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Carol Gardens
11/12/08

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If they didn't have this category animation would get even LESS attention. If it was lumped in with everything else you would occasionally see a Pixar up for best picture and that's about it. Just FYI, there are the ANNIES, if you want a better idea of what's up each year in animation:

[www.annieawards.org]
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skahammer
11/12/08

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I suppose the option of ignoring the politics of Oscar noms is just too troublesome?
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Cosette
11/11/08

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Waltz with Bashir's execution of such political issues..! Never has a film captured the sense of dissociation/depersonalization amongst soldiers/civilians in war time as did this work; namely, the recurring scene wherein the soldiers, zombie-like and listless, (re) emerge out of the water...(don't worry this spoils absolutely nothing)...

I rarely speak effusively of films, but this particular work resonated with me for days.
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
11/12/08

@Cosette:

I had to share that after reading your post, I would like to resonate with you for days too. That's all. Carry on.
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Cosette
11/12/08

@Uncle_Billy_Slumming but are you as intricately wrought with equal parts pained/ambivalent opacity and haunting numbness? so amazing..
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
11/12/08

@Cosette:

Now I have to see the movie. Yes, that's me exactly.
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Mount_Prion
11/11/08

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I'm hoping in the future the world will be nerdy enough for "Anime" to have its own category, although it will be difficult to classify what fits into that with the crossbreeding of American and Asian styles. Personally, few animated films have made me happier than Wall-E and The Iron Giant but I can't even effectively compare them mentally to feature Anime films.
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Mark 2000
11/11/08

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Down with Pixar, for goodness sake. I mean, their stuff is good, but Persepolis was so much better artistically and storywise than the cooking rat. The should just call the Animation oscar the Pixar Oscar at this rate.
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homoviper
11/11/08

@Mark 2000: This brings up a question I haven't taken the time to look up the answer to and maybe you or someone else knows, is the Oscar for animated film supposed to be given to the best technical achievement in animation or the best overall artistic achievement rendered in animation or is it basically whatever the hell the academy voters think at the time?
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happymisanthrope
11/11/08

@Mark 2000: really? I found Persepolis to be episodic. It was something I could enjoy but not really love. Ratatouille is a movie I fell in love with.

And WALL*E takes chances, artistically speaking, and it doesn't talk down to audience the way most movies -- for children or adults -- do.
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franklinshepard
11/11/08

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Question: that list isn't every animated film that came out this past year, right? Where's Space Chimps? Why would an animated movie come out that wasn't submitting for consideration for this award?
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Carol Gardens
11/12/08

@franklinshepard: Maybe Space Chimps wasn't entered ecause it really sucked. Even my nephew didn't like it and he likes everything animated. They only need 16 entries to bump up to 5 nominees. It is up to the studios to submit. So the list does not reflect all the films that came out; it is those that qualified and were submitted.
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homoviper
11/11/08

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For what it's worth, Bashir, I believe, is also being submitted for the foreign language film Oscar.
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Triborough
11/11/08

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I stopped caring about the Oscars years ago. They are just a useless waste of time.
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Mount_Prion
11/11/08

@Triborough: "I also don't care about politics, oh audience reading comments on a political post. And I want you to know."

<3
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MercuryPDX
11/11/08

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the statue has only gone to a non-Hollywood production had something to once, when Japanese-bankrolled phenomenon Spirited Away nabbed the prize.

I'm sure being affiliated with Buena Vista (aka Disney) didn't hurt its chances at either making the list or winning. ;)

I fully agree that there shouldn't be a "cap". They can just lump it into the "Awards we gave out but you didn't see on TV" category if time constraints are the only reason.
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Weegee's bored
11/11/08

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If Ratatouille didn't get an Oscar, nobody gets an Oscar.
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jenalicious
11/11/08

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i want to feel bad for the little animated movies that could, but can't. there are gazillions of independent films made every year, and its the same story. they never get the accolades they should, and how could they with the hollywood system churning out hugely budgeted films. and now, hugely budgeted "art" films.
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
11/11/08

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They can't. We need more cowb... er, categories.

Also, I'll ask the question that's been asked before again: Why, when you click on someone's name to see their previous comments, does a picture of dead che guevara show up in the side banner?
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shag_carpet_bomb
11/08/08

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I just watched CARS with my kid yesterday. I got misty for Paul Newman, got a few jokes I missed the first 4 times, and actually appreciated Owen Wilson for the first time since Rushmore. I keep waiting for Pixar to fail, or at least disappoint. Not yet.
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BookishLookish
11/08/08

@shag_carpet_bomb: Cars and Ratatouille are big chez BookishLookish, too. My kid loves them. Mom gets a bit of time to herself. All good.
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shag_carpet_bomb
11/09/08

@BookishLookish: hehe, the joke I got this time around was when LMcQ tells everyone in Radiator Springs that Doc was a famous race car and has 3 Piston Cups! and TowMater spits out his oil and says "He what in his WHAT?" oh, snort!
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Meg
11/08/08

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I would like someone to remake Spies Like Us -- maybe switch up the bad guys, have only one lead -- into an animated film about dogs and it should be named Mutts Like Me.
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Midwesterner in NYC
11/08/08

@Meg: Would Paul McCartney still get to write the theme song? Did you know that was his last song to hit the top 40?
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Meg
11/08/08

@Midwesterner in NYC: As long as he doesn't ask Ringo Peace&LoveFuckOffPeace&Love Starr to join him, yeah! And I had no idea about that being his last top 40 song. But this soundtrack could really turn things around for him -- I know he's hurting for money.
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GirlyWhirl
11/08/08

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I hope they make "The Incredibles II" featuring TONS of Edna. Oh, how I love Edna.
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mmstk101
11/08/08

@GirlyWhirl: Edna? Hilarious. The Incredibles? Awesome.

I would like to respectfully second your request for a sequel.
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