The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences rolled out the nominees for the 88th annual Oscars, and Studio Ghibli's most recent feature is among the animated contenders. Hiromasa Yonebayashi's When Marnie Was There , based on the novel by Joan G. Robinson, is up …Read more »
Hideo Kojima, the creator of Metal Gear , will be inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame, reports ANN. It’s one of many recent honors for the game creator, who, depending on who you go with, left or was fired …Read more »
A pair of acclaimed anime films received nominations for the International Animated Film Society's 43rd annual Annie Awards . Up for consideration in the new Best Animated Feature-Independent category are Mamoru Hosoda's The Boy and the Beast and Studio Ghibli's When Marnie Was There . …Read more »
A nice bit of news for Keiichi Hara ( Summer Days with Coo , Colorful ). The director’s latest effort, Miss Hokusai , has won the Jury Award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Miss Hokusai , which was released in Japan in May, …Read more »
As if one giant anime event weren’t enough, the Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2015 also took place this past weekend, and the prize for best anime TV series of the year went to Masaaki Yuasa’s adaptation of Taiyo Matsumoto’s Ping Pong . The 11 episode …Read more »
The Japanese government’s Agency for Cultural Affairs announced Thursday the winners of 2014’s Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Recommendation Awards, and the Rookie of the Year for media/arts went to none other than Masashi Kishimoto, creator of the recently-completed manga Naruto . …Read more »
The Science Fiction & Fantasy Hall of Fame announced last Thursday that Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki is one of the four new inductees for this year, alongside other visionary creators like fantasy artist Frank Frazetta and 2001 director Stanley Kubrick. For those wondering, the …Read more »
“Anime Bancho,” the experimental Youtube Channel started by CoMix Wave Films at the end of 2012 scored a direct hit with Inferno Cop , a terrifying frappe of absurdist humor and non-sequitors that, like gdgd Fairies and Straight Title Robot Anime , seemed to be …Read more »
I first read this news early in the morning, and my pre-coffee brain read it as "Yoshihiro Tatsumi Nominated for Oscar." I didn't even think it was strange, just "sure, why not?" That's what happens when you grow to depend on caffeine, so take that …Read more »
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