It’s been a good long while since anything Star Wars related won at the Academy Awards, but that might change in 2022 as The Village Bride has been put forward for Oscar consideration by Disney, choosing it over the other eight excellent Star Wars Visions tales.
Star Wars: Visions, released on the streaming service of Disney+ earlier this year, was the first time that the story of Jedi and Sith had been translated into the medium of anime, with some of the biggest studios in the anime field taking the opportunity to weave stories of their own. Now, Disney has taken the opportunity to submit one of the series’ animated shorts for approval of an Academy Award, proving that the behemoth multimedia company definitely saw something in the first Star Wars anime series that gave fans nine new stories from the franchise created by George Lucas.
So which of the nine segments from the anthology series was chosen for consideration for the Oscars? The Village Bride is seemingly the segment that Disney decided to submit for consideration when it came to potentially receiving an Oscar for “Best Animated Short,” and has quite a number of shorts to compete against. This particular segment was created by Kinema Citrus, the studio that is perhaps most well known for the likes of Made in Abyss and The Rising of the Shield Hero. While there hasn’t been word as to why this particular short was chosen as opposed to the other eight segments released as a part of the anthology, it’s clear Disney preferred the Kinema Citrus production for Oscar consideration.
