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

The Trilogy as a whole should be honoured somehow even if it doesnt win (IMO), I think thats what happened when Return of the King won 11 Oscars (all 3 films are amazing achievements).
Looking back I
probably knew the gang wouldnt die in the incinerator, but at the time I actually wondered if they would, even if only for a while. It was so sad and moving and it says something that Pixar even had the balls to include a scene which suggested such a thing might happen in a "children's" film.
 
I think they went further than suggest it...

...early on they commented on the frienRAB they had lost and someone mentioned Beau Peep which brought a sad look to Woodys eyes. Beau, the love of Woody's life, had basically died. It was a lovely little moment (well not lovely as such...).

At the time I thought they would reintroduce her later in the film, perhaps at the Daycare Centre. But nope, she stayed dead.

As for Best Picture no, I don't think so. As good as the film is I think Up is better and as that didn't win I would feel cheated if Toy Story 3 did. Especially if it was just because it was the third film and they wanted to give them a nod (I'd agree that TS2 is better than 3).
 
If they do a short
I want Andy to come back and see how Bonnie/the toys are. It was heartbreaking to see the toys still had a special place in Andy's heart when he said goodbye to them, even years later.
I agree BTW, I think they said some toys had died without actually saying it.
 
An animated feature will now never be the winner of the Best Picture oscar. The category of Best Animated Feature has seen to that. An animated film is highly unlikely to win both the animated category and the main prize. Members of the academy will reward the animations in their own category leaving the main event for live action features.

It wouldn't surprise me if the top rated animated film continues to remain on the long list for as long as they continue to have 10 best picture nominations (which is also a dead give away for which of the animated films will win that category). It'll never win though because animation now has its own category where it can be rewarded.
 
Take the LOTR trilogy, a franchise which in my humble opinion thoroughly deserves the best picture category. The work that went into those was immense. The props including the weapons, the armour, the wigs, the hobbit feet, the clothing were all made from scratch by a newly founded workshop. The location manager spent many months in a helicopter scouring the length and breadth of New Zealand for a suitable location. Peter Jackson used up many miles of film trying to perfect different scenes. The whole cast and crew and equipment including lights, generators and cameras had to be transported to the location, some in remote valleys or up hillsides and took many months to create usable film. The skill shown by the crew and the live actors in performing their roles in the making of the franchise were obvious and evidant and were often slave to the varying weather conditions. I am not saying the work that goes into pure animation is easy hell no, but to put the two types of films on equal footing is not appropriate and that's why I hope pure animation never, ever takes over from conventional film making. That's why animation should have its own category.

Ok, I used an epic franchise as an example of conventional film making as the above is a perfect example of human beings constructing a cinema experience with tangible, real, solid elements which on the whole (I appreciate there was a huge amount of CGI work in the franchise) have not originated via a very advanced software application on very advanced hardware.

To make flippant remarks about one man in his bedroom on a laptop misses my point completely.
 
They do yes, Finding Nemo is a modern classic. As is the Iron Giant, which is traditional animation and runs the gamut of emotions but to award this the best picture, no chance in hell.
 
Well of course it is a gross simplification.

The difference should be that the best picture Oscar should take into account how it was made as well as what the final product is. I don't know if that is one of the criteria of the academy, probably isn't, but it is surely my criteria for a film deserving a best picture Oscar and it is therefore my opinion on why animated films should not be in the best picture category.
 
That criteria would have been true in the Past,but Pixar and its like changed the cinematic lanRABcape,the time when a film had to be filmed to be classed as best picture is long gone,a Computer generated Movie is more than capable of beating a Traditionally made film,as others have said its be it Film or CGI or Animated its just different ways to get to the end product
 
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