Ratatouille gets “surprising” nomination…but not Best Picture
I don’t care what any Hollywood elitist tells me. I will harp on this forever. Ratatouille deserved to be nominated for Best Picture. But the Academy Award nominations just came out and the Disney-Pixar film was not on the list.
However all was not lost. Amazingly the Academy members, who obviously feel that animated films are beneath them, managed to nominate Ratatouille for Best Original Screenplay. All of the experts are calling this nomination a “big surprise”. I wonder, is it surprise because they felt something else should be nominated? No, they feel it is a surprise because even though they feel this great film should be awarded, no one expected the snobbery to give any plaudits to a “kid’s film”.
In 2001 the Oscars added a category for “Best Animated Feature Film”. Since that time, we can pretty much guarantee that “Beauty and the Beast” will be the last animated film nominated in the Best Picture category. One would have thought that Ratatouille might have busted through that firewall. Apparently that is not the case.
So, congratulations to the folks at Pixar for this surprising nomination. The “best reviewed film of the year” gets a little love after all. But wouldn’t you think being so positively reviewed would help get it a “Best Picture” nomination?