I know I know I know I know… I’m starting to sounds like a broken record player. Wall-E is the best picture of the year and I’ve made it my personal, and admittedly probably futile, mission to pound this fact into the heads of voting Academy members enough to at least get the best movie of the year a nomination as such at the upcoming Academy Awards.
Yet another major critics group, The Chicago Film Critics Association, and just handed out their annual awards and have named Wall-E as the best picture of the year. This makes 3 of the major city critic groups (Los Angeles and Boston) giving their top prize to Wall-E. That’s more than any other film has been able to garner.
It is the best movie of the year and deserves to be at least nominated.
And don’t give me any of that “But it’s an animated movie” crap. If you want to change the name of the big award to “Best Live Action Movie”, then fine… but as long as you’re going to call it “Best Picture”, then you damn well should nominate the best pictures. And that’s Wall-E.
