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When Marnie Was There, The Boy and The Beast Nominated for Annie Awards
posted on by Karen Ressler
The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, announced the nominees for its 43rd annual Annie Awards on Tuesday. The Boy and The Beast received nominations in a new category: Best Animated Feature-Independent.
ASIFA-Hollywood added the category in order to "recognize not only features in wide release, but also the independent animators, international studios, anime and special productions that might not otherwise get the attention they deserve." The other nominees include Filme de Papel's Boy and the World and Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet.
In addition When Marnie Was There's Hiromasa Yonebayashi was nominated for Outstanding Achievement awards in the writer and director categories.
Studio Ghibli and did not win.
The Annie Awards recognize outstanding achievement in animation. The awards ceremony will be held on February 6, 2016.
describes the film's story:
Sent from her foster home in the city one summer to a sleepy town by the sea in Hokkaido, Anna dreams her days away among the marshes. She believes she's outside the invisible magic circle to which most people belong – and shuts herself off from everyone around her, wearing her “ordinary face.” Anna never expected to meet a friend like Marnie, who does not judge Anna for being just what she is. But no sooner has Anna learned the loveliness of friendship than she begins to wonder about her newfound friend...
When Marnie Was There adapts Takatsugu Muramatsu composed the film's soundtrack.
The film premiered in Japan in July 2014, and it then Miss Hokusai.
The story of The Boy and The Beast is set in the human realm (Tokyo's Shibuya ward) and the bakemono realm ("Jūtengai"). In these two worlds that must not intersect, there lives a lonely boy and a lonely bakemono. One day, the boy gets lost in the bakemono world, becomes the disciple of the bakemono Kumatetsu, and is renamed Kyūta.
The film Wolf Children.
Hosoda (Masakatsu Takagi (Wolf Children) is scoring the soundtrack.
hosted the U.S. premiere.
Both When Marnie Was There and The Boy and The Beast and have been submitted for the Best Animated Feature Oscar.
[Via Animation Scoop]
