The US premiere of Miyazaki’s The Boy and The Heron is nearly upon us and Hayao Miyazaki’s newest film can add another accolade to its list of praise. The New York Film Critics Circle announced its awards for 2023, with Miyazaki’s film taking the award for Best Animated Film.
Other key awards included Martin Scorsese’s Killers of The Flower Moon for Best Film and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer for Best Director.
The Boy and The Heron (also known as How Do You Live? In Japan) was released in Japan on July 14, with an international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, and had an initial US film premiere at the New York Film Festival on October 29. Special preview screenings were held in New York and Los Angeles on Nov. 22 ahead of the main premiere set for December 8. Crunchyroll has planned a release for the film in Australia and New Zealand set for December 7.
A young boy named Mahito
yearning for his mother
ventures into a world shared by the living and the dead.
There, death comes to an end,
and life finds a new beginning.A semi-autobiographical fantasy
about life, death, and creation, in tribute to friendship,
from the mind of Hayao Miyazaki.
Source: New York Film Critics Circle
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