Toshio Suzuki, a producer and co-founder of Studio Ghibli, received one of many highest honors for his contributions to the artwork of animation on the forty ninth annual Annie Awards on Saturday.
The worldwide animated movie society ASIFA-Hollywood introduced Suzuki with this yr’s Winsor McCay Award alongside animator Ruben A. Aquino and artist Lillian Schwartz for his or her lifetime achievements.
Screenshot reveals Toshio Suzuki talking at a digital ceremony of the forty ninth annual Annie Awards on March 12, 2022. (Kyodo)
“I’m extraordinarily glad as a result of it is a prestigious award that Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata have additionally obtained,” stated Suzuki, speaking about his longtime colleagues on the Japanese studio, throughout an award ceremony held just about.
In the meantime, Sayoko Kinoshita and her late husband Renzo, who based the Hiroshima Worldwide Animation Competition, obtained the June Foray Award, getting recognition for making a major affect on the artwork and trade of animation.
Not one of the three Japanese anime nominated within the Greatest Animated Impartial Function class obtained any prize. They have been “Belle,” “Fortune Favors Girl Nikuko” and “Pompo the Cinephile.”
The Danish animated documentary “Flee” received the award.
The class covers animated movies with a smaller distribution than main studio releases, proven at fewer than 1,000 theaters in the USA.
“The Mitchells vs. The Machines,” Sony Footage Leisure Inc.’s animation for Netflix, proved a giant winner this yr, receiving awards in a complete of eight classes together with Greatest Animated Function in addition to finest route in an animated function manufacturing.
