Anime Films And Series Nominated For 2025 Collision Awards
What are the Collision Awards? According to their official description, they are “the first global and holistic platform solely dedicated to honoring excellence in Animation and Motion Design in all its forms.” Animated movies and TV shows are nominated by a jury of industry experts, and the public chooses their favorites from the list.
This year ten anime shows and movies were picked for the Collision Awards, several competing against each other for the same category. Crunchyroll sent us this list of ’em:
- Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK for Best in Style – Film
- BLUE LOCK THE MOVIE -EPISODE NAGI- for Best Film
- HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle for Best Film
- HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle for Best in Style – Film
- SPY x FAMILY CODE: White for Best Film
- Dr. STONE NEW WORLD – Season 3 for Best Series – Mature Audience
- Kaiju No. 8 – Season 1 for Best Series – Action & Adventure
- Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- for Best Series – Fantasy & Sci-Fi
- Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- for Best in Style – Television
- The Apothecary Diaries – Season 1 for Best Series – Drama
Whelp. I’d say Dan Da Dan got robbed, wouldn’t you? You can’t choose that one, but you can choose any of the others by following this link. Note that the ten above are far from the only nominees…many of them are indie projects or foreign entries from around the world. If you’re unfamiliar with some of them, check them out online (if they’re available) before you make your decision.
Collision Award Finalists are selected by the Collision Awards Jury, an international panel of experts across animation and motion design. Members include Sarah Cox (Executive Creative Director/Aardman), Marge Dean (Head of Skybound Animation Studio and President/Women in Animation), Ronnie del Carmen (Co-director & writer of Pixar’s Inside Out), Maureen Fan (Chief Executive Officer/Baobab Studios), Jinko Gotoh (Producer Finding Nemo), Jay Grandin (Co-Founder and Executive Creative Director/Giant Ant), Julie Lockhart (Co-Founder and President of Production/Locksmith Animation), Andrew Millstein (Co-Head/Annapurna Animation), Mike Moloney (Founder and Executive Creative Director/Art&Graft) Gilles Monteil (Animation Expert/Ubisoft) and Ramsey Naito (President/Paramount Animation and President/Nickelodeon Animation) amongst others.
Voting will be open until July 11, at which point the results will be tallied for an awards ceremony on July 22.
