The 47th Animation Awards hosted by the International Association of Animated Films announced on December 3 that the late Japanese director Satoshi Kon, who was well-known in the industry for his masterpieces such as Millennium Actress, won the International Association of Animated Films Lifetime Achievement Award. He is also the second Japanese animation film director to win this honor after Mamoru Oshii. Satoshi Kon (October 12, 1963 - August 24, 2010), born in Kushiro, Hokkaido, is a Japanese animation director, screenwriter, and cartoonist. In 1984, he won the Young Magazine Newcomer Award for his first comic "The Path". In 1997, he directed his first animated film "Perfect Blue", which established the weird style of his works and won the Best Film at the Asian Fantasy Film Festival. In 2001, the animated film Millennium Actress directed by him was released, and the film was selected as the best animation of the year by the Multimedia Art Festival of the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs. In 2006, he directed his last animated film Paprika, which was shortlisted for the Golden Lion Award at the 63rd Venice International Film Festival. On August 24, 2010, Kon Satoshi died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 46. |
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