Academy Awards Controversy: Wall-E Gets Snubbed For Best Picture Oscar

The Dark Knight - not serious?

Uhm, are you kidding me?

TDK had more depth, complexity, and meaning than Frost/Nixon or The Reader, or most of the films I've seen this decade. Comparing it to Back to the Future or Jurassic Park is insane. Its the story of three men, Bruce Wayne, Harvey Dent, and Jim Gordon, and the desperate ends they'll go to in order to protect their city from evil and do what they think is right.

And the award is called Best Picture. The craftsmanship put into that film as a whole, from the superb ensemble cast to the art direction and the brilliant cinematography, to the genius direction of Chris Nolan, was outstanding and deserving of a nomination if not a win.

It surpassed the moniker of superhero film and is easily one of the greatest crime dramas to come along in a long time.

I know this sounds like a bunch of hyperbole, but it's true.

And don't even get me started on WALL-E, easily the best love story of the year and the best animated film I've seen.

The five films the Academy SHOULD have nominated:

The Dark Knight

Gran Torino

Slumdog Millionaire

WALL-E

The Wrestler

1 out of 5 ain't bad, I guess.

Honorable mention to

Doubt

Happy-Go-Lucky

In Bruges

Man on Wire

Milk

Pineapple Express

Rachel Getting Married

Revolutionary Road

Synechdoche, New York

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kevin of @ Jan 30, 2009 01:45:56 AM

WALL-E hands down best film of 08

As if we needed any more evidence that the Oscars are increasingly about internal politics rather than actual films. Benjamin Button got 13 nods! That's because the Academy snubbed Fincher's Zodiac last year. Same deal with The Departed in 06; give Scorsese his due, but not for one of his weaker films. And Academy politics dictate that WALL-E is not a "real" film because it's animated. It's total bullcrap; WALL-E is the film of the year according to me. Give it a Best Picture nod, and give Andrew Stanton a nomination for Best Director. Brad Pitt has natural talent; it wasn't hard for Fincher to direct him well. But Stanton generates such blissfully perfect emotions between two completely fabricated, mostly mute, non-humanoid characters that it is a shame no one seems to notice, or care.

Eils of CA @ Jan 23, 2009 20:36:33 PM

*pardon my typos

award* audiences*

louis f. alonso of CA @ Jan 23, 2009 16:49:31 PM

how nominations go

clint eastwood gave one of the best performnces I've seen in a very long time. Say, since the dirty harry series era? It was a major surprise to not see his name mentioned in the best actor bill. He might've not won the awad, but a nomination would've been nice for his appriciation.

Although, I must say I did enjoy The Dark Knight. However I didn't believe It would've made it to the category for best film. It's appriciated by all fans and audinces far enough and plus it was a major entertaining blockbuster rather than a touching picture or something to consider as a serious film. If The Dark Knight were nominated for best film, then they should've nominated Back to the Future in '85 or better yet, Jurrasic Park in '93. That's how the oscar nomination game works.

Also, Wall-E was a fantastic feature and it will take the award for best animated film. Animated films belong in the best animated film category, we never see documentaries being nominated for best picture if they belong in the documentary category.

On the bright side, Wall-E did get nominated for best origial screenplay and that is rare for an animated movie to be honored by that category.

louis f. alonso of CA @ Jan 23, 2009 16:47:15 PM

Gran Torino

I can't believe the hands down best movie didn't even get a nomination!! But I should have known all the liberal _ucks in Hollywood would shy away from anything the slightest bit "politically incorrect" in "today's America". God forbid you consider the actual quality of the movie, directing and acting.

of RI @ Jan 22, 2009 22:55:15 PM