Disney Pushes WALL-E For Best Picture Nomination

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 Disney Pushes WALL-E For Best Picture Nomination
This week Disney will launch a campaign to get WALL-E nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, an award never won by an animated film. Only one animated film has ever had the honor to be nominated in the Best Picture category, Disney’s 1991 film Beauty and the Beast . The Academy ... (link)

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Disney to Push WALL•E For Best Picture
Published 10/28/2008 by bawpcwpn at Upcoming Pixar
... /Film are reporting today that Disney will be pushing WALL•E to be nominated for the Best Picture award at the upcoming Academy Awards starting with a campaign next week. Walt Disney Studios Chairman Dick Cook told the New York Times, “If we didn’t do it, I don’t think we’d be giving the movie its due.” ...

Reel Talk Mixtape
Published 10/28/2008 by reeltalk at Reel Talk
... Disney made and succeeded in their 'Johnny-5' recreation... "Wall-E" and now the studio is pushing for a Best Picture nomination... wouldn't you give this cute little guy the vote? ...

Discuss: Should Wall-E Shoot for Best Picture?
Published 10/28/2008 by Cole Abaius at Film School Rejects
... Now that we’re closer to the end of the year and to the nominations, our bff’s over at Slashfilm are reporting that The Mouse is going to be pushing for Wall-E to be a nominee for the Academy Award for Best Picture. ...

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