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Miyazaki's 'Spirited Away' Wins Best Animated Picture

Posted by timothy on from the chick-flick-flips-bics dept.

DavidBrown writes "Moments ago, Hayao Miyazaki won the Best Animated Picture award for 'Spirited Away.' It's about time."

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  1. Lake-berating news? by the+uNF+cola · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cripes, it was only minutes ago. I hope we don't hear every little detail before its done. :)

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    1. Re:Lake-berating news? by ChadN · · Score: 2, Funny

      After Michael Moore made his acceptance speech, which was received with fairly loud jeers and boos, the next "speaker" on stage was Jack Valenti, which caused me to start booing as well. Sadly, the hollywood glitterati did not continue with me...

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  2. interesting fact maybe? by Miguel+de+Icaza · · Score: 4, Funny

    features Chihiro interacting with a monkey called mono. great cartoon :^)

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  3. Darn by Qinopio · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does this mean I'll have to start caring about the Oscars?

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  4. It's odd by Pres.+Ronald+Reagan · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why, when I see any white speaking Japanese, watching "anime," wallowing in pseudo-Japanese culture, or wishing he were Japanese, do I immedately think "lives in his parents' basement with a career at the local Blockbuster"?

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    1. Re:It's odd by Mononoke · · Score: 5, Funny
      Why, when I see any white speaking Japanese, watching "anime," wallowing in pseudo-Japanese culture, or wishing he were Japanese, do I immedately think "lives in his parents' basement with a career at the local Blockbuster"?
      Why, when I see any boy speaking l33t, watching Sci-Fi, wallowing in gamer culture, or wishing he were a hacker, do I immedately think "lives in his parents' basement with a career at the local CompUSA"?
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  5. There was competition? by lavalyn · · Score: 4, Funny

    Spirited Away was fighting against such notable animated features as "Treasure Planet."

    In the field of drawn animation, Japan is a whole other ballgame.

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  6. Re:spirited away by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's the only way to level the field for real people . .

  7. No, I don't owe Sonny Bono by yerricde · · Score: 2, Funny

    So you owe them.

    Really? With all the lobbying DisneyCo did to get the Bono Act passed?

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  8. Re:Great movie. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny
    Kirosawa: If I could answer that, I would have printed it on a card and held it up in front of the camera.

    Pretentious fucker. He was asking for an overall summary of a movie and pretends to be Confiscious.

  9. Haha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    All your oscars are belong to us! -Japan

  10. Re:Winners List by Space+Coyote · · Score: 5, Funny

    DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
    TWIN TOWERS

    Did anybody else read this and think "since when was that a documentary ... oh right, those towers"?

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  11. Re:Great movie - shame about the marketing by Cryptnotic · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your use of partner instead of a gender specific term makes you sound gay.

    Just assume it was intentional.

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  12. the moral by soundofthemoon · · Score: 2, Funny

    I found it quite simple to sum up the moral of this story: Any evil can be conquered with love, courage and good manners.

    The good manners are the most important part.