"WALL-E" to get Best Picture Nomination?- Page 2

[pli1018]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 7:28pm

I would be more than happy if it did. It was my favorite movie of the year as well.

[purpleprince101]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 10:48pm

I loved the film and found it to be one of my favorites of 2008. While I wouldn't mind if it got nominated for best picture, I think the 5th slot deserves to go to The Reader, Doubt, or Revolutionary Road.
And I was looking on Disney's "for your consideration' page, and their pushes for best picture are quite funny. High School Musical 3? Miracle at Saint Anna? Prince Caspian? Wall-E clearly the most considerable.

http://disneystudiosawards.movies.go.com/main.html?

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 1/4/09 at 1:13am

The movies are listed for "all categories". High School Musical 3 may not get consideration for Best Picture, but categories like sound, score, and song are all reasonable, Prince Caspian for visual effects, art direction, etc. Disney will take anything the academy is willing to give them, why limit themselves?

Monsters Inc. and Cars are the only Pixar films not to win best animated feature since the category began. Wall-E pretty much has that award in the bag, but I would love for Disney to win a long overdue Best Picture.

[Manny2]

Posted: 1/4/09 at 1:29am

Even if it did, it would be facing some stiff competition. I don't think it would be an actual contender for a win.

Quite frankly, I don't even think it deserves to be in the ranks of Best Picture.

Def. Best Animated Feature, but certainly not Best Picture.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 1/4/09 at 10:23am

I liked Wall-E, but didn't love it. Like Schmerg, I got tired of being hit over the head with the moralizing. Ratatouille still remains the best Pixar film I've seen thus far.

[best12bars]

Posted: 1/4/09 at 10:56am

Toy Story was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay back in 1995, and I believe it was the first animated movie ever to receive such a nomination.

Beauty and the Beast is the first, last, and only animated feature ever nominated for Best Picture.

There was a big campaign to try to get Robin Williams nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Aladdin. Far bigger than any noise Ellen got for Nemo. Big enough that the academy actually had to chime in. Robin was ruled ineligible, as are all voice-over artists for nominations. Why? A simple rule that has existed for over half a century: No performance can be deemed eligible if it is entirely "dubbed." As long as the actor/actress does at least SOME of their own speaking or singing, they are eligible for consideration. And believe it or not, an animated character is considered "entirely dubbed" by the Academy under this rule.

Go figure.

[ScottyDoesn'tKnow]

Posted: 1/4/09 at 11:17am

I really don't get what's so great about Ratatouille. It was great, yes, but I found it to be a bit disappointing. There was also a whole lot of moralizing in that one too that I found just as overt as Wall-E.

[Roninjoey]

Posted: 1/4/09 at 5:16pm

I'm with you on Ratatouille. I thought it was perfectly entertaining but I kept my distance since the premise was fundamentally creepy to me (rats that cook). Wall-E was beautiful in a way few movies get to be, and the medium really set the movie free to be visually compelling (like Finding Nemo's underwater world). I thought it was a really incredible movie and I really admire Pixar's ability to create such expressive characters out of simple means. You don't need Tom Cruise and Jennifer Garner cracking bad jokes as animated characters (I hate this trend of celebrity voices).

I think the moralizing is just Pixar's style.