Profile | プロフィール

Born / 生年月日
January 5, 1941 | Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

Age / 年齢
84 years old (as of 2025)

Occupation / 職業
Animator, Film Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Manga Artist

アニメーター、映画監督、脚本家、プロデューサー、漫画家

Nationality / 国籍
Japanese (日本)

Biography | 経歴

[English] Hayao Miyazaki is the greatest living master of animation and one of the few directors in cinema history whose entire body of work ranks among the medium’s highest achievements. From Nausicaä to The Boy and the Heron, his films offer extraordinary depth, moral seriousness, and a humanistic touch that has no equal in animation. He consistently explores themes of freedom and constraint, the beauty and destructiveness of technology, the bond between civilization and nature, and the unique courage found in childhood. Spirited Away is not just a masterpiece of animation, but one of the greatest films ever made in any medium. His latest work, The Boy and the Heron—created at age 82 with total creative freedom—is an incredible act of artistic self-renewal for a filmmaker of his age. He is, quite simply, irreplaceable.

[日本語] 宮崎駿監督は、アニメーションという分野において現存する最高の表現者であり、映画の歴史全体を見渡しても、その全作品が「最高峰の達成」と認められる数少ない監督の一人です。『ナウシカ』から『君たちはどう生きるか』に至るまで、彼の作品は並外れた表現の幅と道徳的な真剣さ、そして深い人間味に溢れています。自由と制約の問い、技術の持つ美しさと破壊性、人間文明と自然界の関係、そして人間の脆弱さと優雅さを支える「子供ならではの感性と勇気」への探求が、そこには一貫して流れています。『千と千尋の神隠し』は、アニメーション史上、そしてあらゆる映画の中でも最も偉大な作品の一つです。また、82歳にして、宣伝も脚本の完成も待たずに、自由な創造性だけで作り上げた『君たちはどう生きるか』は、高齢の映画監督による芸術的な自己更新として、映画史上もっとも驚くべき行為といえるでしょう。彼はまさに、代わりのきかない唯一無二の存在です。

Filmography | 監督作品

Feature Films as Director (監督長編作品)

Television Series as Director (テレビシリーズ監督作品)

Key Animation / Creative Contributions (主要アニメーター・創造的貢献)

Awards & Recognition | 受賞歴

Academy Awards (アカデミー賞)

Winner: 2 🏆 — First person to win Best Animated Feature twice

• Best Animated Feature – Spirited Away (2003) 🏆
• Best Animated Feature – The Boy and the Heron (2024) 🏆

Nominated:

• Best Animated Feature – The Wind Rises (2014) 🌟
• Academy Honorary Award – 2014 🏆 — for contributions to the art of animation and to cinema

Berlin International Film Festival (ベルリン国際映画祭)

• Golden Bear – Spirited Away (2002) 🏆 — first animated film to win the Golden Bear in competition

Venice International Film Festival (ヴェネツィア国際映画祭)

• Golden Lion (Honorary) – 2005 🏆 — for lifetime achievement

Golden Globe Awards (ゴールデングローブ賞)

• Best Animated Feature Film – The Boy and the Heron (2024) 🏆

Japanese Cultural Honours (日本の文化的栄誉)

• 文化功労者 (Person of Cultural Merit) – 1997 🏆
• 文化勲章 (Order of Culture) — Japan’s highest cultural distinction 🏆
• 紫綬褒章 (Medal with Purple Ribbon) — for distinguished achievement in the arts 🏆

Industry Recognition

• Annie Awards — multiple lifetime and individual production awards 🏆
• Consistently ranked in international critical polls among the greatest living filmmakers, regardless of medium 🏆
• Spirited Away ranked #1 greatest film of the 21st century — BBC Critics’ Poll (2022) 🏆

Box Office & Cultural Reach | 興行成績・文化的影響の規模

Studio Ghibli Museum, Mitaka: Opened 2001; designed by Miyazaki; permanent exhibition; advance tickets only; visited by hundreds of thousands annually

Studio Ghibli Theme Park (Ghibli Park, Nagakute, Aichi): Opened 2022; major national tourism attraction

Public Positions and Political Commitments

• Consistent and publicly expressed opposition to Japanese remilitarization and constitutional revision; has spoken about Article 9 of the Japanese constitution (the pacifist clause) with great seriousness on multiple occasions
• Environmental advocacy; the environmental vision of his films is directly continuous with his personal political commitments
• Opposition to nuclear power, expressed publicly after the Fukushima disaster of 2011
• Skepticism about the cultural effects of digitization and the internet on human attention and imagination, expressed in multiple public statements

External Links | 外部リンク

• IMDb
• Studio Ghibli Official
• Wikipedia (English)
• Wikipedia (日本語)
• Ghibli Museum
• Ghibli Park