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Studio Ghibli receives an honorary Palme d'Or at Cannes
The 2024 Cannes Film Festival awarded its honorary Palme d'Or to a studio rather than an individual for the first time.
The Cannes Film Festival recognized Studio Ghibli's body of work with an honorary Palme d'Or at its 2024 edition. It is the first time the festival has given this award to a group rather than to an individual filmmaker.
Founded in 1985 by Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata and producer Toshio Suzuki, the studio is behind films such as “My Neighbor Totoro,” “Princess Mononoke” and “Spirited Away.”
The tribute came at a very sweet moment for the studio, which just a few months earlier had won the Oscar for best animated feature with “The Boy and the Heron.”
For many fans, the award confirms what they already knew: Japanese animation is part of film history with a capital H.