Academy Awards

[Aaron Gerow]

Those watching the show already know, but Kato Kunio won the Academy  
Award for best animated short.

I believe this is the first time a Japanese film has won in this  
category.

On Jan 22, 2009, at 10:13 PM, Aaron Gerow wrote:

> I should note that it was also announced that Kato Kunio's "Tsumiki  
> no Ie’’ (The House of Small Cubes) was nominated in the animated  
> short film category. Here's his website:
>
> http://kiteretsu.robot.co.jp/kunio/
>
> He apparently works at Robot.
>
> This is the first Japanese nomination in this category since  
> Yamamura Koji's Atamayama in 2003.
>
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