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"Tim Burton has said he is very proud that Frankenweenie has been nominated for a &amp;#039;Best Animated Feature&amp;#039; Oscar. The filmmaker explained to Vulture that recognition from the Academy makes up for Frankenweenie&amp;#039;s mediocre box office success.   &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s really nice [to get an Academy Award nod], especially for a film like that,&amp;quot; Burton explained. &amp;quot;Everybody works really hard for something like this, especially the people who work in a dark room for a couple of years.&amp;quot; He went on to say: &amp;quot;The thing about stop-motion is that it&amp;#039;s such a slow, painful process - one frame at a time. The positive side is that it helps keep the medium alive. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s not high on to-do lists for studio execs to make stop-motion, let alone black-and-white stop-motion. There&amp;#039;s still a bit of a stigma, so any sort of positive response is meaningful.&amp;quot; Burton went on to stress that he is gratified that films like Frankenweenie have had a very positive impact on his fans.  &amp;quot;You hope for success, but it&amp;#039;s a strange phenomenon,&amp;quot; the director said. &amp;quot;You have a movie that gets s**tty, crappy, horrible reviews but makes a lot of money; you have a movie that gets good, decent reviews, but then no-one goes to see it. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve been lucky, even if a film didn&amp;#039;t do that well [at the box office], I end up meeting people who connected with it, and that evens the score.&amp;quot; Frankenweenie is competing in the &amp;#039;Best Animated Feature&amp;#039; Oscar category against Brave, ParaNorman, The Pirates! Band of Misfits and Wreck-It-Ralph. The 85th annual Academy Awards will be held on February 24 in Hollywood. Watch a trailer for Frankenweenie below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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