Oscar winning Anime

[aeris2001x2]

Well can Ghost in the shell 2 innocence, repeat Spirited away from 2003 and win an oscar for best Animated feature?

i know the nomination have not been released yet, but i can not see the nominations being anything other then GITS 2 (Espically as it competed in Cannes), Shrek 2 and The Incrediables. fanboy naivety on my part perhaps?

Shrek 2 will not beat The Incrediables imho. But Incrediables was nowhere near a 100% winner like finding Nemo was, and surely its time the academy chose an intellegent adult anime, espically after how popular the first film was?

The full possible nomination list is...

"Clifford’s Really Big Movie". ..yeah... whatever...
"Disney’s Teacher’s Pet" no chance
"Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence"
"Home on the Range" awful
"The Incredibles" the favourate
"The Legend of Buddha" what is this?
"The Polar Express" the spirit of xmas? soapy chesse
"Shrek 2" disapointing
"Shark Tale" terribly panned
"Sky Blue" again, i dont know this
"The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie" cult popularity... wildcard

what do u ppl think?

[Levian]

The day an anime wins an oscar, is the day I'll never take any oscar serious ever again.

[Dingo Jellybean]

The day an anime wins an oscar, is the day I'll never take any oscar serious ever again.

[Agent Proto]

The day an anime wins an oscar, is the day I'll never take any oscar serious ever again.

Too late for that. Spirited Away won an Oscar.

[aeris2001x2]

so that means u already dont right? as Spirited Away won in 2003. Not the best Anime, but still worthy.

its a travisty that at least Akira, Ghost in the Shell and Princess Mononoke never won oscars( there was no animation oscar back then right? hell they didnt need to, they should have won best picture).

[Levian]

Too late for that. Spirited Away won an Oscar.

Ok, then I guess that day was in 2003.

[Miriel]

The Incredibles has it in the bag. Seriously.

[Dingo Jellybean]

Ok, then I guess that day was in 2003.

[aeris2001x2]

Akira should have won in 1988 (61st academy awards) instead of RAIN MAN. Ghost in the Shell should have won in 1995 (68th academy awards) over BRAVEHEART", (yes, even a film as good as that) while princess mononoke should have won in 1997 (70th academy awards) over that TITANIC crap.

[RSL]

Eh, I don't like anime but Spirited Away was pretty good and I wasn't disappointed to see it win. As a rule though, anime should stay far, far away from the Oscars.

[DMKA]

The day an anime wins an oscar, is the day I'll never take any oscar serious ever again.

That's like me saying I won't take them seriously because Fantasy films have won oscars. I really don't understand. Why would it be just fine and dandy for an American animated movie to win one then? And as was already stated, it's already happened.

Although, I never really cared who won what anyway...doesn't affect what I'll watch or my personal opinion of it, like it does with you people, apparently.

[aeris2001x2]

this is fun...

1984 Academy awards

Picture:
"MACROSS- DO YOU REMEMBER LOVE", "The Killing Fields", "Amadeus", "Places in the Heart", "A Soldier's Story"

1987
Picture:
"THE WINGS OF THE HONNEAMISE ", "Fatal Attraction", "Hope and Glory", "The Last Emperor"

1988
Picture:
"AKIRA", "The Accidental Tourist", "Grave of the Fireflies", "Mississippi Burning", "Rain Man"

1989
Picture:
"PATLABOR", "Born on the Fourth of July", "Dead Poets Society", "Field of Dreams", "Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend"

1993
Picture:
"PATLABOR 2", "The Fugitive", "Schindler's List", "Winds of Amnesia", "The Remains of the Day"

1994
Picture:
"THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION", "Ninja Scroll", Pulp Fiction", "Quiz Show", "Forest Gump"
Actor:


1995
Picture:
"GHOST IN THE SHELL", "Apollo 13", "Braveheart", "Il Postino", "Sense and Sensibility"

1996
Picture:
"BLACK JACK", "Fargo", "The English Patient", "Secrets and Lies", "Shine"


1997
Picture:
"END OF EVANGELION", "L.A. Confidential", "Titanic", "Princess Mononoke", "Perfect Blue"

1999
Picture:
"X", "The Cider House Rules", "American Beauty", "The Insider", "The Sixth Sense"

2000
Picture:
"BATTLE ROYALE," "Gladiator," "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Erin Brockovich," "Traffic"

2001
Picture:
"THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING "A Beautiful Mind " "Metropolis," "Cowboy Bebop: Knockin on Heavens Door," "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within"

2002
Picture:
"THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS," "Gangs of New York," "The Hours," "Spirited Away" "The Pianist"

2003
Picture:
"THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING," "Lost In Translation," "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World," "Mystic River," "Kill Bill Vol 1"

[edczxcvbnm]

Is GitS2 going to win? No. Does it deserve to win? Probably not. I have not seen it but if it is like the first one then no it does not deserve to win(I like the first one but its not that good).

[Agent Proto]

What's with you and anime? Seriously, the chances of an anime winning Best Picture in the Oscars is 1 in a million. I don't recall any of the anime you listed being in American Theaters.

Anyway, I enjoy anime myself, but I don't treat them any higher then other movies. Anyway, to answer your original first question about Ghost in the shell 2. No, it's unlikely it'll even get nominated. I never watched it, nor know that was out in the movie theaters.

To be even considered an Oscar nomination, a movie or animation should be viewed in theaters nation-wide, as far as I'm concerned. Why Spirited Away did so well, it was brought over to America from the folks of Bueno Vista, translated by American (voice) actors, and made an impact.

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

I'm all for anime being a contender, but it doesn't matter to me, really. Anime has its ups and downs, just like any other medium, and so long as it isn't discarded just BECAUSE it is anime, it is all fine with me.