The Lego Movie didn't earn an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature yesterday, a fact that sent a lot of fans to social media in protest. The film, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, did earn a Critics' Choice Movie Award last evening, however. The duo was thrilled to be recognized and took the opportunity to respond to their so-called Oscar snub.

"We're really in the black on this movie," Lord told Esquire. "We made it in order to inspire families and kids and people. And we've been justly rewarded for that and we feel really lucky. The award stuff is its own thing and of course we're disappointed, but it's not the reason we made the movie. There's no way to not be pleased with the outcome of this film." Miller added, "Seeing the outpouring of the fans today was really something special."

In fact, the film spent most of Thursday as a trending topic on Twitter, right alongside the now-iconic flub of cinematography nominee Dick Pope's name. "We were a trending topic!" Lord said. "It's way more permanent. Right next to Dick Poop. Seeing the name of your film next to the words 'Dick Poop' is a true honor. I really felt like a great cosmic poem was written today."

One of the most outspoken critics of The Lego Movie's lack of nominations has been Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn. The filmmaker took to Facebook yesterday with a lengthy response to the Oscar nominations, noting that the omission is "just fucking ridiculous." Gunn was also in attendance at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards last night in Hollywood and blames the older members of the Academy for the snub.

"I think that Academy voters did not watch the movie," Gunn said. "I really think that's the only possible way [it didn't get nominated]. Listen, when I heard there was a Lego movie I thought, 'That's a silly kids idea. I'm not going to see that movie.' And then people started telling me how good it was and I went to see it. The average Academy member is 63 years old. They get all these screeners and they don't know what The Lego Movie is so they don't watch it. But The Lego Movie is one of the very finest films of the year. It's a great movie that works on all levels and it should have been nominated for Best Animated Feature."

Lord and Miller did get the final laugh, though. When the nominations news broke, Lord tweeted a photo of an Oscar statue made of Legos, writing, "It's okay. Made my own!" When asked about it last night, he said, "Yeah, I made it right from a Google image search."

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