Studio Ghibli's The Boy and the Heron wins Golden Globe: First time for an anime film

The boy and the heronThe latest animated film from Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki won Best Animated Feature Golden balls From this category Best Motion Picture – Cartoon. This is a huge achievement for the creators, but also for the entire medium, as it is the first time a Japanese animated film has won the award.

Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli received a nomination for The wind picks up – the director's previous film – but they didn't win, so it's a moment of celebration for the animation studio.

We do it too Congratulations to Studio Ghibli For the great goal.

It's about the boy and the heron

Studio Ghibli describes it this way The boy and the heron: “A young boy named Mahito, grieving the loss of his mother, ventures into a world shared by the living and the dead. There, death ends and life finds a new beginning. A semi-autobiographical fantasy about life, death and creation, a tribute to friendship, from the thought of Hayao Miyazaki.”

Hayao Miyazaki He wrote and directed (it is his first new film in ten years), alongside Takeshi Honda as animation director, Toshio Suzuki as producer and Joe Hisaishi as music composer.

The Boy and the Heron arrives in Italian cinemas at the beginning of 2024. We also know that The Boy and the Heron is not Hayao Miyazaki's last film, the director already has new ideas.