Legendary Oscar winner skipped this year\u2019s awards, and everyone made the same joke GKIDSThe 96th Academy Awards have just happened, and among all the incredible winners, there\u2019s one who decided not to show. Hayao Miyazaki wasn\u2019t present for The Boy and the Heron\u2019s big victory, spurring a lot of the same jokes on social media. It should come as no surprise to hear that Hayao Miyazaki\u2019s latest anime movie took home the Best Animated Feature statue, since he\u2019s one of our greatest living filmmakers. His big return after retiring in 2014 (not for the first time), The Boy and the Heron is another gorgeous, whimsical film that epitomizes the charm of Studio Ghibli. He had stiff competition, particularly from Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, another awesome and perfectly acceptable choice, but he won out for his second Oscar, after Spirited Away in 2003. Alas, he wasn\u2019t there to accept that prize either. In fact, he\u2019s never attended the Oscars any time he\u2019s been nominated \u2013 and there have been a few times \u2013 leading fans to make the same observation over and over on X, formerly Twitter. Studio Ghibli fans all made the same joke after Hayao Miyazaki didn\u2019t attend the Oscars Everyone essentially delivered memes about how Hayao sees Hollywood\u2019s big ceremony. The most common meme involves Donald Duck being awoken in the night, looking sleepy and annoyed, before returning to slumber. This, to many onlookers, epitomizes Hayao\u2019s perspective on American awards \u2013 a noisy distraction from his day-to-day life. Being nominated and winning is nice, but it\u2019s a calamity he doesn\u2019t seem to regard in much esteem whatsoever. Other memes used Hayao quotes from documentaries, where his often dry delivery makes for some very relatable quotes about exhaustion and hassle. Although he hasn\u2019t gone on record too extensively about the Academy Awards, he has stated that he refused to attend in 2003 because of America\u2019s prolonged assault on Iraq at the time. He wasn\u2019t in attendance for nominations of Howl\u2019s Moving Castle or The Wind Rises, either, but since they didn\u2019t win, there was less attention placed on that. Perhaps he just doesn\u2019t consider the Oscars a worthwhile ceremony to attend, since he\u2019d have to fly internationally, taking time out of whatever other projects he has going on. Whatever his reasons, I\u2019m sure the second Oscar will sit just as prominently in his collection as the first. Have a look at our guides to Demon Slayer Season 4 and My Hero Academia Season 7 for what anime is coming up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Legendary Oscar winner skipped this year\u2019s awards, and everyone made the same joke GKIDSThe 96th Academy Awards have just happened, and among all the incredible winners, there\u2019s one who decided not to show. Hayao Miyazaki wasn\u2019t present for The Boy and the Heron\u2019s big victory, spurring a lot of the same jokes on social media. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}