The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) awarded Makoto Shinkai’s your name. (Kimi no Na wa.) anime film with its Best Animated Film award on Sunday.
The LAFCA previously awarded Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away with the Best Animated Film award in 2002, and the film went on to win the Best Animated Feature award in the Academy Awards in 2003.
The LAFCA also awarded Isao Takahata’s The Tale of the Princess Kaguya as Best Animated Film in 2014. your name. has earned 19,492,000,000 yen (about US$174 million) as of November 27, surpassing the 19.3 billion yen earnings of Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke anime film.
The two highest-grossing Japanese films in Japan include Spirited Away (30.8 billion yen) and Howl’s Moving Castle (19.6 billion yen).