Ten years on, the competition has become much fiercer: This year, the three films vying for the prize are all critical darlings that had to beat out two other well-reviewed box-office hits to earn a nomination.
The three nominees are Pixar's "Toy Story 3," the highest-grossing animated movie of all time and the culmination of a franchise that revolutionized the way animated films are made; DreamWorks Animation's "How to Train Your Dragon," another computer-graphics blockbuster that set a new benchmark for 3-D with its sweeping flying sequences; and "The Illusionist," an independently produced French film with very little dialogue that's a love letter to the waning art of hand-drawn animation.
While it used to be that getting an animated movie to be nominated for Best Picture is already a huge accomplishment, it is good to see that now, there is a serious push that such a movie should have a legitimate chance to WIN in that category. Of course, I still don't see it happening anytime soon simply due to the fact that the actors branch makes up the largest percentage of the Academy. But at least now, just getting nominated is no longer good enough for many of the animated movie studios and producers. This medium is being taken seriously as a legitimate story-telling medium.
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