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LextheStampede



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:12 pm Reply with quote
I was just wondering, what are the criteria for animation hear in America to win a Golden Globe or an Academy Award. I'm talking about a big award like best picture, best director, best actor, actress. The only one's that have even gotten close to winning are Disney animated features. But their movies are loosley based on fairy tales and folk tales. And in a lot of cases, Disney will completely rewrite the story. Such as Mulan and Aladdin are my main examples.

So maybe you can help me out. Or should I say help them to make an anime worth one.
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Deltakiral



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:20 pm Reply with quote
If you remember back two years ago when the Incredibles came out lots of people wanted that to be nominated for the best picture. However I didn't really like the Incrediles all that much but if you look at anime/animation (Disney pixar) there aren't really any serious animation being done it's mostly for children, and not only that the movies aren't all that great....more then anything there are lots of fad jokes that when you rewatch those movies later or with your children they won't find it funny. Whereas the old Disney films did a good job of making them universally enjoyable by people of all ages, in fact I have been watching a lot of those old Disney films and I love them, even if the art isn't the best.

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Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2002. It's unlikely that any animated film from any country will ever win one of the "big awards," especially since the inception of the Best Animated Feature category in 2001.


Exactly it's somewhat like how it's really hard for a foreign film to win Best picture since there already is a category for best foreign film. But every so often a really great film comes out and gives a movie a chance much like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, I honestly thought that movie had a chance.

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:23 pm Reply with quote
Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2002. It's unlikely that any animated film from any country will ever win one of the "big awards," especially since the inception of the Best Animated Feature category in 2001.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:30 pm Reply with quote
Also, very few anime movies actually open in theaters. Many go directly to DVD thus disqualifying it from being eliglble to be nominated.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:44 pm Reply with quote
Deltakiral wrote:
If you remember back two years ago when the Incredibles came out lots of people wanted that to be nominated for the best picture. However I didn't really like the Incrediles all that much but if you look at anime/animation (Disney pixar) there aren't really any serious animation being done it's mostly for children, and not only that the movies aren't all that great....more then anything there are lots of fad jokes that when you rewatch those movies later or with your children they won't find it funny. Whereas the old Disney films did a good job of making them universally enjoyable by people of all ages, in fact I have been watching a lot of those old Disney films and I love them, even if the art isn't the best.


Agreed. Although at the time I watched them, I did find Disney movies like Finding Nemo and The Incredibles to be good and pretty funny, I can't really see them being "classics" like Bambi, The Little Memaid, The Lion King (probably my favorite animated movie ever. I still enjoy watching it even now), etc. The jokes in some of the newer ones really just seem like "fads" and I don't see them being able to stand the "test of time", unlike some other Disney movies.

As far as anime goes though... even less likely. I wouldn't be surprised if anymore were nominated though. I can't really see anything other than Miyazaki films even getting to that level though.
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fighterholic



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 9:39 pm Reply with quote
I don't think we can see anime taking home the BIG shot anytime soon. This just hasn't reached the Academy yet. Didn't Snow White take best picture though?
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Kouji



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 9:59 pm Reply with quote
Rªdì¢âl_£Ð wrote:
Also, very few anime movies actually open in theaters. Many go directly to DVD thus disqualifying it from being eliglble to be nominated.
And the few anime movies that are released in theaters are typically given limited releases. It's highly unlikely that a film is going to be voted for one of the bigger awards when only half of the country has seen the film. Anime movies have a long way to go before they'll be voted for an Oscar award like Best Picture or Best Director. Anime still has too much negative stigma associated with it for most people to care about it. Most people still assume that anime is either all childish commercialized anime like Pokemon or violent pornography for geeks. People just can't get past the stigma to even enjoy anime let alone for it to make it to the Oscars. Most people in America don't like watching foreign films in general either, especially if they have to read subtitles while watching it (unless it's a two hour torture film about a popular religious figure, then it's considered more "authentic" to have it subtitled, go figure Rolling Eyes ). First, anime has to become more accepted by mainstream culture and maybe actually have an anime movie that isn't Pokemon be given a wide release in theaters, then maybe we can talk about anime being voted for the Oscars.
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Craeyst Raygal



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:09 pm Reply with quote
It's also worth noting that ALL animated films are excluded from competing for the Best Feature Film prize at the Oscar, as backlash from when Beauty & The Beast was nominated.
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LydiaDianne



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:19 pm Reply with quote
Snow White did not win an Academy Award but it received 7 miniature ones for innovation.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029583/awards
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Azathrael



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 12:01 am Reply with quote
I don't care how good an anime is, it takes more than just content to become a nominee for an award like those (ie. acting skills of the actors and the realism of it that can never be provided in anime). Anime is for the animated features section.
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DemonEyesLeo



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 12:14 am Reply with quote
Yeah, with the Best Animated Feature award it's highly unlikely that an animated movie will win something like Best Picture. So far there's only been one to even be nominated, and that was Disney's Beauty and the Beast; but it lost the award to The Silence of the Lambs.
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LydiaDianne



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 12:19 am Reply with quote
I think that if an animated movie will EVER be nominated for a "Best Picture" award it will have to have absolutely NOTHING childish to do with it.

Although, I've only seen the reviews, it may have to be something like Paprika. But then, the Academy will probably write the rules that if it is animated, it will never be eligible for "Best Picture." If they haven't done so already.
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TestamentSaki



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:44 am Reply with quote
And now that I remember, Howl's Moving Castle had been nominated too (don't remember why Anime smallmouth + sweatdrop )
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