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Colors Within, Ghost Cat Anzu, Imaginary, Look Back, Lord of the Rings Anime Confirmed Eligible for 2025 Oscars
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Among the 31 titles eligible for the Animated Feature category, the anime films and Japanese media-related films are:
- Naoko Yamada and Science SARU's The Colors Within film
- Yōko Kuno, Nobuhiro Yamashita, Shinei Animation, and France's Miyu Productions' Ghost Cat Anzu 2D-animated film
- Yoshioyuki Momose and Studio Ponoc's anime film of A.F. Harrold and Emily Gravett's The Imaginary novel
- Kiyotaka Oshiyama and Studio Durian's anime film of Tatsuki Fujimoto's "Look Back" one-shot manga
- Kenji Kamiyama and Sola Entertainment's The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim film
Josh Cooley's Transformers One CG animated feature film, and Shannon Tindle and Industrial Light and Magic's Ultraman: Rising CG animated feature film are also eligible for the Animated Feature category.
The Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan selected Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cloud film as Japan's submission for the International Feature category.
Some of these films still need to play in at least one theater in one of six major American metropolitan areas for at least one week before December 31, to fully qualify for consideration.
Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli's The Boy and the Heron won the Best Animated Feature category in the 96th Academy Awards earlier this year. Takashi Yamazaki and TOHO's Godzilla Minus One also won Best Visual Effects.
Update: Year corrected. Thanks, GATSU.
Sources: Oscars.org, Deadline (Erik Pedersen)
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