Can A Robot Take Home Best Picture?

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Can WALL-E Win Best Picture?

WALL-E, Pixar's lonely little post-apocalyptic robot, is quickly collecting a lot of friends. Critics have applauded the animated film all the way to a 97% Fresh rating on the movie-review website Rotten Tomatoes -- the year's best so far. Audiences have spent $128 million at the box office in WALL-E's first 10 days of release, placing the film seventh so far in 2008, and it is likely to climb closer to the heroes of May -- Indiana Jones and Iron Man -- as glowing word-of-mouth continues to drive ticket sales. Even though most of Hollywood's Oscar contenders have yet to hit theaters, all that critical and commercial affection is leading awards watchers to ponder: Could WALL-E finally be The One?

No animated film has ever won Best Picture. Only one -- Beauty and the Beast, in 1991 -- has even earned a nomination. Since the creation of a Best Animated Feature category seven years ago, animated film has been trapped in Oscar's cartoon ghetto, even though reviewers consistently place Pixar's movies on their best-of-the-year lists.

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Comments

[KISSman]

I'd like to see it nominated. It sure would irk some conservatives who see it as having too many liberal 'messages' in it. Of course, that just makes me root for it even more.

[wadenelson1]

In a word, NO.