Tim Burton says that is it nice to get an Oscar nod for Frankenweenie because it rewards everyone's painstaking hard work on the stop motion animation project.
The movie will battle it out for the Best Animated Feature Oscar as Burton returned to stop motion animation for the first time since The Corpse Bride.
And Burton believes that an Oscar nod for this type of film is really important to the genre.
Speaking to Vulture the director said: "It's really nice [to get an Academy Award nod], especially for a film like that. Everybody works really hard for something like this, especially the people who work in a dark room for a couple of years."
"The thing about stop-motion is that it's such a slow, painful process - one frame at a time. The positive side is that it helps keep the medium alive.
"It's not high on to-do lists for studio execs to make stop-motion, let alone black-and-white stop-motion. There's still a bit of a stigma, so any sort of positive response is meaningful."
But Frankenweenie finds itself in a tough battle for the Oscar as Wreck It Ralph, Brave, ParaNorman and The Pirates! Band of Misfits.
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