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Godzilla Minus One, The Boy and the Heron, Scott Pilgrim Nominated for Critics Choice Awards

The Critics Choice Awards revealed its nominees on Wednesday, and Godzilla Minus One is nominated for Best Foreign Language Film. The winners will be announced on January 14.

Update: Scott Pilgrim Takes Off is also nominated for Best Animated Series.

Relatedly, The Chicago Film Critics Association awarded The Boy and the Heron with its Best Animated Feature award on Tuesday. Godzilla Minus One won the Best Use of Visual Effects award.

The Boy and the Heron has been Joe Hisaishi nominated for his score in the Best Original Score - Motion Picture category of the 81st Golden Globe Awards.

The film has been nominated for Best International Filmmaker for Hayao Miyazaki at the Astra Film & Creative Arts Awards. The film additionally won the Best Animation award for the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards on Sunday. The film also won the Animated Feature award from the Boston Society of Film Critics on Sunday.

topped the U.S. box office in its first weekend, and is the "first original anime production" to top the U.S. box office.

Godzilla Minus One, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc in March.

The film has become the highest-earning live-action Japanese film in North America.

Sources: Variety (Clayton Davis), Awards Watch (Erik Anderson)