The Boy and the Heron, the latest film from the patriarch of Japanese animation, won the Oscar for best animated film on Sunday. Ten years passed between the release of this last film and his previous opus, The Wind gets up.
Miyazaki was absent from the Oscars ceremony in Hollywood and also did not appear at a Ghibli press conference Monday in Tokyo. “He says his eyesight has become bad and his arms no longer work. But if you asked me what I think, I'd tell you he's exaggerating!, jokes the studio manager.