you say the aliens looked fake because their mouths didnt move and their eyes didnt blink...
funny that as bad as these looked... Star Wars picked up both a Visual Effects Oscar as well as a Costume design Oscar...
as for Episode 1 - not only did it lose in both of those categories to the matrix... but it didnt win any academy awards that year...
as for Episode 2 - it lost in visual effects to The Two Towers and lost costume design to Chicago...
so as much as you want to believe that those effects looked bad... they have indeed been honoured unlike those of the prequel trilogy...
how do you explain that jimbo?