Regarding some other points – I’m not sure that everyone here has seen the movie if they agree that a timeless love story is “juvenile”. I think that may be missing the point, entirely.

Should WALL-E get a Best Picture Oscar? Yes. Will it get nominated? I’m currently placing bets on yes. Will it win? Not unless the end-of-the-year pickings are slim.

WALL•E is a landmark achievement in a number of ways. It employs a very creative use of silent film comedy techniques in telling the story for perhaps the first time in some 70 years. Its love story is reduced to a uniquely beautiful, and very moving, simplicity — one that has kept me misty-eyed now for nine viewings! The film achieves a wonderful blend and balance among science fiction, romance, a post-apocalyptic future, and even salts some slap-stick comedy and humor in! Its visuals achieve a new sense of realism that make the scenes on Earth look like they were photographed, not rendered. Musically, too, the score departs from conventional “space opera” with creative uses of flutes and dulcimers. And the opening, accompanied by Hello Dolly’s “Put on Your Sunday Clothes” from 1969, has to be considered unconventional, even risky!

I don’t think it’s a stretch to perhaps assert that WALL•E could be a landmark ‘Wizard of Oz’-type film of our time, at least visually and story-telling wise. It is time that animation was recognized and accepted as an equal story-telling medium alongside live action (which itself is being increasingly blended with animation through CGI special effects.) So if WALL•E is still not good enough to be considered for best picture, what animated film could really ever be? . . . An animated version of No Country for Old Men??

I absolutely did no research on Oscar History same on me. I should have before making a statement like that, sorry and thank you.

Just a hit you over the head message (environmentalism) we’ve seen a million times. Idiocracy did the “lazy, stupid humans of the future” much better. As soon as the humans enter the story Wall-E takes a turn for the worst.

Having not seen any of the films I listed in the comment above, I’m quite sure many of those will be much richer and more profound than anything Wall-E has to offer – which in my mind is a huge chunk of what a best picture should be. Not just the fact that it’s critically acclaimed or visually stunning. And not to mention they will likely have pretty ass-kicking performances.

This would be a cop-out on the Academy for a liberal pro-enviromentalist point-of-view.

How sad this is coming to…succumb to the usual derivatives.

i started a petition for this very subject. click my name for the link.