Trigger and XFlag’s Promare, DLE and Madhouse’s Okko’s Inn, and Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering With You anime films received nominations in the Best Animated Independent Feature category.
Mamoru Hosoda’s Mirai anime film won the Best Animated Independent Feature award this year.
The nominees in the main Best Animated Feature category are Frozen 2, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Klaus, Missing Link, and Toy Story 4.
ASIFA-Hollywood added the Best Animated Independent Feature award for the 2016 awards in order to “recognize not only features in wide release, but also the independent animators, international studios, anime and special productions that might not otherwise get the attention they deserve.”