BlackTree TV covers The 80th Annual Academy Awards

Best Animated Film

Ratatouille

Remy is a young rat in the French countryside who arrives in Paris, only to find out that his cooking idol is dead. When he makes an unusual alliance with a restaurant's new garbage boy, the culinary and personal adventures begin despite Remy's family's skepticism and the rat-hating world of humans.

The Other Nominees

Persepolis

Surf's Up

Ratatouille

A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in the sewers of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unlikely - and certainly unwanted - visitor in the kitchen of a fine French restaurant, Remy's passion for cooking soon sets into motion a hilarious and exciting rat race that turns the culinary world of Paris upside down.

Cast

• Patton Oswalt
• Ian Holm
• Lou Romano
• Brian Dennehy
• Peter Sohn
• Peter O'Toole
• Brad Garrett
• Janeane Garofalo
• Will Arnett
• Julius Callahan
• James Remar
• John Ratzenberger
• Teddy Newton
• Tony Fucile
• Jake Steinfeld
• Brad Bird
• Stéphane Roux

Production Team

• Directed by Brad Bird
• Co-directed by Jan Pinkava
• Screenplay written by Brad Bird