The official website of Annie Awards revealed the list of nominees for the 51st edition of the awards on Jan 11, 2024. The awards, which have been presented each year since 1972, recognizes excellence in animation shown in American cinema and television.
While Nick Bruno and Troy Quane directed Nimona earned the highest nominations with 8, Makoto Shinkai’s Suzume no Tojimari and Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron were nominated in 7 categories each, tying with Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
Both the anime films were nominated for Best Feature, Best Character Animation and Best Music among others.
Check out the nominations for The Boy and the Heron movie below:
Best Feature Best Character Animation – Feature (Takeshi Honda) Best Direction – Feature (Hayao Miyazaki) Best Music – Feature (Joe Hisaishi) Best Production Design – Feature (Yoji Takeshige) Best Storyboarding – Feature (Hayao Miyazaki) Best Writing – Feature (Hayao Miyazaki)
Check out the nominations for Suzume movie:
Best Feature...
While Nick Bruno and Troy Quane directed Nimona earned the highest nominations with 8, Makoto Shinkai’s Suzume no Tojimari and Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron were nominated in 7 categories each, tying with Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
Both the anime films were nominated for Best Feature, Best Character Animation and Best Music among others.
Check out the nominations for The Boy and the Heron movie below:
Best Feature Best Character Animation – Feature (Takeshi Honda) Best Direction – Feature (Hayao Miyazaki) Best Music – Feature (Joe Hisaishi) Best Production Design – Feature (Yoji Takeshige) Best Storyboarding – Feature (Hayao Miyazaki) Best Writing – Feature (Hayao Miyazaki)
Check out the nominations for Suzume movie:
Best Feature...
- 1/12/2024
- by A.R. Madillo
- AnimeHunch
The nominees have been revealed for the 51st Annie Awards, and Makoto Shinkai's Suzume anime film came through with seven across a variety of categories that include Best Feature. Shinkai's latest came in second place for most nominations, just behind the Nick Bruno and Troy Quane directed Nimona , which adapts the best-selling graphic novel by Nd Stevenson and received nine nominations. Suzume tied with two other heavy-hitter features from the past year. Hayao Miyazaki's The Boy and the Heron also received seven nominations, as did Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse from directors Joaquim Dos Santos, Justin K. Thompson and Kemp Powers. Pokémon: Path to the Peak received a nomination in the Best TV/Media - Limited Series category. Here's a quick look at everything Suzume is up for: Best Feature Best FX - Feature | Yoshitaka Takeuchi, Hiroyuki Seshita Best Character Animation - Feature | Kenichi Tsuchiya Best Music - Feature | Kazuma Jinnouchi,...
- 1/11/2024
- by Joseph Luster
- Crunchyroll
Nominees in the categories of discovery of the year, public choice award and the new game music award have been revealed.
Film Fest Gent and The World Soundtrack Academy has unveiled the second and final wave of nominations for the 2023 World Soundtrack Awards, which will take place on October 21 at the Film Fest Gent in Belgium, with Golda, Avatar: The Way Of Water and The Menu among the additional titles represented.
Nominations for discovery of the year, public choice award, Wsa game music award, best original score for a Belgian production and the Sabam Award for best original composition by...
Film Fest Gent and The World Soundtrack Academy has unveiled the second and final wave of nominations for the 2023 World Soundtrack Awards, which will take place on October 21 at the Film Fest Gent in Belgium, with Golda, Avatar: The Way Of Water and The Menu among the additional titles represented.
Nominations for discovery of the year, public choice award, Wsa game music award, best original score for a Belgian production and the Sabam Award for best original composition by...
- 9/5/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
The Japan Academy Film Prize Association held the 46th edition of its awards ceremony on March 10, 2023. The nominees are selected by industry professionals from the pool of film releases between January 1 and December 31, 2022 which must have screened in Tokyo cinemas. Award categories are modelled after Hollywood's Academy Awards®.
Following its success at the recent Blue Ribbon Awards, and leading with 13 nominations in 12 categories, Kei Ishikawa's “A Man” walks away with 8 Japan Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress. The full list of winners is described below.
Picture of the Year
A Man
Shin Ultraman
Phases of the Moon
Anime Supremacy!
Wandering
Team from A Man Animation of the Year
Inu-Oh
Lonely Castle in the Mirror
Suzume
One Piece Film Red
The First Slam Dunk
Director of the Year
Kei Ishikawa – A Man
Takashi Koizumi – The Pass: Last...
Following its success at the recent Blue Ribbon Awards, and leading with 13 nominations in 12 categories, Kei Ishikawa's “A Man” walks away with 8 Japan Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress. The full list of winners is described below.
Picture of the Year
A Man
Shin Ultraman
Phases of the Moon
Anime Supremacy!
Wandering
Team from A Man Animation of the Year
Inu-Oh
Lonely Castle in the Mirror
Suzume
One Piece Film Red
The First Slam Dunk
Director of the Year
Kei Ishikawa – A Man
Takashi Koizumi – The Pass: Last...
- 3/15/2023
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
In Japanese mythology, Namazu was believed to be an underground fish that caused earthquakes, as immortalized in several namazu-e woodblock prints of the Edo period. Imprisoned and subdued under a large stone by Takemikazuchi, the god of thunder, earthquakes were believed to occur whenever Takemikazuchi let his guard down, meaning Namazu could wriggle free, flapping his giant body to-and-fro to cause havoc for the unsuspecting citizens above.
Perhaps Takemikazuchi doesn’t do a good job — Japan has, on average, 1,500 earthquakes a year, with its 700 islands sitting perilously close to the Pacific Earthquake Belt, also known as the suitably demonic “Ring of Fire.” In “Suzume,” , this mythical giant catfish is replaced by a snakepit of burning, writhing, fire-red worms, who escape from a hellish netherworld bent on causing geographical devastation. Siloed away in a magical land, these worms are normally contained by doorways secured by “keystones,” with doors guarded and kept...
Perhaps Takemikazuchi doesn’t do a good job — Japan has, on average, 1,500 earthquakes a year, with its 700 islands sitting perilously close to the Pacific Earthquake Belt, also known as the suitably demonic “Ring of Fire.” In “Suzume,” , this mythical giant catfish is replaced by a snakepit of burning, writhing, fire-red worms, who escape from a hellish netherworld bent on causing geographical devastation. Siloed away in a magical land, these worms are normally contained by doorways secured by “keystones,” with doors guarded and kept...
- 2/23/2023
- by Steph Green
- Indiewire
Soaked with climate-altering passion, Makoto Shinkai’s new animated spectacle “Weathering With You” once again pits two young lovers against forces beyond their control, treading similar waters as his 2016 global hit “Your Name,” for a thrilling extravaganza of scintillating imagery, uproarious music, and gravity-defying stunts with spiritual panache.
Torrential rain drowns Tokyo like it hasn’t in recent memory, and with every enormous drop that reaches the ground, the city’s dwellers long a little harder for the sunshine of summer. Such inclement conditions welcome 15-year-old Hodaka (voiced by Kotaro Daigo), a small-town dreamer who’s run away from home to the chaotic metropolis.
Necessity propels him to take a live-in job transcribing for a scruffy father figure, Keisuke (Shun Oguri), whose occupation is to write engaging fake news. But his luck changes when he, gun in hand, attempts to defend Hina (Nana Mori), a “sunshine girl” with the power to momentarily stop the downpour.
Torrential rain drowns Tokyo like it hasn’t in recent memory, and with every enormous drop that reaches the ground, the city’s dwellers long a little harder for the sunshine of summer. Such inclement conditions welcome 15-year-old Hodaka (voiced by Kotaro Daigo), a small-town dreamer who’s run away from home to the chaotic metropolis.
Necessity propels him to take a live-in job transcribing for a scruffy father figure, Keisuke (Shun Oguri), whose occupation is to write engaging fake news. But his luck changes when he, gun in hand, attempts to defend Hina (Nana Mori), a “sunshine girl” with the power to momentarily stop the downpour.
- 1/17/2020
- by Carlos Aguilar
- The Wrap
I had no idea what to expect upon sitting down to Your Name and the first few minutes definitely had my head spinning. We’re ushered in via the voiceover narration of two high schoolers we’ve yet to properly meet in Mitsuha (Mone Kamishiraishi) and Taki (Ryûnosuke Kamiki). They speak about dreams as a rare comet shoots across the blue sky. It’s cryptic, beautiful, and utterly fascinating—a subdued tone easing us in before a kinetic collage of vignettes without context replaces it, a Radwimps rock anthem blaring about love. This shift to music video interlude proves jarringly abrupt; its culmination marked by Mitsuha awakening from slumber a wonderful splash into the deep-end of this anime’s high concept romantic fantasy.
My disorientation continued because this girl didn’t seem herself. Without warning, logic, or exposition beyond those opening lines of esoteric prose, we suddenly realize the person...
My disorientation continued because this girl didn’t seem herself. Without warning, logic, or exposition beyond those opening lines of esoteric prose, we suddenly realize the person...
- 4/5/2017
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
The ceremony took place in the Grand Prince Hotel, in Tokyo, on the 3d of March and the winners were:
Best Picture: Godzilla Resurgence (Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi)
Best Animated Film: In this corner of the World (Sunao Katabuchi)
Best Director: Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi (Godzilla Resurgence)
Best Screenplay: Makoto Shinkai (Your Name)
Best Actor: Koichi Sato (64: Part I)
Best Actress: Rie Miyazawa (Her Love Boils Water)
Best Supporting Actor: Satoshi Tsumabaki (Rage)
Best Supporting Actress: Hana Sugisaki (Her Love Boils Water)
Best Cinematography: Kosuke Yamada (Godzilla Resurgence)
Best Lighting Direction: Takayuki Kawabe (Godzilla Resurgence)
Best Music: Radwimps (Your Name)
Best Art Direction: Yuji Hayashida & Eri Sakujima (Godzilla Resurgence)
Best Sound Recording: Jun Nakamura & Haru Yamada (Godzilla Resurgence)
Best Film Editing: Hideaki Anno and Atsuki Sato (Godzilla Resurgence)
Best Foreign Language Film: Sully
Newcomer of the Year: Hana Sugisaki (Her Love Boils Bathwater), Mitsuki Takahata (Evergreen Love,...
Best Picture: Godzilla Resurgence (Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi)
Best Animated Film: In this corner of the World (Sunao Katabuchi)
Best Director: Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi (Godzilla Resurgence)
Best Screenplay: Makoto Shinkai (Your Name)
Best Actor: Koichi Sato (64: Part I)
Best Actress: Rie Miyazawa (Her Love Boils Water)
Best Supporting Actor: Satoshi Tsumabaki (Rage)
Best Supporting Actress: Hana Sugisaki (Her Love Boils Water)
Best Cinematography: Kosuke Yamada (Godzilla Resurgence)
Best Lighting Direction: Takayuki Kawabe (Godzilla Resurgence)
Best Music: Radwimps (Your Name)
Best Art Direction: Yuji Hayashida & Eri Sakujima (Godzilla Resurgence)
Best Sound Recording: Jun Nakamura & Haru Yamada (Godzilla Resurgence)
Best Film Editing: Hideaki Anno and Atsuki Sato (Godzilla Resurgence)
Best Foreign Language Film: Sully
Newcomer of the Year: Hana Sugisaki (Her Love Boils Bathwater), Mitsuki Takahata (Evergreen Love,...
- 3/29/2017
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
With its surprising Los Angeles Film Critics Association win for best animated feature, the delightful, body-switching, “Your Name,” from director Makoto Shinkai, has been elevated to Oscar contention as a result of its unique anime style and off-beat, fantasy romance.
Of course, it helps that Shinkai’s breakout hit is not only the year’s biggest box office success in Japan ($288 million), but also the fifth highest-grossing anime in history. And it’s easy to see why: it taps into Ya fantasies about vicarious excitement, romance and upward mobility. The director wants young adults to ponder why people meet and think about what it means for them.
Read More: ‘Ocean Waves’ Trailer: Studio Ghibli’s Restored 1993 Animated Film Explores Changing Friendships
Two high school students meet in their dreams: Mitsuha, who’s frustrated living in a seaside village, switches bodies with Taki, who lives in Tokyo. They instantly make contact...
Of course, it helps that Shinkai’s breakout hit is not only the year’s biggest box office success in Japan ($288 million), but also the fifth highest-grossing anime in history. And it’s easy to see why: it taps into Ya fantasies about vicarious excitement, romance and upward mobility. The director wants young adults to ponder why people meet and think about what it means for them.
Read More: ‘Ocean Waves’ Trailer: Studio Ghibli’s Restored 1993 Animated Film Explores Changing Friendships
Two high school students meet in their dreams: Mitsuha, who’s frustrated living in a seaside village, switches bodies with Taki, who lives in Tokyo. They instantly make contact...
- 12/20/2016
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Your Name is the most remarkable success story in Japanese cinema in the last decade. As of writing, it’s the seventh highest-grossing cinema release in the country’s history, and the fourth highest-grossing Japanese film. And it’s pretty much come from nowhere. While Your Name’s director, Makoto Shinkai, has been making critically acclaimed animated films since 2002, they were modest releases commercially. Your Name has been more than a hundred times as successful, which Shinkai says unnerves him.
An animated romcom and fantasy, Your Name’s two main characters are Taki, a teenage boy who lives in Tokyo, and Mitsuha, a girl who lives in the remote Japanese countryside. Suddenly, these seemingly unrelated youngsters start swapping bodies on random days, so that Taki sometimes wakes up “as” Mitsuha in Mitsuha’s country home, and Mitsuha sometimes wakes up “as” Taki in Tokyo. At first both Mitsuha and Taki are shocked,...
An animated romcom and fantasy, Your Name’s two main characters are Taki, a teenage boy who lives in Tokyo, and Mitsuha, a girl who lives in the remote Japanese countryside. Suddenly, these seemingly unrelated youngsters start swapping bodies on random days, so that Taki sometimes wakes up “as” Mitsuha in Mitsuha’s country home, and Mitsuha sometimes wakes up “as” Taki in Tokyo. At first both Mitsuha and Taki are shocked,...
- 11/25/2016
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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