Kenryoku_Maxis said:
And every year following, its been nothing but a 'pick the most popular and big budget CGI fest' award. With most years, not even a single hand drawn piece of animation being nomminated. I really don't hate CGI, but its pretty rediculous how bias the Academy Awards have become when they're only picking out the most popular or expensive movies to give an award to. Fun fact, there has never been any hand drawn piece of animation to ever win an academy award aside from Spirited Away. The only OTHER movie to win the academy award aside from a CG picture was Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit (Clay Mation). A wonderful movie don't get me wrong and I love it, but it only won THAT award most likely because no major CG movies were nomminated that year. For reference of just how lopsided and bias the awards have become, here's a history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Animated_Feature |
As much as I would like to blame it (solely) on the Academy, frankly, this has a lot to do with the lack of great traditional animated films produced in recent years. Outside of Japan, there really isn't a lot of effort put into this kind of filmmaking anymore - which is a terrible, terrible shame considering just how beautiful the art form is.
The bias against animation is quite bad historically, though, considering how many groundbreaking pictures were snubbed of even a nomination before the Best Animated Picture was introduced (and even then, it was mainly so that they wouldn't have to waste space on a potential animated film for best picture).
