The 50th Annual Annie Awards event is arriving next month. 2022 has been full of amazing stories, characters, and presentation styles by studios from all over the world. It’s time to recognize the best of them.
On Tuesday, the international animated film society, ASIFA-Hollywood, announced the nominees for all the categories. The results will be announced at the Annie Awards, to be held on February 25 at UCLA’s Royce Hall.
Some anime are also a part of the nominations, with a few nominated in multiple categories. Here is a list of the anime with the categories they are nominated for.
1. Inu-Oh (Directed by Masaaki Yuasa, Produced by Science SARU)
- Best Indie Feature
- Best Writing – Feature
2. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (Directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi, Produced by Studio Trigger, CD Projekt)
- Best Storyboarding – TV/Media
3. Exception (Directed by Yūzō Satō, Produced by Tatsunoko Production, Studio 5inc, Bakken Record)
- Best Direction – TV/Media
4. Oni: Thunder God’s Tale (Created and Directed by Daisuke Tsutsumi, Produced by Tonko House, Netflix Animation)
- Best TV/Media – Limited Series
- Best Character Animation – TV/Media
- Best Direction – TV/Media
- Best Character Design – TV/Media
- Best Music – TV/Media
- Best Production Design – TV/Media
Popular animated series The Simpsons was also nominated for the episode “Treehouse of Horror XXXIII” in the Best TV/Media – Mature category. It featured a parody of the anime Death Note.
No anime has won awards since Mamoru Hosoda’s film Mirai received one in 2019 for Best Animated Independent Feature. We surely hope the streak gets broken this time.
5. About Inu-Oh
INU-OH is a musical anime feature film of Hideo Furukawa’s Heike Monogatari: INU-OH no Maki (Tales of the Heike: INU-OH) novel. The film made its world premiere and competed in the Horizons (Orizzonti) category at the 78th Venice International Film Festival.
Inu-Oh is born with unique physical characteristics, and the horrified adults cover every inch of his body with garments, including a mask on his face. One day, he meets a boy named Tomona, a blind biwa player, and as Tomona plays a delicate song of tangled fate, Inu-Oh discovers an incredible ability to dance.
Inu-Oh and Tomona become business partners and through the songs, Inu-Oh mesmerizes his audiences on stage, and gradually begins to transform into someone of unequaled beauty. But why is Tomona blind? Why was Inu-Oh born with unique characteristics?
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