He's in his 70s, so he potentially has a couple of decades left.

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Victoria Marulanda Why Russia?😂😂😂

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same.

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Nah, "Groundhog Day" (1993) is still a better movie than any of films.... ;-)

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Let's maker him a vampire or move him to Russia

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He's in his 70s, so he potentially has a couple of decades left.

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Victoria Marulanda Why Russia?😂😂😂

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+Hotricebunnies That's not true! He's still alive.

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HE IS ALIVE YOU STUPID! Sorry, the idea of his death makes me so bad

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He passed away

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+Hotricebunnies That's not true! He's still alive.

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HE IS ALIVE YOU STUPID! Sorry, the idea of his death makes me so bad

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You can always trust Hideaki Anno and Mamoru Hosoda to keep the anime/japanese film industry going ;)

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+Yassine Amil i think when marnie was there

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Unfortunately, it is :'(

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+Ryan Nguyen It isn't. He's going to continue making films, albeit shorter.

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http://en.rocketnews24.com/2014/11/08/hayao-miyazaki-working-on-new-project-says-im-going-to-continue-making-anime-until-i-die/ 

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He is going make movies until the day he dies that what he said on Crunchyroll

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I'm glad to hear that he will continue making movies till he die :) because kids nowadays cant live by SpongBob forever hh 

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+Iborn Asatree  why??

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Even if he will not i would be hopeful to receive more anime's from ghibli either from his son or the director of arriety. And i think ghibli is working on a sequel for nausicaa.

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You can always trust Hideaki Anno and Mamoru Hosoda to keep the anime/japanese film industry going ;)

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+Yassine Amil i think when marnie was there

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+Valar Morghulis I couldn't agree more. The Academy is only dick poop to hayao. even lower than dick poop. dick poop is awesome tho hahahaaha. im so immature....

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+Matt Choo Tung He did not want to receive anything from a country that bombed innocent people for profit. That was his reason but Ghibli forced him to go anyway.

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I think this is more honor for the academy, to give this man their figurine.

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He has won an academy before but has refused them up until this point

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+Valar Morghulis To say I agree with you would be an understatement.

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+Valar Morghulis I couldn't agree more. The Academy is only dick poop to hayao. even lower than dick poop. dick poop is awesome tho hahahaaha. im so immature....

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+Matt Choo Tung He did not want to receive anything from a country that bombed innocent people for profit. That was his reason but Ghibli forced him to go anyway.

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Mines spirited away and the cat returns

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+Anastasia Winters Oh yeah. The Cat Returns was my first one. I couldn't believe an all star cast was in it. In fact, I love Haru on how she was turned into a cat! She was cute and hot!! :D

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+GARoZeta Yep. That was amazing.

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Mines spirited away and the cat returns

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+Anastasia Winters Oh yeah. The Cat Returns was my first one. I couldn't believe an all star cast was in it. In fact, I love Haru on how she was turned into a cat! She was cute and hot!! :D

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+Jeffrey Tang I don't know how many times I've watched / listened to the 25 years Budokan concert. He's a genius. He never even was nominated for an Oscar. Shame on the Academy.

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Isao takahata?

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Agreed.

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+Jeffrey Tang Yeahhh !!! The right Soundtrack is what we need.

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+Jeffrey Tang I don't know how many times I've watched / listened to the 25 years Budokan concert. He's a genius. He never even was nominated for an Oscar. Shame on the Academy.

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Isao takahata?

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lol

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+feliciaf8 Did you watch the trailer and looked at the movie? 

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It's better not to dilute handing out these at the larger telecast and to have to have a separate ceremony. Although, the telecast could use a nice, lengthy recap video of the Governor's Ball and all the major moments in the speeches of the recipients.

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+BlueFox94 They mean he should have Won the Oscar for " The Wind RIses".  Not FROZEN.

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+Snow Anaya Well, at least he won for SPIRITED AWAY, even if he wasn't present.

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+BlueFox94 True he got's one. 

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+BlueFox94 What about "Howl's Moving Castle" or "Ponyo"?

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+Snow Anaya Yeah. That movie should win, not that crappy Frozen Disney movie!!

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+Owen Kyte Spilt milk under the bridge, methinks. Besides Frozen is a worthy film anyway. It's just that my opinion of both films have shifted a bit.

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+Owen Kyte Animated films are one of my film preferences. I won't ostracize Disney just because. They're all different types of films from different cultures.

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+Owen Kyte I'm careful with both sides. Whereas I find that western animation often suffers from doing too much (e.g. pop culture references, toilet humor) just to keep the audience's (i.e. children's) attention, anime often suffers from losing focus on the overall narrative, either by being too dull or too active (what western animation suffers from, but on steroids; e.g. needless fan service, hyperactive editing techniques). Western animation knows how to get audiences emotionally invested, but worries too much to give them an occasional break or two. Anime knows how to look beautiful and create lively characters, but can be tempted to give audiences too much of what they want to the point that the storytellers lose focus on why they're telling the story in the first place. And, once they realize this, the payoff is often too little, too late.

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+Yves Zavaleta he would had less time to talk plus this is different kind of award ceremony but i agree more pl should have seen him he's amazing!

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+Snow Anaya (NeoWaste) i really disappointed when the frozen name announced!! daaammnn yooouuu frozen!

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+Owen Kyte those movies were the best.....just wow!

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+feliciaf8 There's a new Studio Ghibli movie out there right now. And its the very final masterpiece everyone must believe right now. "When Marnie Was There". It's really amazing!!! And believe me, that very final masterpiece MUST WIN this year in the Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature!!!! and its song too, "Fine on the Outside" by Priscilla Ahn for Best Song!!!! For everything we love on Studio Ghibli since he retired!!!! When Chris Rock hosts the Oscars this time. Do you agree? 

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+Owen Kyte really?! this year? i thought when marnie was there was in 2014? okay then...my hope still up XDDD

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lol

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+feliciaf8 Did you watch the trailer and looked at the movie? 

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You forgot to indent. Lol, you tried to be so well read, I had to give you crap!

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mariomguy Well, Spirited Away is in fact the most Japanese of their works.

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Ayyy

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Great description of Miyazaki. I admire his priorities to create works that are pure and always carries true warmth and meaning. He sees the academy for what it truly is, something that mistakens loud noises and over abundance of violence as works of art.

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that fking pun at the end

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You my friend deserve an oscar for this comment thank you

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+mariomguy wrong disney done shit ! with his movies he even changed to another company for the dub man do some research disney fkin sucks

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+Dream High Animation He originally let Miramax do the dubbing. Miramax is a subsidiary of Disney in the same way Pixar is separated from Walt Disney Studios Animation and ABC: these might all be owned by Disney, but they operate fairly independently. Miramax was going to trim a number of scenes from Princess Mononoke, and the then-president of Miramax tried to convince Miyazaki on cutting the film down. After that experience, the owner of Ghibli Studios said they were planning on rejecting all other dub offers, but Disney's offer, this time, Walt Disney Animation Studios, was "of another order entirely." Disney was the only company who said they would dub all of his films in English and give him final cut privileges: Miyazaki would personally be able to approve any and all changes to the final product himself, and the dub would not release without his approval. For instance, in Castle in The Sky, the pirates fought over having Sheeta as a mother. But this was changed to having her as a girlfriend in the dub in order to make more sense to English-speaking audiences.

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+JaredM80 I've seen every Miyazaki movie, and many of the Studio Ghibli films as well. Miyazaki's are the best, of course. For American audiences I recommend starting with SA, going to Kiki's Delivery Service, then From up on Poppy Hill/Porco Rosso and Castle in the Sky before delving into Nausicaa, Ponyo, My Neighbor Totoro, and Princess Mononoke. The latter ones are really more fitting for Japanese audiences than western ones. The themes are much deeper and more reflective, and more complex than the easier to understand and accept Kiki and SA. The stories are also less rigid. Howl's Moving Castle should be watched dead last. It's confusing for everyone who watches it. I think most newcomers need time to warm up to it. And while Ponyo and My Neighbor Totoro are cited as the more child-friendly films of Ghibli's efforts, that doesn't mean a western audience will understand or accept it just as easily. SA is the most western of his films, shaped exactly like a Disney or Pixar story with an Alice in Wonderland clear-cut fantasy world, whereas Totoro and Ponyo are less direct in their storytelling, lacking a real villain or a solid plot, but simply portray the ins and outs of life with magical elements entwined. Children might be able to accept that kind of realistic fantasy more easily than adults would.

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Though Howl's Moving Castle can't really be considered "un-western", seeing as it is an adaptation of a book written by a British woman!

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WOW 10/10 can you do my homework?

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you, i like you

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well said

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Well said

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well said

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this comment gave me chills. so well said.

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fookin well said bruh

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Logged in just to give a thumbs up, one of the best comments I've read on the internet. period.

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Though the original source material for Howl's Moving Castle was decidedly Western, the film adaptation is very un-western in cinematic taste. At the beginning of the movie, the main character turns into an old woman without much of a reason for it, whereas Western audiences would more like to believe such a dramatic transformation should only happen to those who deserve it (Beauty and The Beast being the prime example). Even professional critics regard Howl's Moving Castle as Miyazaki's weakest film. No matter the visual fidelity and strength in the animation, the story is often times confounding, and like some of Miyazaki's more contemplative works, there is no central thread along which the film stands. Chihiro has to find her parents. Kiki has to learn and train to become a witch. Sophie has to... become young again, and Howl needs to... I still don't know. When compared to Nausicaa, or his crown jewel Spirited Away, it's insane to think that the director spent decades of his life to go from being so bold and assured with his first epic to becoming so loose and disorganized so late. While Miyazaki claims the film as one of his favorites, to portray the message that life is worth living, I'm not so sure he succeeded in delivering that message universally. In contrast, everybody who watches Spirited Away knows the story is about a little girl who needs to grow up and learn to be more self-reliant. The majority of western cinema centers around that purpose of the plight of the main character, the hero's journey, and the arc they travel through. Or at the very least, you will find that structure in the West is much more rigid and praised. Some popular Eastern films including Bruce Lee's wuxia films forgo plot structure and instead focus on the immediacy of the events and characters, focusing not on what could be or what should be, but on what currently is. Plot does not strangle the story. This stands in sharp contrast to Disney's more modern fantasies. There are certainly exceptions, but if Spirited Away is the most structured of Miyazaki's work, it will be praised in America for being so loose and flexible in its storytelling, allowing for serendipity without the expectation for perfect dialogue and "speech-givers." Howl's Moving Castle follows that Eastern tradition of living in the moment, and not being too concerned about a structured plot. Things happen: Sophie turns old by a witch, the wicked witch turned into an old hag with dementia herself, a reigning queen tried to kill Howl and Sophie by suspending them in mid-air, rules come up that are not explained, Sophie turns young occasionally for no apparent reason, the fire demon residing in the castle made a promise to Howl and we don't know what, everything comes crumbling down, and we should just accept it. It's not an easy film for Westerners to just accept. At least Princess Mononoke and My Neighbor Totoro and Ponyo and Porco Rosso and Nausicaa had a fully resolved happy ending. Howl's Moving Castle has nothing that you can firmly hold on to. If you ever watched it, you should know it has a very high bar on entry.

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Couldn't have said it better.

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I greatly appreciate that u wrote this. it's fairly accurate with some nice flair as well

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Daaaamn John Lasseter is a fanboy and I absolutely love it. Holy moly though, I didn't even imagine those two are friends. How do they even communicate with each other?? Also his speech was a bit underwhelming tbh...

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You forgot to indent. Lol, you tried to be so well read, I had to give you crap!

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mariomguy Well, Spirited Away is in fact the most Japanese of their works.

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+Amos Persad He actually fired all of the digital animation departments of Ghibli for Ponyo. Ponyo even used cel animation.

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+LooksLegitBro it's not like the guy said but he also had some hidden meaning in what he said, specially the war part probably meant "stop going to war you morons"

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the reaction from the audience though lol

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Miyazaki always trollin' and rollin'

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Why would he show up to receive an award thats useless to him? Why would he insult the United States when it is the only country keeping China out of Japan? Why would he hate Digital animation when he does in fact incorporate it into some of his film?

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+LooksLegitBro  He went there because a friend invited him, and promised him a ride on his personal toy train at his backyard that man was John Lasseter. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-11-05/hayao-miyazaki-to-attend-honorary-oscar-ceremony-in-l.a/.80699 as you can see he really disapproves of the war oriented ways of the US, but he also admits that Japan has gained profit from such censurable events, he has all the rights to denounce when something wrong is done, talking about China and Japan the Chinese have all the reasons in the world to hate the Japanese, but that is for another time. He prefers traditional animation over digital animation, is not really a love hate relationship, but maybe with age there's something of that. All in all, Project 2501 got pretty much the idea of what Miyazaki wanted to say.

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"The only thing keeping China out of Japan?" So Japan doesn't have a military now?

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+David Borgos Officially, no. Japan does not have an armed service dedicated towards its national interests. It does have a peace keeping force that the UN allows for the sake of preventing terrorism, but as far as a military force that can fight against a world power like it did back in the 30's? Nope. Read up on your history. 

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+David Borgos Actually they do, but they call it "Self Defense Force" which they can use only for their defense.

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+LooksLegitBro cuz he's Hayao Miyazaki and he does what he wants

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Thanks for the 4chan translation.

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I know that, jikotaka3.  I was being sarcastic.

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+David Borgos got it.

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where the fuck did this peace of shit translation come from?

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Whether 'Project Two Five Zero One' is joking or not, I can confidently say that he IS bullsh*t. The post he wrote should have been written this way: "Ha,ha. I've fabricated and twisted the translated speech enough to suck up enough votes to make my hate post look real important." - Project Two Five Zero One

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+solarsource7 He is not doing a translation, he is making a resume highlighting the main intention. A fabricated twist would bee if had wrote something like this:  "This award means everything to me, oh my god thanks a lot for this priceless opportunity i am finally being recognized by the american academy of film! this means so much to me, oh my god, oh my god tears fall from his face filled with emotion, I also love digital animation so much that i can't believe we no longer have to use pen an paper to get shit done, about fucking time! and I love you American warmongers from the core of my heart, please get soon in another war so we can all profit from it i am all about bombing the middle east, america fuck yeah! Oh but in the down side, I got to meet my Maureen O'Hara, i hate that bitch... for real." And that my friend is a complete fabricated twist.

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+RoarOfDamnation Yup. More evidence to me that it was only a hate post to build a mound for hate - and for derogatory insults.

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+solarsource7 Are you trying to be an idiot? he was trying to be funny, do you even know what amusement is?

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Yeah I know, he's the best.

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+Melvin Rosario Hi, Japan does indeed have an armed force. Changes to the military strategy of Japan were recently ratified under Prime Minister Abe. Japan previously could only use its army for self defense forces but has now a broader capability. It is called "collective self defense" and allows for defense of allies under attack as well as defense in the interest of national security.

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+Ciaran DeCeol Thank you for enlightening me on this. I was not aware of the expansion. 

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+Melvin Rosario I think the most interesting part will be what they intend to do with this new capability. Japan and China have been alternating as the economic super power in Asia in modern times. Now that both are on the rise again, personally I think that conflict of some sort is inevitable.

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+LooksLegitBro He opted not to go to America when Spirited Away received an Academy Award because America was at war with Iraq...so that probably was not his reason for going. 

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+solarsource7 You are trying to be so smart that you finished being an idiot. Because only an idiot cant see the difference between a joke and and a hate act.

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He doesn't have some biased for CGI man. He, like you and me just prefer the magic of 2d. And he accepts it's inevitable departure from the world of animation.  

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+Noir Man +Thomas Brooks   As much as I love Miyazaki, hating CGI is plain ignorant, shortsighted and outright stupid. It makes as much sense as hating hamburgers because McDonalds exists. I'd go as far as saying he's a huge hypocrite if he's implying that or he thinks like that at all. That aside, you could really read between the lines in his speech. He will be missed.

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I dont hate CGI

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I only hate how bad they abuse cgi mostly for remakes and shitty sequels

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+Noir Man  Oh, right, then you also hate japanese animation for the ridiculous amount of backgrounds and animation loops they reuse again, and again, and fucking again in japan, right? Or the shitty filler HOURS of animation every japanese animated show features? So you hate 2d animation as a whole for that, right? Come on, grow up, man. +Thomas Brooks Yeah, I only quoted you for the implication of CGI animation "not having the magic" of the 2d. It's the same damn work, that's all I'm saying, only the tools are different. Didn't quote you for the "hate" part, I only thought it was related to what you said.

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I didn't say I hate Japanese anime I like it I'm not racist

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And when I said they I was referring to America

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I like Miyazaki work u retard

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+Noir Man You said you hated CGI cause some studios reuse material, you hate ALL CGI, cause SOME do it. By that very same logic you hate ALL japanese anime, cause MOST recycle assets.

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+aWinterCrow Dude............ I literally never said any of that. Read my first statues your'e getting me mixed with someone else. 

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AWintercrow your a fucking retard 

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The "Peace, fuckers." part totally got me. LOL.

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that's not what he actually said was it? I'm an idiot when it comes to this stuff, please tell me now

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Tell you about what?

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if that's the actual translation.

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He uses Digital animation in all of his films since Princess Mononke in 1997, how could he hate it when it was used in Spirited Away, Howls Moving Castle, Ponyo and I am unsure whether he used it in The Wind Rises and everyone should be glad that there in no war in their country... this makes no fucking sence

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+LooksLegitBro That hack job frozen beat his swan song "The Wind Rises." I think that says enough about why he would be allowed to be upset. If he is. I am lol

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+MrAlexandersaurus Honestly, the only problem I see there is Frozen and The Wind Rises being in the same category. They shouldn't, they're completely different movies towards a completely different kind of audience. Frozen could be better, but it's an incredibly good movie for children, I don't see how The Wind Rises should be compared to a children movie at all. He shouldn't be upset cause of digital animation or whatever technique was used, he should be mad at freaking meatheads thinking every animated work is a childs movie and therefore they should fit in the same category.

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+aWinterCrow I see your point but I believe that a sign that a childrens movie is good is that it can be enjoyed by someone of any age. Look at The Incredibles, or How to train your dragon 2. These movies are for kids but still pack plenty of emotional punch and nuances for adults to enjoy while still being family friendly. Frozen is forces the audience to dumb down to its level. I wouldn't want a kid to get talked down to in that way. As for The Wind Rises losing to Frozen, the category was called "Bet Animated Picture" not "Best Childrens movie" so your argument there doesn't really hold weight. It was a snub. Simple as that.

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+MrAlexandersaurus That's precisely my point man. "Best animated movie" as if they were all the same. You don't have a "Best acted film" general category or something, and an animated movie will NEVER earn a "Best drama" award, you know what I mean? Anyway, I know what you mean with those examples, I am a big fan of animation and I hope to work in there someday. I understand some of the critizism Frozen gets, but it's not terrible at all, just not one of Disney's finest. But that's not the argument here. As I said, the problem is the category. Yeah, it's "Best animated movie", and if you're putting them all in the same bag, no matter what they talk about or the genre or anything, the only common ground to compare is the quality of the animation. If that's remotely true, I'm sorry to say, but Frozen beats The Wind Rises by a very, very big margin. The script may be bad, but the animation is masterful, as are the techniques they developed for rendering snow, the lighting...  just the opposite of The Wind Rises, where the animation is good, but not as impressive as other Ghibli movies.

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+MrAlexandersaurus A note before you want to crucify me because I implied Frozen is better than The Wind Rises. It's not, just the animation techniques are. I know it's not why it won and I know it's probably just cause is Disney, but the problem still is, for me, that all these people seem to think animation movies are inferior to the rest, as if they didn't deserve competing in the same categories (then maybe awarding the animation itself). There is still a big prejudice towards animation, and that's not Frozen's fault

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if that's what he really is saying then disrespect to him. if i'm not mistaken, the reason his country isn't at war is because they don't have a true military because they decided to work alongside hitler back in the 40's. since then, the u.s. leaves its military bases in japan to serve as a deterrence to other countries looking to expand on it. i'm sure if the u.s. left, china would be more than happy to expand on japan. he should say, "thank you u.s for getting rid of our military so we don't have to fight wars anymore, you can do our fighting for us."

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+aWinterCrow I have no intention of crucifying you haha. I appreciate your insight though I disagree with your overall rational. I understand your point about frozen having more advanced animation and that is why it won. I am upset because that is not how i want winners to be decided on in this category. I know that is an opinion and not worth much in a debate of aesthetic preference. The Wind Rises to me, does so much more then have a better plot then frozen. Basing the category solely on whose graphics are better starts to lead to which movie had more money thrown at it in my opinion. I love Disney and its usually high quality films but to me frozen, while beautiful falls short in so many ways that as someone who loves movies i cannot forgive, especially in the presence of a film like Wind. I may be biased or i may be nostalgic or just maybe im right. Regardless I now know a little bit about the subject at hand and that doesn't anger me at all.

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holy shit that was a spot on TL;DR rofl

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Who's Maureen O'Hara?

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+Amos Persad He actually fired all of the digital animation departments of Ghibli for Ponyo. Ponyo even used cel animation.

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+LooksLegitBro it's not like the guy said but he also had some hidden meaning in what he said, specially the war part probably meant "stop going to war you morons"

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I WOULD SINGLE HANDEDLY KICK START THIS

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Don't U think that's a bit too much?

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