Hayao Miyazaki, the legendary Japanese anime director, was crowned Best Animated Feature winner for The Boy and the Heron at the U.S. Academy Awards, beating out four other films in the same category, including Disney’s ‘Elemental’ and the U.S. superhero film ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.’
For the first time in more than two decades, Miyazaki was honored with one of the industry’s highest honors. His film, Spirited Away, won an Oscar in 2003, following the awarding of the Golden Bear, which is the top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival the previous year.
“We are just extremely grateful. Miyazaki was very happy,” Toshio Suzuki, a producer and co-founder of Studio Ghibli Inc., Miyazaki’s production company, said at a press conference in Tokyo.
Despite announcing his retirement in 2013 after producing The Wind Rises, another of his Oscar-nominated films, Miyazaki started his latest project in 2017. During our celebration of the great comeback, the latest Godzilla Minus One won the award for best visual effects, which is a first for Japan in the category.
Here’s All the Winners list for Academy Awards.
Best Picture
WINNER: Oppenheimer
American Fiction
Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Past Lives
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
BEST ACTRESS
WINNER: Emma Stone, Poor Things
Annette Bening, Nyad
Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall
Carey Mulligan, Maestro
BEST DIRECTOR
WINNER: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest
Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things
Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall
BEST ACTOR
WINNER: Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Colman Domingo, Rustin
Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
WINNER: “What Was I Made For?,” Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell, Barbie
“I’m Just Ken,” Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt, Barbie
“The Fire Inside,” Diane Warren, Flamin’ Hot
“It Never Went Away,” Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson, American Symphony
“Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People),” Scott George, Killers of the Flower Moon
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
WINNER: Oppenheimer
American Fiction
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Killers of the Flower Moon
Poor Things
BEST SOUND
WINNER: The Zone of Interest
The Creator
Maestro
Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer
BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT
WINNER: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
The After
Invincible
Knight of Fortune
Red, White and Blue
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
WINNER: Oppenheimer
El Conde
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Poor Things
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
WINNER: 20 Days in Mariupol
Bobi Wine: The People’s President
The Eternal Memory
Four Daughters
To Kill a Tiger
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
WINNER: The Last Repair Shop
The ABCs of Book Banning
The Barber of Little Rock
Island in Between
Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó
BEST EDITING
WINNER: Oppenheimer
Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Poor Things
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
WINNER: Godzilla Minus One
The Creator
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One
Napoleon
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
WINNER: Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer
Sterling K. Brown, American Fiction
Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
WINNER: The Zone of Interest, United Kingdom
Io Capitano, Italy
Perfect Days, Japan
Society of the Snow, Spain
The Teachers’ Lounge, Germany
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
WINNER: Poor Things
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
WINNER: Poor Things
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
WINNER: Poor Things
Golda
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Society of the Snow
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
WINNER: Cord Jefferson, American Fiction
Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, Barbie
Tony McNamara, Poor Things
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
WINNER: Justine Triet and Arthur Harari, Anatomy of a Fall
David Hemingson, The Holdovers
Bradley Cooper and Josh Singer, Maestro
Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik, May December
Celine Song, Past Lives
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
WINNER: The Boy and the Heron
Elemental
Nimona
Robot Dreams
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
BEST ANIMATED SHORT
WINNER: War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko
Letter to a Pig
Ninety-Five Senses
Our Uniform
Pachyderme
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
WINNER: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
America Ferrera, Barbie
Jodie Foster, Nyad