text: Including Kimetsu no Yaiba: Mugen Train, No Japan Anime Films Received Oscar Nominations
  Homekimetsu no yaibaIncluding Kimetsu no Yaiba: Mugen Train, No Japan Anime Films Received Oscar Nominations
  Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced 93 nominations for the Academy Awards (Oscar) with great fanfare. The event was hosted by Actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas and actor Nick Jonas, their live broadcast revealed that there is no animated film (anime) from Japan that has received an Oscar nomination including Kimetsu no Yaiba: Mugen Train and several famous series that are currently worldwide.
  It was announced that the Best Animated Film Award went to Onward, Over the Moon, A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, Soul, and Wolfwalkers.
  In addition, it was also informed that animated films from Japan such as films produced by Ufotable, Kimetsu no Yaiba: Mugen Train, Studio Ghibli's first CGI animated film, Aya to Majo (Earwig and the Witch), the original studio anime film Colorful, Nakitai Watashi wa Neko wo Kaburu (A Whisker Away), as well as the films Lupine III: The First, Kimi to, Nami ni Noretara (Ride Your Wave) and Ongaku (On-Gaku: Our Sound), have yet to qualify for this year's Oscar nominations.
  The 93rd annual Academy Awards will be held on April 25, delayed by two months due to the COVID-19 disease outbreak. It's worth noting that the film Kimetsu no Yaiba: Mugen Train needs to be released in the United States in order to be considered for nomination this year.
  As of 2020, 32 animated films are listed for nomination including films from Studio 4 ° C's Children of the Sea; Kitaro Kousaka, DLE, film from the studio Madhouse Okko's Inn; Hiroyuki Imaishi, and Studio CoMix Wave Films' film Weathering With You, but none of them were nominated. [post_ads_2]