Moving Castle loses Oscar. good game guys

hypes · Post by **hypes** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:53 am

Though it is a huge honor for anime to be once again nominated for an academy award, Miyazaki's "Howl's Moving Castle" lost the Oscar for Best Animated Feature to the Aardman's (A British claymation studio) Wallace & Grommit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Both were done extremely well, but as an Otaku, it is sort of dissapointing for the loss, but Wallace & Grmomit were certainly worthy of it. The other film in the category was Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, another stop-motion film and the only one from the U.S.A. Oddly enough, there were no CGI films nominated this year, as they've taken over the industry as of late.

trinigal · Post by **trinigal** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 6:11 pm

I had a feeling Howl's Moving Castle would lose

Too bad. The Wallace and Gromit movie was actually pretty good

don't hate me for saying it.

To bad Advent Children wasn't nominated though.

Super Shanko · Post by **Super Shanko** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:12 pm

I didn't see W&G, Corpse Bride on the other hand was very good, it was good that HMC was at least good enough to be nominated.

Kitsuner · Post by **Kitsuner** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:16 pm

For some reason, it amused me that 2 of the three nominees were foreign films...

azulmagia · Post by **azulmagia** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:20 pm

The studio that made Wallace and Gromit burnt to the ground late last year, so perhaps it was a sympathy vote. I wasn't surprised that Wallace and Grommit won, though to be honest I didn't see any of the films nominated for Oscars, except for the one they nominated William Hurt for.

)v(ajin Koji · Post by **)v(ajin Koji** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 9:33 am

azulmagia wrote:The studio that made Wallace and Gromit burnt to the ground late last year, so perhaps it was a sympathy vote.

I think that's perhaps a bit unfair. W&G is a very good movie, infact all three are good movies. But W&G probably has more universal appeal. Especially to us Brits.

older_gohan · Post by **older_gohan** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 9:45 am

It is sad to see that a Anime did not win but at least it was noiminated. I am glad to see that Wallace and Grommit won at least. That was very well done and I enjoyed it.

azulmagia · Post by **azulmagia** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 10:26 pm

)v(ajin Koji wrote:
azulmagia wrote:The studio that made Wallace and Gromit burnt to the ground late last year, so perhaps it was a sympathy vote.
I think that's perhaps a bit unfair. W&G is a very good movie, infact all three are good movies. But W&G probably has more universal appeal. Especially to us Brits.

I am not disagreeing with that, but all things considered it's pretty obvious that the Academy isn't in the habit of awarding films or individuals solely on artistic or talent grounds. It's a question of guessing what the non-artistic motives are. It would be outrageous if Howl's Moving Castle lost because Aardman's studios burnt down, but it's certainly not outside the realm of the reasonably possible.

devilmaykickass · Post by **devilmaykickass** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 1:08 pm

I've yet to see any of those movies. How strange.

johngen · Post by **johngen** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 8:15 pm

Well, Wallace is just a classic. All of them, and it deserved it. Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle was good, but it had a lot of flaws imo. It was good nonetheless; but Burton's Corpse Bride was really boring for me, if I hadn't paid the ticket admission I probably wouldn't finish watching it. Also the ending was cheesy; I think it was a good choice, and Miyazaki won last year's, so ....