The nominees were ...
... when they should have been ...
And the Oscar went to ...
Braveheart. Before Mel Gibson fouled his own nest, he had real potential as a filmmaker. Certainly the Academy thought so, giving him Oscars for producing and directing this film. It has a good deal of the enjoyable cockiness he brought to his performances, but also the homophobia and cruelty that would surface in his later years. It will be a long time before anyone can view it again without thinking of the mess he made of his career.
... when it should have gone to ...
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| Toy Story |
Why was Babe given a best picture nomination and Toy Story wasn't? Some think it may be because the Academy's largest bloc of members is the actors' branch, and Babe actually employed live actors whereas those in Toy Story are only voice-overs. This first major Pixar hit, with its realistic computer-generated images, looked like a step in making flesh-and-blood actors obsolete. Perhaps in response, recognizing that, given the skill displayed by the Pixar animators, computer animation was only going to get better and more popular, the Academy in 2001 created a separate competitive award for best animated feature. But what really distinguished Toy Story was the deep insight of its story into childhood, and the skill of its "only voice-over" actors: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, and others. The film wound up with a special award for John Lasseter, but its only nomination was for the seven writers, including Lasseter and Joss Whedon, who collaborated on its screenplay.
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