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Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎 駿 Miyazaki Hayao) (born January 5, 1941) is one of the most famous and respected creators of anime, or Japanese animated films.
Miyazaki was born in Tokyo. He is the creator of many popular anime feature films, as well as some manga (Japanese comics). Although largely unknown in the west outside of animation circles until his 2002 Animated Feature Oscar, his films are almost without exception huge box-office and critical successes in Japan. Many of them explore the theme of humanity's relationship to nature.
Audiences of his work often note the character designs in his movies are, at their most basic, quite similar. This is often humorously considered an artistic perception that such characters are actors and actresses, reappearing in different films of his.
Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind was one of his first films as both screenwriter and director. He adapted it from his manga of the same name, which he had created two years previously. He later co-founded the animation film company, Studio Ghibli, and has produced most (if not all) of his subsequent work through it.
In 1997, Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime) became the highest grossing film of all time in Japan, until the later success of Titanic, and won Best Picture at the Japanese Academy AwardsThe Japanese Academy Awards have been held since 1977 to reward excellence in Japanese film. Award categories are similar to the American Academy Awards. The most prestigious award is the best picture award. Past winners are: Year Film (English) Film (Jap. Miyazaki retired after making Mononoke, intending it to be his last film as a director.
He came out of retirement (which he tried to retreat to several times by now) after meeting the daughter of a friend who became the inspiration for Spirited AwaySpirited Away or Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (; "Sen and The spiriting away of Chihiro") is a movie ( 2001) by Japanese anime director and manga artist Hayao Miyazaki created at Studio Ghibli. The movie won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film at th (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi), which was released in Japan in July 20012001 is a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and also: The International Year of the Volunteer The United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations Events January January 1 A black monolith measuring approximately nine feet tall ap and broke the attendance and box office records previously set there by Titanic, with 30.4 billion yen of total gross earnings from over 23 million viewings. It has received numerous film awards, including Best Picture at the 20012001 is a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and also: The International Year of the Volunteer The United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations Events January January 1 A black monolith measuring approximately nine feet tall ap Japanese Academy AwardsThe Japanese Academy Awards have been held since 1977 to reward excellence in Japanese film. Award categories are similar to the American Academy Awards. The most prestigious award is the best picture award. Past winners are: Year Film (English) Film (Jap, Golden Bear (First Prize) at the 2002 Berlin Film FestivalOne of the "A" festivals in Europe. The Berlin International Film Festival also called the Berlinale is held annually in February and started 1951 after an initiative of the American, who occupied part of the city after World War II. The jury always place and the Academy Award for Best Animated FeatureThe Academy Awards are the oldest awards given to achievements in film; the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature was given the first time for the 2001 film year. The rules say that the award will only be awarded to one of three nominees in a year that.
Miyazaki has finished production on Howl's Moving CastleHowl's Moving Castle is a fantasy novel for young adults by Diana Wynne Jones. It is about a young woman called Sophie Hatter, who is the oldest of three daughters in the magical kingdom of Ingary, where many fairy-tale tropes are accepted ways of life., an anime film adaptation of Diana Wynne Jones' fantasy book, which again he was forced to come out of retirement for following the sudden departure of original director Mamoru Hosoda .
One of the most distinctive trait of Miyazaki's later films, and which sets them apart from classic Western animation — like Disney — is the lack of either very bad or very good characters. The characters are human beings, and while some can be better or worse than others, they will never be perfectly good nor perfectly evil. Even "bad" characters (Yubaaba in Spirited Away, or Lady Eboshi in Princess Mononoke for example), who would be beyond any hope in Western animation, can have a good side. For example, Eboshi's ironworks provide a living for lepers and former prostitutes. While his early films do have irredeemably evil villains (Count Cagliostro in Castle of Cagliostro or Muska in Laputa), some of his films are remarkable for having no villain at all (particularly Kiki's Delivery Service and My Neighbor Totoro).