It has been announced that the first episode of the Japan Sinks 2020 anime, as well as director Masaaki Yuasa, have been nominated for the Annecy International Animation Film Festival award in the TV Division.
Japan Sinks 2020 was an updated adaptation of Sakyo Komatsu’s 1973 bestselling sci-fi novel Japan Sinks. The 10-episode anime series was set right after the in-universe 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics where disaster strikes Japan. The series launched on Netflix worldwide on July 9, 2020 and was compiled into a compilation film that was released in Japan on November 13, 2020.
Source: Crunchyroll