Big Magilla wrote:Criddic is right. As long as the category exists and there are eligible films there should be nominations just as in any other category.
Correct. And that's why the category shouldn't have been created in the first place.
With such a small pool to choose from every single year, there is no incentive to make your animated film a great work for the ages. All you need to do is make it juuuust good enough in order for it to make money, and if an Oscar comes your way that's a side benefit. If there were 350 animated films every year, as there are 350 live action films, then I'd see the sense of it. Of course there are personal pet projects that come along, such as the Miyazaki films, the Wallace and Gromit and The Incredibles. But as we can see they're not going to come around every single year. That the films that have won so far are seen quality films is a matter of sheer luck.
I've never cared for Shrek, and I don't particularly love The Incredibles or the Wallace & Gromit film. And I'm a big animal lover, but if I see one more effin' penguin I'm coming down to the Antarctic with a rotisserie and a skewer.
How many of those films on the list are films with a bunch of talking animals? Every two weeks, it seems another painfully unfunny movie with snide, obnoxious animals comes out, cracking stupid jokes and banging their crotches into something.
