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State of the Race: Best Animated Feature Film

As a regular contributor to The Media By Us, I try to do my part to keep my ear to the ground regarding Oscar nominations. But I’m not nearly as good at tracking festival news or regular blog and podcast updates. What I CAN do is pay attention to the primary source.

This past Thursday, the Academy released the list of 26 movies that were submitted for consideration for best Animated Feature Film. The list includes movies that haven’t met the requirements for official nomination (running in an LA theater) but are included nonetheless.

Here is the list of movies:
The Big Bad Fox & Other Tales
Birdboy: The Forgotten Children
The Boss Baby

(Dreamworks Animation, 2017)

The Breadwinner
Captain Underpants The First Epic Movie
Cars 3
Cinderella the Cat
Coco
Despicable Me 3
The Emoji Movie
Ethel & Ernest
Ferdinand
The Girl without Hands
In This Corner of the World

(Mappa, 2016)

The Lego Batman Movie
The Lego Ninjago Movie
Loving Vincent
Mary and the Witch’s Flower
Moomins and the Winter Wonderland
My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea
Napping Princess
A Silent Voice
Smurfs: The Lost Village
The Star
Sword Art Online: The Movie – Ordinal Scale
Window Horses The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming

This tMbU member has only seen one of the above selected movies, but if I had to vote, The Lego Batman Movie would definitely get my vote.

Tobey Maguire Versus Topher Grace

(images: lovethispic.com, divine.ca)

Some background: this comparison started mentally for me back in college, when my friend Pritesh asked if I wanted to see Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! playing on TV – he said it’s that movie with the Tobey Maguire lookalike. For those of you not acquainted with the quaint charm of WADWTH!, this romantic comedy stars Topher Grace as the Tobey Maguire lookalike. It made me wonder – was my friend comparing these two because they looked alike, or because their names looked alike? But more germane to this piece, who is just better?

There is no objective way to approach who is a better actor; so I thought, why not expand this subjectively to find out who is the better ultimate human being, utilizing arbitrary categories for comparison?

That’s right. It’s THE TOPH VS THE TOBE.

Physical Attributes

Topher Grace: white, skinny and a surprising 5’10¾” – a quick aside, the ultra specific 5’10¾” is the kind of height people who are actually 5’8” give. He’s a spry 38-year old and was born in NYC. East Coast.

Tobey Maguire: white, skinny and a just-about-right 5’8”. An elder 41-year old hailing from Santa Monica, California repping the West Coast.

Topher has the reach on Tobey, but this is for the best everything, not just the best in a fight. So we’ll call the first round of the East Coast / West Coast battle a draw.

(image: picture.gi.zimbo.com)

EDGE: Tie.

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