The Japanese anime film emerged as a major awards contender after winning a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. “The Boy and the Heron” was No. 1 at the North American box office when it premiered in ...

If The Boy and the Heron were to win this year’s animated feature Oscar, it would be the first non-American film to do so since Aardman’s Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit in 2005.

Takeshi Honda, a supervising animator on The Boy and the Heron, was gifted the award to the surprise of many. Honda’s honor marks the second time in 14 years that a 2D animator has won the award ...

Hayao Miyazaki won his second Oscar on Sunday for his semi-autobiographical Japanese animated feature film "The Boy and the Heron," a fantasy tale about a boy grieving his dead mother.