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Ghibli's From Up on Poppy Hill Nominated for Annie Award
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The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood has announced the nominations for the 40th Annual Annie Awards, which will be presented at UCLA in Los Angeles on February 2, 2013. From Up On Poppy Hill.
From Up On Poppy Hill is competing against the writing staffs of ParaNorman, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, Frankenweenie, Brave, and Wreck-It Ralph.
Tron: Uprising, Disney's American television series partially POLYGON PICTURES, received nods for Best Animated Special Production (for the episode "Beck's Beginning"), Character Design in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production ("The Renegade, Part I"), Production Design in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production ("The Stranger"), and Storyboarding in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production ("The Reward"). Nickelodeon Animation Studios' American series The Legend of Korra has been nominated for Best Animated Television Production For Children ("Welcome to Republic City"/"A Leaf in the Wind") and Character Design in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production ("Welcome to Republic City").
The distributor submitted for consideration for the Best Animated Feature category of the Golden Globes Awards.
Sources: Deadline.com, The Wrap
Image © 2011 Tetsurō Sayama, GNDHDDT
Update: Other anime projects that received Annie Award nominations include Blood: The Last Vampire (best feature).
Hayao Miyazaki and Ghibli's won in every category for which it was nominated: Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Theatrical Feature, Directing in an Animated Feature Production (Miyazaki), Music in an Animated Feature Production (Hisaishi), and Writing in an Animated Feature Production (Miyazaki).
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