27 movies have been submitted for considering. They include the following animes.
Miss Hokusai Your Name
plus the Ghibli co-production "The Red Turtle".
Along with the obligatory LA release, Funimation will distribute "Your Name" nationwide next year. I hope to catch it then, along with "The Red Turtle". I've already seen "Miss Hokusai" and I do think it's worth nominating.
For the heck of it, I listed all animated features that got first time US theatrical releases other than this submission list. Those include the animes:
GKIDS MOVIES
Only Yesterday
FUNIMATION MOVIES
Psycho-Pass: the Movie Project Itoh: The Empire of Corpses Project Itoh: Harmony
(Note that "The Boy and the Beast" was actually submitted for the 2015 Oscar, while getting a nationwide distribution in 2016.)
ANIPLEX MOVIES
Kizumonogatari Part 1: Tekketsu Kizumonogatari Part 2: Nekketsu Dou-Kyu-Sei
ELEVEN ARTS MOVIES
Digimon Adventures Tri: Part 1, Reunion Girls Und Panzer: der Film
OTHER
Yo-Kai Watch: the Movie
"Only Yesterday" of course is a decades old movie that's been shown in subbed form on US TV (TCM) but got an English dub theatrically released just this year. "Yo-Kai Watch" is in a similar boat in that it originally came out in Japan in 2014, more than a year ago. I think the time cutoff is 70 minutes, and so all three Aniplex movies are too short. But I wonder if the three Funimation movies and the two Eleven Arts movies could've qualified if they had given the movies the week long LA run.
Gavin Kelly
Since Pixar isn't in the race it's going to be the Disney movie. Like all the other years.
Gavin Fisher
>STFU fuccin' dweeb weebs, Stop writing like a retard.
Colton Gonzalez
I just realized how backward I am with murrican blockbuster animated movies, last Disney, Pixar and Dreamworks ones I watched were Frozen, Brave and Turbo. Did I miss any good?
Eli Phillips
>animes
Luke Powell
Zootopia was okay, other than that you really didn't miss on anything of note.
Colton Robinson
Lol.
Thomas Rivera
>Only Yesterday Tbh should be nominated, and should win. But it won't.
Josiah Hall
Kyoanus will never recover.
Jack Roberts
Honestly who cares what they think, the oscars has given best picture to the wrong film about as often as they get it right. They can barely judge live action films in their native language let alone animu.
Samuel Jenkins
It not even on the submission list. Probably has something to do with it being 24 years old.
Samuel Roberts
Obvious winners will be Moana or Finding Dory. Screencap this.