WALL-E won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and was nominated for Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Sound Editing, and Sound Mixing at the 81st Academy Awards. [126] [127] Walt Disney Pictures also pushed for an Academy Award for Best Picture nomination, [128] but it was not nominated, sparking controversy over whether the Academy deliberately restricted WALL-E to the Best Animated Feature category. [129] Film critic Peter Travers remarked, "If there was ever a time where an animated feature deserved to be nominated for best picture it's Wall-E." [130] Only three animated films, 1991's Beauty and the Beast and Pixar's next two films, 2009's Up and 2010's Toy Story 3, have ever been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. A reflective Stanton stated he was not disappointed the film was restricted to the Best Animated Film nomination because he was overwhelmed by the film's positive reception, and eventually "The line [between live-action and animation] is just getting so blurry that I think with each proceeding year, it's going to be tougher and tougher to say what's an animated movie and what's not an animated movie." [31]

Alex Billington (June 23, 2008). "Interview: Wall-E's Writer and Director Andrew Stanton". FirstShowing.net. Archived from the original on May 15, 2010 . Retrieved November 22, 2008. Thomas Newman recollaborated with Stanton on WALL-E since the two got along well on Finding Nemo, which gave Newman the Annie Award for Best Music in an Animated Feature. He began writing the score in 2005, in the hope that starting this task early would make him more involved with the finished film. But, Newman remarked that animation is so dependent on scheduling he should have begun work earlier on when Stanton and Reardon were writing the script. EVE's theme was arranged for the first time in October 2007. Her theme when played as she first flies around Earth originally used more orchestral elements, and Newman was encouraged to make it sound more feminine. [69] Newman said Stanton had thought up many ideas for how he wanted the music to sound, and he generally followed them as he found scoring a partially silent film difficult. Stanton wanted the whole score to be orchestral, but Newman felt limited by this idea especially in scenes aboard the Axiom, and used electronics too. [70] A live-action clip of the song "It Only Takes a Moment" from Hello, Dolly!, which inspires WALL-E to hold hands with EVEDisney-Pixar's WALL-E World Premiere Saturday, June 21 at the Greek Theatre". Reuters. June 20, 2008. Archived from the original on March 4, 2009 . Retrieved January 12, 2009. WALL•E proves to this generation and beyond that the film medium's only true boundaries are the human imagination. Writer/director Andrew Stanton and his team have created a classic screen character from a metal trash compactor who rides to the rescue of a planet buried in the debris that embodies the broken promise of American life. Not since Chaplin's " Little Tramp" has so much story—so much emotion—been conveyed without words. When hope arrives in the form of a seedling, the film blossoms into one of the great screen romances as two robots remind audiences of the beating heart in all of us that yearns for humanity—and love—in the darkest of landscapes. Film review: WALL-E". CBBC. October 1, 2008. Archived from the original on May 11, 2011 . Retrieved October 6, 2009.

Peter Sciretta (May 24, 2008). "Cool Stuff: Thinkway's WALL-E Toys". /Film. Archived from the original on May 27, 2012 . Retrieved January 13, 2009. Peter Debruge (June 18, 2008). "How to build a better robot". Variety. Archived from the original on November 7, 2015. Peter Hartlaub (June 25, 2008). "Planet WALL-E". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on March 15, 2012 . Retrieved November 3, 2008. Corliss, Richard (December 29, 2009). " WALL-E (2008)– Best Movies, TV, Books and Theater of the Decade". Time. Archived from the original on July 19, 2017 . Retrieved July 28, 2017.Heller, Emily (March 3, 2020). "A bunch of Pixar movies, including Up and A Bug's Life, come to 4K Blu-ray". Polygon. Archived from the original on March 4, 2020 . Retrieved April 22, 2021. Stanton noted many commentators placed emphasis on the environmental aspect of humanity's complacency in the film, because "that disconnection is going to be the cause, indirectly, of anything that happens in life that's bad for humanity or the planet". [76] Stanton said that by taking away effort to work, the robots also take away humanity's need to put effort into relationships. [59] Christian journalist Rod Dreher saw technology as the complicated villain of the film. The humans' artificial lifestyle on the Axiom has separated them from nature, making them "slaves of both technology and their own base appetites, and have lost what makes them human". Dreher contrasted the hardworking, dirt covered WALL-E with the sleek clean robots on the ship. However, it is the humans and not the robots who make themselves redundant. Humans on the ship and on Earth have overused robots and the ultra-modern technology. During the end credits, humans and robots are shown working alongside each other to renew the Earth. " WALL·E is not a Luddite film," he said. "It doesn't demonize technology. It only argues that technology is properly used to help humans cultivate their true nature—that it must be subordinate to human flourishing, and help move that along." [77] Religion [ edit ] The Axiom and EVE have been compared to the legend of Noah's Ark and the dove that Noah sets forth from the Ark.

WALL-E". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on December 22, 2020 . Retrieved March 11, 2019. a b c d e f g Tasha Robinson (June 26, 2008). "Andrew Stanton". The A.V. Club. Archived from the original on September 8, 2008 . Retrieved November 3, 2008. Fred Willard as Shelby Forthright, owner of the Buy n Large Corporation and President of Earth. The only major live-action character, appearing only in videos recorded around the time of the Axiom 's launch in the 22nd century. Forthright proposed the plan to evacuate Earth's population and then clean up the planet so they could return within five years. Discovering that Earth had become too toxic to support life, the cleanup and recolonization were abandoned. Forthright issued directive A113 preventing anyone from returning to Earth. As of 2023, Forthright is the only live-action character with a speaking role in any Pixar film. Hauser, Tim (2008). The Art of WALL-E. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. ISBN 978-0-8118-6235-6. OCLC 377889575.Q&A With WALL•E's Ben Burtt". Pixar Planet. November 13, 2008. Archived from the original on July 22, 2015 . Retrieved January 12, 2009. Stanton wanted EVE to be at the higher end of technology, and asked iPod designer Jonathan Ive to inspect her design. He was very impressed. [24] Her eyes are modelled on Lite-Brite toys, [56] but Pixar chose not to make them overly expressive as it would be too easy to have her eyes turn into hearts to express love or something similar. [54] Her limited design meant the animators had to treat her like a drawing, relying on posing her body to express emotion. [21] They also found her similar to a manatee or a narwhal because her floating body resembled an underwater creature. [54] Auto was a conscious homage to HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey, [25] and the usage of Also sprach Zarathustra for the showdown between Captain McCrea and Auto furthers that. [58] The manner in which he hangs from a wall or ceiling gives him a threatening feel, like a spider. [59] Originally, Auto was designed entirely differently, resembling EVE, but masculine and authoritative and SECUR-T was also a more aggressive patrol steward robot. [37] The majority of the robot cast were formed with the Build-a-bot program, where different heads, arms and treads were combined in over a hundred variations. [21] The humans were modelled on sea lions due to their blubbery bodies, [48] as well as babies. The filmmakers noticed baby fat is a lot tighter than adult fat and copied that texture for the film's humans. [60] EVE is deemed faulty and taken to diagnostics. Mistaking the process for torture, WALL·E intervenes and inadvertently releases all the other faulty bots, causing him and EVE to be designated as rogues. Frustrated, EVE tries to send WALL·E home in an escape pod, but before she can, the two witness a small robot, GO-4, stowing the plant in a pod set to self-destruct, revealing that WALL·E did not steal the plant. WALL·E tries retrieving it, but is launched into space. EVE uses an emergency exit to chase after WALL·E, and witnesses the pod explode, although both he and the plant survive unscathed. He and EVE reconcile, celebrating with a dance in space around the Axiom.

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