Anyone else a bit offended at claims Heavy Rain's writing is Oscar Worthy?

[Kenryoku_Maxis]

Helios said:

Kenryoku_Maxis said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

Kenryoku_Maxis said:
In some ways, I kind of wish the game would just win an oscar. It would just show how pointless the whole thing is and how they're just handing out oscars to only the most hyped and flashy movies (and as a result games) out there. Not anything that deserves actual merit.

IE: Every single 'Animation' Award going to a CGI film and every 'Best Picture' film going to the most hyped and advertised movie of the year.

Sprited Away got the animation Oscar, so there it something.

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).

Yes, that argument can be made.  And I understand that the vast majority of domestically made animation had turned towards CG.  But as an awards committee, that should further compound their reasoning for giving out an awards each year to basically the same two studios and for the same types of movies.  If these weren't animated movies, it wouldn't be as acceptable to see say, James Cameron and Stephen Spielberg and their companies win the Academy Award 7 out of 10 years in a row.  People would start questioning the ratings system and their scope...

In any event, I agree that many past films in the genre of Animation got overlooked, and even now are being overlooked.  That's partially how the genre of Animation was suppose to have gotten it own award, when many people stated they think Beauty and the Beast didn't win the Academy Award for best film because it was an animated film (though it was nominated).  Though obviously, it was in a major year with three other hit pictures so it probably wasn't going to win anyway.

As for the future of the award, I highly doubt we're going to see a change in their practices.  Only a member of the Academy can nominate a film for an award.  So hardly any foreign animation will have a chance.  That only leaves domestically made Anmation...which is pretty much tons of CGI and a handful of claymation and hand drawn works done by Disney or independent studios every few years.