News from the Oscars: Alvin and the Chipmunks out of the race!

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has concluded that Fox’s live action/animation hybrid “Alvin and the Chipmunks,” (yet to release), does not qualify for the best animated feature category.

The animated feature screening committee made this decision based on the rule that in a qualifying film, “animation must figure in no less than 75 percent of the picture’s running time.”

However, the Academy also ruled that the motion-capture technology used to create Beowulf has not made it ineligible for Oscar consideration in the category of Best Animated Feature.

Now there are just 11 films vying for the three potential nominations.