I’ll be honest, I really didn’t know anime could win any awards, besides the rare occasion of a Studio Ghibli movie winning something. But it turns out there are a lot more anime that win awards, especially in Japan. So, I thought I would make a list of award-winning anime in case you’re curious to check out the anime that has received critical acclaim.
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- A Child’s Metaphysics
- A Japanese Boy Who Draws
- A Letter to Momo
- A Poet’s Life
- A Silent Voice
- A Whisker Away
- Airy Me
- Astra Lost in Space
- Asura
- Attack on Titan
- Barefoot Gen
- Battle Doll Angelic Layer
- Birds
- Birthday Boy
- Black Jack: The Movie
- Blood: The Last Vampire
- Blue Submarine No. 6
- Bodacious Space Pirates
- Briar-Rose or The Sleeping Beauty
- Candy.zip
- Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: The Sealed Card
- Cardcaptor Sakura The Movie
- Case Closed Movie 22: Zero the Enforcer
- Castle in the Sky
- Cat Soup
- Cemedine Bond to G17-gou
- Children of the Sea
- Chuumon no Ooi Ryouriten
- Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion
- Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2
- Colorful: The Motion Picture
- Combustible
- Complex x Complex
- Compound Eyes of Tropical
- Cowboy Bebop
- Crayon Shin-chan: Serious Battle! Robot Dad Strikes Back
- Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called: The Battle of the Warring States
- Crazy Little Thing
- Datum Point
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
- Den-noh Coil
- Dojoji Temple
- Donguri no Ie
- Doraemon the Movie: Nobita’s Great Adventure in the South Seas
- Doraemon: A Grandmother’s Recollections
- Dozens of Norths
- Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan
- Dream
- Eden of The East
- Elemi
- Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone
- Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo
- Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
- Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko
- Franz Kafka’s A Country Doctor
- From Up on Poppy Hill
- Fullmetal Alchemist
- Fullmetal Alchemist: The Movie – Conqueror of Shamballa
- Fumiko’s Confession
- Fushigi na Kusuri
- Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
- Gauche the Cellist
- Ghost in the Shell
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex – Solid State Society
- Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie
- Ginga no Uo Ursa Minor Blue
- Giovanni’s Island
- Girls und Panzer der Film
- Godzilla Singular Point
- Gold Fish
- Grrl Power!
- Gunbuster
- Gunbuster 2
- Gurren Lagann
- Home Alone
- Home My Home
- Hontou no Watashi ga Mieru?
- Howl’s Moving Castle
- In a Pig’s Eye
- In This Corner of the World
- Infinite Ryvius
- Into the Forest of Fireflies’ Light
- Inu-Oh
- Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
- Jujutsu Kaisen
- Jungle wa Itsumo Hare nochi Guu Final
- Junkers Come Here
- Kaiba
- Kamichu!
- Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
- Kemono Friends
- Key the Metal Idol
- Kiki’s Delivery Service
- K-ON! Season 2
- K-ON! The Movie
- Kudan
- Kujira no Chouyaku
- La Maison en Petits Cubes
- Legend of Basara
- Legend of the Forest
- Legend of the Millennium Dragon
- Liz and the Blue Bird
- Look at Me Only
- Looking for Magical Doremi
- Love Live! School Idol Project 2
- Love Live! The School Idol Movie
- Lu Over the Wall
- Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro
- Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine
- Maboroshi
- Macross Frontier
- Macross Frontier: The Wings of Farewell
- Magical☆Shopping Arcade Abenobashi
- Mai-Mai Miracle
- Mama is Just a Fourth Grade Pupil
- Martian Successor Nadesico: The Prince of Darkness
- Memories
- Millennium Actress
- Mind Game
- Miss Hokusai
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
- Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
- Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: A New Translation – Heir to the Stars
- Modest Heroes
- Monsoon Blue
- Mr. Stain on Junk Alley
- Mt. Head
- Muybridge’s Strings
- My Neighbor Totoro
- My Neighbors the Yamadas
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Night Bus
- Night on the Galactic Railroad
- Ni-hiki no Sanma
- Nostalgia
- Oboete Ite
- Odd Taxi
- Okko’s Inn
- Okon Joururi
- On Happiness Road
- On the Road
- On The White Planet
- One Piece Film: Red
- On-Gaku: Our Sound
- Oni
- Oshi No Ko
- Paprika
- Patema Inverted
- Patlabor 2: The Movie
- Pictures at an Exhibition
- Pigsy
- Ping Pong the Animation
- Planetes
- Pokémon: The First Movie – Mewtwo Strikes Back
- Polar Bear Bears Boredom
- Pom Poko
- Ponyo
- Porco Rosso
- Port of Return
- Praise be to Small Ills
- Prince Mackaroo
- Princess Mononoke
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Rebellion
- Pukkulapottas and Hours in the Forest
- RahXephon
- Revolutionary Girl Utena
- Roujin Z
- Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise
- Serial Experiments Lain
- Shirobako
- Sonny Boy
- Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial Ark
- Spirited Away
- Spy x Family
- SSSS.Gridman
- Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar
- Stars on the Sea
- Summer Days with Coo
- Summer Wars
- Takano Intersection
- Tales of the Street Corner
- Tamako Love Story
- Tarepanda
- Tekkon Kinkreet
- The Angler
- The Book of the Dead
- The Boy and the Heron
- The Case of Hana & Alice
- The Cat Returns
- The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya
- The Eccentric Family
- The Egret River
- The First Slam Dunk
- The Flower and the Mole
- The Garden of Words
- The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
- The Great Passage
- The Great Rabbit
- The House of the Lost on the Cape
- The Life of Budori Gusuko
- The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon
- The Magical Tracing
- The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
- The Moon That Fell into the Sea
- The Old Crocodile
- The Place Promised in Our Early Days
- The Secret World of Arrietty
- The Sky Crawlers
- The Spirits of Cairn
- The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
- The Tatami Galaxy
- The Water Seed
- The Whale Hunt
- The Wind Rises
- The Wings of Rean
- Time Machine
- Tokyo Godfathers
- Tokyo Magnitude 8.0
- Tough Guy!
- Towards the Rainbow
- Tree in the Sun
- Turn A Gundam
- Typhoon Noruda
- Ukkari Pénélope
- Violet Evergarden: The Movie
- Voices of a Distant Star
- Wander in the Dark
- Weathering with You
- White Fang
- Winter Days
- Wolf Children
- Yasashii Lion
- Yo-kai Watch the Movie: It’s the Secret of Birth, Meow!
- Your Name
- Yukikaze
- Yuri!!! on Ice
- YuruYuri: Happy Go Lily
- Zombieland Saga
If you want more themed anime then check out some of my other themed anime lists.
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