You guys are forgetting “The Wrestler”…
The Wrestler is one of the movies I was talking about when I said that there are some really great movies only getting recognized for their acting instead of as a whole film. I haven’t seen The Wrestler yet, but from the trailers and what I’ve heard, I think it will be a masterpiece, and should go for Best Picture, but Mickey Rourke is more than likely going to win Best Actor.
I’d be happy enough if it got nominated. Wall-E probably won’t win best picture, but it’s still an accomplishment.
Still think Slumdog Millionare is getting the award though. Slumdog, ftw.
I know this is off-topic, but the whole Best Picture thing does annoy me. I’ve never heard of any of the films being recommended for nomination (aside from WALL-E, of course, and I know a bit about the Benjamin Button one) because none of them are released overseas until after they’ve got all the Oscar hype, it seems!
Also, when are the nominations officially released? If WALL-E does get nominated, do Pixar have to say anything about it?
The nominations are announced on January 22nd, 2009 at 5:30 am, in L.A. Every year the nominees usually do make a statement, after the nominations are announced.
Ah, okay, thanks R2-D2.
Are you sure its at 5:30 a.m.? Seems a little early to do something like that.
A little more than a month to go, guys! 
I’ve just got an amazing idea while on my Penang trip… it’s in conjunction with the Oscar nomination season… let’s just say it involves Wall-E, another film, and my video editing mash-up ability… hope to get it started after Quantum of Bolt… 
I heard about this recently.
In my view, I believe this is a little too much for the movie.
Wall-E was great when I saw it in theaters during the past summer. But I didn’t think it was that perfect.
Besides that, I believe people should remain happy even if it doesn’t get nominated and wins best feature film. Because there is a high chance that it’s going to stump the rest of the nominations in Best Animated Feature.
That, in this category was where I see that Wall-E was excellent.
Yes, true. I’ve had to make a sustained effort to see these films. Remember tho, you are in Britain, and these are mostly American & English language films. There are like 20 films with some sort of shot at being amongst the top 5, and most of the other major category nominations will come from these 20 films too.
But I had enough of the Australia jabber earlier this fall. It was at best a 3 out of 4 star movie. Who had seen it to make an objective review here? The Wrestler opened Dec 17th, limited, same with Rev Road on Dec 26th. (So how could the guy who posted on Dec. 20th have seen both these?) They are now playing about 35 miles from me and I live in an area of two million people where they are not playing yet. I guess some people here see special film screenings or hear the ‘in’ word, or know film reviewers and have some agreement as long as they ‘bring the popcorn’. What irritates me is they seem to be going on ‘the buzz’ and some trailer.
Quite honestly Button didn’t do that well over at RottenTomatoes. Period pieces do very well at the Oscars, especially with great acting. But it wasn’t an original story, and even tho they make wonderful lovers, there was something important missing from the screenplay to be a film of the year. And does a movie about studio wrestling really stand a chance no matter how well the actor has done? Ok, give him a nom, but don’t push out better movies for his anguish in real life and in the movie. It’s about the movie, not actor worship. I agree that Slumdog and Milk will get noms for Best Picture. Frost/Nixon seems to be getting the #5 slot on the ballots it’s even getting on, and that will get it pushed out! It has to do better. There is more than just one slot open, I count three…
Yes, a lot of us are going on speculation, but as posted in the Official Movie Scripts thread here, pixarplanet.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4239 , the scripts for these movies are available to download off of the Awards sites for free. I have not seen Revolutionary Road yet, but the script is very good. Maybe that’s what some people here are going on?
-C-3PO
USA Today recently ran another article reminding readers of Wall-E’s bid for Best Picture. Of interesting note is Mr Stanton’s amiable quote at the end where he sportingly defended the Best Animation award. I, on the other hand, feel it would be more impressive if Wall-E swept both awards, since Best Animation is almost a given.
Sorry to be a bug, but …
'Twas on the back of my Animation magazine and I thought I’d ‘represent’. 
That’s nice… but does it say Oscars? I really can’t see some of the text there.
But at least a nomination would change people’s view on animation.
I would have been happier if they had pushed harder for Ratatouille last year.
JhOpZzZz: I think it’s for the Oscars, because there are other ‘for your consideration’ things in the magazine, like Kung Fu Panda, and shorts … I checked the others but it doesn’t say it anywhere.
Haunt: Same here.
WALL-E will win best picture.
Pure. And. Simple.
I found this article and thought I’d share it here.
Looks like our favorite little robot is the best movie of 2008.
K, so they’re just trying to get Wall-E a Best Picture?
wo0t!!!
WALL-E has actually won, tied, or came in 2nd for multiple Best Picture awards:
Did I mention Kung Fu Panda has only won Animated awards, and pretty much the only major one it’s won is The Annies? Yeah, don’t get your hopes up, WALL-E haters, Pixar still reigns supreme.
Well, not anymore, since The Oscars proved once again that they are inherently against animation. It did get a Best Original Screenplay nomination, though, which is almost even more meaningful. There’s even serious buzz that it could win if The Academy doesn’t just toss the award to Milk in order for it to win ‘something’.