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Post by TutuAnimationPrincess on Dec 1, 2019 4:40:24 GMT
I've been wanting to make something like this for a while. Of all Academy categories, Best Animated Feature is one of the worst. However, I notice some still take it seriously so I decided I would demonstrate why it's a garbage category. For better understanding and organization I will break this down via a list. The purpose of this list is to prove how little animation respect the Academy has.
1. Chicken Run scared the Academy. For those that don't know, this movie had a heavy push to receive a Best Picture nod but came up short. That push is half the reason the BAF category exists. Shrek is the other half.
2. During the 90s, the Best Song category had to be divided into two because of how dominant Disney was. The Academy is petty beyond belief.
3. In almost 20 years of this category existing, only two foreign films have ever won, both coming out in Pixar free years.
4. Happy Feet and Brave are winners, need I say more?.
5. I will say more,.Academy voters were interviewed during the 2013 and 2014 movie seasons. Most admitted they didn't see every nominee for BAF and only saw what their kids wanted to see.
I'm sure there's more I could say but this is a solid start. Feel free to add your grievances to this list.
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Post by politicidal on Dec 1, 2019 17:27:14 GMT
I thought Happy Feet was slightly more deserving than Brave at least.
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Post by amyghost on Dec 1, 2019 21:54:02 GMT
It demonstrates that yet again the Academy Awards are heavily about brand names. Disney/Pixar. No surprise. One of the things that depresses me about the possibility of these Marvel films beginning to pick up serious Oscars is that the same brand name effect will carry over, and they'll become yet another brand that, at awards time, starts crowding out other entries, purely because they've become associated with a brand the judges recognize.
Selecting animated films on the basis of 'it was what the kids wanted to see'. Small wonder the animated category is essentially worthless where the AA's are concerned. There's zero respect in the US among the awards for animation, except as a kiddie-pleasing genre.
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Post by TutuAnimationPrincess on Jan 26, 2020 9:29:28 GMT
I forgot I made this but with the Oscars coming up soon again, I think it's time to put this at the top again. If any film besides Toy Story 4 wins, I will be shocked. But that's not going to happen of course, we all know how the brick headed Academy feels about animation by now.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Feb 5, 2020 2:02:46 GMT
6. It's kind of obsolete with up to ten Best Picture nominees. In fact it probably influences voters not to vote for animated films in that category. Up and Toy Story 3 got in when they first started doing it, but nothing since then.
7. They snubbed The Lego Movie.
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Post by CookiesNCream on Feb 10, 2020 0:38:34 GMT
Well, no one saw Toy Story 4 losing to Missing Link (Golden Globes) and Klaus (BAFTA), an indie animated film for Netflix, coming for the other two award shows. This could possible indicate that Toy Story 4 may not get so lucky this time to win the BAF either. Since the two other aforementioned animated movies share the Oscar nomination with Toy Story 4 and Frozen 2 isn't on the BAF list at all.
I may update and revisit this post after the ceremony starts.
Eh, what do you know? Status Quo said Toy Story 4 for BAF. *shrug*
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Post by TutuAnimationPrincess on Feb 10, 2020 4:52:02 GMT
Toy Story 4 won as predicted, what a shocker...🙄
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