When it opened this summer, Disney and Pixar’s “Wall-E” generated a lot of talk that the film could be could be an early candidate for the best picture nomination at next year’s Oscar awards.Â
Now it appears that Disney’s marketing team will begin a push to try and secure a best picture nod for the film. If successful, “Wall-E” would be only the second animated feature in history to get a best picture nod. The previous nod went to Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast.”
 “If we didn’t do it, I don’t think we’d be giving the movie its due,” Walt Disney Studios Richard Cook told the New York Times.
“Wall-E” could garner nominations in best picture and best animated picture. However, some industry indisders see Disney’s gamble to promote the movie for best picture as a risky one. The promotional push for best picture could lead to “Wall-E” being left off the short list for best animated picture at next year’s Oscars.
“Wall-E” isn’t the only genre film from this summer linked to Oscar buzz. Christopher Nolan’s “Dark Knight” will also get a push for Oscar nominations, including best picture and best actor for Heath Ledger as the Joker.
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Wall-E has better shot at best animated film. I don’t understand Disney’s logic in all this.
WALL-E already has secured the Best Animated Feature Oscar. It can also be nominated for Best Picture, that’s why Disney’s backing the movie.
I hope WALL-E ends up on the Best Picture Nod. If it doesn’t, I will not watch the oscars.
WALL-E costed 180,000,000 to make, just as much as the Dark Knight. So many people worked so hard on it. Ben Burtt did amazing voice design, Stanton wrote his most daring script, the computer graphics were realistic (with the exception of the human characters), Newman did a beautiful themed score (WHY DID HE NOT GET A NOD FOR BEST MUSIC AT THE ANNIES?!), etc.,etc.
I also find WALL-E to be better than Beauty and the Beast. That was a great movie, but WALL-E told the better story.
WALL-E is not one of the bloated romance films like the great, but overrated Titanic. Titanic did nothing but circled around Jack and Rose romance. There were many things going on beside WALL-E’s and EVE’s romance- There was a lethargic society, a polluted Earth, and machines discovering life. And WALL-E romance with EVE affected humanity.
WALL-E is certainly better than Kung Fu Panda. Kung Fu Panda only took 130 million to make. Kung Fu Panda is certainly funnier, but comedy is not enough to define a good movie. Kung Fu Panda had a excellent storyline, but it is what it is, it was only meant to make children laugh and enjoy it. Kung Fu Panda is not of the universal. Young children will love the cuteness of WALL-E, and teens and adults will love the allegorical story.
Dreamworks may be funnier, but Pixar suceeds in mixed comedy with out-of-this world storylines. Storylines matter more than comedy.
Because you think comedy defines how good a movie is, you are one of those inconsiderate people who give no damn toward the hard effort.
What use is an Annie Award to WALL-E? WALL-E is no animated movie, it’s a romance made by animation. Saying that WALL-E is an animated movie is discriminating.
If WALL-E doesn’t show up on the Best Picture category, I will never watch the Oscars again. Mark my words.