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Now that…
Bear Story won the Best Animated Short
Inside Out won the Best Animated Feature

We're going to rant about the Oscars reluctant treatment on the animation in general.

According to CB's Tweets…
The voters are becoming more outspoken the make animation aficionados like you and me outraged.
This just in, Amid finds that it's stupid and pointless to have a voter to say that motivating children is a key to the winning. He counters Kirbopher's response by claiming that it impacts on the audience instead of the voter himself. He agreed at Darren for exclaiming that the Oscars are the bad role model by giving an animation medium a patronising view that lead the fewest of adult animation pieces. He approves Jamil's idea of having the kids to do the voting but still it's questionable to me.

The voters will becoming the sub-groups of the Dirty, Hypocritical, Judgemental, Unfilled, Hipsterish Non-Animation Aficionados that goes against the people like me.

My dream suggestions to combat their antics. NOTE: Annies already existed.
•Ted Sarandos announcing that Netflix will stream feature-length animated nominees for a non-subscription 7 days limited time to showcase why they're nominated at first?
•Vimeo serves short nominees at the front page with varying limited time offering each.
•U.S. Library of Congress or some relatable company opens International Animation Registry. Their goal is to determine which pieces of animation medium are culturally, historically and aesthetically significant regardless of its format and country origin. Perseverance are optional and for pieces with high priority by scarce availability. The reasons is serving the highest and the most respectable honors a piece of animation medium can receive, more than just Annies and Oscars.
•Criterion Animation, a guide to the collection of noteworthy and sometimes important classic and contemporary pieces of animation medium. Selections by the obviously Criterion.

You could either rant more or pitch ideas that might combat so it would not happen again next year.

What's this? An American film organisation that's probably filled with old people treating animation like shit? Say it isn't so…

Inside Out should not have won over Anomolisa.

>Implying any animated film had a shot over Inside Out.

>Implying the Academy puts any kind of thought into this category

Am I glad that Inside Out won the Oscar? Yes. Am I glad that it won because they didn't care and just gave it to Pixar? No. To be fair, the animated feature category had some pretty good ones, but it's just disappointed Inside Out won because it's Pixar, and obviously anything Pixar means it's award worthy (just glad Cars 2 didn't get that treatment).

This isn't just an issue in the animation category--apparently, the judges don't even watch all the nominees. Here's an article Robert Walker (Nostalgia Critic Doug Walker's brother) found about judges and Best Picture nominees.

You know, as judges for a huge awards ceremony such as this should be required to view every single nominee then form an opinion. They can't just give an award to something they don't even know or care about.

Honestly, I hope someone future Oscar hosts (hoping for Louis C.K., he nailed it hard on the head there) call out the judges live. Or rather, I hope they get new judges and actually have them watch all the nominated movies.

Better idea: Have the judges be actual experts from the category. Why do the people who get to decide which movie had the best sound design also get to decide which had the best costumes? Those are completely unrelated categories and should be judged by experts in the field.