Possible awards for WALL-E?

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#41

With the Oscars… I really, really, really am hoping that WALL•E gets nominated for Best Sound Design, especially as there is no award for voice acting and Ben Burtt deserves to get nominated for that. I’m also hoping we’ll get lucky twice in a row with Thomas Newman getting a nom, although I don’t think it stands as much of a chance of getting nominated as Ratatouille did. Lastly, it’s pretty much a shoe-in for Best Animated Feature, but for it to be additionally nominated for Best Feature Film, well, that would just be magical (though unlikely, since we all know how biased the Academy is against “animated” films.)

My fingers are crossed for you, Pixar! =)

#42

Best Animated, Best Original Score and Best Sound Mixing (or whatever it’s called) are a shoe-in I think.

I still think it will get a Nomination for Best Picture but won’t win. :astonished:

Also Ledger will get Best Actor.

#43

I haven’t seen this anywhere else, usually you guys post interesting Wall-E articles within 24 hours after release.

nymag.com/daily/entertainment/20 … for_b.html

It was posted on 6/26/08, which was a long time ago. Surely someone else referred to it on this website. Some other links from that article:

nymag.com/daily/entertainment/20 … posed.html

where Wall-E was mentioned in an article about the latest cute dog movie. And

aintitcool.com/node/37098 ,This is a breathtaking account of a preview.

nymag.com/daily/entertainment/20 … _ever.html

nymag.com/daily/movies/2008/06/walle_pixar.html

And finally, the most recent… In the past few days Oscar talk has been brewing:

defamer.com.au/2008/10/walle … ure-2.html

I’ve seen maybe two of these reviews that are linked to in these articles spread over this website. Hope this is a good launching point, although dated, for some of you award watchers.

#44

Thanks for the links, DarkHandOfSigourneyWeaver. It’s good to know that, in a way, WALL-E is in the running for Best Picture, and that it’s still in people’s minds.

#45

Disney Studios Awards has updated it’s page with a list of awards WALL•E has been submitted to and the official screenplay!
Home: disneystudiosawards.movies.go.com/main.html?
Screenplay: disneystudiosawards.movies.go.co … script.pdf

#46

I was reading through every award that WALL•E is being put up for the ‘For Your Consideration’ thing, and I can’t think of any award it shouldn’t at least be nominated for. We’ll just have to wait and see what happens.

Thanks for those links, Martin!

#47

Grammy nominations!

Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media

  • Wall-E
    Thomas Newman, composer
    [Walt Disney Records/Pixar]

Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media

* Down To Earth (From Wall-E)
  Peter Gabriel & Thomas Newman, songwriters (Peter Gabriel)
  Track from: Wall-E
  [Walt Disney Records/Pixar; Publishers: Walt Disney Music, Wonderland Music/Pixar Talking Pictures/Pixar Music]

Best Instrumental Arrangement

* Define Dancing (From Wall-E)
  Peter Gabriel & Thomas Newman, arrangers (Thomas Newman)
  Track from: Wall-E — Soundtrack
  [Walt Disney Records]
#48

Well, I don’t think we could any happier than with those nominations! Thanks, Jibiti!

#49

Brilliant! I didn’t even think of the Grammies! What else was nominated for those categories? I want to see what we’re up against. :stuck_out_tongue:

#50

Here is the link, go to Category 82 and just beyond that, hella lotta categories:

content.grammy.com/grammy_awards … /list.aspx

For recordings released during the Eligibility Year
October 1, 2007 through September 30, 2008
Note: More or less than 5 nominations in a category is the result of ties.
Category 1 Record Of The Year

  • Please Read The Letter Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

**Extra Special: * It’s Bad For Ya George Carlin [Eardrum Records]

Field 22 — Film/TV/Visual Media

Category 83

Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media
(Award to Composer(s) for an original score created specifically for, or as a companion to, a current legitimate motion picture, television show or series or other visual media.)

* The Dark Knight
  James Newton Howard & Hans Zimmer, composers
  [Warner Sunset/Warner Bros.]

* Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull
  John Williams, composer  [Concord Records]

* Iron Man  Ramin Djawadi, composer   [Lionsgate]

* There Will Be Blood  Jonny Greenwood, composer [Nonesuch]

* [b]Wall-E[/b] Thomas Newman, composer [Walt Disney Records/Pixar]

Category 84

Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media
(A Songwriter(s) award. For a song (melody & lyrics) written specifically for a motion picture, television or other visual media, and released for the first time during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.)

* Down To Earth (From Wall-E)
  [b]Peter Gabriel & Thomas Newman[/b], songwriters (Peter Gabriel)
  [Walt Disney Records/Pixar; Publishers: Walt Disney Music, Wonderland Music/Pixar Talking Pictures/Pixar Music]

* Ever Ever After (From Enchanted)
  Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz, songwriters (Carrie Underwood)  [Walt Disney Records]

* Say (From The Bucket List) John Mayer, songwriter (John Mayer)  Track from: Continuum  [Aware/Columbia]

* That's How You Know (From Enchanted)
  Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz, songwriters (Amy Adams)
  Track from: Enchanted  [Walt Disney Records; 

* Walk Hard (From Walk Hard — The Dewey Cox Story)
  Judd Apatow, Marshall Crenshaw, Jake Kasdan & John C. Reilly, songwriters (John C. Reilly)  [Columbia]

Field 23 — Composing/Arranging

Category 85

Best Instrumental Composition
(A Composer’s Award for an original composition (not an adaptation) first released during the Eligibility Year. Singles or Tracks only.)

* The Adventures Of Mutt (From Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull)  John Williams, composer (John Williams)

Category 86

Best Instrumental Arrangement
(An Arranger’s Award. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.)

* Define Dancing (From Wall-E)
  [b]Peter Gabriel & Thomas Newman[/b], arrangers (Thomas Newman)
  Track from: Wall-E — Soundtrack  [Walt Disney Records]

* Down In The Valley
  Frank Macchia, arranger (Frank Macchia Featuring The Prague Orchestra) Track from: Landscapes  [Cacophony]

* Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love
  Michael Abene, arranger (Joe Lovano With WDR Big Band & Rundfunk Orchestra) Track from: Symphonica  [Blue Note]

* St. Louis Blues
  Bob Brookmeyer, arranger (The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra)
  Track from: Monday Night Live At The Village Vanguard
  [Planet Arts Recordings]

* Yesterdays
  Gordon Goodwin, arranger (Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band Featuring Art Tatum) Track from: Act Your Age [Immergent]
#51

Good news! The National Board of Review just awarded WALL-E the Best Animated Feature award. In addition, they also included WALL-E in their list of the Top 10 films of 2008.

#52

i’ve skimmed the list of the top10s of past years and I think that the only other animated films where Snow White, Fantasia and Pinocchio, so… well done WALL-E! :smiley:

#53

When are the Grammies then?

-EIA-

#54

Yay, well done WALL-E! To get an achievement like that is truly something. Thanks for telling us about that, CountSolo. Do you know what position WALL-E came within the Top Ten?

#55

I don’t think the NBR ever actually ranks their top ten movies… From what I’ve observed, they only choose which movies make it to their top ten, and then they simply list these movies in alphabetical order when they make their announcement.

For the record, the only Pixar movie that didn’t win the National Board Review’s Best Animated Feature award since the inception of that category was Monsters, Inc., which was overshadowed by Shrek (little did they know that Dreamworks was about to turn into one joke of a company soon thereafter). Every other Pixar movie since then has won in that particular category.

#56

That’s great that WALL-E got nominated for those Grammy’s, that’ll make up for the Annie’s lack of WALL-E music noms.

#57

Hmmmm…Well, I’m 100% positive “Define Dancing” will blow everything else in its category completely out of the water. The other good ones in the other categories are Dark Knight and Iron Man for Best Soundtrack and That’s How You Know and Say for best song in a film. Those are the only worthy contenders for those categoires, IMO.

#58

Hmmm…I can’t remember if there was a link to this earlier in this thread, or in another thread, but WALL•E scored in Rottentomatoes.com Top 50 Best Animated Films two months ago:

rottentomatoes.com/guides/be … ted_films/

I won’t spoil the suspense and give away where our film of the hour landed on that list, you will just have to slog your way thru it, tee hee. And it was very interesting where other Pixar films ended up. Of course, some peeps weren’t happy with the rankings, especially the ones who live and breathe animation.

#59

CountSolo- Aah, I see, I wasn’t sure. That’s pretty cool though, that almost every other film has made it onto the list! Just goes to show how consistent they are.

#60

Whoopie!! I got to go a screening of WALL-E in my area for Academy members. Some secret person invited me. I’d like to thank Martini833 for the heads up 3 weeks ago in this thread. I took some pictures too, but the main reason for going was because it was in the screening room at Dolby Laboratories, and I just couldn’t imagine better sound than in that place, my mouth was watering, eyes wide open and ears were porous.

Construction Zone, work in progress

pictures to be shown later…

I can tell you that I talked to a Janitor and Security guard and a few of the viewing audience, which numbered twenty. Would like to say that some big shot from Pixar was there, but only one person seemed to throw his weight around and maybe that was cuz he was over 300 pounds, a former Axiom crewmember no doubt. Took about a dozen pictures with my new digital camera, but only 5 turned out. I’m in the process of figuring out now as I type how to xfer these pix over to this forum from a computer, where they are now loaded up onto.

It was at a small theater in a well known facility which obviously processes sound. The projection was as good, if not better, than what I’ve seen at the usual theaters. The sound of course was stellar…The sounds of the probe spaceship landing was incredible, the theater was shaking. My only criticism was that I didn’t seem to locate any speakers mounted near the rear or along the sides, no ‘surround’ sound that could be readily located.

The audience giggled at most of the usual gags. Few gasps and no hoorays. I turned around frequently to observe their faces, and they were very intent, affected expressions.

I wanted to inspect the speakers, and probe the walls with my stethescope, a boom mike and a meter with a big needle on it to search for hidden speakers. But crawling all around might have attracted undue attention.

At the end, yours truly started the applause, which was respectable, and the members filed out, only making light comments. One guy behind me saw and heard the very last thing, the BnL logo, at the end of the credits just after the Disney and Pixar logos, and asked “BnL, what’s that?” as if it was a company involved in Wall•E’s production. The people with him laughed, “it was only shown all thru the entire movie”. Someone said the movie was a satire. Others said they liked it.

A woman with a clipboard was outside the theater entrance which was at the top of a lot of steps inside the building, interestingly designed. She was asking people what they thought of the movie. The projectionist lady exited thru a stairwell door, and cautioned me to go down the elevator: security.

There was no reception either before or after. Most of the guests had not seen the movie before. No name or face was familiar to me. Pictures follow.