As reported by the Anime News Network website, the animation nominees of the 35th edition of the Japanese Academy Awards they have been leaked because of, or thanks to, a test website from the same academy, before they were officially announced. But in any case they have been made public and we will see what they are.
The category of Best Animated Film was created, strangely enough for Japan, only five years ago, and so far they have won it. The girl who leapt through time, Tekkon Kinkreet, Ponyo on the cliff, Summer Wars y Arriety and the world of the tiny. For 2012 one of the nominees is Buddha, the first part of a trilogy that will turn Osamu Tezuka's masterpiece of the same name into animated feature films. There is also the movie of K-On!, very recent animated adaptation of a manga work that already had a television series and OVA.
Kokuriko-zaka kara, the latest from Studio Ghibli, directed by Gorô Miyazaki, wants to become the third film from the production company to win the award, but it will have to compete with the two mentioned above and also with two more: Tofu Kozo, which is the only one on the list made with CGI animation, that is to say 3D by computer, and Detective Conan: Quarter of Silence, international title of the 15th film of the adventures of Conan Edogawa / Shin'ichi Kudô, an old man also in our country who does not seem to tire of starring in dozens of manga volumes, hundreds of anime episodes and, as we see, also movies of success.