I wish a "Best Picture" Oscar for Toy Story 3...

Again, in a week or so, the Oscars are upon us, the 'Academy Awards',
this year, the Academy decided that Toy Story 3 can and WILL be
nominated not only for the 'Best Animated Feature' Award but for the
'Best Picture' Award as well, making the Pixar phenomenal competing
head to head against Darren Aronovsky's Black Swan, The King's Speech
and others.


First, Congratz to Pixar, Toy Story 3 is so Moving and Touching
Emotionally that even the Academy couldn't ignore their Achievement,
as far as I know, Animated Features usually just get the 'Best Animated
Feature' Award and that's it, the only Animated Feature that I remember
being nominated for the 'Best Picture' Award was Disney's Lion King, but
that was over 15 years ago and didn't end well for the animation world,
but still, it was also a very touching and emotional film.


I think the academy has a problem with judging animation, for some reason,
the academy thinks a person is a genius if he can act well but if he can just
draw a scene with a character acting really well, than he's less of a genius,
again, for some reason.


I've seen Toy Story 3 AND Black Swan AND The King's Speech and I
can say for certain that Toy Story 3 was the only one that left me almost
in tears, the other ones weren't even close.


I have no faith in the academy and I'm still mad at them for not letting
the Oscar to The Lion King but I was a good year and Forrest Gump
(one of my favorite movies) got that Oscar, Than they REFUSED to even
give a nominee to Andy Serkis for portraying Gollum in The Two Towers
(the Lord of the Rings Series by Peter Jackson) in 2002 because they
said he wasn't acting, he was ANIMATED... as if that's NOT acting !


Bottom line is that I don't think the academy is close to get animation but
if anyone can make them get it is Pixar, so I hope it's again one of those
times that we'll all say, I can't be done, but Pixar did it.


btw,
if it wasn't for Toy Story 3, I would say the best film this year was The King's Speech,
I enjoyed it greatly...

Where does Pixar get their Ideas for Short Films ?

I've just seen this film the other day, it's from UPA
and it's been directed by John Hubley in 1949,
I'm merely suggesting that Pixar, or at least their
Short Films Department, seen this film and got
influenced by it.
I don't think that the Pixar Directors consciously stole
ideas from some old UPA cartoon, but the similarities
are more than just coincidences. 



now, besides the fun in this movie, they're couple of things that ring a bell
here, first the Crow takes a magic wand that makes bunnies appear
everywhere, if it doesn't sounds familiar yet, so the name of the original
owner of the wand, the magician "Presto", ring a bell ?
(check out the in-film poster on the wall "Presto")

And if that's not enough, at the end when the Fox can't conduct his band

anymore and realize he has to give up his fame, the Crow comes helping

him wearing his All-in-One musical instruments suit, that kinda looks

familiar, don't you think ?