Suzuki pointed specifically to Woody Allen and what had been a lucrative deal with Amazon. The remaining founders were also influenced by a number of artists who were eschewing theatrical distribution for the ubiquity of streaming. “The film reflects on Miyazaki contemplating how he’s lived his life up until now.” “The boy, the protagonist, is very similar to Hayao Miyazaki,” Suzuki said.

Miyazaki’s son Goro began work on Studio Ghibli’s first computer-animation project, a still untitled film centered on a young girl, a character Suzuki called “the wisest person on Earth.” That work prompted the elder Miyazaki to begin plotting his own return to moviemaking with the hand-drawn “How Do You Live?,” which follows a 15-year-old boy’s journey of spiritual growth following the death of his father. Five years later, Takahata died and the remaining founders began discussing how to preserve Studio Ghibli’s legacy. Miyazaki announced his retirement in 2013 after finishing the Oscar-nominated “The Wind Rises” and soon after closed the studio. Macaulay currently lives with his family in Vermont.For one, Studio Ghibli has undergone a transformation in the past few years. He was U.S.nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in both 19. His numerous awards include the MacArthur Fellowship, the Caldecott Medal, won for his book Black and White, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Christopher Award, an American Institute of Architects Medal, the Washington Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award, the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, the Dutch Silver Slate Pencil Award, and the Bradford Washburn Award, presented by the Museum of Science in Boston to an outstanding contributor to science. The next four years were spent working in interior design, teaching junior and senior high school art and tinkering with the idea of making books. He received his degree in 1969 after spending his fifth year with RISD’s European Honors Program in Rome. An early fascination with simple technology and a love of model making and drawing ultimately led him to study architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Born on December 2, 1946, David Macaulay was ten when his family moved from England to the United States.

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