The Oscar nominees for this year have been announced! But when it comes to the Best Animated Feature category, everything is far from awesome.
Since I will only be focusing on the animated films, Here is a list of all the nominees.
And here are the nominees for Best Animated Feature:
Big Hero 6
The Boxtrolls
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Song of the Sea
The Tale of Princess Kaguya
If you haven't already noticed, there is one giant problem with this list. Where the hell is The Lego Movie?! That's right, one of the most critically acclaimed films of the year got snubbed from the Oscars! I was absolutely shocked by this. How on earth would the Academy leave out The Lego Movie?! This is an absolute travesty!
The Academy Award show is very problematic in the way it's being run. For one thing, the Academy is very biased. A perfect example of this is in the fact that Meryl Streep, one of the Academy's go to actresses as she has been nominated countless times, got nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role as the witch from Into the Woods. I mean, sure her performance in that movie was excellent, but the best of the year? I hardly think so!
Unfortunately, the way they treat the animation category is even more corrupt. The academy doesn't even care about animation! (Though judging by how the Academy is being run, I question if they even care about film as a whole) I have read articles about members of the Academy saying things about animation that are just disgraceful and disgusting to the eyes and ears of animation fans. They say things such as animation being only for kids and have shown many other signs that they simply do not care about the animation art form. They don't even watch all the animated films! They just carelessly nominated animated films that wouldn't deserve it without even taking a second glance.
It really can't be anymore obvious. I mean, The Boxtrolls got nominated, but The Lego Movie didn't? I haven't seen The Boxtrolls but I haven't really heard such great things about the film. The praise for that movie isn't nearly as high as the praise The Lego Movie has been getting! You can tell that the members of the Academy don't watch all the animated films. They probably considered Lego as "childish" and just didn't watch or nominate the movie.
Now, this certainly isn't the first time an animated film that deserved to get nominated got snubbed. Hell, the same thing happened last year with Monsters University, a movie which I think was even better than Frozen, which won the award. I feel Monsters University should have won that award, but it wasn't even nominated!
One other animated film that didn't get nominated this year was The Book of Life, which I also find very upsetting. That's another films that I feel deserved at least a nomination. However, since The Lego Movie was more successful financially, critically and with audiences, that snub is far more shocking. The Academy could have easily taken away the two films that the general North American audience hasn't even heard of (those being Song of the Sea and The Tale of Princess Kaguya) and add in The Lego Movie and The Book of Life but instead added those two films that have little to no popularity in North America and, because of that, wouldn't win anyways!
But at least Everything is Awesome from The Lego Movie was nominated for Best Original Song! But as badly as I want it to win, it probably won't.
Now let's go on to who I think will win the Best Animated Feature award this year. It's obviously going to got to either Big Hero 6 and How to Train Your Dragon 2, though I think Big Hero 6 should win it since I felt it was a better movie.
So, will I watch the Oscars? Well of course I am! Any educated film lover knows how corrupt the Academy and their judgement is, but it's still well known for being the most prestigious award ceremony and a film winning an Oscar is a huge honor. It has built that name for itself over the 87 years they've been doing the ceremony and despite its corrupted inner workings, that reputation stuck and isn't going away.
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