The film centers on Taki, a high school boy living in Tokyo who works part-time at a restaurant, and Mitsuha, a high school girl living in a town in rural Japan who wants to live in the city.
The San Francisco Film Critics Circle announced the winners for its 2017 awards on Sunday.
Pixar’s Coco won the Best Animated Feature award, but Makoto Shinkai’s your name. anime film was nominated for the award.
The film opened in Japan in August 2016, and has become the fourth highest-grossing film of all time in Japan, the second highest-grossing Japanese film, and the second highest-grossing anime film.