The Difference that Won an Oscar

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It’s wild how people fail to realize the The Boy and the Heron’s win is such a massive deal due to the fact that it is the first adult animated film to take home the Best Animated Feature award, which shows that animated films don’t have to be made for children, and can engulf adults into captivating worlds with intricate stories. 🔥

“If you’re going to lose, you might as well lose to the GOAT”

"spiderman is a wagiu steak in a michelin restaurant while the boy and the heron is a meal your parents or grandparents cooked" I love this comparison, reminds me of ratatouille where Anton Ego fell in love with Remy's cooking not because it was some fancy food but simply because it tasted like home.

People keep saying crap about nostalgia, but i don't think it's nostalgia. I think we just miss quality.

we, the people are robbed every year by the academy forcing "animated film" into its own category, as if the entire medium is a single genre. We're robbed every time that only one film is allowed to get the award for an entire medium, and beautiful works of art are unnecessarily shunted because there can only be one "winner" for the whole art form.

I mean, being a complete story sure helps a lot I reckon.

Honestly, I really hate it when people don't take animation seriously. Animation can deliver stories that are just as great as those of live-action movies. In fact, the shows that were the most thought-provoking to me and made me appreciate life more were anime shows, which include Sousou no Frieren, Mob Psycho 100, and Violet Evergarden. I too hope that animation gets more categories.

I lost my dad last year, a week before Spiderverse came out. It was heavy and emotional for me to watch the relationships between Gwen and Miles' and their dads. After a few months, I started to feel some semblance of "normal" returning to my life. Then, The Boy and the Heron came out. That film dug deep and literally had me in tears at so many parts in the film. It had themes of losing a parent, and if you had just one more day with someone you love, what you say, what would you do with them. It was actually a very healing experience for me.

When people say "every frame a painting" this is the kind of movie they are refering to. I'm affraid the world at large will leave something important behind when the grumpy old man will go. He's pretty much the only internationally recognised name that strive to maintain the old ways and his artistry will probably die with him, and I don't find that a comforting prospect...

yk what pisses me off the most? The fact that people who did not even watch the boy and the heron say that spiderman should have won and don't simply appreciate how great both movies are. Animation is before anything else made to convey a certain message which some people seem to miss. And the worst part of it all is that exactly those people are the loudest.

Honestly, I’m just grateful that this year’s most promising nominees were pretty much win-win situations. The Boy and the Heron or Across the Spider-verse, either of them winning was a win for animation, and I’m just glad it was so.

Animation is a medium not a genre seems the Academy still do not understand this after all these years....

When I was younger, in my teens, I had an interaction with an elderly man. I’d known him for many years through my grandmother but I never really talked to him all that much or anything so it’s not like we were close. I was sitting down just playing some music on my phone while I was around a campfire and I eventually played Over the Rainbow. I’m casually starting the song then I hear a faint “somewhere over the rainbow, way up high”. It was the old man on the chair across from me singing along to the song. It was quiet and peaceful and extremely eye opening for me, someone who was younger and thought the world revolved around me. This moment reminded me that the world around me was real and the experiences of others around me were valid. The Boy and the Heron reminds me of that moment. Hayao Miyazaki did for the rest of the world what that old man did for me, provided a reminder that the world is alive, quiet, and powerful if you pay attention.

You forgot to mention how the film also adresses Miyazaki's conflict with his own son who hasnt received recognition also as an animator... Awards are subjective and the whole Academy system is broken down. Miyazaki winning is one those rare "worthy wins", because a lot of the times it comes down to politics, popularity, or simply luck. I love both movies an I wish both could have won. Period. Great video!! Thanx!!!

A tad bit biased because I'm a huge Miyazaki fan, but I honestly don't really understand why people are so pissed that TBATH won. I mean yeah, if you're like a die-hard Spiderverse fan, I can see where you're coming from, but this is the first time in over two decades a movie like THIS has won. Come on, give em some credit. And yes, both movies were absolutely phenomenal and beautifully made in their respective ways, but I mean still... Edit: Should I have not made this comment? Sorry if thats the case

I'm happy Ghibli won, but ATSV should've atleast been nominated for its music and editing. Grouping all the animated features into one category is so stupidly disrespectful towards the craft. They should try and expand it more by incorporating new awards Pinning Boy&Heron against ATSV is unfair as both films are exceptional in their own right. Not one is better than the other. Personally i am so happy Boy&Heron won as it ushered my local theatres to finally show it, and i got to see it on the big screen. It was worth the wait!!!

Across the spiderverse was great I loved it for its characters, backgrounds, it looks like a comic in motion. Miyazaki takes me by the hand and sets a journey. In it I’m 12 years old again vulnerable, furious at the world for its cruelty. In the end I’m deep in my own emotions, and he’s there saying, “Are you happy to be alive?”

Seeing people dismiss Boy and the Herons animation as less complex or impressive than ATSV honestly hurts. I'm as excited as anyone for the boundaries ATSV pushed for CGI and digital animation techniques, but BATH let us see what hand-drawn animated features could be today had they not been largely replaced by CGI. BATH isn't flashy but it shines in the mastery of the principles of animation, which makes the bedrock ASTV builds on, and BATH did it better than perhaps anyone ever has.

0:19 - That's not what he was doing there. He was at a demonstration where someone was presenting a CGI animation of a humanlike creature with very deformed arms crawling around on the ground and they were pitching the program as useful for horror themed animation. Miyazaki instead noted that he has a friend who is similarly deformed and admonished the presenter's proposal. That was a great moment that showed that Miyazaki is always making the human connection.