"Up" Director Pete Docter accepted the award on behalf of the studio and his animation team.
"Never did I dream that making a flipbook out of my third-grade math book would lead to this," Docter said.A flipbook is a crude animation that children often make, with drawings on a series of pieces of paper that seem to move as the pages flip.
"Up" came out last May in 3-D and made more than $700 million at worldwide box offices.
The film is about a curmudgeonly old man named Carl, who is voiced by Ed Asner, and a young boy named Russell who fly off in a house tied to helium balloons.
They touch down in South America and meet the aged and exiled explorer Charles Muntz, who has made it his life mission to find a rare, flightless bird.
When he was a boy, Carl idolized Muntz, but in the remote
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