Moviegoers who saw last year’s Inside Out probably had trouble containing their heaving sobs and the unattractive snot streams running down their faces during a particular scene with the pink, elephantine Bing Bong, voiced by Richard Kind.

While the film will definitely earn an Academy Awards nomination in the animated film category, Kind’s heart-wrenching performance definitely will be snubbed.

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That’s because the Academy, which announced its 2016 Oscar nominations today, doesn’t have a category for voice acting, and it’s unlikely that the stodgy Oscars would give a coveted acting nomination to a performer who never physically appears onscreen—even if the rules don’t actually prohibit voice-only performances (to date, no voice-only performances have ever been nominated).

The omission is even more glaring when you realize the Emmy Awards has had a voice acting category to recognize outstanding performances since 1992. (In 2014, the category was split in two, one that honors outstanding narration and one for outstanding character performances.)

Should there be a best voice acting category at the Academy Awards? That’s the question Reddit user ElliotWalker5 asked in a post in the Movies community about this time last year, and it’s still relevant considering the praise this year that’s been heaped on the voice performances in Inside Out and Charlie Kaufman’s stop-motion animated feature, Anomolisa.

“When you think of it, the question ought to be, why isn’t there a voice acting category for the Oscars?” Stephanie Ciccarelli, cofounder and chief brand officer of the voice talent marketplace Voices.com, told Upvoted. “There is a lot that goes into creating a production, including voice-over, whether it be background voices for ambience or voice talent carrying lead roles in film and animated features. Costume design, makeup and hairstyling, visual effects, music, and other aspects that add to the overall production are recognized, so it makes sense that voices in a leading role would also be given that recognition on the same stage.”

Redditors in the Movies community thread agreed.

In fact, Scarlett Johansson’s performance as a disembodied operating system in Her, as well as outstanding voice work popping up in other live-action films, provided another reason for creating a voice acting category.

The proliferation of actors delivering memorable performances for computer-generated characters in live-action films, such as Andy Serkis and his work on the Lord of the Rings and current Planet of the Apes series, had some wondering if there should even be another Oscar category to consider.

Reasons varied, though, when it came to those Reddit users who objected to creating a separate category for voice acting. Some felt the performances should simply be recognized in the academy’s existing acting categories.

Others argued that outstanding animated performances serve too many masters to award a singular distinction to only one individual’s work. The animators are just as important for creating an emotive expression or gesture that nails a character’s personality as much as an actor’s voice work does.

That argument, however, ignores how much an actor’s performance in a live-action movie is shaped by a director and editor after shooting has wrapped.

A single scene can contain line deliveries and facial expressions from an actor cut-and-pasted from multiple takes in order to create a desired emotion or effect that might not be in a single, complete take. George Lucas even digitally combined various takes of Hayden Christensen in Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith without cutting away from the actor in the scene, as a Redditor recently pointed out in a separate post in the Movies community.

“Voice-over helps directors realize their vision and contributes significantly in some cases to the feature’s success and ability to endear an audience,” Ciccarelli said.

But all that goes to demonstrate that in a collaborative art like film, everyone’s contribution is vital in order to create the onscreen illusion of living, breathing characters, whether they’re made out of flesh and blood or code and pixels.

Overlooking the hard work and talent involved in one group’s diminishes how magical the result can be when everyone works together to create a character that emotionally grabs an audience’s attention.

Of course, there are some people who will never be convinced about how challenging voice acting is. Just ask Chris Rock.

But that’s not what voice acting is about, Ciccarelli said.

“One of the biggest misconceptions is that voice acting is easy and anyone can do it,” she said. “A lot of people think that if they can talk or have a nice voice, they can be a voice actor. What they don’t realize is that it takes a great deal of talent, training and dedication. … In many ways, voice actors and on-camera actors draw upon the same skills to do their work. The primary difference is that one steps up to a microphone to perform while the other’s performance is captured on-camera. Acting, no matter the medium, demands the actor’s all to result in excellence.”

Will there ever be a day where performances like Kind’s in Inside Out or Johansson’s in Her will be honored with an Academy Award? Ciccarelli thinks so.

“Suffice to say the creation of a voice acting category (i.e. Best Voice Actor and Best Voice Actress) is within reach,” she said. “There’s no shortage of people who would love to see this addition to the Oscars in recognition of the work that is being done in this realm of acting. That said, a voice acting category is in the Academy’s hands, and their hearts need to be stirred toward that end if there is ever to be a category of this kind in the future.”

UPDATED (8:55 AM PST, Jan. 14, 2016): Quotes from Stephanie Ciccarelli of Voices.com and a link to today’s list of Academy Award nominees were added to the story.