This Nikki Finke item is three days old at this point, but I’m just stumbling upon it (I avoid her like the plague). It brings up the ole’ “can an animated film get a Best Picture nomination” thing again.
Here’s a bbit of insight about a potential campaign in the works:
I’m told that Disney and Pixar are going to push hard for a Best Picture Oscar nomination for Wall-E on the basis of its anti-toon moody darkness and rave reviews by critics who matter. Certainly many toons have tried for that high honor over the years, and then settled for “just” a recently added Best Animated Feature nod. Only one animated movie has made it into the most competitive Academy Award category — Disney’s Beauty And The Beast in 1991 — but, alas, didn’t win.
I don’t want to say “it won’t happen,” because I always have hope, but this is an interesting item considering the reality of the animation Best Pic possibilities embraced by some of the individuals in charge of marketing them. That’s all I’m sayin’.
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I doubt it’ll have a chance at the award, but it has small hope for being nominated.
It certainly has the best shot at a nom since Beauty and the Beast, and as we’ve discussed before, it seems that 6 (!) noms aren’t at all unrealistic already. So we’ll see.