That and Children of Men absolutely should have gotten in.

Semi-cheating due to 22 year gap: Star Wars —> Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

The way the voting system works now (it's changed from the two years of 10 nominees where Up and TS3 got in), at least 5% of voters would need to put an animated film as their #1 pick for it to have a chance, which practically means the animators would have to vote in unison given how unlikely others are to rank an…

It was organized by a bitter ex who made up bullshit to get the useful idiots to attack her. So basically the exact same thing as GamerGate only the useful idiots were tumblr lefties instead of 4Chan fascists.

They were accused of queerbaiting Amedot. Queerbaiting has been reduced by certain tumblr users to be "we didn't get the ship we wanted". I remember hearing people accusing Teen Wolf of queerbaiting despite having major queer couples because it wasn't the exact pairing they wanted.

Or hell, that it used to be about restrooms.

I almost had this but literally seconds before the guy realized he wasn't attracted to people with penises.

There's also the fact that it was one of Mel Gibson's last prominent parts before he became, well, Mel Gibson.

Yeah, in which case the big deserving complaint was "no Iron Giant."

It was a shocker learning a few months ago that Chumbawumba are actually super-political.

The only on-screen sex in Moonlight was also straight.

What school? I had her as a screenwriting professor at Bard.

The big thing Hidden Figures has against it is lack of nominations. Aside from Picture it only has two: Supporting Actress (which it has no chance of winning, Fences has that category locked) and Adapted Screenplay (which it could win but I'm guessing it goes to Moonlight). It theoretically could win Best Picture…

Is it Brad Neely? The cartoon art in some of his videos plus the "calling people/movies by the wrong names" humor screams Brad Neely.

Fandom, meep-morps, and a shared sense of humor (that scene in Gem Harvest where Peridot's the only one laughing along with Lapis at her dark coping-with-trauma jokes).

The movie's about her questioning if she's still human now that she's at the point where only her brain is organic, and what it means that purely artificial intelligence has emerged with the Puppet Master.

She's playing a cyborg who was born fully human before getting more and more cybernetic enhancements. With that, theoretically they could have her be a Japanese person in a white cybernetic body and do something about identity issues there, but that doesn't seem to be what they're doing, and even that might be…

Maybe make the American Akira movie a Hetalia crossover about CANADAAAAAAAAAAAA and MEXICOOOOOOOOOOOO!

NGE it's not that hard to tell the characters' ethnicities if you know what you're looking at. Know that dark blue or purple hair is typically stylized black hair and the half-German red-head Asuka stands out (and while the Japanese Ritsuko is blonde, the flashback scenes show it's a dye job). Bebop's cast is more…

The main issue with the release was that it went to VOD two weeks after coming to theaters. It seemed like during the two weeks it was in theaters, it did really good-for-arthouse business in Boston where the local critics were particularly enthusiastic about it (it's the Brattle's best-selling movie ever, and it sold…