Forum - View topicNEWS: Anime Eligible for Oscar [2005-11-17]
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marie-antoinette
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Howl's might get a nomination, since the Academy likes Miyazaki...but I would put my money on Corpse Bride. If I had money, that is
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ACDragonMaster
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Have you acually seen the FMA movie? Even the fandom is very split on what to think of it, it certainly won't appeal much at all to anyone who's never seen the series... |
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CorneredAngel
 Posts: 854 Location: New York, NY |
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My guess is, it didn't have a wide-enough theatrical release. But in any case, this is finally the year when the problem with this category becomes painfully obvious: as *movies*, none of the candidates can hold their own against the live-action nominees in the other categories. So really, it almost becomes like one of those second-tier technical achievement awards. The other interesting thing is that (although I have no idea what Gulliver's Travel and Hoodwinked are), the non-anime nominations are all either CG or stop motion. Which is as good a reminder as any that outside of Japan, traditional feature-length animation in pretty much dead... |
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albanian
 Posts: 133 Location: UK |
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(Though, personally, I'd like to see Miyazaki win another.) |
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GATSU
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Hoodwinked....
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sinistertaco
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That has about as much chance of happening as a retroactive award being handed out to the first Pokemon movie. And here come the Otaku now "OMG! FMA AND POKEMON AREN'T EVEN THE SAME!" blah blah blah.... |
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Hi no Neko
 Posts: 204 Location: Austin, TX |
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Robots? Madagascar? How do they make these lists anyway, just jot down whatever animated movies come into their head? Those two may be a fun way to use up an hour or so of free time, but I really can't imagine myself giving either one an award. (Unless they had a category for "Public Mode of Transportation Most Resembling a Pinball Machine.")
It'd be awesome if Howl's Moving Castle won, not only to give Disney something nice for the box cover, but also to increase the chances of anime movies getting wider releases. Steamboy (Which I have not yet seen, so don't ask for my opinion on it.) wouldn't have been on half as many screens if Spirited Away didn't give anime such a big push closer to the mainstream. |
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BlaqNumbr9
 Posts: 155 Location: Bowing before the Master... |
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Ladies and gentlemen, we can forget ANY of the japanese films winning. The "academy" doesn't care about anime and they won't reward anime, regardless of how good it may be.
And the winner is Disney/Pixar AGAIN for Finding Nemo part 17!!! |
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Nagisa
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 Posts: 6128 Location: Atlanta-ish, Jawjuh |
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So SPIRITED AWAY isn't anime? Next time, please take a couple seconds to get your facts straight before complaining about how the world is against you. |
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Starwind Amada
Posts: 981 Location: Easton, PA, USA |
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When you say "Hocks off," are you saying that the FMA series rides on the success of the games and TCG? If so, you're wrong. Everybody hates the FMA games to death for being bland and repetitive (just some RPG with FMA characters thrown in, basically) and the only card games that are doing well are the Pokemon and Yugioh TCGs. Kids probably don't even know about the FMA or Inuyasha games, anyway. If that's not what you meant, then what exactly does "hocks off" mean, then?
Yet another lame animated movie from the "geniuses" in Hollywood.  Like anyone wants to go see some knockoff of an old kids' story.
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Nagisa
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Posts: 6128 Location: Atlanta-ish, Jawjuh |
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No, because when you "hock" something, you're selling it. FMA is a major merchandise vehicle in Japan was Steven's point. And while that doesn't automatically disqualify it from being potentially either artistically valid or Oscar-worthy, the fact that the movie is still the sequel of a cult-success TV show known by only a relatively small margin of people in this country (and won't even come out over here until mid-late 2006 at the earliest) is certainly a very strong mark against it. |
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UltimaShadowfax
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. . . No, I'm pretty sure it's not a contender because it was a bad movie. |
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remember love
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Well that was very very useless response. Anyways I had a question that's kind of off-topic...Was Ghost in the shell ever nominated for an oscar? |
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LightNightmare148
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When is Howl's Moving Castle even released in the States anyway? To DVD I mean.
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pythos
Posts: 127 Location: Denver, CO |
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There is no release date for the Howl's DVD in N. America. (See today's Answerman.)
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