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Spirited Away (2001)

Awards

Spirited Away

58 wins & 31 nominations

Academy Awards, USA

  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2003 Winner Oscar
    • Best Animated Feature
    • Hayao Miyazaki
    Hayao Miyazaki was not present at the awards ceremony. Presenter Cameron Diaz accepted the award on his behalf.

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA

  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2003 Winner Saturn Award
    • Best Animated Film
  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2003 Nominee Saturn Award
    • Best Writing
    • Hayao Miyazaki
    • Cindy Davis (english version)
    • Donald H. Hewitt (english version)
  • Joe Hisaishi at an event for Tokyo Family (2013)
    2003 Nominee Saturn Award
    • Best Music
    • Joe Hisaishi

Annie Awards

  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2003 Winner Annie
    • Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Theatrical Feature
  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2003 Winner Annie
    • Outstanding Directing in an Animated Feature Production
    • Hayao Miyazaki
  • Joe Hisaishi at an event for Tokyo Family (2013)
    2003 Winner Annie
    • Outstanding Music in an Animated Feature Production
    • Joe Hisaishi
  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2003 Winner Annie
    • Outstanding Writing in an Animated Feature Production
    • Hayao Miyazaki

Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards

  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2004 Nominee Silver Condor
    • Best Foreign Film (Mejor Película Extranjera)
    • Hayao Miyazaki
    Japan.

Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards

  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2003 Winner FCCA Award
    • Best Foreign-Language Film

Berlin International Film Festival

  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2002 Winner Golden Berlin Bear
    • Hayao Miyazaki
    Tied with Bloody Sunday (2002).

Boston Society of Film Critics Awards

  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2002 Winner Special Commendation
    For artistic contribution to the field of animation.

BAFTA Awards

  • Toshio Suzuki
    2004 Nominee BAFTA Film Award
    • Best Film not in the English Language
    • Toshio Suzuki
    • Hayao Miyazaki

British Independent Film Awards

  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2003 Nominee British Independent Film Award
    • Best Foreign Independent Film

Critics Choice Awards

  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2003 Winner Critics Choice Award
    • Best Animated Feature

Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival

  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2002 Winner Special Mention
    • Hayao Miyazaki
  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2002 Nominee Best Film
    • Hayao Miyazaki

César Awards, France

  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2003 Nominee César
    • Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger)
    • Hayao Miyazaki
    Japan.

Chicago Film Critics Association Awards

  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2003 Nominee CFCA Award
    • Best Foreign Language Film
    Japan.
  • Joe Hisaishi at an event for Tokyo Family (2013)
    2003 Nominee CFCA Award
    • Best Original Score
    • Joe Hisaishi

Christopher Awards

  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2003 Winner Christopher Award
    • Film
    • Hayao Miyazaki (director/screenwriter)
    • Toshio Suzuki (producer)
    • Yasuyoshi Tokuma (executive producer)
    • Takeyoshi Matsushita (executive producer)
    • Seiichirô Ujiie (executive producer)
    • Yutaka Narita (executive producer)
    • Kôji Hoshino (executive producer)
    • Banjirô Uemura (executive producer)
    • Hironori Aihara (executive producer)
    • Kirk Wise (U.S. director)
    • Cindy Davis (U.S. screenwriter)
    • Donald H. Hewitt (U.S. screenwriter)
    • Donald W. Ernst (U.S. producer)
    • John Lasseter (U.S. executive producer)

Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain

  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2003 Nominee CEC Award
    • Best Foreign Film (Mejor Película Extranjera)
    Japan.

Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards

  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2003 Winner DFWFCA Award
    • Best Animated Film

European Film Awards

  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2002 Nominee Screen International Award
    • Hayao Miyazaki
    Japan

Florida Film Critics Circle Awards

  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2003 Winner FFCC Award
    • Best Animation

Satellite Awards

  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2003 Winner Golden Satellite Award
    • Best Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media

Hong Kong Film Awards

  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2002 Winner Hong Kong Film Award
    • Best Asian Film
    Japan.

Hugo Awards

  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2003 Nominee Hugo
    • Best Dramatic Presentation - Long Form
    • Hayao Miyazaki (director, screenplay)
    • Cindy Davis (English version)
    • Donald H. Hewitt (English version)

International Horror Guild

  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2003 Nominee IHG Award
    • Best Movie

Awards of the Japanese Academy

  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2002 Winner Award of the Japanese Academy
    • Best Film
  • 2002 Winner Award of the Japanese Academy
    • Best Song
    • Yumi Kimura

London Critics Circle Film Awards

  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2004 Nominee ALFS Award
    • Foreign Language Film of the Year
    Japan.

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2010 Nominee LAFCA Award
    • Film of the Decade
    8th place
  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2002 Winner LAFCA Award
    • Best Animation
    • Hayao Miyazaki

Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA

  • 2003 Nominee Golden Reel Award
    • Best Sound Editing in Animated Features
    • Petra Bach (supervising adr editor)
    • Michihiro Itô (sound effects editor)
    • Tôru Noguchi (sound effects editor)
    • Robert L. Sephton (sound effects editor)

National Board of Review, USA

  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2002 Winner NBR Award
    • Best Animated Feature

New York Film Critics Circle Awards

  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2002 Winner NYFCC Award
    • Best Animated Film

Online Film Critics Society Awards

  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2003 Nominee OFCS Award
    • Best Foreign Language Film
  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2003 Winner OFCS Award
    • Best Animated Feature

San Francisco International Film Festival

  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2002 Winner Audience Award
    • Best Narrative Feature
    • Hayao Miyazaki

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America

  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2004 Nominee Nebula Award
    • Best Script
    • Hayao Miyazaki
    • Cindy Davis
    • Donald H. Hewitt

Young Artist Awards

  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2003 Nominee Young Artist Award
    • Best Family Feature Film - Animation

Cinekid

  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2002 Winner Cinekid Film Award
    • Hayao Miyazaki
    Tied with Parande Baze Koochak (2002).

Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival

  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2003 Winner Silver Scream Award
    • Hayao Miyazaki

Golden Trailer Awards

  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2003 Winner Golden Trailer
    • Best Animation/Family

Kinema Junpo Awards

  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2002 Winner Readers' Choice Award
    • Best Film
    • Hayao Miyazaki

Mainichi Film Concours

  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2002 Winner Mainichi Film Concours
    • Best Film
    • Hayao Miyazaki
  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2002 Winner Mainichi Film Concours
    • Best Animated Film
    • Hayao Miyazaki
  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2002 Winner Mainichi Film Concours
    • Best Director
    • Hayao Miyazaki
  • Joe Hisaishi at an event for Tokyo Family (2013)
    2002 Winner Mainichi Film Concours
    • Best Music Score
    • Joe Hisaishi
  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2002 Winner Readers' Choice Award
    • Best Film
    • Hayao Miyazaki

Blue Ribbon Awards

  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2002 Winner Blue Ribbon Award
    • Best Film
    • Hayao Miyazaki

Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards

  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2003 Nominee PFCS Award
    • Overlooked Film of the Year
  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2003 Winner PFCS Award
    • Best Animated Film

Durban International Film Festival

  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2002 Winner Best Film
    • Hayao Miyazaki

Cambridge Film Festival

  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2003 Winner Audience Award
    • Best Film
    • Hayao Miyazaki

Nikkan Sports Film Awards

  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2001 Winner Nikkan Sports Film Award
    • Best Film

Jeonju International Film Festival

  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2002 Winner Audience Award
    • Hayao Miyazaki

New York Film Critics, Online

  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2002 Winner NYFCO Award
    • Best Animated Feature

Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards

  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2009 Nominee DFCC
    • Best Film of the Decade
    Tied with Let the Right One In (2008) in 10th place

Turkish Film Critics Association (SIYAD) Awards

  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2005 Nominee SIYAD Award
    • Best Foreign Film
    2nd Place

Utah Film Critics Association Awards

  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2002 Winner UFCA Award
    • Best Picture
  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2002 Winner UFCA Award
    • Best Director
    • Hayao Miyazaki
    • Kirk Wise (English version)
  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2002 Winner UFCA Award
    • Best Screenplay
    • Hayao Miyazaki
    • Cindy Davis (English version)
    • Donald H. Hewitt (English version)
  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2002 Winner UFCA Award
    • Best Non-English Language Film
    Japan

Tokyo Anime Award

  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2002 Winner Animation of the Year
    • Grand Prix
    • Hayao Miyazaki
  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2002 Winner Best Director
    • Film Category
    • Hayao Miyazaki
  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2002 Winner Best Screenplay
    • Film Category
    • Hayao Miyazaki
  • 2002 Winner Best Art Direction
    • Film Category
    • Yôji Takeshige
  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2002 Winner Best Character Design
    • Film Category
    • Hayao Miyazaki

Online Film & Television Association

  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2019 Winner OFTA Film Hall of Fame
    • Motion Picture
  • Toshio Suzuki
    2003 Winner OFTA Film Award
    • Best Animated Picture
    • Toshio Suzuki
    • Donald W. Ernst (English version)
  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2003 Nominee OFTA Film Award
    • Best Foreign Language Film
    Japan
  • Joe Hisaishi at an event for Tokyo Family (2013)
    2003 Nominee OFTA Film Award
    • Best Music, Original Score
    • Joe Hisaishi
  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2003 Nominee OFTA Film Award
    • Best Cinematic Moment
    The Train Ride.

Awards Circuit Community Awards

  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2002 Winner ACCA
    • Best Animated Feature Film

Italian Online Movie Awards (IOMA)

  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2004 Nominee IOMA
    • Best Animated Feature Film (Miglior film d'animazione)

Golden Schmoes Awards

  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2002 Nominee Golden Schmoes
    • Best Animated Movie of the Year

International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA)

  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2003 Nominee INOCA
    • Best Original Screenplay
    • Hayao Miyazaki
  • Joe Hisaishi at an event for Tokyo Family (2013)
    2003 Nominee INOCA
    • Best Original Score
    • Joe Hisaishi
  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2003 Winner INOCA
    • Best Non-English Language Film
    • Hayao Miyazaki
    Japan
  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2003 Winner INOCA
    • Best Animated Feature
    • Hayao Miyazaki

Gold Derby Awards

  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2003 Winner Gold Derby Film Award
    • Animated Feature

AARP Movies for Grownups Awards

  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2003 Winner Movies for Grownups Award
    • Best Movie for Grownups Who Refuse to Grow Up

Cahiers du Cinéma

  • Hayao Miyazaki at an event for Ponyo (2008)
    2002 Nominee Top 10 Film Award
    • Best Film
    • Hayao Miyazaki
    Eighth Place; tied with Spider (2002)

BBC Four World Cinema Awards

  • Spirited Away (2001)
    2004 Nominee BBC Four World Cinema Award

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