The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Board of Governors, which hands out the prestigious Oscar Awards, has recently announced in a press release that the legendary Oscar Award-winning Japanese anime director and Studio Ghibli Co-Founder, Hayao Miyazaki, will be given the Academy Honorary Award during this year’s Governor’s Awards.
Receiving the Academy Honorary Award is one of the highest honors in the film industry and it is given by the discretion of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to celebrate motion picture achievements that are not covered by existing Academy Awards. Miyazaki will be joining a select few big names in the movie industry such as Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplain, Groucho Marx, James Earl Jones, Steve Martin, and many others. He will be the second Japanese to win such a high honor in Hollywood, with the other being none other than legendary director Akira Kurosawa.
According to the Academy press release,
Miyazaki is an artist, writer, director, producer and three-time Oscar nominee in the Animated Feature Film category, winning in 2002 for “Spirited Away.” His other nominations were for “Howl’s Moving Castle” in 2005 and “The Wind Rises” last year. Miyazaki gained an enormous following in his native Japan for such features as “Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind,” “Laputa: Castle in the Sky,” “My Neighbor Totoro” and “Kiki’s Delivery Service” before breaking out internationally in the late 1990s with “Princess Mononoke.” He is the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, a renowned animation studio based in Tokyo.
Surely, Miyazaki is worthy of such a high honor with all those achievements that the Academy has listed. He was also nominated for the Golden Lion during the Venice Film Festival and won the Tokyo Anime Award three times.
Also winning the prestigious Honorary Award are Screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière and actress Maureen O’Hara.
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Source: Oscar Awards official press release
Hayao Miyazaki to be honored with an Honorary Award from the Academy Awards body
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