Ghibli's When Marnie Was There anime Nominated for Oscar 

Ghibli\'s When Marnie Was There Anime Nominated for Oscar

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Directors Guillermo del Toro and Ang Lee announced on Thursday that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has nominated

for the Animated Feature Film category of the 88th Academy Awards. It is competing against

were also eligible for the Animated Feature Film category, but neither received a nomination.

\'s theme song "Fine on the Outside" was eligible for the Original Song category, but it did not earn a nomination.

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...

\'s classic English children\'s novel of the same name. In his second film, director

) has shifted the setting from the novel\'s Great Britain to a Japanese village on the shores of Hokkaido. Yonebayashi wrote the screenplay with

). Ando also handled the character designs and animation direction.

The film premiered in Japan in July 2014, and it then premiered in North America at The New York International Children\'s Film Festival (NYICFF) in February. The film shipped on home video in North America on October 6. The Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) nominated the film for the Best Animated Feature Film category, alongside

were submitted for the nominations last year, but only

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