Sakshi Venkatraman is a reporter for NBC Asian America.
Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki took home the Academy Award for best animated feature Sunday night for “The Boy and the Heron,” maintaining his spot as the only Asian director to ever triumph in the category. Miyazaki, 83, a legendary animator known for co-founding Studio Ghibli, won in 2002 for his film “Spirited Away.
“If he hadn’t made this film, he wouldn’t have been able to die a happy man,” Studio Ghibli president and co-founder Toshio Suzuki told The Hollywood Reporter last month. Follow live updates on the 2024 Oscars Fans of Miyazaki’s celebrated works, like “Howl’s Moving Castle” and “My Neighbor Totoro,” fear “The Boy and the Heron” might be his final film as retirement rumors swirl.
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