AnimeNewsNetwork reports that Michael Arias and Studio 4°C’s Tekkonkinkreet has won Animation of the Year award at the 31st Japan Academy Prizes on Friday. This is the second year that an award in the Animation of the Year category has been presented. Mamoru Hosoda and Madhouse’s The Girl Who Leapt through Time won the first award the previous year. Tekkonkinkreet which also won the Grand Prix award at the Anima 2008 festival in Brussels, Belgium recently, was released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment in theaters and on home video in North America last year.