It was the best picture in my opinion. Not the most expensive, most grossing or most overacted (yes Sean Penn, that’s you)

If the people doing the nominating and voting thought it was the best film, then why not let them nominate it? If they didn’t then they shouldn’t nominate it.

It isn’t that hard to grasp.

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, passionate romance films like the great, but overrated Titanic. Titanic did nothing but circled around Jack and Rose romance all of a sudden. But in WALL-E, there was a reason on why everything had to circle around them. 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. People who think that WALL-E simply insults fat people and overconsumers are wrong, in fact, even if it did, that shows their ignorance of reality. To not accept reality means that you cannot survive in this world.

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.

I don’t think that it should be nominated for Best Picture. I think the preachiness of movie about how we are wrong, the fat people on the Axiom. No.

I’ll be fine with Animated Feature. Not Best Picture.

Of course, difficult camera angles, artificial lighting, making people fly, for examples, can all be accomplished more EASILY, though, too. That isn’t to say it doesn’t still take time and skill.

Your ignorance is showing. Creating an entire universe from SCRATCH, including the physics of weight, light, performance, design, composition, photography, in the computer is FAR more difficult and time consuming than in live action (the average length of production being 3-4 years). The ease of change is also a fallacy. It is incredibly time consuming and difficult, and is more often than not (due to the short production schedule of 3-4 years) in production before a script is completed (and even then, most of the script is drawn).

While there are many animators who are as good and better actors than live actors, many people work to build one performance. The illusion of spontaneity is just that: an illusion. And great acting. Sadly, a “best actor” nod might just be out of the question.

Best Art Direction? Of course. “Wall-e,” and even “Ratatouille” were 2 of the best art directed films in the last 10 years. That everything was designed and built, textured and dressed to inhabit their particular worlds (they’re both incredibly specific-far more so than most live action films), is amazing. The lighting, many compositional elements, and characters/costumes/makeup/hair are also very carefully designed and/or supervised by the art directors of these films. Animated films (especially cg ones)have now been using tools for decades that live action only recently has gotten used to. I can count on less than one hand live action production designers who have marshalled as much through completion.

It’s particularly funny that animated Special Effects seem to be ignored. Making them fit into live action is not easy. Now try doing it in a film that has created it’s own specific world of design! Much more difficult.

Animated features have been nominated for song, score, screenplay, sound, sound editing, and best animated feature AND best picture.

Seeing as how Wall-e is the single best reviewed film of 2008, why shouldn’t it be nominated for every award it’s eligible for? Just because it happens to be animated is besides the point.

If that were to happen, I would agree with you totally, because if Wall-E were to win Best Picture, it would have to win Best Animated Feature as well (anything else wouldn’t make sense; and the same would be true in the case of foreign films), and like you, I’d prefer to spread the high-profile awards around as much as possible to highlight a greater variety of films. But as long as it’s called “Best Picture” any film ought to be considered.

The logic you employ in this article, however, is false.

“Best Picture” is an inclusive award -its the whole of art form not just “drama” or “comedy” or “action”. Unless the award is explicitly specific to genre there’s no reason a documentary or foreign language or animated film shouldn’t be eligible.

Animation is a technical process, rewarding something for animation is a reward for the execution of a technical process.

“Best Picture” is a creative achievement independent of form and genre.