January 23, 2014

Mizuho Nishikubo's animated feature film Giovanni's Island is Best Animated Film 69th Mainichi Film Awards.

Started in 1946 (but with their roots dating back to 1935) and sponsored by the newspaper company Mainichi Shinbun, the Mainichi Film Awards celebrate every year the best in Japanese movie productions. The Best Animated Film Award was first established in 1989 to reward large scale cinematic animation.

In the past years, four Production I.G movies have been honoured with the Mainichi Film Awards: Patlabor 2: The Movie (Best Animated Film, 1993) Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (Best Animated Film, 1999), Blood: The Last Vampire (Ofuji Noburo Award, 2000) and The Sky Crawlers (Best Animated Film, 2008).

Mainichi Film Awards official website (Japanese only):
http://mainichi.jp/enta/cinema/mfa/etc/history/

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