Explore Our Coverage Of The 27 Animated Features Competing For The Oscar
Earlier this week, The Wrap published a list of the 27 animated features that have so far qualified for this year’s Oscars.
We’ve verified the list, which is remarkably long for a year of badly disrupted film releases. While 27 isn’t quite a record last year saw 32 features qualify we should note that the list isn’t necessarily final: these are the films that have been added to Academy members’ screening room to date, and more could theoretically follow. There isn’t much time for that, though, as preliminary voting ends on February 5.
Reimagining an Icon in Lupin III: The First
Lupin III is one of the first icons of manga and anime history. A new film that takes the character into 3D animation for the first time lives up to all the expectations that come with that legacy.
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Monkey Punch was tasked with making an “adult-oriented series” for publication in
Weekly Manga Action, a seinen-genre (intended for older boys and young men) magazine published by Futabasha. What Katō created was
Lupin III, (a.k.a.
Lupin the Third) an adventure-comedy featuring the titular gentleman thief descended from Maurice LeBlanc’s famous literary character Arsène Lupin. The manga features sex and violence, often unsavory and frequently at the same time, along with dark humor and a fair bit of slapstick absurdity.