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Miyazaki's 'Spirited Away' Wins Best Animated Picture
DavidBrown writes "Moments ago, Hayao Miyazaki won the Best Animated Picture award for 'Spirited Away.' It's about time."
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Just minutes after this got posted, the Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers won the award for Visual Effects, featuring Gollum.
It isn't from Disney. Disney just dubbed it into English for the American audiences.
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Disney only distributes/markets Miyazaki/Ghibli's films here in the US.
Miyazaki has directed an unusually large number of very nice animated pieces, and Studio Ghibli is well known as delivering some of the highest quality films out there, live or animated. I hope that this may do something to bring more mainstream appreciation to animation as an adult story telling medium in the United States.
As a note, if anyone is interested in seeing a list of other films by Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, they can look at nausicaa.net.
...The movie is coming out on Region 1 DVD April 15, 2003. Along with Kiki's Delivery Service and Castle in the Sky.
At least, in my opinion. Miyazaki has done many, many films, and Spirited Away was actually one of my least favorite. Don't get me wrong, I still loved it, but anyone who liked Spirited Away really needs to see:
* Laputa - Castle in the Sky (Possibly the best anime ever)
* Girl From the Valley of the Wind
* Princess Mononoke
* Kiki's Delivery Service
* Porco Rosso (this one's just weird, but very good)
* My Neighbor Totoro
He's done plenty of others, but those are the best, IMHO.
I'd suggest getting the whole "Studio Ghibli Collection" from Anime on DVD.
Just my two cents...
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Just FYI, here are some other awards Spirited Away won. Note that many are purely film awards, where Spirited Away beat out non-animated features:
- Best Film; 2001 Japanese Academy Awards
- Golden Bear (tied); 2002 Berlin International Film Festival
- Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Feature Production; 2002 Annie Awards
- Best Directing in an Animated Feature Production; 2002 Annie Awards
- Best Writing in an Animated Feature Production; 2002 Annie Awards
- Best Music in an Animated Feature Production; 2002 Annie Awards
- Best Animated Feature; 2002 New York Film Critics Circle Awards
- Special Commendation for Achievement in Animation; 2002 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
- Best Animated Feature; 2002 Los Angeles Film Critics Awards
- Best Animated Feature; 2002 Critics' Choice Awards
- Best Animated Feature; 2002 New York Film Critics Online Award
- Best Animated Feature; 2002 Florida Film Critics Circle
- Best Animated Feature; 2002 National Board of Review
- Best Original Score in the Category of Comedy or Musical; 78th Annual Glaubber Awards
- Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media; 7th Annual Golden Satellite Awards
- Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature; 45th San Francisco International Film Festival
- Special Mention from the Jury; 2002 Sitges Film Festival
- Best Asian Film; 2002 Hong Kong Film Awards
- Best Film (tied); Cinekid 2002 International Children's Film Festival
- Best Animated Feature; Online Film Critic Society
- Best Animated Feature; Dallas-Forth Worth Critics
- Best Animated Film; Phoenix Film Critics Society
- Best Family/Animation Trailer; Fourth Annual Golden Trailer Awards
- Award Winner, Film; 2003 Christopher Awards
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Whisper of the Heart was directed by Yoshifumi Kondou, who was considered by many to be Miyazaki's protege and eventual successor. After Kondou's amazing work on his directorial debut (Whisper), Miyazaki planned to retire and turn over the helm to Kondou.
Tragically, Kondou died in January 1998 of an aneurysm, never having a chance to direct a second film.
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Nope, the US DVD lack the red tint. The storyboards extra on the second DVD is tinted, but not the main feature.
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The weird thing about PM is the way Disney tried to "localise" the English version. Fortunately they didn't meddle with the story. But they hired a bunch of Name Actors to do the dubbing. Which was a waste of money, because none of the people they chose has a really distinctive voice!
Weirdest of all is hiring Neil Gaiman to "adapt" the script. God knows what that means. He didn't even make the obvious change: correcting the translators misnaming of various smoothbore weapons as "rifles".
Disney didn't dub Spirited Away, John Lasseter from Pixar was in charge of that.
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Miramax hired one of the best writers alive today, Neil Gaiman, to do the American version of Mononoke Hime. He went to Japan, studied the language and culture, met prominent artists there, and did his damn best (and also teamed up with Yoshitaka Amano to make a wonderful companion book to The Sandman) to not only translate it, but make it sound just as good as the original version, and yet still seem as if his script were the original. Unfortunately(?), Disney used some of its own writers to dub Spirited Away, so it's most likely not up to the caliber of Princess Mononoke, but (knock on wood) they couldn't have screwed it up too bad, right?
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I was very disappointed with the DVD edition of "My neighbor Totoro".
That's because it was a shoddy, quick-job done by Fox so they could get it out the door just under the gun of their distribution rights expiring. You can expect Disney/Buena Vista to release a very nice 2 disc version (just like Spirited Away, Kiki, and Laputa/Castle in the Sky are getting on the 15th) at some point in the future.
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For those who didn't watch: Ice Age, Lilo & Stitch, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, and Treasure Planet.
I can only claim to have seen two of these, but I think I can say that "Lilo & Stitch" was the only worthwhile competition in this category. Still, it should rightly be considered remarkable that a dubbed foreign film won in this category, especially since Disney put almost no effort into promoting this film when it was released.
And on that note, it looks like Miyazaki's film "Castle in the Sky" will be released in the US on DVD at the same time as "Spirited Away", both of which should get a lot more attention from Disney now than they did last calendar year. Hey, whatever works....
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE: Adrien Brody THE PIANIST
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Chris Cooper ADAPTATION
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE: Nicole Kidman THE HOURS
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Catherine Zeta-Jones CHICAGO
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM: SPIRITED AWAY Hayao Miyazaki
ART DIRECTION: CHICAGO John Myhre (Art Direction); Gordon Sim (Set Decoration)
CINEMATOGRAPHY: ROAD TO PERDITION Conrad L. Hall
COSTUME DESIGN: CHICAGO Colleen Atwood
DIRECTING: THE PIANIST Roman Polanski
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE Michael Moore and Michael Donovan
DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT: TWIN TOWERS Bill Guttentag and Robert David Port
FILM EDITING: CHICAGO Martin Walsh
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: NOWHERE IN AFRICA Germany Directed by Caroline Link
MAKEUP: FRIDA John Jackson and Beatrice De Alba
MUSIC: (SCORE) FRIDA Elliot Goldenthal
MUSIC: (SONG) 8 MILE 'Lose Yourself'
Music by Eminem, Jeff Bass and Luis Resto; Lyric by Eminem
BEST PICTURE: CHICAGO Martin Richards
SHORT FILM: (ANIMATED) THE CHUBBCHUBBS! Eric Armstrong
SHORT FILM: (LIVE ACTION) THIS CHARMING MAN (DER ER EN YNDIG MAND)
Martin Strange-Hansen and Mie Andreasen
SOUND: CHICAGO Michael Minkler, Dominick Tavella and David Lee
SOUND EDITING: THE LORD OF THE RINGS - THE TWO TOWERS Ethan Van der Ryn and Michael Hopkins
VISUAL EFFECTS: THE LORD OF THE RINGS - THE TWO TOWERS Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke
WRITING: (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY) THE PIANIST
Screenplay by Ronald Harwood
WRITING: (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY) TALK TO HER
Written by Pedro Almodóvar
And the Oscar for the best acceptance speech goes to Michael Moore and Michael Donovan:
Whoa. On behalf of our producers Kathleen Glynn and Michael Donovan from Canada, I'd like to thank the Academy for this. I have invited my fellow documentary nominees on the stage with us, and we would like to -- they're here in solidarity with me because we like nonfiction. We like nonfiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whether it's the fictition of duct tape or fictition of orange alerts we are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush, shame on you. And any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up. Thank you very much.
Actually the title is a reference to a place in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, and yes, he really did intend the pun.
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Buy the R1 DVD. It has a Japanese dialogue track with English subtitles.
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Uh... cinematography is usually setting up lighting on a set and choosing cameras and lenses and film and how to use those tools to render a scene with actors onto a photographic negative. In an animated film like Spirited Away, none of that needs to be done. The "camera angles" are chosen by the director when they do the storyboards. Individual frames are drawn by hand and scanned and sometimes composited with CG or edited on a computer. The ultimate output is made to print film that gets run through a projector at your theater. So there is film involved... but only at the final step.
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It's not so much that, but that it's an Oscar for Miyazaki. The guy spent at least 30 years directing anime, which for those of us in the know, extends well beyond just what came out under Disney. Here, to the best of my knowlege, is what he's done:
Lupin the Third (TV), during the 1970s.
Lupin the Third (movie) The Castle of Cagliostro (or to the retrogaming crowd, the base footage used in "Cliff Hanger").
Nausicaa (AKA: Warriors of the Wind), early 1980s.
Laputa: Late 80s.
My Neighbor Totoro: Late 80s.
Kiki's Messenger Service: Late 80s.
Porco Rosso: Early 90s
Those are just the ones I know of, before the Disney imports began. This is a man who has literally pushed the envelope in terms of both realism and storytelling in animation, moreso than what has been done by Disney in the last 20 years.
The fact is, there is a reason why Miyazaki is known as "The Japanese Disney". Because he exceeds the standard that we hold American animation directors to. Considering that Disney bought the rights to his work because Mononoke Hime (that's Princess Mononoke to those who still pronounce anime to rhyme "time") made over $100,000,000 in the Japanese box office.
So frankly, this is something that applies two ways in Slashdot terms: One, it's anime. Two, it's a direct slap in the face to DISNEY. I rest my case.
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President Bush, who graduated from Yale only because of his father. According to at least one of his teachers, he never bothered turning up for class.
I agree, "Tonari no Totoro" is a real treat! And it's really OK for the whole family (including a 34-year old engineer). It's one of those movies that really makes you feel good, and you're not ashamed about it. Well, I'm not.
"Mononoke Hime" is a bit gory, as you say, and yet, there is so much beauty there. Just think of the majestic elegance of the wolf gods, for example. I still have to find a cartoon that would match the glorious, powerful and elegant animation in "Mononoke".
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Not true. Disney owns worldwide distribution rights to much of studio Ghibli's work, including Spirited Away(Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi). Disney released it in july 2002 undre Buena Vista Home Entertainment