Phil Lord And Christopher Miller Appeal To The Academy To Take Animation More Seriously

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Animators Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, best known for their work behind renowned animated flicks Lego Movie and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, take exception to the notion of animated works being lesser than live-action projects, and they expressed such when they pled to the academy that animated movies should be taken just as seriously as non-animated movies.

Because of their reputation of being marketed toward children, animated films can get unfairly diminished when comparing them to their live-action counterparts. Lord and Miller wrote their very own article shortly after the 2022 Oscars ceremony to make their case that animated movies deserve more recognition by the Academy

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In this guest article for Variety, theSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse co-writer and producers cited the efforts that are put in to make them go at full capacity as well as their popularity as demonstrated by their box office success. They also called out the Academy for making out animated films to be strictly for children. «Framing the five Academy Award nominees for best animated feature as a corporate product for kids that parents must begrudgingly endure could be dismissed as simply careless,» Lord and Miller said. «Animated films routinely demonstrate excellence in photography, design, costumes and performance. They are some of the most carefully and cinematically directed films of the year. They have some of the most intricate scoring and sound design… When broadcasters bemoan the fact that so many of the nominated films have not been widely seen, they must be forgetting that animated nominees “Luca,” “Raya and the Last Dragon” and “The Mitchells vs.