This Year's Animated Oscar nominees.

Out of all the three,
the one who'll win should be Wall-E.

Though KFP was really good,
up in this here neighborhood.

And though this may seem rather cold,
I don't think Bolt should win the gold.
 
Wall-E IS going to win. Face it. The only reason KFP or Bolt may win would be if the academy wanted to purposely raise controversy. I'd put my Toon Zone account on the stakes that Wall-E is taking the award.
 
Found this over the weekend on a News crawl on the web. Apparently, Andrew Stanton really isn't that bothered by the lack of a Best Picture nomination for WALL-E. Best pull quote about that of the article:



The other good stuff in the interview is Stanton's view on WALL-E and EVE, but that's a topic for another thread.

Either way, I also think that WALL-E might as well take it home now, if nothing else because the industry buzz making it a possible "Best Picture" nominee means the academy members are going to vote for it in the Oscar that it CAN win now, regardless of how good the other offerings are. Kung-Fu Panda is a very good movie -- the first I've seen out of DreamWorks that seriously challenges Pixar's hegemony of CGI feature-film animation -- but it still doesn't compare to WALL-E. I still haven't seen Bolt, though. I'm not sure if I think it'll be better than WALL-E, as some of its proponents claim, but then again I didn't think any animated film could beat Ratatouille last year until I saw Persepolis.
 
Of course -- WALL-E just felt like an art film to me, whereas Kung Fu Panda was really fun to watch and enjoyable. This is why I favor Kung Fu Panda over WALL-E any day.
 
"Because from the live action side, animation -- and computers in general -- are being used as a tool in so many movies now. The line is just getting so blurry that I think with each proceeding year, it's going to be tougher and tougher to say what's an animated movie and what's not an animated movie. And what I'd love is to get to the point where someone just goes, 'I don't care.' Because I've been at the 'I don't care' point a long time now."

You know, I'm very glad he said that. With modern films such as Speed Racer (where pretty much everything besides the lead actors was computer-generated) using so many CGI (read: animated) effects, it will soon be impossible to logically divide "live action" and "animation".
 
WALL-E is definitely gonna win. Pixar seems to be the most advanced, most clever, and most innovative animation studio in this present day. KFP was a very good film, but WALL-E will almost certainly win. KFP was funnier than WALL-E, but WALL-E has absolutely beautiful CGI animation. Nothing can stop WALL-E from winning.
Bolt was pretty good; the story, music, and animation was enjoyable (save Miley Cyrus' voice acting).
Again, WALL-E will win it (although in some ways KFP pulls an extremely close second).
 
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