The Boy and the Heron Wins Best Animated Film BAFTA Award

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts granted the BAFTA Award for Animated Film to Hayao Miyazaki‘s newest function movie The Boy and the Heron (Kimi-tachi wa Dō Ikiru kaon Sunday. The movie was contending versus Chicken Run: The Dawn of the Nugget, Elementaland Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse The Boy and the Heron is the very first anime movie to win the award, or to be chosen for it, because it was initially presented in 2006.

The Super Mario Bros. Film remained in the longlist for the Animated Film classification, however it was not chosen.

Hayao Miyazaki won the Annie award for Best Storyboarding for a function movie with The Boy and the Heronand the movie’s animation director Takeshi Honda won the award for Best Character Animation for a function movie throughout the Annie Awards on Saturday.

The Boy and the Heron won the very best Motion Picture – Animated classification at the 81st Golden Globes Awards in January. The Alliance of Women Film Journalists offered it the very best Animated Film award in its EDA Awards on December 31. The 78th Mainichi Film Awards revealed ahead of its February 14 event that the movie will get the Noburou Oofuji Award, which honors animated works that use brand-new types of innovative expression. The movie likewise gotten elections from the Annie Awards (for animated function, directing, and composing) and the British Academy Film Awards (for animated movie).

The movie opened in Japan on July 14, and offered 1.003 million tickets and made about US$ 13.2 million in its very first 3 days in Japan. The movie offered 1.353 million tickets and made 2.149 billion yen (about US$ 15.53 million) in its Friday-Monday vacation (July 17 was the Marine Day vacation in Japan). It is the # 71 highest-grossing movie ever in Japan, and the 3rd highest-grossing domestic movie in Japan in 2023 with an 8.66 billion yen (about US$ 61.4 million) gross.

The movie ranked at # 1 in its opening weekend in the U.S. ticket office, with an earning of US$ 12,836,313 in its very first 3 days. Range reported that the movie is the “very first initial anime production” to top the U.S. ticket office.

Source: Due date (Nancy Tartaglione)