Up is a 2009 American animated film directed by Pete Docter, who wrote the script with Bob Peterson. It stars the voices of Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai, and Peterson. The film centers on elderly widower Carl Fredricksen (Asner) and Wilderness Explorer Russell (Nagai), who go on a journey to South America in order to fulfill a promise that Carl made to his late wife Ellie. Along the way, they meet a talking dog named Dug (Peterson), and encounter a giant bird named Kevin, who is being hunted by the explorer Charles Muntz (Plummer).

Up debuted at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival on May 13, 2009, and was released in theaters in the United States on May 29. It earned $735 million worldwide, making it the sixth highest-grossing film of 2009. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Up holds an approval rating of 98% based on 297 reviews.

Up garnered various awards and nominations, most of them in the Best Animated Picture and Best Music categories, the latter composed by Michael Giacchino. Up was nominated for five Academy Awards at the 2010 ceremony, winning two: Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score. It was the second fully-animated film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture; the first being Beauty and the Beast (1991). Up became the third consecutive Pixar film to win the Academy Award for Animated Feature, after Ratatouille (2007) and WALL-E (2008). The film also won the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature Film and Best Original Score at the 67th Golden Globe Awards. Up received nine nominations for the Annie Awards in eight categories, winning Best Animated Feature and Best Directing in a Feature Production. It also was selected as the Summer Movie Comedy at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards, and received three Grammy Award nominations at 52nd Grammy Awards, winning two. Rivera received the Producer of the Year Award at the Producers Guild of America Awards, while Docter, Peterson and Giacchino were honored with British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards for their work on the film.

Accolades

Award	Date of ceremony	Category	Recipients	Result
Academy Awards	March 7, 2010	Best Picture	Jonas Rivera	Nominated
		Best Original Screenplay	Pete Docter (screenplay/story), Bob Peterson (screenplay/story), and Tom McCarthy (story)
		Best Animated Feature	Pete Docter	Won
		Best Original Score	Michael Giacchino
		Best Sound Editing	Tom Myers and Michael Silvers	Nominated
Annie Awards	February 6, 2010	Best Animated Feature	Pete Docter and Bob Peterson	Won
		Best Animated Effects	Eric Froemling	Nominated
		Best Character Animation in a Feature Production	Daniel Nguyen
		Best Character Design in a Feature Production	Daniel López Muñoz
		Best Directing in a Feature Production	Pete Docter	Won
		Best Music in a Feature Production	Michael Giacchino	Nominated
		Best Storyboarding in a Feature Production	Ronnie Del Carmen
			Peter Sohn
		Best Writing in a Feature Production	Pete Docter, Tom McCarthy, and Bob Peterson
Artios Awards	November 2, 2009	Outstanding Achievement in Casting – Animation Feature	Natalie Lyon and Kevin Reher	Won
Austin Film Critics Award	December 15, 2009	Best Animated Film
		Best Music	Michael Giacchino
Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards	March 27, 2010	Favorite Animated Movie
British Academy Film Awards	February 21, 2010	Best Animated Film	Pete Docter and Bob Peterson
		Best Film Music	Michael Giacchino
		Best Original Screenplay	Pete Docter and Bob Peterson	Nominated
		Best Sound	Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, and Michael Silvers
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards	December 21, 2009	Best Animated Feature		Won
		Best Original Score	Michael Giacchino
		Best Original Screenplay	Bob Peterson	Nominated
Columbus Film Critics Association Awards	January 7, 2010	Best Score	Michael Giacchino	Won
		Best Animated Feature	Up
Critics Choice Awards	January 15, 2010	Best Animated Feature		Won
		Best Picture		Nominated
		Best Score	Michael Giacchino	Won
		Best Original Screenplay	Pete Docter and Bob Peterson	Nominated
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards	December 16, 2009	Best Animated Film		Won
Eddie Awards	February 14, 2010	Best Edited Animated Feature Film	Kevin Nolting
East West Players	April 19, 2010	Breakout Performance Award	Jordan Nagai
		EWP Visionary Award	Pixar
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards	December 21, 2009	Best Animated Feature
Golden Eagle Award	January 21, 2011	Best Foreign Language Film	Up	Nominated
Golden Globe Awards	January 17, 2010	Best Animated Feature Film	Pete Docter and Bob Peterson	Won
		Best Original Score	Michael Giacchino
Golden Reel Awards	February 20, 2010	Best Sound Editing – Sound Effects, Foley, Music, Dialogue and ADR Animation in a Feature Film
Golden Tomatoes Awards	January 10, 2010	Wide Release
Grammy Awards	January 31, 2010	Best Instrumental Arrangement	Michael Giacchino and Tim Simonec	Nominated
		Best Instrumental Composition	Michael Giacchino	Won
		Best Score Soundtrack Album
Hugo Awards	September 5, 2010	Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form	Pete Docter, Tom McCarthy, and Bob Peterson	Nominated
Irish Film and Television Awards	February 20, 2010	Best International Film
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards	January 3, 2010	Best Animated Film		Won
Producers Guild of America Award	January 24, 2010	Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures	Jonas Rivera
		Theatrical Motion Pictures		Nominated
National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Awards	January 14, 2010	Best Animated Feature		Won
Online Film Critics Society Awards	January 6, 2010	Best Animated Film	Pete Docter
		Best Original Score	Michael Giacchino
		Best Picture		Nominated
		Best Original Screenplay	Bob Peterson
Palm Dog Award	May 22, 2009	Best Canine Performance during the Cannes Film Festival	"Dug"	Won
Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards	December 22, 2009	Best Animated Film
		Best Original Score	Michael Giacchino
		Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen	Pete Docter and Bob Peterson
Satellite Awards	December 20, 2009	Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature		Nominated
		Best Original Screenplay
		Best Original Score	Michael Giacchino
Saturn Awards	June 24, 2010	Best Animated Film	Pete Docter
		Best Music	Michael Giacchino
Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards	December 13, 2009	Best Animated Feature		Won
Teen Choice Awards	August 9, 2009	Choice Summer Movie: Comedy
Visual Effects Society	February 10, 2010	Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture	Gary Bruins, Pete Docter, Steve May, and Jonas Rivera
		Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature Motion Picture	Ed Asner, Carmen Ngai, Brian Tindall, and Ron Zorman
		Outstanding Effects Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture	Alexis Angelidis, Eric Froemling, Jason Johnston, and Jon Reisch
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards	December 7, 2009	Best Animated Feature
		Best Film		Nominated
		Best Original Screenplay	Pete Docter and Bob Peterson
Women Film Critics Circle	December 9, 2009	Best Family Film		Won