There's no definitive reason. It could be argued that no other animated films were good enough to me nominated but I also think the Academy has a prejudice against movies that aren't long epics or are completely serious endevors.
Three animated films have been nominated for Best Picture.Disney's Beauty and the Beast (1991) was the first animated movie to be nominated for Best Picture. It lost to The Silence of the Lambs.Pixar's Up (2009) lost to The Hurt Locker.Pixar's Toy Story 3 (2010) lost to The King's Speech.
Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast at the 64th annual Academy Awards, held in 1992, it would go on to lose against 'The Silence of the Lambs'.
Walt Disney Animation
1991
Beauty and the Beast
Three: "Beauty and the Beast" in 1991, "Up" in 2009, and "Toy Story 3" in 2010.
It did not win the award for Best Picture. It did, however, win 2 other awards in 1991:Best Music, Original Score - won by Alan MenkenBest Music, Original Song ("Beauty and the Beast") - won by Alan Menken & Howard Ashman
The animated version of Beauty and the Beast was written in 1991. The original french version was written in 1946.
Belle, in the Disney animated movie; however, "Belle" is the French word for "beauty."Belle. :)
In the Disney version of Beauty and the Beast, some of the songs are "Be Our Guest", "Beauty and the Beast", "Gaston", and "Belle". In the Broadway there are new songs not in the animated movie, like "How Long Must This Go On?" and "If I Can't Love Her".
Four. The Disney animated film won two 1994 Academy Awards: Best Original Song ("Can You Feel the Love Tonight," shared by Sir Elton John and Tim Rice) and Best Original Score (Hans Zimmer). Two other John-Rice compositions were nominated for Best Original Song: "Circle of Life" and "Hakuna Matata."