Mamoru Hosoda’s Mirai film won the Animation of the Year award at the 42nd annual Japan Academy Prizes on Friday.
The Nippon Academy-Sho Association, a Japanese group roughly comparable to America’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Oscars fame, presents the Japan Academy Prizes every year.
Before that, Studio Ghibli won the overall Picture of the Year Award for Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away.
Go, Panda!, Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro) received an Association’s Special Award for lifetime achievement.