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Ghibli's When Marnie Was There Anime Nominated for Oscar

Directors When Marnie Was There for the Animated Feature Film category of the 88th Academy Awards. It is competing against Anomalisa, Boy and the World, Inside Out, and Shaun the Sheep Movie.

eligible for the Original Song category, but it did not earn a nomination.

The awards ceremony will be held on February 28.

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.

won the award.