It absolutely can, if you live in LA and depend on the movie business for your livelihood. Say you or close friends of yours work in set construction, costuming, lighting, stunts, etc.: by and large, none of those people will be hired to work on an animated movie. People whose lives revolve around film production thus have a perfectly natural reason to not be wild about the prospect of more studio dollars going to render farms than jobs that benefit them personally. And sure, there are people who work on animated movies that wouldn't be hired to work on a live-action movie, but they don't balance each other out; those are different cultures. Heck, Pixar isn't even based in SoCal.Not everyone likes animated films, but if it tells a good story does it matter if it;s live-action or animated?
No. (See above.)Animated movies probably would have started to fare well in the Best Picture category, including scoring some wins
I was of course talking from a viewers persepective.