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NEWS: The Boy and the Heron Film Wins Oscar for Best Animated Feature


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GATSU



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 10, 2024 6:48 pm Reply with quote
Congrats to the first PG-13 Animated movie to win. IIRC, it's the first win for GKids, too. Good luck to Godzilla.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 10, 2024 6:56 pm Reply with quote
I haven't gotten around to seeing either movie but I was seriously considering placing money on The Boy and the Heron since I thought that the betting sites were underestimating Hayao Miyazaki (they had Across the Spider-Verse as the odds-on favourite to win).

I know the previous three Hayao Miyazaki films post-Spirited Away didn't win Best Animated Feature but The Boy and the Heron was his first feature film after a decade-long hiatus and, considering he's 83, the Academy might not get another chance to give him a BAF Oscar again.


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PostPosted: Sun Mar 10, 2024 6:57 pm Reply with quote
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The film also received nominations from the Annie Awards (for animated feature, directing, and writing) and the British Academy Film Awards (for animated film).


No, it didn't receive nominations from the Annie Awards & British Academy Film Awards.

It received awards from them.

Annie Awards:
- Outstanding Achievement for Storyboarding in a Feature Production
- Outstanding Achievement for Character Animation in an Animated Feature Production

British Academy Film Awards:
- Best Animated Film
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Egan Loo



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 10, 2024 7:04 pm Reply with quote
DarkJak2050 wrote:
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The film also received nominations from the Annie Awards (for animated feature, directing, and writing) and the British Academy Film Awards (for animated film).


No, it didn't receive nominations from the Annie Awards & British Academy Film Awards.

It received awards from them.

Annie Awards:
- Outstanding Achievement for Storyboarding in a Feature Production
- Outstanding Achievement for Character Animation in an Animated Feature Production

British Academy Film Awards:
- Best Animated Film


An odd bug briefly showed a draft of this article, but the bug is gone as of a few minutes ago.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 10, 2024 7:10 pm Reply with quote
Oh damn! I was fully expecting it to lose because of how biased the Oscars tend to be for Disney and Pixar. You go, Miyazaki and everyone at Ghibli! Very Happy
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 10, 2024 7:25 pm Reply with quote
FireChick wrote:
Oh damn! I was fully expecting it to lose because of how biased the Oscars tend to be for Disney and Pixar. You go, Miyazaki and everyone at Ghibli! Very Happy

You do know that Studio Ghibli's past has ties to Disney, right?
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GATSU



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 10, 2024 7:26 pm Reply with quote
FireChick: I was expecting Elemental to maybe spoil the vote, myself.

Anyway, this would actually be Miyazaki's third Oscar, 'cus he got an honorary one in 2014.
Also, anyway, here's the video for those who missed it: https://youtu.be/oxEzC9aSKoE?si=2GM9LB93FiGrNX2R
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Axbox360



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 10, 2024 7:29 pm Reply with quote
Elfensjón wrote:
FireChick wrote:
Oh damn! I was fully expecting it to lose because of how biased the Oscars tend to be for Disney and Pixar. You go, Miyazaki and everyone at Ghibli! Very Happy

You do know that Studio Ghibli's past has ties to Disney, right?


Yeah the former ceo of Pixar (and Disney animation) john lasseter is friends with miyazaki.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 10, 2024 7:48 pm Reply with quote
Saw the news notification on my phones, and I was half-surprised that the film won best animated pictures, I had medium-low hope that the film wouldn't win, and I was proven wrong.

Congratulation Hayao Miyazaki and The Boy and the Heron/How do you Live for winning the Best Animated Feature category!!!
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revolutionotaku



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 10, 2024 7:57 pm Reply with quote
GATSU wrote:
Congrats to the first PG-13 Animated movie to win. IIRC, it's the first win for GKids, too. Good luck to Godzilla.

Congratulations to both of them.
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mgree0032



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:07 pm Reply with quote
History has been made folks.
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GATSU



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:20 pm Reply with quote
Revolution: Yeah, now I'm just waiting for the streams so I can finally see the damn movies already.

Suzuki issues a statement: https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking-news/the-boy-and-the-heron-producer-apologizes-oscars-absence-1234963018/ Also, did not know Miyazaki is theboldest recipient of the award.
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enurtsol



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:25 pm Reply with quote
Godzilla also won its first Oscar for Best Visual Effects



Too bad nobody is there to receive them on stage, but here's the backstage for The Boy and The Heron:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvAe9rWaSpY

And here's Miyazaki and Suzuki talking before the Oscars (ya wouldn't recognize Miyazaki without his trademark beard! Laughing) :

"Animated Feature Films | 96th Oscars Nominee Programs Livestream"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnK1AYgO1q0&t=1569s

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:34 pm Reply with quote
I'm glad I managed to saw the movie in the cinema a couple of months ago. I'd say it was one of Miyazaki's best movies, perhaps not my favourite movies of his, but it's nice to see a traditionally animated movie winning an Oscar, though technically the only other winner is Miyazaki's own Spirited Aways. I hope that some day some 2D non-anime movie will manage to win an Academy Award, i've heard some great things about Robot Dreams (Mi Amigo Robot), but it sadly got overshadowed by other animated movies, though this year all of the nominees were excellent movies on their own right
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Farafra



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:42 pm Reply with quote
mgree0032 wrote:
History has been made folks.


Not really. It's not a great sign for anime cinema that the second anime film in a century went to the one from the same director threatening his retirement in an off year for Disney.

It also doesn't help that it was up against Across the Spider-Verse, which is, in every way possible, a more triumphant step forward for animation as a medium.

Call me cynical if you want, but if Miyazaki is working on another movie, The Boy and the Heron will likely be remembered as a footnote in his career. I know it will because the same thing to The Wind Rises, the last time he made his last movie.
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