I wasn't worried that it wasn't going to win Best Animated feature, but did that win really MEAN anything? I mean...ugh, I don't even know. The Best Animated Feature category is SUCH a bullshit category when it's used more so animated films can fight amongst themselves instead of with all the other big kid movies. It's this odd segregation that I don't understand. I still maintain Wall-E should have been nominated for Best Picture as well, even if it would have lost to Slumdog Millionaire. The point is the nominate the best films of the year and Wall-E MORE than qualified for that, animated or not. A nomination in the Best Picture category would mean more than a win in Best Animated Feature, in my opinion. A nomination would have opened up doors and set bars for other animated films to reach because as it stands right now, the BEST an animated feature can do is be reassured that's it's a good animated film instead of just a damn good film period.

And if there was one other award I thought it should have won, it was best sound mixing. About 75% of the movie is dependent upon sound since it's dialouge silent, and that in today's times is pretty impressive. I'm not heartbroken over the other ones, but that's definitely one I thought it was shafted on.

Oh yeah, I completely agree. I really felt that especially Wall-E deserved to be up there more than some of the other films that were nominated, and it does suck that the animated films keep getting shafted because they're not "seeeeeeerious" enough for whatever somehow qualifies as Best Drama Released In December Picture.

I was totally expecting Wall-E to get Sound Mixing, because yeah, that movie was practically carried with sound throughout the first half. I totally forget what did win...was it Slumdog again?

What kills me is Wall-E LOOKS like it should have been up there! It looks just as serious as any of those other ones! It's like...fuck, did they even WATCH the movie? You are SMACKED with a pretty serious message most of the time, yet you don't even really realize it because it's not preachy and you're too busy focused on how adorable Wall-E is. While you're busy going "awwww :)" the whole time to Wall-E and Eve, you're also having "Haha, look at how you've destroyed Earth with all your crap, humans, and instead of cleaning it up, you abandoned it to become fat consumer driven whores on another planet ran by robots because you're too lazy to take any type of charge in your inevitably short lives 8D" delivered to you. alkasjdfnlksdfnsdf COME ON, THAT'S AWESOME XD
...maybe that's why they didn't nominate it. Too much truth for them to handle XD

I don't even know. Either TDK or Slumdog. Something that DIDN'T FUCKING DESERVE TO WIN, that's for sure. I think it was Slumdog, though. I wanna see those other films try to pull of their plots and get their characters across in mostly silence, and see if they still deserve that award >:(

I know, right? Isn't that the mark of a really amazing film? That there is this really relevant message behind it, but it's not preached at you, because the core of the film is who the characters are and their relationships.

Ffffff I think I'll be more upset if TDK got it. Not that it wasn't a good movie, but seriously that movie was going to make me deaf. Every gunshot sounded like AN EXPLOSION IN MY EEEEEAAAARRRR. And there were a crapload of gunshots.

I really, really hate the "cartoons are just for kids" mentality some people have.

Uh, yeah, okay, they're "just drawings", but why does that make them any less relavent than a bunch of people playing pretend, or a bunch of words on a page?

I know, right? If cartoons were just for kids, parents wouldn't be flipping their shit over Family Guy, The Simpsons, South Park, etc. Go ahead, mom and dad. Let them watch the silly little cartoons. They're just for kids! XD It's a form of visual expression and while I appreciate the recognition of that, I don't like it being used as a crutch so the academy can go "But we do care about animated films, look! They have their own category!!" because that's what I feel like it is. If there's not an animated film that's good enough to be a Best Picture nominee that year, then so be it. I have no problems with that and I don't think everything animated is gold or deserves to be nominated, but this year? There was a film that deserved that, and it's bullshit the most it was recognized for that just that: it was a good animated film. Nothing more when it was more.

That's all live-action films are, really. People playing pretend. That's about as childish as cartoons, so maybe the Oscars should be made of play-doh XD

I see why I got out of the hollywood/acting world now, I really do. Shit like this keeps happening.

AGREED! What people don't realize is that even with technology and everything, Wall-E is a story that could only be told in the form of animation. It would've never, ever worked as a live action film!

And that's the beauty of animation because you can pull off things there that isn't nearly as easy to do anywhere else. If it would have been live action, they would have tossed it in the bucket with movies like...Short Circuit and Transformers. Then it would have never been nominated for ANYTHING because the Academy is definitely not touching films like that XD

Man, I ended up missing it, thanks god for youtube where I can just see the Hugh Jackman parts. Hee hee!

I'M WOLVERIIIIINEEEEE!

Yeah, I gotta rewatch his opening musical again, 'cause I loved how he made fun of Benjamin Button but totally forgot all the lyrics to his song there. XD

DID HE FORGET? Really? I had NO idea!

No no, I mean I forgot them. XD My bad!

Don't even get me started on how angry I am about how they got shafted.....

The whole other guy singing Down to earth was horrible. I can now understand why Peter Gabriel pulled out at last minute.

I'm writing up an entry of why even the soundtrack deserved to win because quite frankly it was just plain gorgeous music.

*goes off to cry in a corner*

Seriously. D: Six nominations and they only got one of those? I'm glad they got Best Animated, but I was expecting that. The sound really was what helped carry the first half of that movie.

Yeah. D: I feel bad for Peter Gabriel. It was like, the guy who was singing it tried to do it soul-style, but they didn't want to get rid of all the Bollywood dancers for the Slumdog numbers so it just ended up being pseudo-soul stuck in a Bollywood sandwich. D: