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Summer Wars' Mamoru Hosoda Nominated for Annie Award
posted on by Gia Manry
Directing in a Feature Production award nomination from Int'l Animated Film Society
The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood has announced the nominations for the 38th Annual Annie Awards, which will be presented at UCLA in Los Angeles on February 5, 2011. Summer Wars.
Hosoda is competing against Sylvain Chomet (Django Films's The Illusionist), DreamWorks Animation's How To Train Your Dragon), and Lee Unkrich (Disney/Pixar's Toy Story 3).
The distributors won the Japan Academy's Animation of the Year award.
The anime plans to release the film on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on February 15, 2011.
Thanks to Daniel Zelter for the news tip.
Update: More background information added.
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