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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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It isn't from Disney. Disney just dubbed it into English for the American audiences.
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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.
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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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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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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".
Being a huge fan of both Gaiman and Miyazaki I can shed some light here. Much of the script for the film (and any film really) has to be changed for a dub. Jokes, word-play, historical references, and the like usually have to be either somehow explained (with added exposition) or modified to similar item in the new language. That sort of thing is what Gaiman did. They used him in particular so he could help maintain the mythic feel and tone the movie had.
So essentially what happened was a few professional translators went through the film and did the literal word-for-word translation of the whole thing. Then they sat down with Gaiman (plus Gaiman did a lot of research on his own) and walked through it all and converted that into an english script that was both comprehensible to an american and stayed true to the original vision. As for calling the muskets/blunderbusses rifles, that was Disney's call. They had final editorial control and for some reason were adamant about calling the things rifles. Gaiman actually mentioned this in particular in his blog as one of the things he was confused by/unsatisfied with, believe it or not. There's more detail to be had if you search in his archives here.
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