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kuma991
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The Boy and the Heron was once-in-a-lifetime movie and an absolute magnum opus. If Miyazaki doesn't win his third Oscar with this, we've messed up.
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invalidname
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You misspelled “The Annual Disney Pixar Award for Being Disney Pixar”. Also known more derisively as the “Kids’ Oscar”. This category is an embarrassment and should be abolished. |
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Divineking
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I mean generally yeah, but the only animated films of note that Disney even had for this year are Elemental and Wish, and the latter was pretty critically panned so even on the chance it makes the cut, it's definently not gonna win. Realistically, The Boy and the Heron's biggest competition for the Oscars is Across the Spiderverse which is almost certainly gonna get nominated. (Personally more annoyed knowing that Suzume and especially The First Slam Dunk are all but guaranteed to get passed over in favor of the Super Mario Bros Movie) |
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Beatdigga
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Everyone knows this quarantine zone for animation is by design. That being said, Boy and the Heron should be the winner, but I wouldn’t count out Elemental because Pixar. I will say this, with animation in the usual quarantine zone, there's a greater than zero chance Godzilla Minus One gets nominated for Best Foreign Film, which it really should. |
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GATSU
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ANN forgot to mention that Inu-Oh snagged a Globe nomination. While it wasn't an Oscar, it did help get Yuasa on teevee here, so.. Also, Mario won't get in, because the voters are too old to play video games.
Beat: Japan had to submit Godzilla, and didn't. So no Foreign Film category. |
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Key
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The latter is disappointing because, after seeing it last night, I absolutely agree that it's deserving. It's well-made enough that it might have had a fair chance of winning. I'm a bit disappointed that The Tunnel to Summer didn't qualify, too, as it's deserving. |
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charliepanayi
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It's going to be Across the Spider-Verse or The Boy and the Heron - more likely the former given the critical raves (the AFI even put it in their top 10 American films of 2023 list) and general praise for the animation but you never know
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GATSU
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charlie: Really depends on whether or not the voters want to award a cliff-hanger.
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Cho_Desu
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A real shame Godzilla Minus One couldn't make it for best foreign picture. That was probably my favorite film of the year.
Not sure what film deserves it for best animated feature. To be honest The Boy and the Heron just didn't work for me—I walked out of that one not really feeling much of anything. I liked Suzume well enough, but I'd put Your Name and probably Weathering With You above that, and those weren't nominated in their respective years. Don't think any of the other anime films listed have a chance of getting nominated. So it'll probably just be The Boy and the Heron. It might even have a chance at the Oscar, since folks have been relatively lukewarm on the Disney and Pixar offerings this year. |
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invalidname
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Same. I assume that HIDIVE has zero promotion budget for an Oscars campaign, and Hollywood likes nothing better than to have smoke blown up their collective butt. |
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MFrontier
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Cool to see them get nominated at least.
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Key
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They haven't been nominated yet; this is just the list that the nominees will be drawn from. |
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residentgrigo
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Exactly one anime will be up for that Oscar and Spider-Man will win. Let´s be honest. No one will complain when a lesser Miyazaki film won´t hack it. I still can´t believe that Sony of all people is pushing theatrical animation forward and that Avi Arad had the idea to make Spot the villain but here we are.
Miyazaki won in 2003 and was nominated in 2006 and 2014. The only non-Ghibli anime up for the feature film award was Mirai. Don´t ask me why. A few were up for the animated short award and only The House of Small Cubes won there. Da list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Animated_Feature |
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GATSU
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Gringo: The Oscar voters hate anime, that's why.
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CR85747
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IFC Films, which became co-owned with Sentai last year with the AMC deal, is the theatrical distributor of the film and has an Oscars budget, albeit not on the scale of the major studios. |
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