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Hayao Miyazaki was born on may 1st 1941 in Bunkyo Tokyo Japan during world war II.
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He began his career as an animator with Toei Animation.co
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Recieved first recognition for his work as an animator "In-between artist (creating transitioning movment between the drawn frams)"
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Gained more of his recongnition from his work and became the chief of animated film “Hols: Prince of the Sun”
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Miyazaki left Toei animation for other companies such as; Mushi Production, A Pro, Nippon Animation, and TMS Entertainment back in the early 70's.
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He later was able to direct his first animated film. "“The castle Of Cagliostro" a movie for a Manga series (Manga = like black and white japanese comicbooks)
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In the late 80's Miyazaki gained much praise for his well directed film "My neighbor Totoro" by animation studio Ghibli, also a well beloved film here in the west.
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In the late 90's he Directed the film "Princess Mononoke" It was better than some other of his films before, earning it a veriaty of awards. Astonishingly it won 21 awards, including one Acadamy award.
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Realesed date of his most famous/ biggest animated film "Spirited Away" So great it won 34 awards Including the best animated feature at the 75th Academy Awards.
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In July 2004 Miyazaki completed the production of "Howl's Moving Castle" a film based on Diana Wynne Jones' 1986's fantasy novel with the same title.
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He recived the Lifetime Achivement Award at the Venice (Italy) Film Feastival.
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In september last year Hayao Miyazaki realeased that he would finally be retirering at the ripe age of 73 from directing, though many don't think he's finished making movies he seems to already have been finished with all his gathered respects.
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Finally his most reacently directed film "The Wind Rises" was just realesed July 20th in Japan and is About to have an American realese Febuary 21st (though it's limited to few theaters) also its been nominated and is pending quite a few awards!
