Legendary Japanese animators Studio Ghibli will obtain an honorary Palme d’Or on the Cannes Film Festival in May, organisers introduced Wednesday.
The Oscar-winning studio, co-founded by Hayao Miyazaki 40 years in the past, is beloved worldwide for its masterpieces like “Spirited Away”, “My Neighbour Totoro” and “Howl’s Moving Castle”.
It will mark the primary that that Cannes offers an award to a collective, reasonably than a person.
Miyazaki makes few public appearances and his long-time collaborator Isao Takahata died in 2018.
The different founder, producer Toshio Suzuki, stated he was “truly honoured and delighted” to be receiving the award.
Ghibli’s “characters populate our imaginations with prolific, colourful universes and sensitive, engaging narrations,” stated the Cannes organisers in an announcement.
“With Ghibli, Japanese animation stands as one of the great adventures of cinephilia, between tradition and modernity,” they added.
Miyazaki, 83, has introduced his retirement greater than as soon as, however was again in cinemas final 12 months with “The Boy and the Heron”, which gained the Oscar for finest animated movie final month, his second after “Spirited Away” in 2003.
It was already introduced that one other enormous determine in cinematic storytelling, George Lucas, creator of “Star Wars”, would additionally obtain an honorary Palme at this 12 months’s pageant, which runs from May 14 to 25.
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