>When it comes to the Best Animated Feature Film category at the Oscars, Disney and Pixar reign supreme. Since the award was first handed out in 2002, only six films have won that didn’t emerge from the Disney/Pixar powerhouse. While it does happen, the odds are certainly stacked against any competitor who wants to challenge the might of the Mouse. This year, there’s an additional obstacle.
>With “Toy Story 4,” Pixar has not only a natural advantage, but it benefits from being the culmination of a universally beloved franchise many viewers grew up with. It features a generally well-received storyline that brings Woody’s narrative arc to a satisfying conclusion. With all this in favor of “Toy Story 4”, how can any other films hope to compete?
>“Frozen 2”, the sequel to 2013’s global phenomenon “Frozen,” is also slated for release this fall. And while “Toy Story 4” has nostalgia on its side, the overwhelming popularity of “Frozen” shouldn’t be ignored. Depending on how audiences respond when it comes out, “Frozen 2” could serve as a spoiler for the Oscar ambitions of “Toy Story 4.”
>Then again, the “Toy Story” franchise is a bit of an outlier in that it has uncommonly good sequels, something we shouldn’t assume will always be the case. There’s nothing saying that “Frozen 2” will end up being any good when it actually comes out. And of course, there’s always the possibility that these two films could split the vote, clearing the way for another animated film to claim victory.
>So, we look to Japan for a potential wild card. This year’s “Weathering With You” has already been selected as Japan’s entry into the Foreign Language Film category, and its critically acclaimed director Makoto Shinkai had a massive hit on his hands with 2016’s “Your Name.”
>Although it hasn’t been released yet, the quality of Shinkai’s previous work suggests that it could have a very high ceiling. And although this category tends to be dominated by Western animation, anime has been known to turn up ever since the award was created, with “Spirited Away” winning in 2003.
>So, while “Toy Story 4” may be the front-runner in the Best Animated Feature Film category, there’s still every possibility that it will be usurped by the time the awards are doled out.
The most worthless of the worthless. A bunch of fags don't watch the movies, see a logo, then give it to the logo.
Robert Bennett
I don’t care for anime but I hope Shinkai wins just to spite Disney.
Aaron Butler
the oscars are a worthless idea that was created by the big studios form the 20's. no one gives a fuck about them except old people who still watch cable.
Jackson Lee
>what real directors think of Oscars for animation
>it benefits from being the culmination of a universally beloved franchise
That's what they said about TS 3.
Carson Perry
This. Didn't there use to be a group of people who specifically looked at all the animated films and made their decision. I know now the fags who decide just choose the one Disney makes or the one their kids dragged them to see. These "people" lack anything even resembling integrity.
Nolan Thomas
I refuse to see toy story 4 for precisely this reason.
Leo Baker
I never letting that Kaguya snub go
Luke Sullivan
There's no third season of Gargoyles. There's no fourth Sly Cooper game. There's no Toy Story 4.
Michael Richardson
Who cares?
James Johnson
Japan cares. They selected an anime movie to represent them at the Oscars.
Dominic Jenkins
Just see 2011 with Toy Story 3 win over How to Train Your Dragon (that deserved the Oscar more than the Pixar movie).
Nathaniel Bennett
If both TS4 and Frozen 2 get nominated, there’s a chance they end up splitting the votes and another movie wins.
Robert Anderson
The oscars are completely worthless. They didn't even nominate The Tale of Princess Kaguya.
Oliver White
>They didn't even nominate The Tale of Princess Kaguya. Actually they did. It just didn’t win (Big Hero 6 did).
Oliver Kelly
Angry Birds 2 should win ngl
Cameron Nguyen
Toy Story 4 is lock pretty much. The Academy almost never votes against Pixar/Disney and I'm pretty sure there isn't going to be a Spiderverse between now and the Oscars.
Joseph Johnson
>caring about the Oscars do people actually give a shit. Who the fuck wants to watch the hollywood industry jack it's self off
Tyler Cook
Kinda proves the point. The animation oscar is worthless.
Gavin Long
How was it?
Wyatt Thomas
Might as well call it the Pixar award
Julian Sanders
Unless Frozen 2 steals votes from TS4, resulting in a third movie winning.
Hudson Torres
I like anime but I don't care for romance and also want weathering to win. Especially since I am still convinced gigantic was only canceled to free up resources to get frozen 2 out faster
Jacob Taylor
It used to be that you actually had to work in animation to vote on who gets nominated but the winner was voted on my everybody But then they changed it so everybody voted on nominees, presumably to make sure no anime would ever win.
Jackson Watson
Now that would be nice Do the Oscars use any sort of preferential voting?
Nathaniel Barnes
user, disney owns the animated oscars division. No anime or truly deserving piece of animation will ever win. The most marketable and clout filled crap will win.
Carter Lewis
>But then they changed it so everybody voted on nominees That’s the reason why shit like Boss Baby and Ralph Breaks the Internet got nominated.
Owen Diaz
>There's no fourth Sly Cooper game.
Hey, that one was actually pretty good. The only real problem was Penelope's heel turn. Seriously, Bentley has suffered way too much.
Jacob Hill
Weathering is released in a bunch of places outside America and it actually is really good.
Jack Evans
dont forget that terrible QTE final boss
James Reyes
it happens every now and then, Spider-Verse being the most recent example
Austin Anderson
holy shit, it's been 7 SEVEN fucking years already since frozen came out. what the hell happened? why don't i remember anything that happened during that time in my life? didn't i DO anything important enough. did i do anything at all? aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa someone put me out of my misery aaaa
that is the stupidest most naive thing i've ever heard. you're sad.
Carson Diaz
time moves faster the older you get as a year becomes a smaller and smaller fraction of your life
Oliver Thomas
Plus, Japan also submitted it for Best Foreign Film. It’s going to be noticed.
Jaxon Flores
Disney property.
Lincoln Rogers
Spiderverse is Sony
Hudson Morgan
No, Sony wholy owns the movie rights to spider-man, they simply until recently allowed Disney to use the character. Spider verse (and venom) were made entirely by Sony.
I wonder how many people in the academy didn't watch it and assumed it was mcu related.
Brandon Phillips
>Didn't there use to be a group of people who specifically looked at all the animated films and made their decision. Ironically, this was prior to the award for Best Animated Feature. Beauty and the Beast actually WON Best Picture in the tally, but the Academy vetoed its own majority because having Beauty and the Beast win would be "undignified" (or "slap in the face" depending on whose version you heard). When BABE of all films, came excruciatingly close to snatching the Oscar for Best Picture some years later (It was seen as animated because of all the talking animals, apparently) they decided to put a category for the animated films so they didn't cause friction with "real movies". It's a fucking ride.
Kevin Johnson
You do but it takes a fairly token effort to qualify - I think now a five day run in one city is the minimum
Christopher Miller
And there's no war in Ba Sing Se.
Brandon Peterson
Probably this one, if anything can beat Disney, it just another Disney movie
As much as I would love this to happen, I wouldn't bet money on it
Robert Lopez
if anything that would've made them vote for another movie
Andrew Wilson
fine, we can go back to Rango if that satiates your autism
Matthew Hughes
Happy Feet
Landon Davis
>When BABE of all films, came excruciatingly close to snatching the Oscar for Best Picture some years later (It was seen as animated because of all the talking animals, apparently) they decided to put a category for the animated films so they didn't cause friction with "real movies". It's a fucking ride. so what are animated movies, "fake movies"?
Sebastian Foster
>Shinkai Fucking hate this hack. Children of the Sea should have got nominated instead. youtu.be/HJoPvlRXZOY
Thomas Allen
"woke" black people, so they can be mad about other black people, except this time with millions of dollars, not getting as many golden statues as white people with millions of dollars
Brandon Green
Yeah but Shinkai made Your Name and that alone made him an animation god in their eyes.
Liam Richardson
Well, duh. It's animation, it's in its name. Artificial movement, illusion.
Michael Ortiz
Yeah. Best Animated Feature Film is a complete joke, even more so than the rest of the Oscars.
Zachary Rodriguez
I would create an award show that ignores everything Disney and Pixar related because we're way past the point of being ok. Japan has a healthy competitive market, and we have a violent Monopoly. People don't need to see every film that isn't made by Disney we just need to let them know they aren't the only ones making film.
Jonathan Morgan
>brings Woody’s narrative arc to a satisfying conclusion Woody's arc was brought to a conclusion already in 3. And 2. ...and 1.
Michael Anderson
Meanwhile Buzz is nothing but "I'm deluded" joke.
Benjamin Cooper
Buzz keeps repeating his character arc too, only as a joke instead of treating it seriously like with Woody
Oliver Diaz
Isn't it pretty much accepted fact that the criteria used by 99% of the academy members to vote for the animated feature is "hey, I think I brought the kids to watch this".
