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NEWS: Wind Rises, Madoka Magica, Momo Submitted for Oscar Nominations

This category feels like it's become the Annual Pixar Award For Being Pixar, but I don't imagine anyone's going to be real psyched about Monsters University winning.

Man, I hope Frozen is good, but the trailers aren't real promising.

Man, I hope Frozen is good, but the trailers aren't real promising.

Sorry for not being in the know, but would anyone care to explain why Wolf Children wasn't eligible?

varmintx wrote:

Sorry for not being in the know, but would anyone care to explain why Wolf Children wasn't eligible?

I'm guessing because the original release of the film was in summer 2012.

The people behind the Oscars are too old to understand Madoka, Miyazaki's got a chance though.

Although “The Wind Rises” has a strong pacifist message, it is essentially a biopic of Jiro Horikoshi, an aeronautical engineer whose contribution to the world was a killing machine. His designs led to the Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter, which was used to devastating effect during World War II.

Mr. Miyazaki’s film, which is aimed at adults, also features at least eight scenes in which characters smoke cigarettes. That imagery, while historically correct, stirred controversy in Japan because of its potential impression on young viewers and could prompt an even louder reaction in North America, where animation is seen to a much greater degree as a product for children.

“The main worry is that people will make a judgment about the film before they see it,” said Fran Krause, a professor of character animation at California Institute of the Arts. “There is a lot of subtlety to Miyazaki’s work, and this film in particular will require a lot of benefit of the doubt that people these days don’t often have.”