
The Lego Movie Mystery: Somehow, the funniest, most inventive and (surprisingly) most soulful of this year’s mainstream animated features didn’t snag a Best Animated Feature nomination. Perhaps the fact that it’s fundamentally a live-action commercial was just too much for Academy voters to overlook? Then again, The Lego Movie is represented in the Best Original Song category (the intentionally obnoxious earworm “Everything is Awesome” is surely, for better or worse, the year’s most ubiquitous movie tune).
A good point, I suppose, about the idea that it’s a live-action commercial — though…
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