Some good commentary on the Animation Oscar this year. This highlights one of my main issues, I’m not inherently mad that these Disney films have won any sort of award at all by themselves, I’m frustrated over the fact that these films are winning over
Persepolis, Fantastic Mr Fox, Ernest and Celestine, The Wind Rises, HTTYD 2, Song of the Sea ect.
This is what I meant when I said, “reminder why bh6 won over kaguya and song of the sea” I didn’t mean BH6 what the worst movie I’ve ever seen in my life or that I think Kaguya and Song of the Sea are flawless. As said above, these mainstream awards don’t “even recognize all the amazing films that weren’t even nominated because of the Academy’s limited viewpoint on animated art”. When these films are acknowledged they are usually treated terribly, often like by being animated and not being made my Disney the films are automatically some sort of knockoff not worth seeing
In order for change to occur we can’t just sit here and passively let it happen. If we do this years tale of blatant disrespect and last years will just keep repeating. Say something and spread the proof
“Let me be perfectly clear: I could care less about which film wins as long as the voting process is fair.”
This is fucking important.
This right here.
This is why “___ should have won!” “____ was robbed!” “Fuck Disney!” does nothing IMHO.
Someone is ALWAYS going to disagree with the winner, even in a FAIR SYSTEM.
Saying “___ should have won!” treats each of these cases like an isolated incident. It ignores the real problem. And it makes us look like we are mad because our favorite movie lost, when we need to show them that we’re pissed because the voting process is unfair.
That’s what we need to focus on. That’s what needs to be called out. The process. The process is wrong. Just handing a different movie the Oscar without addressing the real problem won’t fix anything. We need to speak out against the cause. I can sit here and say “HTTYD should have won” or “Kung Fu Panda” should have won all I want, even if I believe it. But at the end of the day, a fair selection process is way more important than my opinion who should have won.
I want a fair process. Animation deserves a fair process.
Its now about who “Should have won”.
Its about how they should have chosen the winner.
This is why I wasn’t too happy when Big Hero 6 won. I’m happy it won, yes, but I knew it won because the voters are lazy and narrow-minded (as an article from last year proved) and they either don’t watch the whole selection or don’t care about animation as a category (and this is true for the Oscar nominations in general as well, not just for animation as a category). I mean, Frozen won last year—FROZEN! A film that had cheap animation, bad plotting, and exactly 0% to do with the source material. If you don’t care about animation or even other live-action films, maybe you shouldn’t be a voter. Maybe if sitting on your butt and watching movies is too much work for you, maybe let someone who understands the craft of movies and moving drawings do it instead. It must be hard, watching the best films on the planet for free, but dangit that’s your job. Learn how to critique them and then do it
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