WALL-E will win everything. Or almost everything. LotR got, what, eleven oscars? WALL-E will get fifteen.
YES. WALL-E IS BETTER THEN FRODO. I HAVE SAID IT.
Ooh, sounds amazing, DarkHandOfSigourneyWeaver! I’m very jealous. Looking forward to hearing more about it.
Yes! Wall•E has won the equivalent of the Japanese Oscar! Read here:
Haha, WALL-E made out of sushi! Look at the little EVE, so adorable. 
Best song goes to “The Wrestler” for Bruce Springsteen’s “The Wrestler”. Best picture award should also go for “The Wrestler” in my opinion.
BIG NEWS: The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), which is considered one of the precursors to the Oscars, just named WALL-E the “Best Picture” of the year. Yes, I did say “picture”, not “animated picture”. Congratulations to Pixar for the well-deserved win! (This is also the first time in history that the LAFCA gave its top prize to an animated film). For the record, The Dark Knight was named runner-up (as I mentioned earlier, I prefer The Dark Knight over WALL-E, but a win from either of these two films is deserving despite my preference of one film over another).
Oddly enough, Waltz with Bashir took home Best Animated Feature… Something similar happened in the Foreign Film category a few years back, when the LAFCA gave its top prize to Couching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, while another foreign film was given the Best Foreign Language Film prize.
This is absolutely fantastic! Congratulations, WALL-E!
Way cool–first news I saw when I got home.
Yo, Academy!! Are you listening??
Wow. So it really is happening. Despite the tidal wave of new releases in December, they actually do have memory all the way back to June. Here are the links from the linkmeister:
lafca.net/
eonline.com/uberblog/b72488_ … _also.html
google.com/hostednews/ap/art … AD94VFSTG0
nbclosangeles.com/news/enter … cture.html
uk.reuters.com/article/entertain … SE20081209
But most of those links just list the winners and hash over the same stuff. Here is a more pertinent link:
carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2 … on-begins/
And here is more speculation from today, vis-a-vis some of the other possible award nominees: gawker.com/5105932/how-wall+e-co … -this-year
And its just not true that more critics praised Ratatouille over our robot friend. It was the other way around. Just because Remy didn’t get as many rewards as he should have…don’t take it out on poor Wall-E.
Golden Globe nominations this Thursday morning, Dec. 11th. The website is goldenglobes.org [Edit: 2 noms, Best Animated and Best Soundtrack Song, NO Best Picture]
Meanwhile, yesterday, Time Magazine named our favorite flying hero the #1 movie of the year. Yay!!
This is brilliant! Looks like the Oscar nomination might actually be a thing of reality for WALL-E!
You can see that the NYFCC now joins the WALL-E ship also. They only awarded Pixar the best animated feature award for Incredibles, and now WALL-E. I think it’s really cool.
There was a bit in the newspaper today about WALL-E being pushed for the Oscar. Considering this newspaper rarely prints anything about films (outside of its Friday film section), it shows just how international the news is. It’s almost as though the Academy has to give it a nomination now!
So far:
[size=84]Noms:
Grammy: 3
Golden Globe: 2
CCA: 3
Annie: 8 (Plus 1 for Presto)
Wins:
BAFTA Children’s Award Best Feature
NBR Best Animated Feature
Washington DC FCA Best Animated Film
LA FCA Best Picture
NY FCC Best Animated Feature
Top films:
NBR Top 10
Roger Ebert Top 20
Time Top 10
New Yorker Top 10[/size]
I’m sorry, I really want to keep track. 
WALL-E is #22 on Richard Roeper’s Top 25 Best Films:
RICHARD ROEPER’S BEST FILMS OF 2008
- “Slumdog Millionaire”
- “The Dark Knight”
- “The Wrestler”
- “In Bruges”
- “I’ve Loved You So Long”
- “Gran Torino”
- “Milk”
- “The Visitor”
- “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”
- “Frozen River”
- “Doubt”
- “Snow Angels”
- “Frost/Nixon”
- “The Reader”
- “Seven Pounds”
- “Iron Man”
- “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”
- “W.”
- “Henry Poole Is Here”
- “Burn After Reading”
- “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
22. “WALL-E” - “The Bank Job”
- “Tropic Thunder”
- “Che”
I was a bit surprised, but really happy to see it win LA Film Critics Best Picture. I hope it gets nominated for the Best Picture oscar… it deserves it (if I remember right, I think “Beauty and the Beast” got the nomination a while back).
More nominations:
St. Louis Critics Best Picture Nod
Critics Choice Awards Best Picture Nod
Chicago Film Critics Best Picture Nod
Critics awards:
American Film Institute Top 10
Rolling Stone ranked it 5th in their Top 10
Associated Press ranked it 2nd in their Top 10
New York Magazine ranked it 2nd in Top 10
New York Post ranked it 2nd in Top 10
SouthEastern Film Critics 3rd in Top 10
Source: www.AwardsDaily.com
I think this can be the next animated film to break the animation ghetto of the Oscars and get a Best Picture nomination. I hope the final five will be Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, Milk, Slumdog Millionaire, and WALL-E, but there’s also competition from films like Frost/Nixon, The Wrestler, and Revolutionary Road.
UPDATE: Movie City News has a nice tally of critic’s best of the year lists, and WALL-E is leading on the most critic’s’ lists! Check it out here:
moviecitynews.com/awards/200 … eboard.htm
Unfortunately, if these critics were Academy voters, WALL-E would not be leading the way since the Academy only tally’s people’s number one votes. Film with the most number one votes would be Slumdog Millionaire.
Also, here’s a link to a nice updated tally of awards for each major film this year:
hollywoodreporter.com/hr/con … 1d5a?imw=Y
“By all rights, production designer Ralph Eggleston’s imaginative interpretations of postapocalyptic Earth and spacecrafts-come-resorts in Disney/Pixar’s “WALL-E” should also earn him a nod, but the Academy has never demonstrated a willingness to honor purely animated films in this category, which is ironic considering how many of the sets in recent nominees were constructed almost entirely through digital animation.”
“Down to Earth” has been submitted for the Academy Awards. Four or five final nominees will be announced January 21st.
oscars.org/press/pressreleas … 12.16.html
No offence but I really hope that this award goes to Bruce Springsteen’s “The Wrestler”.
The same day you posted this, the Boston Society of Film Critics named Slumdog Millionaire and… Wall•E, a tie, as their Best Film of 2008!!! More here:
altfg.com/blog/awards/boston … ards-2008/
themovieblog.com/2008/12/bos … th-slumdog
news.bostonherald.com/entertainm … position=2
avclub.com/content/newswire/ … _piling_up
Also, Nashville critic Noel Murray, a fairly well known critic of pop culture and art house movies rated our yellow friend as the #1 movie of the year, but I can’t find his review anywhere:
More WALL-E critics awards and recognition!
Critics awards:
Entertainment Weekly 2nd (and 4th) in Top 10
Chicago Film Critics - WINNER Best Picture
London Film Critics - Best Picture Nomination
The Onion - 1st in Top 10
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics - 9th in Top 10
Toronto Film Critics - Runner up for Best Picture
Austin Film Critics - 7th in Top 10
Phoenix Film Critics - Top 10
Detroit Film Critics - Best Picture Nomination
All courtesy of www.awardsdaily.com