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In This Corner of The World Does Not Win at Online Film Critics Society Awards
posted on by Alex Mateo
The Online Film Critics Society announced the winners of its 2017 Awards on December 28. Sunao Katabuchi's In This Corner of the World anime film was nominated for the Best Animated Feature category, but it lost to Coco. The other nominees were The Breadwinner, The Lego Batman Movie, and Loving Vincent.
Shout! Factory and Funimation Films screened the film in the United States and Canada last August.
Sunao Katabuchi (Black Lagoon, Mai Mai Miracle) wrote and directed the film, and GENCO and animation studio MAPPA produced the film. The anime has sold more than 2 million tickets in Japan since opening in November 2016.
The film went on to win the Fujimoto Award, the Daijin (Minister) Prize from the Agency for Cultural Affairs, the Hiroshima Peace Film Award at the Hiroshima International Film Festival, Kinema Jumpo magazine's best Japanese movie of the year, the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year, and the Jury Award in the Feature Film Category at Annecy. The film was nominated in the Best Animated Feature-Independent for the 45th Annual Annie Awards.
In This Corner of the World and four other anime films are among the 26 films submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 90th Academy Awards.
Thanks to Daniel Zelter for the tip.
Source: Online Film Critics Society via Next Best Picture
