Acadamy Invites Studio Ghibli’s Miyazaki, Suzuki To Become Members

Earlier this year, the legendary Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki’s final theatrical feature, The Wind Rises was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature – a battle which it eventually lost to Disney’s Frozen. That was the third nomination overall for the director, with Howl’s Moving Castle being nominated in the 76th Acadamy Award (but losing out to Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit) and Spirited Away winning the prestigious award the year before.

In honour of both his award winning Spirited Away and his nominated The Wind Rises, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences included Hayao Miyazaki as well as former Studio Ghibli producer Toshi Shizuki among the 271 individuals asked to join the closed ranks of the Acadamy. According to AnimeNewsNetwork, this is an invitation Miyazaki has turned down three times previously and has been offered to Studio Ghibli composer Joe Hisaishi in the past

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