As an art form, animation never gets any respect and is always treated as inferior to live-action.
This year's Oscars was a particularly horrid offender. These writers threw in jokes about how animation is stuff that only children enjoy, while parents merely endure it. We've known for years that the Academy has an anti-animation bias, but here, they stooped to a new low. The fact that the people saying these lines played the princesses in the live-action Disney remakes (all of which were bastardizations of the original animated versions) is what really made it insulting.
Phil Lord (co-director of The LEGO Movie) called the Oscars out on its bull, and for good reason.
This year's Oscars was a particularly horrid offender. These writers threw in jokes about how animation is stuff that only children enjoy, while parents merely endure it. We've known for years that the Academy has an anti-animation bias, but here, they stooped to a new low. The fact that the people saying these lines played the princesses in the live-action Disney remakes (all of which were bastardizations of the original animated versions) is what really made it insulting.
Phil Lord (co-director of The LEGO Movie) called the Oscars out on its bull, and for good reason.