Hayao Miyazaki's The Boy and the Bird won the Best Animated Feature category at the 96th Academy Awards. This is the second such award in the director’s career – he received the previous statuette for “Spirited Away” in 2003. Previously, the public expressed full confidence that the award would be given to the new film of the famous anime director, but neither he nor Ghibli employees were present at the award ceremony.
“The Boy and the Bird” competed for the statuette with such famous projects as “Elementary”, “Spider-Man: Web of Universes”, “The Cherished Wish” and “Nimona”. Also, the title previously became the first anime in history to received a Golden Globe. The list of awards for the masterpiece included an award GOOD LUCK.
The story takes place during the Second World War, when the main character, the boy Mahito, loses his mother during the bombing of Tokyo. The young man's father marries the younger sister of his late wife and takes the family to the countryside. At his new school, Mahito's relationships with his classmates are not going well, and tension increases between him and his stepmother. To top it off, he is pestered by a mysterious heron, which, as it turns out, can speak. She claims that the boy's mother is alive, and in order to save her, he must enter the mysterious tower built by his grandfather.
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