An animated film adaptation of a novel by the midcoast author and illustrator Peter Brown was nominated for three Academy Awards on Thursday.
“The Wild Robot,” published in 2016, is the story of a humanoid robot named Roz who comes to life on a forested island and learns to survive by observing the animals that live there, until, as a blurb on Brown’s website says, “one day, the robot’s mysterious past comes back to haunt her …”
Dreamworks adapted “The Wild Robot” as a CGI-animated feature film that was released in September 2024.
It received Academy Award nominations in the categories of Best Animated Feature, Best Original Score and Best Sound.
The other films nominated for Best Animated Feature are “Flow,” “Inside Out 2,” “Memoir of a Snail” and “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl.”