Perspolise is Show Of Iranian People .

It’s up against RATATOUILLE (in all likelihood, the favorite) and SURF’S UP, but in getting the nomination, it beat out SHREK THE THIRD and THE SIMPSONS MOVIE, which may have been viewed as locks for at least a nomination.

So there’s some Oscar-love for PERSEPOLIS. Perhaps there’s some justice after all!

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“Did the Persepolis vote get split between nominating for the ‘best foreign’ and ‘best animated’? Or is this a not voting part? ”

Since we’re at the stage of determining which films will be nominated in the Foreign Language Film category, there may not be a formal splitting-of-the-vote-between-Oscar-categories phenomenon here.

If I’m reading the Foreign Language Film Oscar rules (at http://www.oscars.org/80academyawards/rules/rule14.html ) right, the gist seems to be that countries submit films for consideration (one film per country), the Academy’s “Foreign Language Film Committee” screens the submitted movies, and they vote by secret ballot to determine the final nominees.

Similarly, the final nominees for the Animated Feature category are determined by a “Animated Feature Film Award Screening Committee” (http://www.oscars.org/80academyawards/rules/rule07.html ). Unless there are significant numbers of members in common between the two committees (not impossible,) I don’t think the question is one of empowered voters deciding “Do I vote to nominate this as a Foreign Language Film or as an Animated Feature?”–a situation where splitting the vote may happen.

All that said, there’s every possibility that a person nomiating for Foreign Language may say, “Well, this is good, but it’ll probably get a nod from the Animated folks, so I’ll vote for something else” and vice-versa, but that’s the way the Oscar nominee-determining system is set up, that doesn’t seem to be quite the same thing as seeing votes split up…

The various awards for movies beg for the same treatment as comics awards: ignore them, enjoy the stories.
I wish I could remember the actor who said her Oscar was “next years’ trivia.”

The rules for the Animated Feature Oscar category hold that when there are fewer than 16 films deemed eligible, there will be three nominees; when there are 16 or more eligible, there will be 5 nominees.

Since the category’s inception, the only time there have been 16 or more eligible films was for the 2002 Oscars (awarded in 2003) where SPIRITED AWAY won over “Ice Age”, “Lilo & Stitch”, “Spirt: Stallion of the Cimarron”; and “Treasure Planet”

Last year, there were originally 16 films deemed eligible, but one was withdrawn (”Arthur & The Invisibles,” a mixed live-action/animated film, wich was determined to not meet the at-least-75%-animated requirement for qualifying in this category.) With the slate of eligible films reduced to 15, there could be only three final nominees, which of course reduced the chances of an anime or genre-favorite animated film getting the nod.

Did the Persepolis vote get split between nominating for the “best foreign” and “best animated”? Or is this a not voting part?

Well, PAPRIKA won’t be nominated because it’s not eligble for this year’s Oscar (the list of submitted, eligible animated features is at http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2007/07.11.08a.html )

PAPRIKA was eligible last year but didn’t get a nomination, in part because the roster of nominees resulted in there only being three nominees rather than five, which seems to be the same situation this year. So the chances don’t seem to favor PERSEPOLIS or the eligible anime TEKKONKINKREET getting an aimated feature nomination, but we can always hope…