The Japanese anime film emerged as a major awards contender after winning a Golden Globe and a BAFTA.
LOS ANGELES – Hayao Miyazaki, the legendary Japanese animator and co-founder of Studio Ghibli, won his second Oscar on March 11 for his semi-autobiographical Japanese animated feature film The Boy and the Heron, a fantasy tale about a boy grieving his dead mother.
The film follows 12-year-old Mahito Maki, whose mother dies in a fire at a Tokyo hospital during World War Two. Maki starts a new life after his father, a warplane factory owner, marries his mother’s sister and they join her at her rural estate.
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