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Studio Ghibli displays The Boy and the Heron Academy Award Oscar in Japan for a limited time

Oona McGee
Mar 21, 2024
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Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki share the accolade with a heartwarming gesture for fans.

Japan, USA
(Academy Awards • anime • Ghibli Park • Hayao Miyazaki • How Do You Live • movies • Oscars • Studio Ghibli • The Boy and the Heron • Toshio Suzuki)

Where’d those amazing Godzilla shoes seen at the Academy Awards come from, and can you buy them?

Casey Baseel
Mar 13, 2024

Small Japanese fashion brand gets a big boost in interest following Godzilla’s historic Oscar win.

Japan
(Academy Awards • cool • crazy • fashion • Godzilla • Godzilla Minus One • kaiju • movies • Oscars • shoes)

Ghibli’s Boy and the Heron wins Academy Award, studio COO apologizes for Hayao Miyazaki’s absence

Casey Baseel
Mar 11, 2024

No hard feelings as anime movie wins award for only the second time ever, but does this mean more anime Oscars are on the way?

Japan, USA
(Academy Awards • anime • Hayao Miyazaki • How Do You Live • movies • Oscars • Studio Ghibli • The Boy and the Heron • Toshio Suzuki)

Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron nominated for Academy Award

Casey Baseel
Jan 24, 2024

Oscar nod is the fourth for Miyazaki and sixth for Studio Ghibli, which last won the Best Animated Feature award more than two decades ago.

Japan, USA
(Academy Awards • anime • Hayao Miyazaki • How Do You Live • movies • Oscars • Studio Ghibli • The Boy and the Heron)

Ghibli’s The Boy and the Heron won a Golden Globe. Now can it win an Oscar?

Casey Baseel
Jan 9, 2024

There are as many factors working in the Hayao Miyazaki movie’s favor as there are working against it on the path to becoming the second-ever Academy Award-winning anime.

Japan, USA
(Academy Awards • anime • Golden Globes • Hayao Miyazaki • How Do You Live • movies • Oscars • SNO • Studio Ghibli • The Boy and the Heron • Toshio Suzuki)

Drive My Car becomes first Japanese film to receive Academy Award Best Picture nomination

Dale Roll
Feb 10, 2022

And it received three other nominations too!

Japan
(Academy Awards • Drive My Car • Haruki Murakami • movies • Oscars • Ryosuke Hamaguchi)

Parasite ramen challenge: Can you cook the movie’s noodle dish in just 8 minutes?【SoraKitchen】

Shannon
Feb 16, 2020

We had to see how realistic the movie was in terms of cooking, but did we pass the test?

Japan
(COK • cooking • movies • Noodles • Oscars • Parasite • ramen • recipe • SNJO • SoraKitchen)

Japanese fans ecstatic to see Takakao Matsu perform at Oscars with Idina Menzel and 9 other Elsas

Dale Roll
Feb 14, 2020

She even wore a beautiful kimono on the red carpet!

Japan, USA
(Academy Awards • Disney • Elsa • frozen • Frozen 2 • kimono • movies • Oscars • Takako Matsu • video)

Weathering with You is first anime submitted for Best International Film Oscar in over 20 years

Casey Baseel
Aug 27, 2019

Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name follow-up is only the second Japanese animated film ever to get the nod.

Japan
(Academy Awards • anime • Makoto Shinkai • movies • Oscars • Tenki no Ko • Weathering with You • your name.)

Anime director Mamoru Hosoda’s Mirai nominated for Academy Award, achieves historic first

Casey Baseel
Jan 24, 2019

The latest film from the creator of Summer Wars and Wolf Children may or may not take home the gold statue, but it’s already done something incredible.

Japan, USA
(Academy Awards • anime • Mamoru Hosoda • Mirai • Mirai no Mirai • movies • Oscars)

Your Name director Makoto Shinkai, other anime creators invited to join Oscar Academy

Casey Baseel
Jun 26, 2018

Three directors and arguably the greatest anime composer of all time asked to join organization.

Japan, USA
(Academy Awards • Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences • anime • Makoto Shinkai • Mamoru Hosoda • movies • Oscars • your name.)

Anime hit Your Name to get Academy Award-qualifying U.S. theatrical run this year

Casey Baseel
Oct 27, 2016

Move would make Makoto Shinkai’s hit eligible for consideration at February’s Oscar awards, but does it have a chance of winning?

Global, Japan, USA
(Academy Awards • anime • Hayao Miyazaki • Makoto Shinkai • movies • Oscars • your name.)

Studio Ghibli’s When Marnie Was There nominated for Academy Award

Casey Baseel
Jan 15, 2016

Studio Ghibli’s latest, and possible last, theatrical anime picks up nomination in Best Animated Feature category.

Japan, USA
(Academy Awards • anime • movies • Oscars • Studio Ghibli • When Marnie Was There)

Studio Ghibli’s The Tale of Princess Kaguya nominated for Academy Award

Casey Baseel
Jan 17, 2015

We’re just about a month away from the 87th Academy Awards presentation, and if you’re a general cinema fan, odds are you’ve been looking forward to the event. However, if the only thing that can make you take a trip to the theater is a screening of a Studio Ghibli anime, you might not have been expecting too much from the gala to be held at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theater.

Ghibli’s newest film, When Marnie Was There, hasn’t been getting the sort of rave reviews of a Spirited Away or Princess Mononoke. Six months after its Japanese release, Marnie is mostly forgotten in its home country and still unreleased in North America, making it ineligible for this year’s Oscar race.

Thanks to the time lag caused by international distribution, though, Ghibli does have one film eligible for the upcoming academy awards, and it just cleared the first hurdle with the Academy announcing The Tale of Princess Kaguya as a nominee in the Best Animated Feature Category.