Oscar Noms Critique - Best Animated Feature

*WARNING: This is gonna be a long one.*

Firstly...

"Hi."

Secondly, I have a question for you. Do you have the same opinions as me? No?

If you do, great!

On the 10th of January 2013, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominations for the 85th Academy Awards. As a teenager, I have only watched one of the films nominated for Best Picture, but on the other hand, I have seen all the films nominated for Best Animated Feature (and some animated films which weren't). Partly because you don't really need to think too much while watching an animated film, and partly because animation is my favourite movie genre.

As I have mentioned before in a previous post, I've watched both Pixar's Brave and Dreamworks' Rise Of The Guardians, and found Brave to be Pixar's most boring movie ever and Rise Of The Guardians to be the most beautiful film ever.

So the main topic for this post is: Why wasn't Rise Of The Guardians nominated for an Oscar? And why isn't it winning the awards that it has been nominated for?