Toy Story 3 got it! Pixar’s second in two consecutive years!
It was also nominated on:
Best Animated Feature
Best Adapted Screenplay.
Best Sound Editing
Best Original Song
Day & Night also got Best Short Film.
In total, 6 nominations for Pixar!
I’m so excited!
There’s a theard somewhere on this board about if Toy Story 3 would be nominated, and I remember I totally was doubtful that it would be nominated for Best Picture, but it was!
This is just a win in itself, second year in a row that an animated film, not just Pixar, but an animated film, is nominated for Best Picture. It shows how far public perception of animated movies and how they’re not just for children have come.
I’m so excited! Haha, congrats, Pixar!
SO OVERJOYED RIGHT NOW.
This is awesome! I actually got to see the live stream of the nominations being announced, and jumped in the air when I saw Toy Story 3 being nominated for Best Picture. Not to mention Day & Night for Best Animated Short Film. I love the Academy!
^ I can’t love the Academy. But I watch religiously the nominations live stream and these last two years have been magnificent. Pixar’s proving its supremacy.
You’re right, I guess I love them temporarily for creating the nominees list. 
-After the show I’ll probably go right back to boring my sister with an hour rant on why WALL-E is awesome and how the Academy sucks for ignoring it.
Oh, yeah! 
This is awesome! TS3 definitely deserves every nomination! 
I am actually so happy to hear that! Toy Story 3 deserved every nomination and I hope it wins everything it’s nominated for (even though that might seem a little doubtful). x
Big congrats to everyone at Pixar who worked on Toy Story 3. You certainly deserve all the recognition for making such an amazing film.
I think TS3 is very likely to win Best Animated Feature. If you look at it from a simple logic perspective, it’s the only film n that category that was also nominated as one of the ten best films of any kind of the year. Additionally, it’s received a lot of praise, made appearances on many best of the year lists, and earned a few awards already. And it’s an excellent movie.
Best Picture is much more of a long shot, if not an outright lost cause. While I like the Best Animated Feature category because it gives recognition to animated movies, including some that could real use the higher profile (like The Illusionist), I kind of feel like it gives Academy voters an excuse not to give Best Picture to an animated movie. My worry s that they’ll figure that a great animated movie can be acknowledged with the Best Animated feature award, so there’s no need to give it anything more than a nomination for the top prize. Believe me, I want to see the day when an animated feature wins Best Picture, but I think it’s going to take something along the lines of an American made animated movie that deals with an extremely serious subject, has a major studio backing, does well at the box office, and is so universally praised that not giving it Best Picture would essentially amount to the Academy admitting that an animated film can never win Best Picture.
Does anyone understand why TS3 is up for Best Adapted Screenplay rather than Best Original Screenplay? Is it because it’s a sequel and therefore uses material from the previous two films?
“We Belong Together” probably has as good a shot as anything for Best Original Song. SO far as I know, there’s no real standout in that category this year, nothing that gets tons of radio play and is known by everyone. Personally, I think “We Belong Together” is merely okay and probably the weakest song that Newman has written for the Toy Story films. It could win, it could lose, and I won’t be too excited either way.
Even though it’s not that important whether it’s nominated or not, as the Academy awards are still people’s opinions technically, it is nice to see. It’s finally winning me over to the point where I can place it (in terms of how much I like it) along side the first two.
Cool. Could someone forward me a link of the nominations? Thanks. Anyway, it’s great that Pixar gets nominated again.
I love you, Grace! You’re awesome.
Honestly I wouldn’t have a problem with the logic behind the nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, except for the fact that The King’s Speech, a film based on real life, was nominated for original screenplay. That just makes no sense to me.
Why, thank you.
Anyway, I’m really happy it got nominated. But as much as I want it to win BP, I don’t think it will. 
But anyway, congrats to Pixar!
Ah, sweet justice. Now, the wait to inevitably be disappointed that it won’t win Best Picture.
I think it’s nominated for "original screenplay’ because ‘adapted screenplay’ is for remakes, movies based on books, and sequels. There wasn’t an actual book called “The King’s Speech” They had to write out the whole thing from scratch using interviews and historic records
While I think it’s a long shot that Pixar will win a Best Pic this year (knowing the Academy’s conservatism and their reluctance to be progressive), the more times Pixar (or any animated film) gets nominated for this category, the more foolish the board is going to look as time goes on. Sooner or later, they’re gonna have to realise that animation must be recognised and respected on its own merits instead of judged as a ‘genre’.
Congratulations Unkrich and Pixar! All the best at the Little Naked Man Statue Awards! Good luck too to True Grit, Inception, and The King’s Speech!
On a side note, I’m incredibly bitter that The Town and How to Train Your Dragon have been snubbed out of the race for Best Pic, and Legend of the Guardians for Best Animated Ghetto. But not everyone can be winners.
True, it just seems like they both have the same material they’re working off of (characters, certain settings, stuff like that). I’m mostly just disappointed that because of that, it’s going up against the Social Network’s screenplay, which has already gotten tons of awards over TS3’s. It might’ve had a fighting chance in the original screenplay catagory.
On another note, I loved Tangled’s music, but We Belong Together is just so catchy that I want it to win. 
Based on actual events has always been considered as original. For something to be adapted it requiers to be based on a previous written material.