Oh boy, more noise!  (You all are implanting some bad habits in me :-)

   Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 14:33:32 -0800 (PST)
   From: Jeremy Blackman <ranma@eskimo.com>

   On Tue, 26 Mar 1996, Ryoga Hibiki wrote:

   [ Oscar discussion. ]

   > 	YEAH!!  Why don't the really good movies ever get recognition?  I
   > would've loved to have seen 'Wings of Honneamise' or something get some
   > kinda award.  That bites!

   Wings should've been eligible.  Last year, as I recall, Hayao Miyazaki and
   Isao Takahata's film "Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko" (Present-Day Tanuki
   War Goes Pon-poko! or a translation that makes more sense, The Raccoon War
   Heats Up) was nominated for some award that's considered to be an
   international equivalent of the Oscars, so at least SOME film boards have
   good taste.  And Siskel and Ebert rated Wings of Honneamise as "As good or
   better than anything 'Uncle Walt' has to offer." so there may be hope for
   mainstreaming some QUALITY anime.  (Thinks John, at least, gets my
   meaning here.)

The problem here is that foreign films must get nominated by the home
country (and I believe it's just one entry per country).  Due to
typical infighting, not even Kurasawa (sp?, the Rashamon/Seven Samurai
(Magnificant Seven)/Yojimbo (A Fist Full of Dollars)/Throne of Blood
(Macbeth)/Hidden Fortress (Star Wars)/Kagamusha/Ran (King Lear)/etc.
etc. etc. creator) can get nominated; anime is right out.

					- Harold