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‘The Boy and the Heron’ Wins Best Animated Feature Oscar

What is likely Japanese master Hayao Miyazaki's final film is also his second Oscar after he won for "Spirited Away" in 2002.

“While this dream-like warble of a swan song may be too pitchy and scattered to hit with the gale-force power that made ‘The Wind Rises’ feel like such a definitive farewell, ‘The Boy and the Heron’ finds Miyazaki so nakedly bidding adieu — to us, and to the crumbling kingdom of dreams and madness that he’ll soon leave behind — that it somehow resolves into an even more fitting goodbye, one graced with the divine awe and heart-stopping wistfulness of watching a true immortal make peace with their own death.” The film is in subtle ways a highly personal story for Miyazaki, as it opens with a scene of the firebombing in Japan during World War II that he lived through and depicts his father as a director at an aircraft manufacturing factory. The English-language dub of the film as put together by GKIDS stars Robert Pattinson, Christian Bale, Dave Bautista, Gemma Chan, Willem Dafoe, Florence Pugh, Mamadou Athie, Mark Hamill, Luca Padovan, Karen Fukuhara, Dan Stevens, Tony Revolori, and more.

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