The official website for the 49th Annie Awards announced its nominees on December 21, including three Japanese animation films and one French film based on a Japanese manga in the Best Indie Feature category – Mamoru Hosoda’s BELLE, Ayumu Watanabe’s Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko, Takayuki Hirao’s Pompo: The Cinéphile, and Patrick Imbert’s The Summit of the Gods (based on Jiro Taniguchi’s manga of the same name).
BELLE is also nominated in four other categories – Best FX – Feature, Best Direction – Feature, Best Production Design – Feature, and Best Writing – Feature.
The winners will be announced at the 49th annual Annie Awards ceremony on February 26, 2022.