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Poppy Hill, Mystical Laws Submitted for Oscar Nominations
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences The Mystical Laws are among the submitted films:
- Adventures in Zambezia
- Brave
- Delhi Safari
- Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
- Frankenweenie
- From Up On Poppy Hill
- Hey Krishna
- Hotel Transylvania
- Ice Age Continental Drift
- A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman
- Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
- The Mystical Laws
- The Painting
- ParaNorman
- The Pirates! Band of Misfits
- The Rabbi's Cat
- Rise of the Guardians
- Secret of the Wings
- Walter & Tandoori's Christmas
- Wreck-It Ralph
- Zarafa
The academy will announce its official slate of nominees on January 10. The academy allows up to five nominations in this category if 16 or more films are submitted and accepted; if only 13 to 15 films are accepted, the academy will allow only a maximum of four nominations; if only eight to 12 films are accepted, the academy will allow only a maximum of two to three nominations.
Some of the submitted films, including From Up On Poppy Hill, still need to aims to give From Up On Poppy Hill a qualifying run in the "November time frame." All of the films still need to be examined by the academy's Animated Feature Film Award Screening Committee to determine if they meet other qualifications.
No anime was nominated.
submitted for the same category for the 81st Academy Awards; both were eventually accepted in the category but were not nominated.
The first time that five animated features were nominated in the category was in 2002, when Miyazaki's won in the Best Animated Short Film category at the 81st Annual Academy Awards in 2009.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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