Miyazaki's "Spirited Away" won an Oscar in 2003, after being awarded the Golden Bear, the top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, the previous year.
LOS ANGELES, March 10 (Reuters) - Hayao Miyazaki won his second Oscar on Sunday for his semi-autobiographical Japanese animated feature film "The Boy and the Heron," a fantasy tale about a boy grieving his dead mother.
'The Boy and the Heron' Wins Best Animated Feature | 96th Oscars (2024)
Which Japanese anime won an Oscar?
More than two decades after winning his first Oscar, Japan's revered animator Hayao Miyazaki has done it again. The Boy and the Heron beat Disney's Elemental and Spider-Man Across the Spider-verse to win the Best Animated Feature Film prize.
Studio Ghibli has overall received seven Oscar nominations, with two wins. GKIDS earned its first Oscar with The Boy and the Heron after 13 nominations in the Best Animated Feature category.
Miyazaki has announced his retirement at least three times to date, only to backtrack once his mind and body had recovered from the exertions of conceptualising and hand-drawing most of the frames in a feature-length film himself.
What Japanese film was nominated for an Oscar in 2024?
In a triumph for Japanese cinema, the Oscars 2024 saw a remarkable showcase of talent, with Studio Ghibli's The Boy and The Heron and TOHO's Godzilla: Minus One clinching the awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Visual Effects respectively, while other Japanese productions featured heavily across the 96th Academy ...
The anime series are shown through a number of episodes. A film, on the otherhand, is one long motion picture. Therefore, even if an anime series were American, it would not be eligible for the Oscar Awards because it does not qualify as a film.
Two Japanese movies have won big accolades at this year's Academy Awards in Los Angeles. They include "Godzilla Minus One," the first Japanese or Asian-made film to win the Oscar for best Visual Effects.
Propaganda proved particularly lucrative during World War II and the film studios grew larger with the additional funding. The first full-length anime film was Momotaro: Umi no Shinpei (Momotaro, Sacred Sailors), released in 1945.
But in a new statement, the CCO of Studio Ghibli says Miyazaki felt too old to attend. Kiyofumi Nakajima was in Los Angeles this week to accept the Oscar on his colleague's behalf. After The Boy and the Heron won its big award, the CCO spoke to press, and it was there the executive apologized for Miyazaki's absence.
Their efforts were rewarded with 14 Oscar nominations and 11 wins including Best Picture, and the film has remained a home video favorite in addition to spawning a major theatrical rerelease.
A co-recipient of the Golden Bear with Bloody Sunday at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival and the first hand-drawn, Japanese anime and non-English-language animated film to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 75th Academy Awards, Spirited Away is regarded as one of the greatest films of all ...
“Ghibli” to so many Japanese means nothing less than their childhood. Each Ghibli film is a story around the growth of a girl who is positive, honest, brave, caring, and energetic that many of us are once were. Personally, I can strongly relate to these three films.
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