Babe is an Award-Worthy Tale About the Underpig
Nominated for Best Picture in 1996, Babe is not just a story about a talking pig but also about compassion and believing in yourself.
Welcome to Debate Week: Best Picture Losers, a series in which we’ll be looking at some of the best movies that were nominated, but ultimately lost the Oscar race for Best Picture. In this entry, Mary Beth McAndrews discusses the 1995 talking pig movie Babe.
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Babe is dominated by a farm full of animals with big personalities, with effects done by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. It is by all accounts a kids’ movie, where anthropomorphic pigs and puppies get into silly farmyard shenanigans. But