Puella Magi Madoka Magica has won an Academy Award (or a Japan Academy Prize at any rate), and may yet be declared the most worthy anime movie of 2013.
2013’s 5 “Excellent Animation of the Year” awards go to Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Rebellion, Captain Harlock and Lupin III vs Conan.
Unsurprisingly two awards also went to Ghibli works, with Kaguya-hime no Monogatari and The Wind Has Risen both getting awards.
Just which of the five will win the “Animation of the Year” overall prize will only be announced in March, although with no less than two Ghibli titles in contention puella magi Madocchi et Homura’s chances of success look slim.
Madoka Movie is truly a great one and deserves the award. The plot is also very unpredictable, and very shocking and unexpected twist for the ending. They really retains the mystery and surprise element of the series. Well done Madoka!!
this title almost gave me a heart attack, thinking how the American Academy Awards could go so low (at it’s already low point to begin with). Title misleading as f♥♥k.
wow whatta boobies
Madoka now playing mahjong as Nodoka
We already saw that she could instantly grow out her hair, so increasing the size of other parts of her body aren’t out of the question. She is God, after all.
NO! I will NOT accept this. This fucking piece of epic s♥♥t does NOT deserve ANY kind of recognition what-so-ever! IT NEEDS TO FUCKING DIE ALREADY!
yet it still got snubbed at the oscars. seriously, losing to the croods? despicable me 2?
99.9% of Americans don’t care about anime.
99.9% of Americans think you are stupid.
Sturgeon law: “90% of everthing is crap.”
To qualify for the U.S. Oscars, a movie must play in Los Angeles. The Wind Rises qualifies for the Oscars because it was played in a single theater in Los Angeles for one week last November. It doesn’t matter if it’s released in Japan or even Cannes, it does not qualify unless it’s been released in Los Angeles. It doesn’t even matter what year a movie is made or released in, it only matters when it was first played in Los Angeles, and some movies advance or delay being shown in Los Angeles is order to change which year’s Oscars they compete in (Hurt Locker did this). Those are the rules.
Madoka did have an international airing that I assume happened in la since it happened in vancouver canada >>. Eg. it should qualify but Im not really suprised it didnt.
As much as I’d have liked it to, I wasn’t expecting Madoka to be nominated considering the Oscars are run by a bunch of xenophobic old bastards who probably run on the mentality of “we gave one to Ghibli, now leave us alone!” At least these nominees are halfway decent (though I didn’t find Despicable Me 2 to be as good as its predecessor). Had it lost to the likes of Smurfs 2, then that would’ve been rage-worthy.
Frozen will get the award if it in the category. No chance anything else will
Or maybe because the Academy members aren’t NEET otaku who worship anime characters and celebrate their “birthdays” with cakes decorated like them.
but the Croods really suck to me.I could eventually blame those crood-codile,meat-hungry producers and yep,Oscars too for being biased.