On left is Mamoru Hosoda along with the rest of the cast
The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood has announced the nominations for the 38th Annual Annie Awards, which will be presented at UCLA in Los Angeles on February 5, 2011. Mamoru Hosoda (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time) has been nominated in the Directing in a Feature Production category for his anime film, Summer Wars.
Hosoda is competing against Sylvain Chomet (Django Films's The Illusionist), Pierre Coffin (Illumination Entertainment's Despicable Me), Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois (Dreamworks Animation's How To Train Your Dragon), and Lee Unkrich (Disney/Pixar's Toy Story 3).
Source: ANN
Seeing the list of nominees, Mamoru Hosoda will have a tough war ahead of him!