Oscar Best Animated Pictures Quiz

Wow, I love Spirited Away, and I totally missed it.

lol, I got just because you mentioned it on Friday

What a let down WALL-E was. That had to be one of the most boring films I have ever watched.

Wall-E was great.

Yeah, couldn't disagree with you more. I think it depends alot on your maturity level - it didn't appeal as much to little kids, more to older kids, teens, and adults.

Wow, I can't imagine what would be a good movie to you. WALL-E was by far my favorite Pixar film.

Really? It was obvious from the beginning that it was Pixar's attempt at painting us Humans as destructive and wasteful. I don't call being lectured to entertainment. I watch a movie to be entertained. It is a movie with an agenda.

well take the "ecological" message out of the equation and you have this adorable "love" story. Also I think it deserves credit for going nearly 30 mins with no real dialogue....not an easy feat.

WALL-E was one of the best films ever made. Happy Feet blew. Piss and moan. WALL-E portrayed human emotion and love more so than many. With fewer words.

Gee, there's some terrific films here. Animation's where it's at. Esp when you thinki of the films that didn't win. Mary and Max. Triplets of Belleview. Waltzing with Bashir etc.

Happy Feet sucked. Shrek was extremely overrated but better than any of its abominable sequels. But Happy Feet sucked. It probably just won because of the environmental message. Also, could you accept Curse of the Were-Rabbit? I missed that one I guess because I didn't type in Wallace and Gromit at the beginning?

Pixar is awesomely good with winning the oscars XD!

It's helpful when filling out your Oscar ballot - if there's a Pixar film nominated, pick it!

they're awesomely good at making movies. And once in a while Oscar recognizes good movies.

Where are Lion King, Ice Age, Madagascar, Monster Inc?? Also in my opinion this year the best was Wreck it Ralph. Brave was slightly above average.

The Lion King is from 1994... and the others, well, the Academy Awards have their good and reasonable years and then the years full of fillers...

Better movies came out those years, or at least that's what Academy voters thought at the time. There's really only one bad movie in the bunch ("Happy Feet"), and that one benefitted from going up against only 2 other nominees, both of which were just as bad ("Cars" and "Monster House"). The very good "Flushed Away" came out that year from Dreamworks, but was excluded from consideration for some reason - I think it would have won handily over the other nominees. As is very common in life, it's not always about how good you are, but about how much worse everyone else is.

IMO of the movies you mentioned: 1. Cars 2. Monster House 3. Flushed Away 4. Happy Feet Cars wasn't nearly as bad as Happy Feet, though it was the worst thing Pixar had ever done (and would remain so up until Cars 2).

Actually it's interesting you ask about The Lion King because in some ways The Lion King is responsible for there even being an Oscar for best animated picture. Before The Lion King in 1992 Disney made Beauty and the Beast, which was nominated for best picture (the first animated film in history to be nominated) and probably should have won, but even the fact that it was nominated angered some snooty Hollywood types who didn't recognize animated films as real films or voice actors as real actors. Then, in '94, The Lion King came out, was HUGELY successful making TONS of money. Toy Story came out the following year, also making boat loads of money. Of course, this inspired copy cats. Up until '94 there really was no competition for Disney in the US. Don Bluth made a movie once in a while but all the other animation studios that weren't making Saturday morning toy commercials (i.e. GI Joe or Transformers) had pretty much died in the 70s and 80s. continued...

anyway, all that changed after The Lion King. Other studios saw dollar signs and all of a sudden Dreamworks and Fox had their very own animation departments and before long they were cooking up ways to try and steal some market share from Disney and Pixar. Antz was made as a rip-off of A Bug's Life, The Prince of Egypt was known at Dreamworks as "The Zion King," and these films were followed up by The Road to El Dorado, Ice Age and Shrek. Warner Bros tried to get in on the action as well I think their first offering was Quest for Camelot. They didn't do as well as Fox or Dreamworks. Anyway, before long there were a ton of animated movies coming out every year compared to the small handful we had (in the US) before the Lion King. We also saw more foreign animated movies released in the US after the in-roads made by Ghost in the Shell and Princess Mononoke, etc. This coupled with the fact that the Academy didn't want to repeat the '92 controversy led to the creation of the animated oscar.

The only other animated films to be nominated for Best Picture were Toy Story 3 and Up, and that was only after the field of nominated films was expanded to a maximum of 10. With 10 films nominated, it was safe to nominate animated films again (and other deserving movies like Inception that normally would have not been nominated) and people wouldn't get so upset about it. But, now that they have the Best Animated Picture category it's pretty safe to say that an animated film will never win Best Picture even if it deserves it. So it's a win/loss for animated films in general.

Also, the Ice Age and Madagascar movies blow. They make lots of money but have little to no artistic merit.

It's interesting Brave won the Oscar for best picture when it was the least well-reviewed film of the five that were nominated this year. I made a quiz for the 100-best-reviewed animated films of all time and Brave isn't even on that list, though the four films it was competing against this year are. I'm not saying Brave didn't deserve to win, it's just odd. Look at my quiz and you'll see.

That was very interesting :-)