Toy Story 3 - first animated film to win the Oscar for Best Picture?

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I saw the film today and it was a-bloody-mazing! I genuinely think that it could go where only "Beauty and the Beast" and "Wall-E" came close to and win the Academy Award for Best Picture. The scene when
they are facing their death in the incinerator
is possibly the most emotional moment in cinematic history - I can't believe I wept so much over not only characters in a film, but animated toys. Amazing.
 
its at least GOT TO be nominated. I went today, though I had seen the final scene online before so as to build up an immunity to the innevitable tears (didnt work BTW). Yet my brothers were like "what was sad about that?". :mad:
 
It will be a farce if the film is nominated - I saw it last night and it isn't even the best film in the trilogy. Hugely disappointing. Yes, the scene mentioned in the spoiler is the most emotional part of the film, but nothing in the entire movie warrants a "best picture" nomination. Best animation, yes, as it is technically superb, but the story is lacking.
 
Well...



"Beauty and the Beast" and "Wall-E" are, so far, the only animated pieces to be nominated for Best Picture. I state that "Toy Story 3" will go where only they came close to by winning totally.

Not hard, is it?
 
What are you talking about. He stated Up had been nominated for best picture, you never stated that in your original post, not only that Wall-E wasn't even nominated for best picture like you are rambling on about, Up was, not Wall-E.

Not hard, is it?
 
Until UP, BATB was the only animation ever to be nominated and that's quite an achievement (it still is, now one of just 2 films).
I've seen on the BATB BD publicity that says "only animation nominated" etc which is no longer quite true anymore, but still.
Quite a few scenes in TS2 were scenes from the 1st one with a new twist, this didnt bother me in the least.
 
TS3 will definitely win the Best Animation gong. Don't think it will win Best Picture but will be nominated. Never know, could prove us wrong next year.
 
Agree with this. Honestly, like Up last year, TS3 wouldn't be nominated if there were only 5 nominees in the Best Picture category, but now that there's 10, it probably will be. Can't see it winning though.
 
"WALL-E" did sort of come close, in that it was heavily rumoured to get a nomination and, like Up, may've made the cut if there'd been 10 films rather than 5.

I would really love to see an animation win Best Picture, and I really think that Toy Story 3 has what it takes. One way of looking at it is that it is a way of honouring the triology as a whole (and it is one amazing set of films), even if you don't think it was as good as the others.

I guess the best picture should always win, and we don't yet know what it'll be up against, but I am massively passionate about animation and think it deserves more credit than it gets (in the eyes of a lot of people it's just "kiRAB' stuff" and, in the case of the Pixars at least, they're beautiful films that anyone and everyone can enjoy). Yes, it'll get Best Animated Feature no problem.... but this award is one of my pet peeves... IMO the feature that wins it (be it Pixar, Studio Ghibli or the other odd gem) is usually incomparable to what it's up against. I think this cartoon sums up my point nicely:

http://www.culch.ie/images/pixarvsdreamworks.jpg

Last year's line-up wasn't too bad, but the year before saw WALL-E being compared to Kung-Fu Panda. It's the animation equivalent of seeing Slumdog Millionaire beat American Pie.
 
Nope. Best picture nominations should be those which have film directors, set designers, lighting experts, location scouts, cinematographers, second units etc etc etc, not an expensive piece of silicon and a bit of an imagination.
 
All of those elements you list are merely tools to create an end product, which is an entertaining movie. There is still a hell of a lot of work that goes into a production like Toy Story, and in lesser hanRAB the end result would just be soulless pixels. As it is, Pixar do manage to inject character, humour, sadness and performance into their movies.
 
Well if that's not a gross simplification of the animation process then I don't know what is. As sallycameback points out, if the end product contains an excellent story, original characters and the ability to move the audience in the way that it sets out to, then what difference should it make?
 
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