Anime Pre-Oscar Nominations
As you may or may not already know, two anime films have been pre-nominated for possible Oscar nominations in the Best Animated Feature category at this years Academy Awards.
Those two films are Sword of the Stranger and The Sky Crawlers.
We're all pretty much familiar with Sword of the Stranger, but The Sky Crawlers is Mamoru Oshii's (Director, Ghost in the Shell) first anime film in four years, and looks to be an amazing one.
These two films will be competing with 12 others for a possible Oscar nomination. Only three films can be nominated. The other films they're up against are...
Bolt
Delgo
Dragon Hunters
Fly Me to the Moon
Igor
Kung Fu Panda
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
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The Tale of Despereaux
Waltz With Bashir
WALL-E
Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!
In my opinion WALL-E will definitely get in, and Waltz With Bashir and Kung-Fu Panda have a change judging by their IMDB ratings. Pretty much everything else doesn't stand a chance. I think WALL-E will most probably win the Oscar as well, but I was reading how exactly the Oscar nominations are chosen a while back and although I can't remember what I read anymore, I do remember I came to the conclusion that Sword of the Stranger and The Sky Crawlers also have a good chance of getting nominated.
So I'm creating this thread just to inform you all of this important information! The only anime film to have ever won an Oscar is Spirited Away, and I doubt anything but WALL-E would win, but if either Sword of the Stranger and/or The Sky Crawlers can atleast get nominated, that would set another landmark in anime history.
The Oscar nominations will be announced on the 22nd of January, 12 days from now, which is a thursday. They will be announced in America at 5:30AM PT / 8:30AM ET, which is 1:30PM GMT. I think the Oscars.org website will have a live stream of the announcement, but unfortunately it's at a time where everyone is busy in the UK. I'll post the nominations in this thread on the 22nd if someone hasn't done already.
The Winners are going to be announced on Sunday the 22nd of February, exactly a month after the nominations are chosen.
Until then, please use this thread to discuss whatever you want to keep it popular. :D Do you think these two anime films have any chance of getting nominated? Do you actually want them to win? Have you even seen these films!?
Sword of the Stranger is seriously one of the best films I have ever seen, I really hope it at least gets nominated.
