Animated Film Grabs Best-Picture

[jhiggy23]

Originally Posted by P@t_Mtl

I wonder why they would, afterall a category was specialy created for them a few years back.

So if a animated movie can be in the regular movie Best Picture category, why not have a regular movie in the best Animated Picture category? Why bother setting up categories if it's going to work like that?

I usually agree with you, but I have to disagree here. Just because a film falls into the animated, foreign film, or documentary category doesn't mean it should be excluded from best overall picture. If that was the case, then there should be categories for best comedy, best action movie, etc. and those films shouldn't be allowed to win best picture. If a film is the best overall picture, it's the best overall picture, regardless of whether there are other categories for it. I'm not sure what the issue is.

For instance, The Lives of Others won best foreign film and I think it should have won best picture too. Should it have been excluded from that category just because it was the best foreign film? No, and its exclusion was not due to that.

As for this year, I find it highly unlikely that an animated film will win. That's not to say that there aren't deserving ones. There are, especially in a year as weak as this on great films. But I just don't see them giving it to one.