New York magazine's Vulture blog has published a post suggesting WALL-E should be nominated, not just for the Best Animated Feature Oscar, but actually for Best Picture at the next Academy Awards*.So the buzz begins! Oscar! Oscar! Oscar!
Realistically, though, the Academy does seriously has a bias against animated films being nominated for Best Picture. Remember last year, with Ratatouille?
Still, it is virtually guaranteed that WALL-E is going to get nominated several times in other categories, winning in at least two or three.
*The nominations will be announced on January 22, 2009. The 81st annual Academy Awards presentation will be telecast on Sunday, February 22.
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I think that Ratatouille was the right movie for the Best Picture nomination. But we all know how it ended...
WALL-E is guilty of being animated AND sci-fi, so a nomination its even less probable in that category... BUT it is also a love story, will this aspect prevail?
I think that Pixar has two other film that will deserve that nomination: Up and The Bear and the Bow. WALL-E can be pleased with only the Best Animated Feature and Best Sound statuettes, that are almost safe.
Anyway it's great that we can speak about the Best Picture nomination every year, that's Pixar! (and that should be Disney ;_;)
If this movie does not get nomminated, no Animated film in the forseeable future will (Though I may hold judgement until I see the trailer for Up)
I feel WALL-E has a good chance because this year is slower than last year. I don't see any There Will Be Bloods or No Country for Old Men.
I agree, elikrotupos, that Disney has every right to be on top as much as Pixar is. Things look great after Bolt, with The Princess and the Frog and Rapunzel sounding classic. (I love Pixar as much as the next guy, but you must admit, 3D animation has been overproduced Since 2000. A return to 2D is welcome in my eyes.)
Thinking just after I posted that last comment, that there is one thing WALL-E has that Ratatouille lacked
The Ability to be powerful.
One of the reasons Beauty and the Beast got nominated all those years ago was because the relationship between Belle and the Beast was a powerful one. The Academy loves Powerful stuff, and it looks like WALL-E has that intangible that most animated films don't (I'm looking at you,Dreamworks)
lol... dreamworks...
I haven't seen WALL-E but I think you're right, it seems epic. And I think that also Ratatouille was epic, and was a brilliant comedy, so it had a real chance to be nominated even if it wasn't dramatic (btw Ratatouille was the 5th film last year for # of nominations, so "statistically" it had the right to be nominated for the Best Picture category... Juno took its place, and Juno was not so dramatic :P)
To be honest, I don't think Ratatouille was the "right movie" fot the Best Picture nomination, the plot is a little uneven, and has its ups and downs, even if it has "great moments".
I don't think being sci-fi is a problem. 2001 Space O. is sci-fi and nobody doubts about its quality.
Liam Ke
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