Hayao Miyazaki To Receive Honorary Academy’s Governor Award
On Tuesday night, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted to honour the critically acclaimed Japanese animator and movie director Hayao Miyazaki with Academy’s Governor Award, which is a statuette given to acknowledge extroadinary lifetime achievements, contributions to the industry or for service to the Academy. The award will be presented at the Academy’s 6th Annual Governers Awards on Saturday 8th November.
Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away famously became the first anime film to win an Acadamy Award when it won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature in 2002. Hayao Miyazaki went on to be nominated for the award on two other occasions, with Howl’s Moving Castle in 2005 (which lost to Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Wererabbit) and in 2013 for The Wind Rises, which lost to Disney’s Frozen.
Earlier this year, the recently retired Hayao Miyazaki was offered a place in the Acadamy earlier this year, although as he has declined this invitation in the past, it is unknown if he will accept on this occasion.
As well as Hayao Miyazaki, the acclaimed French actor and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière and the Irish actress Maureen O’Hara will be receiving the honour, while the American singer and actor Harry Belafonte will be receiving the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
