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Wall-e is a masterpiece and should not have been banished the the "Best Animated" category. I loved Slumdog Millionaire but I will remember 2008 as the year when an animated film was truly the best picture. Wall-e's transcendence was made all the more clear by the animation montage where the robot looked on as the clips from the other animated features flashed by featuring a good deal of noise, crashes and silly looks. At that moment, Wall-e was one of us, looking on and wondering why such a thoughtful and beautiful movie must be lumped into a category that it has so obviously surpassed. Here was an animated character clearly demonstrating a level of interest and depth and that would not be matched by most of the living actors in the room.
Wall-e should have been Best Picture and with each Pixar movie it becomes more and more clear that the animation categories serve as much to protect the live action actors and directors as they do to recognize achievement in animation.
