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Still shocked this didn't get nominated for Best Picture

posted 8 years ago by artmania90
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Even more so than Dark Knight the same year, this was a painful snub that proved (even more than comic book movies) that cartoons aren't and can't be considered high art the way live action films are.

Does anyone remember what won Best Picture that year? It was Slumdog Millionaire (still a good picture). The politics of excluding great films like this - and thus expanding the best picture field to 10 (which ultimately just diluted the exclusivity of the category in my opinion) is so sad.

In 2008 the nominees really should have been:

-Wall-E
-Slumdog Millionaire
-The Dark Knight (not my favorite movie but still a prime example of that year's cinema. Well made and a box office hit)
-Milk
-Man on Wire

[–] sONOMArEturns (1274) 8 years ago

Many people say the exclusion of this and The Dark Knight at the 2008 Oscar noms is what lead the Academy to make 10 nomination slots. People stopped caring about the Oscars because all the nominations of BP were films they had never seen or, in the case of many, never even heard of. The 2009 Oscars was the lowest rated Oscar ceremony in the show's recent history. If things hadn't changed, I guarantee films like District 9, Up, and even Avatar wouldn't have gotten a BP nomination the following year.

[–] earl237 (1106) 8 years ago

Wall-E was great, it wasn't nominated for best picture but it won best animated film, which it deserved. I don't think any animated film has gotten a best picture nomination since Beauty and the Beast in 1992.

[–] [deleted] 8 years ago

Up and Toy Story 3 both got nominated for best picture.

[–] PaladinNJ (21593) 5 years ago

That's why the Best Animated Film category was created. To prevent that from happening again. Academy members really want to see their faces in the major categories. But as other post stated Up & Toy Story did manage to slip through.

[–] [deleted] 8 years ago

It definitely deserved to be nominated for best picture, but I wasn't surprised that it didn't get nominated. Wall E is a much better film than Slumdog Millionaire.

[–] samoanjoes (57616) 5 years ago

This definitely deserved a nomination. It's one of the best animated films ever.

[–] asd6644 (0) 4 years ago

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