| Is anyone else shocked by Hayao Miyazaki's Oscar wins? The Boy and the Heron is a recent film which won an Academy Award. Do you think it is common for anime to receive such prestigious honors? |
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| "Is anyone else shocked by Hayao Miyazaki's Oscar wins?" Hmm, no? :O |
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| I'm surprised Your Name didn't win one. |
| I'm sure anime wins plenty of awards in Japan with no fanfare. If you mean in the west: Not really, but it's not unheard of either. Especially not a Mitazaki movie, He's the most well known Anime director in the west. |
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| Nobody really cares about the oscars. |
| Spirited Away won against Ice Age (best animated film of all time). The Academy lost all credibility at that point. |
| MEA·MENTVLA·INGENS·EST |
| if anyone could get 2 awards, it'd be him. His movies are pretty much the most mainstream among non-fans as it gets in the west. Though i'm a bit miffed A Silent Voice was screwed over |
| My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine. We're freaking out that we're running out of time, but to do what? Should i stop and think of that? Is there something i could do to slow it down? Live in a day for once, instead of watch it sprinting by |
| >there have been two world wars. Do you think it's common for there to be a world war? |
Reply to Flick_on
Love that Tsukimi no Ie winning in 2009 is just memoryholed and is just a factoid zoomer don't care about
| @Flick_on wow I didn't know that it won for best short film. |
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Reply to Flick_on
Love that Tsukimi no Ie winning in 2009 is just memoryholed and is just a factoid zoomer don't care about
| @Flick_on probably because it's animated short instead of full length. You never hear anyone talk about the short film winners either, but they do talk about the best film. |
| I'm going to bring this up every time the Academy Awards come up: For the 87th Academy Awards covering films from 2014, The Tale of Princess Kaguya from Takahata Isao was nominated. His final film, a heartbreaking Japanese folk tale, gorgeously animated in rough brush strokes and pastel colors. Guess who won that year: Big Hero 6, a Disney superhero movie about a genius kid who invents a giant huggable robot to fight a supervillain. The people over there in Hollywood still have no idea what to make of Japanese animation. I think they're trying a little and getting better, but there's really no point looking for recognition there. |
Reply to Zarutaku
I'm surprised Your Name didn't win one.
| @Zarutaku Your Name wasn't even nominated. Mamoru Hosoda's Mirai is the only non-Ghibli anime film nominated for Best Animated feature thus far. It should also be noted the category has never had a winner that was not essentially a children's film. The Boy and the Heron is the least child friendly winner the category has ever had. |
| "I am the Nemesis, I am the Warlock, I am the shape of things to come, the Lord of the Flies, holder of the Sword Sinister, the Death Bringer, I am the one who waits on the edge of your dreams, I am all these things and many more." |
Reply to perseii
I'm going to bring this up every time the Academy Awards come up:
For the 87th Academy Awards covering films from 2014, The Tale of Princess Kaguya from Takahata Isao was nominated. His final film, a heartbreaking Japanese folk tale, gorgeously animated in rough brush strokes and pastel colors.
Guess who won that year: Big Hero 6, a Disney superhero movie about a genius kid who invents a giant huggable robot to fight a supervillain.
The people over there in Hollywood still have no idea what to make of Japanese animation. I think they're trying a little and getting better, but there's really no point looking for recognition there.
For the 87th Academy Awards covering films from 2014, The Tale of Princess Kaguya from Takahata Isao was nominated. His final film, a heartbreaking Japanese folk tale, gorgeously animated in rough brush strokes and pastel colors.
Guess who won that year: Big Hero 6, a Disney superhero movie about a genius kid who invents a giant huggable robot to fight a supervillain.
The people over there in Hollywood still have no idea what to make of Japanese animation. I think they're trying a little and getting better, but there's really no point looking for recognition there.
| @perseii I haven't watched either movie, but I expect I would prefer Big Hero 6 since I like Disney but dislike the original Kaguya legend. |
| その目だれの目？ |
Reply to Lucifrost
@perseii
I haven't watched either movie, but I expect I would prefer Big Hero 6 since I like Disney but dislike the original Kaguya legend.
I haven't watched either movie, but I expect I would prefer Big Hero 6 since I like Disney but dislike the original Kaguya legend.
| @Lucifrost I like Disney too, but Big Hero 6 was not it. I can't believe such a weak concept on the level of a single Saturday morning cartoon episode got such a big-budget, high-profile production from arguably the biggest animation house in the West. I had actually seen the other 3 nominees from that year's Academy Awards: Boxtrolls, How to Train Your Dragon 2 and Song of the Sea (from Ireland, highly recommend this one), and I would've picked any of them over Big Hero 6 in a heartbeat. Not that I cared that much to begin with, but that year's results just made me lose interest in the Best Animated Film category. |
| I'm not surprised but "I like Spirited Away" is the most mainstream take on anime movies you can have As for the Oscars, Disney/Pixar have won a combined 15 out of the 24 years and three of those nine non-winners are from the last 3 years I think the last few years have been a good sign, I didn't expect Flow to beat both Inside Out 2 and Wild Robot, but whether that means anything for anime movies (especially since Look Back didn't even get nominated this year) specifically, idk |
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Reply to Supersonic_Pain
I'm not surprised but "I like Spirited Away" is the most mainstream take on anime movies you can have
As for the Oscars, Disney/Pixar have won a combined 15 out of the 24 years and three of those nine non-winners are from the last 3 years
I think the last few years have been a good sign, I didn't expect Flow to beat both Inside Out 2 and Wild Robot, but whether that means anything for anime movies (especially since Look Back didn't even get nominated this year) specifically, idk
As for the Oscars, Disney/Pixar have won a combined 15 out of the 24 years and three of those nine non-winners are from the last 3 years
I think the last few years have been a good sign, I didn't expect Flow to beat both Inside Out 2 and Wild Robot, but whether that means anything for anime movies (especially since Look Back didn't even get nominated this year) specifically, idk
Supersonic_Pain said: I think the last few years have been a good sign, I didn't expect Flow to beat both Inside Out 2 and Wild Robot, but whether that means anything for anime movies (especially since Look Back didn't even get nominated this year) specifically, idk Many of the anime movies that interest me don't meet the requirements for oscar nominations. Even if they do, they can't win when nobody attempts to submit them. |
| その目だれの目？ |
Reply to perseii
I'm going to bring this up every time the Academy Awards come up:
For the 87th Academy Awards covering films from 2014, The Tale of Princess Kaguya from Takahata Isao was nominated. His final film, a heartbreaking Japanese folk tale, gorgeously animated in rough brush strokes and pastel colors.
Guess who won that year: Big Hero 6, a Disney superhero movie about a genius kid who invents a giant huggable robot to fight a supervillain.
The people over there in Hollywood still have no idea what to make of Japanese animation. I think they're trying a little and getting better, but there's really no point looking for recognition there.
For the 87th Academy Awards covering films from 2014, The Tale of Princess Kaguya from Takahata Isao was nominated. His final film, a heartbreaking Japanese folk tale, gorgeously animated in rough brush strokes and pastel colors.
Guess who won that year: Big Hero 6, a Disney superhero movie about a genius kid who invents a giant huggable robot to fight a supervillain.
The people over there in Hollywood still have no idea what to make of Japanese animation. I think they're trying a little and getting better, but there's really no point looking for recognition there.
| @perseii Academy's logic be like: If that Anime wasn't directed by Miyazaki then it's mid. |
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Reply to kizumi91
@perseii Academy's logic be like: If that Anime wasn't directed by Miyazaki then it's mid.
| @kizumi91 They do seem to be trying more recently, branching out from the typical Disney/Pixar/Dreamworks line-up. So I still keep an eye on what gets nominated at least. Mirai from Hosoda Mamoru did get a nomination a few years ago, the first non-Ghibli anime film to get one, I think. This year's winner, Flow, is an indie that started out as a one-man project in Latvia. I was also happy to see a British stop-motion comedy-adventure, Wallace & Gromit (that one did get a worldwide Netflix release, though). Some French animation seems to be getting recognition as well these days. |
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