Final fantazy: Advent Children wins award

Final Fantasy

(ファイナルファンタジー, Fainaru Fantajī?) is a media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi and owned by Square Enix that includes video games, motion pictures, and other merchandise. The series began in 1987 as an eponymous console role-playing game developed by Square, spawning a video game series that became the central focus of the franchise. The franchise has since branched out into other genres and platforms, such as tactical RPGs,portable games, MMORPGs, and games for

mobile phones

. As of March 2007, there are twenty-eight games in the franchise. The serieshas spurred the release of three animated productions, two full-length CGI films, and several literary adaptations.

Advent Children wins award

Advent Children wins award

Final Fantasy film nabs inaugural Best Anime Feature award at first-ever American Anime Awards at New York Comic Con.

Martin Scorsese's The Departed wasn't the only film this weekend being honored as the best among its peers. Square Enix has announced that the CG film Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment won the award for Best Anime Feature at the first American Anime awards, which took place at the New York Comic Con.
The movie, based on the popular 1997 PlayStation game Final Fantasy VII, was released in the US in April on DVD and UMD, the proprietary format for the PlayStation Portable. The film featured the voice talents of Rachael Leigh Cook, Mena Suvari, and Steve Burton and was directed by series veteran Tetsuya Nomura.