Lance Quazar
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Dr. Gonzo said:I feel you poking me with that stick (but insider is hardly the word I would use)
Don't have much time to type at the moment but I will say
I think Charlie Kaufman's "Anomalisa" will beat "Inside Out" for best animated feature... why?
Because it's Charlie ****in' Kaufman and the Academy loves Charlie Kaufman.
(ie Eternal Sunshine, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich)
Oh, man, I wish I had seen this yesterday so I could have told you how wrong you were without looking like I'm only saying this after the fact.
The Academy does not "love" Charlie Kaufman. The Academy "likes" Charlie Kaufman. He was nominated three times (before Anomalisa) and won only once. He was not nominated for "Synecdoche, NY," though many critics though he should have been.
But the Academy LOVES Pixar. Hell, the Best Animated Film Oscar was practically invented just for Pixar, since everyone was worried that they were going to pose a serious challenge to live-action films in the Best Picture department.
And no one in the establishment really wants to give "proper" Oscars to animated films, so they created a new category so they could ghettoize animated films and pat them on the back every year with their own kiddie award.
Pixar has won the more than half of the time since since the creation of the category in 2002.
Some of the films nominated in that category are absolutely atrocious, but they have to have at least three nominees a year, so they'll pick anything to fill the roster.
"Inside Out" was a huge, massively popular and critically lauded movie which many called Pixar's best yet. It was better reviewed than "Anomalisa", which was still flying way under the radar.
Oh, dear. I'm afraid you really missed the mark with this one, old friend.