2016 Seiun Awards: Best Dramatic Presentation: GuP der Film

8oomer said:
I offered this up as a News item but was informed that it was a) too late (old news); (b) that MAL excludes the Seiun Awards as a News item. Nevertheless, I feel that not mentioning it somewhere would be a travesty.

To get an idea of the pedigree associated with this award past winners of the Best Dramatic Presentation category include:

1973 A Clockwork Orange
1974 Soylent Green
1975 Space Battleship Yamato
1979 Star Wars
1980 Alien
1981 Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
1983 Blade Runner
1985 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
1986 Back to the Future
1988 Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise
1989 My Neighbor Totaro
1990 Gunbuster
1993 Mama wa Shōgaku 4 Nensei
2000 Cowboy Bebop
2003 Hoshi no Koe (Voices of a Distant Star)
2005 Planates
2007 The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
2008 Dennou Coil
2009 Macross Frontier
2010 Summer Wars
2012 Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica
2013 Mouretsu Pirates
2015 Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial Ark

And now:

2016 Girls und Panzer der Film

Not too shabby for a moe action anime :)