Thanks to AD reader Iain for sending this in. Pixar goes for Wall-E big time. From Pixar Planet.
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Thanks to AD reader Iain for sending this in. Pixar goes for Wall-E big time. From Pixar Planet.
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Saturday, January 23, 2010: Nominations polls close 5 p.m. PT
Tuesday, February 2, 2010: Nominations announced 5:30 a.m. PT, Samuel Goldwyn Theater
Wednesday, February 10, 2010: Final ballots mailed
Monday, February 15, 2010: Nominees Luncheon
Saturday, February 20, 2010: Scientific and Technical Achievement Awards presentation
Tuesday, March 2, 2010: Final polls close 5 p.m. PT
Sunday, March 7, 2010: 82nd Annual Academy Awards presentation


Awards So Far
NBR Winner+/top ten*
LAFCA Winner+
BFCA Critics Choice Win+/Nominee*
NYFCC Winner +/*
SEFCA Winners+/*
Golden Globes Nominee+/*
SAG Winner+/Nominee*
National Society of Film Critics winners+
Producers Guild Winner+/Nominees*
Directors Guild Winners+/Nominees*
Art Directors Guild Nominees*
Writers Guild Nominees*
American Cinematographers Society*
American Cinema Editors*
Cinema Audio Society*
BAFTA Nominations*
Best Picture
The Hurt
Locker*+++**+++******
Avatar*+********
Inglourious Basterds***+****
Up in the Air+*+*******
Precious******
District 9*****
A Serious
Man*****
An
Education*****
Up****
The Blind Side
Best Actor
Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart++++*
George Clooney, Up in the Air+*++***
Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker**+*
Colin Firth, A
Single Man****
Morgan Freeman, Invictus+***
Best Actress
Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side+++
Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia++++**
Carey Mulligan, An Education+****
Gabby Sidibe, Precious****
Helen Mirren, The
Last Station**
Best Supporting Actor
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds+++++++*
Woody Harrelson,The Messenger+***
Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones****
Matt Damon, Invictus***
Christopher Plummer, The Last Station*
Best Supporting
Actress
Mo'Nique, Precious+*+++++*
Anna Kendrick, Up
in the Air+****
Vera Farmiga, Up
in the Air****
Penelope Cruz, Nine**
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Crazy Heart
Best Director
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker++++*++*
Jim Cameron, Avatar*+**
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds****
Jason Reitman, Up in the
Air***
Lee Daniels, Precious**
Best Original
Screenplay
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds+*
Joel and Ethan Coen, A Serious Man+*+*
Mark Boal, The Hurt
Locker***
Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Up*
Oren Moverman, Alessandro Camo The Messenger
Best Adapted Screenplay
Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner,
Up in the Air+++++*
Armando Iannucci, In the Loop+
Geoffrey Fletcher, Precious**
Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell, District 9**
Nick Hornby, An
Education*
Best Editing
Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron, Avatar+**
Chris Innis, Bob Murawski,
The Hurt Locker***
Julian Clarke, District 9**
Joe Klotz, Precious
Sally Menke, Inglourious Basterds**
Best
Cinematography
Mauro Fiore, Avatar+**
Christian Berger, White Ribbon+++*
Barry Ackroyd, The Hurt Locker***
Robert Richardson, Inglourious Basterds***
Bruno Delbonnel, Harry Potter
Best Art Direction
Avatar+**
Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus*
Nine*
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria
Best Sound Mixing
Avatar+**
The Hurt Locker***
Star Trek* **
Inglourious Basterds
Transformers: Revenge of the
Fallen*
Best Sound Editing
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Up
Star Trek
Inglourious Basterds
Best Costume Design
Sandy Powell, The Young Victoria +*
Catherine Leterrier,Coco Avant Chanel*
Janet Patterson, Bright Star**
Colleen Atwood, Nine*
Monique Prudhomme, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Best Original Score
Michael Giacchino, Up+*
Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders, The Hurt Locker!
James Horner, Avatar*
Alexandre Desplat, The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Hans Zimmer, Sherlock Holmes*
Best Foreign Language Film (submissions)
A Prophet, France+*
The White Ribbon, Germany**
El Secreto de Sus Ojos, Argentina
Ajami, Israel
The Milk of Sorrow, Pru
Best Documentary Feature
The Cove++**+
Food, Inc.**
The Beaches of Agnes++*
Burma VJ*
The Most Dangerous Man in America
Which Way Home
Best Animated
Feature
Up+++**
The Fantastic Mr. Fox+*+***
Coraline****
The Princess and the Frog***
The Secret of Kells
Best Visual
Effects
Avatar+*
District 9* *
Star Trek**
Best Makeup
The Young Victoria**
Star Trek*
Il Divo*
Best Song
The Weary Kind – T Bone Burnett, Ryan Bingham, Crazy Heart ++
Down in New Orleans, The Princess and the Frog
Almost There – Randy Newman, The Princess And The Frog***
Loin de Paname, Paris 36
Best Live Action Short
The Door
Instead of Abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish
The New Tenants
Best Animated Short
French Roast
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)
Logorama
A Matter of Loaf and Death
Best Documentary Short
China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of
Sichuan Province
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Music by Prudence
Rabbit a la Berlin


No Response for "Pixar’s Taken Wall-E to Best Picture Town"
If the Academy has any sense they will nominate this movie for Best Picture. TDK, I love ya, but you’re not WALL-E.
Now that’s what I’m talkin’ about!
Fingers crossed!
If they rerelease this and campaign the hell out of it, Wall-E actually has a chance.
It is by far the film most deserving of a nomination I’ve seen this year.
YES. Wall-E still is number 1 in my heart.
Wall-E and The Dark Knight should duke it out.
If it happens it will make me happy to the very core of my soul. Although, if it takes the place of TDK…there will be blood.
Stop trying to get my hopes up Pixar, it’s not gonna happen. Would happen if there was any justice in the world, but it won’t.
you talk about re-releasing Wall-E. i have little faith in Hollywood in terms of reissues. they forgot how to do that. so often they put out the DVD and destroy the momentum of a film by taking away the theatrical experience. a DVD does not replace the theatrical experience. that’s something that needs to be drummed into their small little heads.
YESSSSS!!
I hate to spoil the moment for everyone, but this is never going to happen.
Here is why I don’t think it will happen but you never know, right? The going theory is that the majority of voters are actors and actors like working and if animation takes over live action actors do not seem as necessary. That’s why they created the animated feature category, where it will easily win. It could also be nominated in other categories, like screenplay, etc.
The Jack… never stop dreamers’ dreaming, you never know the outcome of the dreamer’s dream.
Yes, Martin Luther King Jr. is not a good example, but hey! I tried.
Aside from the stunning animation, I really found WALL*E to be rather….bland….
Wall*E? As for screenplay, I think screenwriters likes a lot of dialogue.
Example A? “Juno”. Don’t hate me.
Example B? Whit Stillman’s nominated film “Metropolitan”.
Although an example that screenwriters can nominate screenplays without much dialogue would be Lost in Translation
Anywhoo, if a movie like WALL-E is gonna break through to Best Picture, this would be the year to do it (what with the immense weakness of the competition)
note: Personally I think WALL-E is better than most if it’s strong competition (that I’ve seen). But this is not how AMPAS thinks.
Too true with Lost in Translation! It’s so weird that the competition this year is a bit thin.
The Writers Guild is better at nominating screenplays for structure as well as dialogue. Two examples: United 93 and Black Hawk Down.
It’s not going to be nominated to best picture because the rules are very clear and the Academy are not going to break their own rules. If they nominate Wall-E this year then other years they would have to nominate other good animated films so what would be the purpose of the animated feature award.
By the way I’m not saying I agree with the rules.
Wall-E is the best movie I have seen this year and so I think it deserves it and on the screenplay, I know it was a while ago but Red Balloon won best screenplay and it has about 10 secs of dialogue…kind of. OH and I hope they really push this, I mean hard so that at least we know that it was the Academy’s stupidity and not Pixar’s lack of trying.
If Beauty and the Beast was good enough to get nominated, Wall E certainly is. And while it’s probably not one of my favorites (I had problem when the perspective shifted from Wall-E’s viewpoint), I would by no means be disappointed by it getting a nomination.
But I’d rather see The Dark Knight get the breakthrough nod over this.
Alfredo, I don’t really understand what the “rule” is that you’re talking about. “Wall-E” is eligible for Best Picture, therefore, a nomination would not be breaking any rules that I know of.
so far, all I’ve seen that deserves a best pic nomination is (are??) wall-e, dark knight and slumdog.. so nice that commercial films are getting good again!
There is no way that my hopes of the Dark Knight and Wall-E getting nominated is going to happen. They will break one unwritten rule this year, not two. Wall-E is going to get shut out.
On the subject of screenplay nominations/wins for movies without a lot of dialogue, No Country for old Men comes to mind. I mean, obviously the dialogue it did have was extremely well written but in a lot of places the dialogue was scarce.
Since the beginning of the year I felt that this would be the year the summer blockbuster would return to the BP line up. It is still a possibility that TDK or Wall-E won’t be nominated, but I’ll be happy if either, or extremely excited if both are nominated
I’m not getting my hopes up, but it would be awesome if WALL-E (and The Dark Knight as well) got a Best Picture nomination. I mean, sure, you can give Pixar one Best Animated Feature Oscar after another. But it’s about time Pixar got something more. They deserve to be awarded for consistently making quality entertainment. If Cars is your weakest movie, you know you’re doing something right. They’ve got the best track record in Hollywood right now. They never disappoint (although some thought Cars was disappointing). They should be awarded for that. And I don’t mean another Best Animated Feature (although that certainly would be deserving). I mean a Best Picture nomination. Go Pixar! Go WALL-E!
I concur with that Fool of a Took.
You fool of a Took!!!
I agree with you, Pixar is beyond deserving.
While I do not see this nomination as likely, I do believe it highlights a fundamental flaw with how we speculate about awards season. Why is it that we put movies that we have not even seen in our “lists” ahead of terrific cinema already released? I understand that it is obviously not changing anytime soon but I believe the group of films coming out should have to top the films already released for a place on our list. Yes, I would have a tough time coming up with 5 films so far this year that could top a list. However, there are two that have been far and away the best two films this year, and they are Wall-e and The Dark Knight. Again, I understand that it is extremely unlikely that both these films get nominated, but why not make the films coming out prove they are better than these before we anoint them?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/movies/28stud.html?_r=1&8mu&emc=mua2&oref=slogin
The more I remember this film, the more I deeply love it.
It is a great and very original film.
I also struggled with the tonal shift in the last act, but – that’s part of the film’s charm & lack of predictability.
It is what it is & its exactly what it intends to be. & it is that beautifully and wonderfull. Do I make sense?
Its a really really good, original and deeply felt film with a heck of alot more presence than your average multiplex experience.
Don’t see it making BP though. Not if Ratatouille didn’t (or perhaps BECAUSE Ratatouille didn’t, that could help… hmmm…)
I hope WALL-E ends up on the Best Picture Nod. If it doesn’t, I will not watch the oscars. Unlike Ratatouille and the Incredibles, WALL-E had a wonderful allegorial story.
If you complained that WALL-E was preachy, that shows how ignorant you are. Good movies are also here to give lessons out, not just to entertain. We can’t expect entertainment all the time. WALL-E shows reality. To not accept the movie’s message, is not accepting reality. To not accept reality means that you cannot accept reality.
WALL-E costed 180,000,000 to make, just as much as the Dark Knight. So many people worked so hard on it. Ben Burtt did amazing voice design, Stanton wrote his most daring script, the computer graphics were realistic (with the exception of the human characters), Newman did a beautiful themed score (WHY DID HE NOT GET A NOD FOR BEST MUSIC AT THE ANNIES?!), etc.,etc.
WALL-E is not one of the bloated romance films like the great, but overrated Titanic. Titanic did nothing but circled around Jack and Rose romance. There were many things going on beside WALL-E’s and EVE’s romance- There was a lethargic society, a polluted Earth, and machines discovering life. And WALL-E romance with EVE affected humanity.
WALL-E is certainly better than Kung Fu Panda. Kung Fu Panda only took 130 million to make. Kung Fu Panda is certainly funnier, but comedy is not enough to define a good movie. Kung Fu Panda had a excellent storyline, but it is what it is, it was only meant to make children laugh and enjoy it. Kung Fu Panda is not of the universal. Young children will love the cuteness of WALL-E, and teens and adults will love the allegorical story.
Dreamworks may be funnier, but Pixar succeeds in mixed comedy with out-of-this world storylines. Storylines matter more than comedy.
If you think comedy defines how good a movie is, you are one of those inconsiderate people who give no damn toward the hard effort.
What use is an Annie Award to WALL-E? WALL-E is no animated movie, it’s a romance made by animation. Saying that WALL-E is an animated movie is discriminating.
If WALL-E doesn’t show up on the Best Picture category, I will never watch the Oscars again. Mark my words.
I will also boycott the Oscars if the Dark Knight doesn’t show up in the Best Picture nomination. Like WALL-E it has an allegorial story.
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