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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. Theatrical run by Sarauble · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Let's see now if Disney makes good on its promise to re-release Spirited Away to theatres with equal backing as Lilo and Stich was given.

  2. It's so damn good... by Peterus7 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    To see an anime finally get best animated picture!

    But then again, Disney and Dreamworks put forth anything *that* good or *that* original.

    Spirited away had originality and a nice fuzzy feeling with it too, with a sense of wonder too.

    And it's gonna change the way the critics view anime from now on, too. I wonder if maybe they'll do "Best anime film..." Nah...

  3. Ironic the Disney didn't market this movie at all by Kagato · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So let's get this straight. Spirited Away wins the Oscar, yet Disney didn't market this movie worth sh*t! I'm in a top 15 media market and all the ass clowns at Disney do is put it in a couple art houses.

  4. All his movies deserve an Oscar by forgetmenot · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My Japanese wife collects all of Miyazaki's movies. Spirited Away definitely deserved to win. If you enjoyed this one I highly recommend seeing his other movies as well. Interestingly, Spirited Away and Totoro (one of my all-time favourites) are the only ones I've seen either in English or subtitled, and I don't understand Japanese, but it hasn't detracted at all from my enjoyment of these movies. Basically, I just read an English summary of the movie on the Internet and then go enjoy. "Princess Mononoke" is incredible (but gory - not for young children) and you don't have to understand Japanese to enjoy it un-subtitled. "Castle In The Sky" is also great and is so vivid in it's animation you can "see" the words and intentions of the characters.

    Any parents among you should introduce your child to "My Neighbour Totoro". This is by far my most favourite animated film ever and my 3 year-old daughter's as well. The magic in Miyazaki's story telling is just incredible.