The Wind Rises nominated for Best Animated Feature Oscar
Ian Wolf •
Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises has been nominated for this year’s Academy Award for “Best Animated Feature”.
The Wind Rises will face Disney film Frozen, DreamWorks feature The Croods, sequel Despicable Me 2 and French-Belgian film Ernest & Celestine.
Anime fans will be hoping that Miyazaki will be able to succeed with his nomination, replicating the success of Spirited Away, currently the only film to win the “Best Animated Feature” Oscar in a foreign language.
The Wind Rises is a historical fantasy film loosely based on the real life of Jiro Horikoshi (originally voiced by Hideaki Anno, director and writer of Neon Genesis Evangelion), an aeroplane designer who created the Mitsubishi A5M and its more famous successor the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, which were both aircraft that were used by Japan in the Second World War.
The 2014 Academy Awards will be presented on 2nd March.
