If Ratatouille still retains a viable contender as a spoiler, it's not because audiences continue to
drink whatever Pixar puts in the Kool - Aid that gets, as Laurie Anderson would say, «ah - dults» hailing each of their new movies as the studio's everlasting masterpiece of classic filmmaking (making it simply a matter of time before one of them actually wins an award outside the best animated feature playpen), but
rather because its presence in this
category might remind voters that one or two of the striking writers aren't just trying to feed their own mouths.