This yr’s recipients of the Annie Awards, the annual honors bestowed by the Hollywood chapter of the International Animated Film Association, have been introduced final week, and one title on the checklist ought to be very acquainted to followers of anime and Japanese popular culture: Studio Ghibli co-founder Toshio Suzuki.
Suzuki was introduced with the Winsor McCay Award as a part of the Annies’ on-line ceremony, held final weekend. The timing might sound stunning, on condition that Ghibli launched no new animation in 2021, hasn’t launched a theatrical anime since 2014, and hasn’t had a full-fledged hit since 2013’s “The Wind Rises.” The Winsor McCay Award, although, is given in recognition of a person’s profession/lifetime achievements in animation, and it’s secure to say that Suzuki, who was the producer for a prolonged string of landmark works of Japanese animation that features “Princess Mononoke,” “Spirited Away” and “Whisper of the Heart,” undoubtedly qualifies.
▼ Suzuki can also be credited as a manufacturing committee member for “Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind” in addition to Studio Ghibli’s first three official movies, “Castle in the Sky,” “My Neighbor Totoro” and “Grave of the Fireflies.”
Photo: Studio Ghibli
If something, the one argument that could possibly be made in opposition to Suzuki receiving the Winsor McCay Award is that his profession seems removed from over, as he’s nonetheless closely concerned in selling Ghibli’s animation via tasks like the “Spirited Away” stage play, Ghibli Park theme park, and Toshio Suzuki and Studio Ghibli Exhibition, in addition to serving as producer for director Hayao Miyazaki’s upcoming “How Do You Live?” anime movie venture.
“I am very happy to receive this prestigious award, as it was also given to Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata,” Suzuki mentioned, referencing his anime colleagues as he accomplished the Winsor McCay hat trick for the three co-founders of Studio Ghibli and joined the group of recipients that additionally contains anime administrators Osamu Tezuka, Katsuiro Otomo, Mamoru Oshii, and Satoshi Kon.
Source: Sponichi Annex by way of Otakomu
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