Chainsaw Man Author’s One-Shot Film Eligible for 2025 Oscars
Tatsuki Fujimoto might bag an Oscar, on top of his successful career as the author of Chainsaw Man.
A rare feat among animated films, especially anything from the prestigious Studio Ghibli, is to receive an Oscar nod.
On November 22, 2024, it was announced that Look Back, the film adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s one-shot, was eligible for an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature Category come 2025.
LOOK BACK is eligible to be nominated for Oscar Best Animated Feature Category. pic.twitter.com/6lD7psu7kW
— Anime News And Facts (@AniNewsAndFacts) November 22, 2024
If considered to be a nominee, this would make the film the only adaptation of a one-shot manga to have come close to winning an Academy Award of any kind.
Among the 31 titles eligible for the Animated Feature category, the following are anime, including:
- Naoko Yamada and Science SARU’s “The Colors Within”
Yōko Kuno, Nobuhiro Yamashita, Shinei Animation, and France’s Miyu Productions’ “Ghost Cat Anzu” - Yoshioyuki Momose and Studio Ponoc’s The Imaginary (based on A.F. Harrold and Emily Gravett’s novel)
- Kiyotaka Oshiyama and Studio Durian’s “Look Back” (based on Tatsuki Fujimoto’s one-shot manga)
- Kenji Kamiyama and Sola Entertainment’s “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim”
In the history of the Academy, only two anime have won the Best Animated Feature Award, “Spirited Away” and “The Boy and the Heron”, both of which were works from Studio Ghibli and by Hayao Miyazaki.
“The Boy and the Heron” was this year’s winner. Could anime once again maintain that spot?
Source: Twitter and Anime News Network
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