Which Film Won The Oscar For "Best Animated Feature" In 2008?

2005 was one of the weakest years in blitheness that I've lived through, and not merely in terms of the number of films submitted for the laurels. There was no Pixar moving picture, and so for Disney their biggest promise in the category was Craven Piffling. The year was so weak that many thought information technology had a chance despite it'south weak animation and just general unpleasantness. They aforementioned goes for Valiant,which got a release here for being Disney's commencement co-production with China.

Dreamworks had the fun-but-unremarkable Republic of madagascar, which was idea to exist a lock for a nomination, but didn't come laissez passer after the voters decided to advantage art over entertainment for the final spot in the category.

Other studio stuff included Play tricks'due south Robots which was a fun and colorful piece of entertainment, but it wasn't memorable, which hurt it since it came out way in the get-go of the twelvemonth.

And then there was the foreign and contained stuff. From India there is a dreadful-looking adaptaion of Gulliver's Travel. From Japan there was Steamboy, which got praised for information technology'due south visuals, but divided people on it's plot. And in that location was Hoodwinked from The Weinstein Company, which may not have gotten nominated, but somehow managed to brand over $110 million worldwide.

In the end, Disney and DreamWorks managed to get in with films they had no paw in producing. Too, subsequently being in the business organisation for over 20 years, Tim Burton scored his first Oscar nomination. And again, given the choices, the winner was extremely obvious.

The Contenders

Corpse Bride (Tim Burton, Mike Johnson)

I have an odd relationship with this picture show. I've seen it many times since information technology starting time came out, and every single time I end up feeling indifferent towards it. Information technology'south not a bad motion picture by any means equally at that place are a couple of corking moments, it's obviously beautifully designed, and features great work from Helena Bonham Carter and Emily Watson. But as well those moments, the films kind of lifeless (no pun intended, perhaps). Most of the musical numbers are mediocre, at that place are but ii fairly well-written characters, the villain sucks, and except for those I've previously mentioned, the performances are flat.

And yet, I proceed coming dorsum to it. In fact, including this viewing, I've seen it 3 times since Baronial of final year. And I have a feeling that in the not-likewise-distant future I will have the crawling to lookout it once more. I have nomidea why that keeps happening.

And then, though it'south prissy that Burton was finally acknowledged by the Academy, it'southward sad that it was for one of his lesser films.

On an unrelated annotation, recently I went through Tim Burton'south filmography. I had planned to do a write-upwardly but it won't happen, so see my rankings of all of his films here.

Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki)

On the surface, Howl's Moving Castle has what information technology takes to be a great Miyazaki pic, at the very to the lowest degree. Every frame is an absolute thing of beauty (the castle has got to be ane of the greatest blithe creations of all fourth dimension), information technology has flying sequences, and what seems to exist an epic story. Just for some reason, it didn't quite get there, and were it not for his Goro Miyazaki'due south Tales from Earthsea, information technology would exist the worst film Studio Ghibli e'er fabricated.

Miyazaki's films mostly don't bother explaining what they are about, and that's ane of the things that brand him such a swell filmmaker. As you lot watch the film, the point becomes clear even if the graphic symbol don't spell it out. This ane is confusing right abroad. At that place's then much going on within the first human action (a war, witches, a daughter with depression self-steem, a wizard who likes beautiful girls), that it just becomes a diameter. Later that, once we enter the titular moving castle, things become more entertaining as thing go slightly more focused and we get to see some of the bully fix pieces that Miyazaki is known for. Still, zero nigh the plot becomes articulate because there's still so much going, and in the stop it left me with more than questions than in the beginning. I gauge I'1000 going to take to read to book at some point to see if I finally get some answers.

It'south like shooting fish in a barrel to see why the animators in the Academy would have to the film as, like I've said, it's a visual wonder and it does get entertaining after a while. That alone makes it worthy viewing multiple times, merely information technology's painful to come across a less-than-great Miyazaki picture.

The Winner

Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Nick Park, Steve Box)

Much like the short films that preceded information technology, Wallace & Gromit in the The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is an absolute delight.It has a ridiculous story that allows it to get off the rails without information technology being jarring (and it does), and it'southward filled to the brim with jokes (visual and audible) that start from the very get-go second and don't stop until the bitter finish.But that is non the biggest reason why this film is so adept. Equally information technology has been the example with since the short films, this all works because of the titular characters. It only wouldn't work without Wallace's happy-go-lucky personality and insane ideas, and especially non without Gromit'due south endearing, voiceless voice of reason. Information technology'south ane of those simple delights that movie theater needs every in one case in a while. And for this reason, in the yr when the best picture Oscar contenders were about racism, a tragic gay romance, an writer researching a massacre, a massacre at the olympics, and McCarthyism this win remains the very best of that evening.

Did the correct 1 win? Yes

Should anything else take been nominated? If so, what should take been left out? Why did I even bother asking this? No, just no.

Up Next: We get dorsum to 2002 to encounter a young girl in an extraordinary adventure face off confronting an unlikely family trying to salvage a babe, a niggling girl bonding with a scientific-experiment-gone-wrong, the life of a horse, and infinite pirates searching for a legendary planet.

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