Hayao Miyazakiborn 1941
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Hayao Miyazaki (Miyazaki Hayao, born January 5, 1941) is a Japanese manga artist and prominent film director and animator of many popular anime feature films. Through a career that has spanned nearly five decades, Miyazaki has attained international acclaim as a maker of animated feature films and, along with Isao Takahata, co-founded Studio Ghibli, an animation studio and production company. The success of Miyazaki's films has invited comparisons with American animator Walt Disney, British animator Nick Park as well as Robert Zemeckis, who pioneered Motion Capture animation, and he has been named one of the most influential people by Time Magazine. Miyazaki began his career at Toei Animation as an in-between artist for Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon where he pitched his own ideas that eventually became the movie's ending. He continued to work in various roles in the animation industry over the decade until he was able to direct his first feature film Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro which was published in 1979. After the success of his next film, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, he co-founded Studio Ghibli where he continued to produce many feature films until Princess Mononoke whereafter he temporarily retired. While Miyazaki's films have long enjoyed both commercial and critical success in Japan, he remained largely unknown to the West until Miramax released his 1997 film, Princess Mononoke. Princess Mononoke was the highest-grossing film in Japan—until it was eclipsed by another 1997 film, Titanic—and the first animated film to win Picture of the Year at the Japanese Academy Awards. Miyazaki returned to animation with Spirited Away. The film topped Titanic's sales at the Japanese box office, also won Picture of the Year at the Japanese Academy Awards and was the first anime film to win an American Academy Award. Miyazaki's films often incorporate recurrent themes, such as humanity's relationship to nature and technology, and the difficulty of maintaining a pacifist ethic. Reflecting Miyazaki's feminism, the protagonists of his films are often strong, independent girls or young women. Miyazaki is a vocal critic of capitalism and globalization. While two of his films, The Castle of Cagliostro and Castle in the Sky, involve traditional villains, his other films such as Nausicaa or Princess Mononoke present morally ambiguous antagonists with redeeming qualities.
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2023
Adventure • Animation • Drama • Family • Fantasy
Storyboard Artist, Writer, Director
2018
Animation
Storyboard Artist, Writer, Executive Producer, Director, Original Story
2012
Action • Animation • Horror • Science Fiction
Characters, Character Designer
2002
Adventure • Animation • Drama • Family • Fantasy
Original Story, Production Coordinator
2002
Animation • Documentary
Original Story
1995
Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Crime
Director, Writer, Storyboard Artist
1991
Action • Adventure • Animation
Story, Screenplay
1991
Action • Adventure • Animation
Story, Screenplay
1991
Action • Adventure • Animation
Story, Screenplay
1986
Adventure • Animation • Mystery • TV Movie
Director
1984
Adventure • Animation • Fantasy
Screenplay, Director, Character Designer, Comic Book
1984
Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Mystery • TV Movie
Director
1984
Animation • TV Movie
Character Designer, Director
1979
Action • Adventure • Animation • Science Fiction • TV Movie
Storyboard Artist, Director
1979
Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Crime
Director, Screenplay, Storyboard Artist
1973
Animation • Comedy • Family
Screenplay, Key Animation, Original Story, Writer
1971
Action • Animation • Fantasy
Key Animation, Storyboard Artist, Screenplay
1965
Animation • Family • Science Fiction
Animation, Additional Writing
