15 Times The BAFTAs Corrected Huge Oscar Mistakes

The Best Animated Feature Film category isn't one well-known for snubs, as Oscar voters usually round up the best animations of the year without leaving too many out, but there are always exceptions. The Adventures of Tintin certainly stands as one of the worst such cases.

Tintin uses motion-capture technology, and perhaps that meant voters didn't count it as animation? Honestly, that's the only believable explanation for this getting snubbed from the line-up, because this movie rocks.

A visually stunning, excellently performed and endlessly fun adventure that more than does justice to the brilliant source material, Tintin is an absolute triumph and it was easily one of the greatest animated flicks of 2011 - a year that wasn't exactly an amazing one for animation, let's face it.

And when you look at the five films that did actually make it in - several fairly obscure movies and the largely-forgotten Puss in Boots spin-off - this glaring omission only feels even more egregious. Still, looking on the bright side, the BAFTAs gave this the nomination it deserved (though it lost to Rango).

The Adventures of Tintin also won the Golden Globe for Best Animated Film that year; the Golden Globes are a pretty ridiculous ceremony that make a lot of ghastly choices, but as this win shows, they're still capable of good decisions. Sometimes.