Anime composers and creators' involvement with Academy Award films

135 items • Updated 4/30/2026

Rows 1-61 are music composers and artists and rows 62-135 are creators of anime and works that inspired anime or manga adaptions of their works.

Finally for that is not on the list, companies that have their films nominated for Oscars and are good with anime that are: * TOHO (Seven Samurai, Samurai: The Legend of Musashi, The Magnificent Seven, Yojimbo, The Woman in the Dunes, Kwaidan, Dodes'ka-den, Sandakan 8, Kagemusha, Ran, The Bodyguard, Primary Colors, A Simple Plan, Wonder Boys, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Children of Men, Persepolis, The Wind Rises, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, When Marnie Was There, The Red Turtle, Kong: Skull Island, Isle of Dogs, Ready Player One, Mirai, Drive My Car, Godzilla Minus One, The Boy and the Heron, Marty Supreme, Kokuho and Little Amélie or the Character of Rain) * Sanrio (Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?, Lost in Translation and Ready Player One) * NHK (Gate of Hell, Chaplin, Howard's End, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, One Day in September, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Instruments of a Beating Heart, Black Box Diaries and Marty Supreme) * NHK Enterprise 21 (The Old Man and the Sea) * Dentsu Inc. (Black Rain, The Old Man and the Sea, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, My Love, Departures, The Wolfman, Bridesmaids, Snow White and the Huntsman, Les Misérables, Despicable Me 2, Possessions, The Wind Rises, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, When Marnie Was There, The Theory of Everything, Unbroken, Fifty Shades of Grey, The Danish Girl, Straight Outta Compton, Steve Jobs, "Hail, Caesar!", The Red Turtle, Silence, Get Out, Ready Player One, First Man, Mirai, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Sing 2, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Oppenheimer, The Wild Robot, Wicked and Jurassic World: Rebirth) * Bandai Visual/Bandai Namco Arts (Possessions) * Hakuhodo (The Twilight Samurai, The Wind Rises, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, When Marnie Was There, The Red Turtle, The Trial of the Chicago 7 and The Boy and the Heron) * Top Craft/Studio Ghibli (Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, The Wind Rises, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, When Marnie Was There, The Red Turtle and The Boy and the Heron) * Madhouse Studios (Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya and Mirai) * Toei Animation (War of the Worlds and Magic Candies) * Yamamura Animation (Mt. Head) * Tohokushinsha Film Company (Spirited Away, Lost in Translation, Howl's Moving Castle, Good Night, and Good Luck., Marie Antoinette, The Wind Rises, When Marnie Was There and The Boy and the Heron) * Victor Entertainment (Top Gun, Malcolm X, Affliction, The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Isle of Dogs) * King Records (Dark Eyes, Camille Claudel, Wreck-It Ralph and Possessions) * Toei Company (Tora! Tora! Tora!, Joe, Muddy River, Beverly Hills Cop, Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan and Wolfwalkers) * Shochiku (Immortal Love, Twin Sisters of Kyoto, Portrait of Chieko, Reversal of Fortune, The Twilight Samurai, The Last Samurai, Departures, Possessions, Silence and Perfect Days) * Robot Communications (La Maison en Petits Cubes and Godzilla Minus One) * Imagica (Tom Jones, My Fair Lady, Howards End, The Living Sea, Special Effects: Anything Can Happen, Alaska: Spirit of the Wild, More, The Old Man and the Sea, Spirited Away, Mt. Head, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Howl's Moving Castle, Babel, Departures, The Wind Rises, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, When Marnie Was There, Shoplifters, Drive My Car, The Boy and the Heron and Godzilla Minus One) * Mitsubishi (The Woman in Red, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, The Wind Rises, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, When Marnie Was There and The Red Turtle) * ADV Films/Sentai Filmworks (Possessions) * GKIDS (Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, The Secret of Kells, A Cat in Paris, Chico and Rita, Ernest & Celestine, The Wind Rises, Song of the Sea, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, When Marnie Was There, The Boy and the World, My Life as a Zucchini, Revolting Rhymes, The Breadwinner, Mirai, Wolfwalkers, The Boy and the Heron, Kokuho and Little Amélie or the Character of Rain) * Marvel Entertainment (Malcolm X, Men in Black, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Iron Man, Iron Man 2, The Avengers, Iron Man 3, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Guardians of the Galaxy, Big Hero 6, Doctor Strange, Logan, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War, Vice, RBG, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Avengers: Endgame, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Spider-Man: No Way Home, West Side Story, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse) * Sunrise (Possessions and Ready Player One) * Trigger (Possessions) * Studio Chizu (Mirai and The Boy and the Heron) * Shogakukan (Lost in Translation and Departures) * Tokuma Shoten (Ju Dou, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle and Mirai) * The Asahi Shimbun Company (Departures, Mirai, Drive My Car and Kokuho) * Kadokawa (Rashomon, Ugetsu, Gate of Hell, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Sunflower, Benji, Dersu Uzala, Apocalypse Now, Inside Moves, Ran, Cinema Paradiso, The Crying Game, Short Cuts, Traffic, Chernobyl Heart, Lost in Translation, Joyeux Noel, Nine, My Week with Marilyn, Amy, Sicario, Deepwater Horizon, Silence, All the Money in the World and Mirai) * Mainichi Broadcasting System (MBS) (Departures and Black Box Diaries) * Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) (Babel, Departures and Black Box Diaries) * Nippon Television Network (NTV) (The Burmese Harp, Spirited Away, The Twilight Samurai, Howl's Moving Castle, The Wind Rises, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, When Marnie Was There, The Red Turtle, Mirai, Perfect Days and The Boy and the Heron) * Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation (Lost in Translation and Mirai) * Fuji TV (Despicable Me 2, The Theory of Everything, Unbroken, Fifty Shades of Grey, The Danish Girl, Straight Outta Compton, Steve Jobs, "Hail, Caesar!", Get Out, Shoplifters, First Man, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World and Sing 2) * TV Tokyo (Goodfellas and Mt. Head) * Geneon Entertainment/NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan (One from the Heart, Brazil, Terminator 2, Cliffhanger, Mt. Head and Darwin's Nightmare) * Sega Sammy (Yojimbo, Terminator 2, Independence Day, Lost in Translation, Wreck-It Ralph, Ready Player One and Ralph Breaks the Internet) * Nintendo (Damage, Shrek, Talk to Her, Shrek 2, Shark Tale, Wreck-It Ralph and Boyhood) * Bandai Namco Entertainment (Lost in Translation, The Social Network, TRON: Legacy, The Avengers, Wreck-It Ralph, Possessions, Trolls, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Ready Player One, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and Emilia Pérez) * Sony Corporation (The Spy Who Loved Me, One from the Heart, The Cotton Club, Peggy Sue Got Married, Stand by Me, The Last Emperor, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, The Godfather: Part III, Misery, City Slickers, Dracula, Cliffhanger, Ernst & Lyset, Four Days in September, The Insider, Requiem for a Dream, War Photographer, Spider-Man, Collateral, Animal Kingdom, Skyfall, Nightcrawler, Spectre, Creed, Blade Runner 2049, Four Good Days, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Kokuho, F1 and KPop Demon Hunters)

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