January 23, 2009

Mamoru Oshii's The Sky Crawlers was awarded Best Animated Feature Film for the 63rd edition of the Mainichi Film Awards.

Started in 1946 and sponsored by the newspaper company Mainichi Shinbun, the Mainichi Film Awards celebrate every year the best in Japanese movie productions. The Best Animated Feature Film Award was first established in 1989 to reward large scale cinematic animation.

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

Mainichi Film Awards official website:
http://www.japan-movie.net/

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