Award-winning Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, a director and founder of the renowned Japanese animation powerhouse Studio Ghibli, has been recognized as one of the 2024 Ramon Magsaysay Awardees.
Miyazaki is being honored for “his lifelong commitment to the use of art, specifically animation, to illuminate the human condition, especially lauding his devotion to children as the torchbearers of the imagination, to whom he has passed the light and spark of his own.”
Among his films are “Spirited Away” and “The Boy and the Heron,” which both won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
The other awardees this year are Bhutan’s Karma Phuntsho, Vietnam’s Nguyen Thi Ngoc Phuong, Indonesia’s Farwiza Farhan, and Thailand’s Rural Doctors Movement.
Each of them will receive a medallion bearing the likeness of the late President Ramon Magsaysay, a certificate inscribed with their citation, and a cash prize.
Meanwhile, the award will be formally bestowed at the 66th Ramon Magsaysay Awards Presentation Ceremonies on November 16 at Manila’s Metropolitan Theater.
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