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Update, November 10:The Academy hasrevised its decisionon the eligibility ofApollo 10 12and several other animated films.
In July, the Oscars animation committee rejected the films bid for eligibility in the Best Animated Film category.
Linklater and Pallotta are pissed.
Its so disrespectful to the animators and the hundreds of thousands of hours spent.
The two are in the process of appealing the decision.
(The Academy, so far, has not commented on the appeal.)
For one,Apollo 10 12doesnt have any shots in it that a reasonable viewer could call live-action.
Scannerused interpolation for the rotoscope.
So you would draw a line, and the computer filled it in.
We didnt do any of that on this.
Second, the older 2-D animation methods Pallotta describes date back to the earliest days of cartooning.
A lot of early animation is actually indistinguishable from what wed today call special effects superimposed onto live-action filmmaking.
Third, Linklater calls Best Animated Feature a category run by corporations and aimed at children.
Put delicately: The groups voting history bears this out.
No 2-D animated film has won since.
Disney alone, if you include Pixars wins, claims ownership of 15 of those awards.
(Netflix, Linklater said, has been as supportive as you would expect of the Oscar bid.)
I just hate that its thwarting peoples potential to express themselves in different ways.
Look at the way it handles television broadcasts.
Theyre mostly patchy, grainy, choppy riffs on the films rotoscoping style.
For all we know, its six people.
We dont know if weve gotten their attention yet, he said.
Theyre making an aesthetic choice that really should not be theirs to make.
Thats what feels patently unfair.
There really shouldnt be aesthetic rules.
Its so bleepin difficult coming up against the Disney monolith, he told the New YorkTimesin 1981.
Everyones trying to keep animation as cartooning in style and talking animals and fairy-tale folk in subject matter.
Why must it be that way?
Im not big on Father Figures, and I despise rules in art.
No one wants to change.
