion, Stratasys, The A.V. Club, The Hollywood Reporter, The New York Times, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Numbers (website), The Washington Post, Travis Knight, Ukiyo-e, Variety (magazine), War Dogs (2016 film), Warner Bros. Records, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Whitewashing in film, 3D film, 3D printing, 89th Academy Awards. Expand index (19 more) »

Academy Award for Best Animated Feature

The Academy Awards are given each year by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS or the Academy) for the best films and achievements of the previous year.

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Academy Award for Best Visual Effects

The Academy Award for Best Visual Effects is an Academy Award given for the best achievement in visual effects.

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Action film

Action film is a film genre in which the protagonist or protagonists are thrust into a series of challenges that typically include violence, extended fighting, physical feats, and frantic chases.

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Amnesia

Amnesia is a deficit in memory caused by brain damage, disease, or psychological trauma.

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Art Parkinson

Art Parkinson (born 19 October 2001) is an Irish actor from Moville in Inishowen, County Donegal, in Ulster.

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BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film

This is a list of the winners and nominees of the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film.

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Beetle

Beetles are a group of insects that form the order Coleoptera, in the superorder Endopterygota.

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Ben-Hur (2016 film)

Ben-Hur is a 2016 American epic historical period drama film directed by Timur Bekmambetov and written by Keith Clarke and John Ridley.

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Bon Festival

or just is a Japanese Buddhist custom to honor the spirits of one's ancestors.

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Brenda Vaccaro

Brenda Buell Vaccaro (born November 18, 1939) is an American stage, television, and film actress.

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British Board of Film Classification

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), previously the British Board of Film Censors, is a non-governmental organization, founded by the film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public Information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom.

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Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

is an American actor, sports physiologist, martial artist, and stuntman of Japanese descent.

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Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron (born 7 August 1975) is a South African and American actress and film producer.

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Chris Butler (filmmaker)

Chris Butler (born 1974 in Liverpool, Merseyside) is a British storyboard artist, writer and director, known for his works at Laika, such as ParaNorman, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

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Christy Lemire

Christy A. Lemire (née Nemetz; born August 30, 1972) is a film critic formerly with the Associated Press (AP) and Ebert Presents at the Movies.

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CinemaScore

CinemaScore is a market research firm based in Las Vegas.

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Dario Marianelli

Dario Marianelli (born June 21, 1963) is an Italian film composer, known for his frequent collaborations with director Joe Wright.

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Deadline Hollywood

Deadline Hollywood, also known as Deadline.com and previously known as news blog Deadline Hollywood Daily, is an online magazine founded by Nikki Finke in 2006.

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Dunkleosteus

Dunkleosteus is an extinct genus of arthrodire placoderm fish that existed during the Late Devonian period, about 358–382 million years ago.

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EBay

eBay Inc. is a multinational e-commerce corporation based in San Jose, California that facilitates consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales through its website.

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Empire (film magazine)

Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer Consumer Media of Hamburg based Bauer Media Group.

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Eyepatch

An eyepatch is a small patch that is worn in front of one eye.

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Fantasy film

Fantasy films are films that belong to the fantasy genre with fantastic themes, usually magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklore, or exotic fantasy worlds.

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Film score

A film score (also sometimes called background score, background music, film soundtrack, film music, or incidental music) is original music written specifically to accompany a film.

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Focus Features

Focus Features LLC is an American film production and distribution company, owned by Comcast through Universal Pictures, a division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal.

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Gashadokuro

の古内裏" also known as "Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre". are mythical creatures in Japanese mythology.

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George Takei

George Hosato Takei (born Hosato Takei, April 20, 1937) is an American actor, director, author, and activist.

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Glenn Kenny

Glenn Kenny is an American film critic and journalist.

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History of Japan

The first human habitation in the Japanese archipelago has been traced to prehistoric times.

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IGN

IGN (formerly Imagine Games Network) is an American video game and entertainment media company operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis wholly owned by j2 Global.

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Industrial robot

An industrial robot is a robot system used for manufacturing.

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Ink wash painting

Ink wash painting, also known as literati painting, is an East Asian type of brush painting of Chinese origin that uses black ink—the same as used in East Asian calligraphy—in various concentrations.

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Japanese macaque

The Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata), also known as the snow monkey, is a terrestrial Old World monkey species that is native to Japan.

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Laika (company)

Laika Entertainment, LLC, or simply Laika, is an American stop-motion animation studio specializing in feature films, commercial content for all media, music videos and short films.

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List of film periodicals

Film periodicals combine discussion of individual films, genres and directors with in-depth considerations of the medium and the conditions of its production and reception.

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Magnet

A magnet is a material or object that produces a magnetic field.

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Matthew McConaughey

Matthew David McConaughey (born November 4, 1969) is an American actor, producer, model, writer and director.

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Melbourne International Film Festival

The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) is an annual film festival held over three weeks in Melbourne, Australia.

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Metacritic

Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products: music albums, video games, films, TV shows, and formerly, books.

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Minae Noji

Minae Cattleya Noji (born September 30, 1973) is an American actress who has been in a variety of starring and guest starring roles on various TV shows, movies, and video games.

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Origami

) is the art of paper folding, which is often associated with Japanese culture.

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PostTrak

PostTrak is a US-based service that surveys film audiences for film studios.

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Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (. The Guardian. Retrieved 10 April 2008 born 22 December 1962) is an English actor, film producer and director.

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Regina Spektor

Regina Ilyinichna Spektor (Реги́нa Ильи́нична Спе́ктор,; born February 18, 1980) is a Russian-born American singer-songwriter and pianist.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author.

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Rooney Mara

Patricia Rooney Mara (born April 17, 1985) is an American actress and fashion designer. She began her career playing supporting roles in several independent films, including the coming-of-age drama film Tanner Hall (2009), before starring as Nancy Thompson in the 2010 remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street and as Erica Albright in the biographical drama film The Social Network (2010). In 2011, Mara had a career breakthrough when she portrayed Lisbeth Salander, the title character in David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, based on Stieg Larsson's Millennium book series. She received critical acclaim for her performance and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. In 2013, she starred in the thriller Side Effects, the independent drama Ain't Them Bodies Saints and the acclaimed sci-fi romantic drama, Her. The following year, she starred in the adventure drama film ''Trash'' (2014). In 2015, she garnered further critical acclaim for her performance in Todd Haynes' romantic drama Carol, for which she tied for the Best Actress Award at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, and received nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, SAG Award, BAFTA Award and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Mara is also known for her charity work and oversees the charity Uweza Foundation, which supports empowerment programs for children and families in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, one of the largest slums in Africa.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Samurai

were the military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan.

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Shamisen

The, also, both words mean "three strings", is a three-stringed traditional Japanese musical instrument derived from the Chinese instrument sanxian.

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Shannon Tindle

Shannon Tindle is an American character designer, film director and writer.

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Stag beetle

Stag beetles are a group of about 1,200 species of beetles in the family Lucanidae, presently classified in four subfamilies.

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Stop motion

Stop motion is an animated-film making technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they appear to exhibit independent motion when the series of frames is played back as a fast sequence.

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Stratasys

Stratasys, Ltd. is a manufacturer of 3D printers and 3D production systems for office-based rapid prototyping and direct digital manufacturing solutions.

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The A.V. Club

The A.V. Club is an entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articles that examine films, music, television, books, games, and other elements of pop culture media.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is a multi-platform American digital and print magazine founded in 1930 and focusing on the Hollywood film industry, television, and entertainment industries, as well as Hollywood's intersection with fashion, finance, law, technology, lifestyle, and politics.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Nightmare Before Christmas (also known as Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas) is a 1993 American stop-motion animated musical dark fantasy film directed by Henry Selick, and produced and conceived by Tim Burton.

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The Numbers (website)

The Numbers is a movie industry data website that tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Travis Knight

Travis Andrew Knight (born September 13, 1973) is an American animator, film director, and producer, who has worked as the lead animator for stop-motion animation studio Laika, and directed the films Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) and Bumblebee (2018).

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Ukiyo-e

Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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War Dogs (2016 film)

War Dogs is a 2016 American biographical dark comedy-crime film directed by Todd Phillips and written by Phillips, Jason Smilovic and Stephen Chin, based on a Rolling Stone article by Guy Lawson.

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Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros.

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While My Guitar Gently Weeps

"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 double album The Beatles (also known as "the White Album").

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Whitewashing in film

Whitewashing is a casting practice in the film industry of the United States in which white actors are cast in historically non-white character roles.

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3D film

A three-dimensional stereoscopic film (also known as three-dimensional sangu, 3D film or S3D film) is a motion picture that enhances the illusion of depth perception, hence adding a third dimension.

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3D printing

3D printing is any of various processes in which material is joined or solidified under computer control to create a three-dimensional object, with material being added together (such as liquid molecules or powder grains being fused together).

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89th Academy Awards

The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2016, and took place on February 26, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, at 5:30 p.m. PST.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubo_and_the_Two_Strings

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