The Academy Awards is celebrating some great animated highlights of the year, but with at least one conspicuous absence.

Oscar nominations revealed a risk-averse animated feature lineup, an unpredictable shorts race, and animation again ignored outside its own categories.

Is it going to be a golden year for anime at the Oscars? In its 98-year history, the Academy Awards has recognized only a handful of anime titles - and never with more than one nomination per film.

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Following last weekend’s Governors Awards, we now have another sign that Oscar season is moving into high gear with the release of official qualified entries named today by the Academy of Motion ...