Animation slam at Golden Globes

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DLT

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Curious. I've read on a couple forums including this one, that at the Golden Globes ceremony, one of the Award Show hosts made a remark about an animated film getting a Best Picture nomination amongst "real" movies (that film being Beauty and the Beast). TV Tropes even mentions the incident, but I've never found the info has to what host it was that made such a remark. Also does anyone know what the exact words were?

I even looked on YouTube to find a clip of the incident, but turned up nothing.
 
I think you might be mixing two things here - at the Globes, Paul McCartney quipped that animation's not just for kids, it's also for adults who take drugs. At the Oscars, they had a series of spoof interviews with cartoon characters; Fantastic Mr. Fox started out talking smugly about how his film was nominated alongside the best of the best, only to find out what category it was in ("these are just cartoons! I thought we were nominated like a real movie!")

Hilariously, both of these jokes offended a bunch of animation enthusiasts.
 
The second joke I find actually funny (The Mr. Fox one), but the first one is just tiresome. Although, I don't think there were tons of animation enthusiasts at the Globes, so I don't either of those jokes would be "offensive" to people at the time. I mean, many of the jokes they make jokes directly at a certain actors/shows/etc., so a joke like that seems to be one of the light-hearted ones.
 
No, actually I'm referring to the Golden Globe ceremony of 1991, or 1992, or whenever it was Beauty and the Beast got nominated for Best Picture.
 
That's pretty easy to look up. It was the 1992 Golden Globes, Beauty and the Beast actually won Best Motion Picture: Comedy/Musical because they had a separate Drama category then and the host was Pierce Brosnan. So it looks like you're mad at Remington Steele, there. It might have been the presenter of that particular category and not the host, though.

Also, Beauty and the Beast got an Oscar Nom, so it might have actually been said there.
 
It's pretty obvious that the academy does stuff like this to throw animation enthusiasts a bone of some kind when secretly, they still look down on animation, and still see it as a 'kids stuff'. Paul McCartney's comments i find very interesting. Especially since he's been involved in a variety of animated projects. :shrug:
 
Which I don't get at all. Paul McCartney is a huge fan of animation himself and that's why the joke was funny. And it was just that, a harmless joke. Don't forget, The Beatles had their own animated movie, Yellow Submarine which was a great film. People are just overlooking it. I have a clear perspective I think, as a huge fan of both the Beatles and animation.
 
It will take time. With Disney classic essentially dead, only Pixar is pushing fully in that direction (quality drama through animation). Dreamworks made a good attempt at it with How To Train Your Dragon (helmed by Disney classic alumni Chris Sanders, co-director of Lilo and Stitch), but their other attempts at drama have been acceptable (Over the Hedge) or awful (Shrek 3). Dreamworks is still pushing irony (Kung Fu Panda, Shrek 1 and 2).

Meanwhile Sony is still pumping out side-kick comedies with Open Season, Open Season 2 and Open Season 3. They made one good attempt at a critter film (Surf's Up), but they're not following that. They did another comedy (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs), and I heard it was excellent, but I haven't gotten around to seeing it yet.

The team I'm most interested in is the tiny little effects house that did Happy Feet. They're known as Animal Logic. Their next movie (Legend of the Guardians) looks interesting despite the awful pop song the trailer guys picked, but then, they're trailer guys so who expects better? If Animal Logic works hard on the drama, relationships, plot and character arcs they can do some magic.

Legend of the Guardians trailer:
 
I dunno, I find a lot of these claims about the Academy being prejudiced against animation to be a bit grassy knoll, really. If they think animation's just kids stuff, then why do they acknowledge adult animation like Waltz with Bashir?
 
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