'Wall-E' Makes Bid for Best Picture Nod

[tjcjr]

Also climbing up a high Oscar wall is the year's best-reviewed movie---as of late October, unlikely to be unseated--Disney/Pixar's Wall-E, from Andrew Stanton. It earned 97% when it first opened June 27. Again, critics groups will likely slot the film in their animated category and focus on rewarding smaller fare.
But bowing to pressure from the community, Disney and Pixar are going for it. I've got insider info: Variety's running a Disney ad on Thursday that not only asks for Academy members' consideration for Wall-E for best animated feature but for best picture as well. (Here's the LAT's look at the new Disney animation under John Lasseter, who cracked the whip on Disney's upcoming Bolt, UPDATE and the NYT on big movies going for Oscar.) They're going to put on a concerted marketing effort to push Wall-E with AMPAS, the guilds, critics, producers, the works.
Wall-E deserves a shot at best picture. And it couldn't be more timely, in terms of nailing the zeitgeist. It won't take long, the way things are going, for us all to wind up in Wall-E's world.

Source: Oscar Watch: Wall-E, Dark Knight Launch Campaigns - Thompson On Hollywood on Variety.com

[Coast21]

Awesome, here's hoping it gets the nomination and then a WIN!!!!

[mycroft16]

That would be so awesome if it did win. Here's hoping.