And for the sake of completeness, Wall-E did indeed win a Saturn for Best animated film, but lost for the Director nod, which I thought it had a good chance at, instead Iron Man won in that category. This was all back on June 25th, read here at their site for a complete list of winners and nominations:
I noticed that Leonard Nimoy was given a special award there, as was Jeffrey Katzenberg for his visionary pushing of 3D film presentation technology.
Andrew Stanton’s tweet surrounding the win is funny.
Another hearty congratulations to the team, and Stanton in particular.
WALL-E has been nominated for a Humanitas award:
hollywoodreporter.com/hr/con … 45f18216db
Which, let’s face it, is a pretty incredible award for any film to be up for, but made even more incredible since the film stars primarily robots. Albeit robots that have more “humanity” than most humans in films these days.
Johnny Humanity-Seed?
Anyways, I found out more about this award at another website:
escapistmagazine.com/news/vi … itas-Award
where they talk about previous winners, such as the top Imdb movie The Shawshank Redemption.
There really was a Johnny Appleseed (not real name) who died in the mid 1800’s. He took to the road when he was about 18 and planted apple trees, was successful and lived a harsh, sometimes barefoot existence, dressed often in rags. He planted and actually owned profitable orchards, rather than randomly tossing seeds about, and he slept often outdoors in the cold. He died of pneumonia at age 70 or so. He espoused the Swedenborg philosophy, popular at that time. He was kind to animals and generous to people. He was famous during his own lifetime, worked mostly in Ohio and Indiana. I’m culling this from the wiki, lets see, he was intelligent and read and distributed literature about that sect. He was a known eccentric. Was he always dirty? Dunno.
There is some controversy over whether he actually wore a metal pot on his head. Such a pot would keep out the rain and direct sunlite and be useful for dinner, and this inspired the 1948 Disney film with a kid wearing a metal pot. This brief movie was corralled with a few other shorts with Paul Bunyan and John Henry and packaged as a movie. Perhaps this was the inspiration for the Pixar team’s nickname.
Edit: meaning when Wall-E uses the hubcab as a hat, that it’s like Johnny Appleseed using that metal pot as one. Thought that might have needed some clarification.
This was a big thread over on the Walleforum.com site a year ago and I just noticed that Jibiti may have overlooked posting it over here too. It’s a compendium of Top 10 lists from several hundred critics, and is an excellent guide to peeling away a particular critics personal persnickities and looking at all the lists from 2008. Also, it’s a good way to compare other Pixar movies. Here is a nearly final list from 2008, with our little yellow friend in the lead!:
moviecitynews.com/awards/200 … eboard.htm
Again, it was from the walleforum.com’s expert internet sharpshooters, and here is the link to them: