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Spirited Away
2001
· Movie
· 124 min
A+
MEANRANK
90/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4
- IMDb #4
- Google retired #39
- Rotten Tomatoes #12
- Metacritic #1
- Letterboxd #5
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #60
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #16
- Metacritic Critics #2
- Metacritic Audience #1
- Criticker #1
- Douban #1
- Kinopoisk #5
- AlloCiné #5
- Trakt #6
Every rating
76–96
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 76, highest is Metacritic critics on 96.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A sullen ten-year-old girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a mysterious and secluded spirit world after her parents undergo a terrifying transformation. To survive and find a way to free her family and return to the human world, she must get a job in a bathhouse for gods and spirits, working under a ruthless witch.
Details
- Director
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Writer
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Released
- 20 July 2001
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese, English
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $19.0M
- Box office
- $274.9M
- Awards
- 32 wins, 5 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 37 →5 major awards won · 32 wins from 37 nominations across 22 ceremonies
| 75th Academy Awards 2003 | Best Animated Feature | Spirited Away | Winner |
| 8th Critics' Choice Awards 2003 | Best Animated Feature | Spirited Away | Winner |
| 25th Japan Academy Award 2002 | Best Song | Youmi Kimura | Winner |
| 25th Japan Academy Award 2002 | Best Film | Spirited Away | Winner |
| 52nd Berlin International Film Festival 2002 | Golden Bear | Spirited Away | Winner |
| 28th César Awards 2003 | Best Foreign Film | Spirited Away | Nominee |
| 57th British Academy Film Awards 2004 | Best Film Not in the English Language | Spirited Away | Nominee |
| 19th Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival 2003 | Silver Scream Award | Spirited Away | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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25th Japan Academy Award
2 nominations, 2 won
| Best Film | Spirited Away | Winner |
| Best Song | Youmi Kimura | Winner |
52nd Berlin International Film Festival
1 nomination, 1 won
| Golden Bear | Spirited Away | Winner |
75th Academy Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Animated Feature | Spirited Away | Winner |
8th Critics' Choice Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Animated Feature | Spirited Away | Winner |
28th César Awards
1 nomination
| Best Foreign Film | Spirited Away | Nominee |
Tokyo Anime Award
8 nominations, 8 won
| Animation of the Year | Spirited Away | Winner |
| Best Art Direction | Yôji Takeshige [ ja ] | Winner |
| Best Character Design | Hayao Miyazaki | Winner |
| Best Director | Hayao Miyazaki | Winner |
| Best Music | Joe Hisaishi | Winner |
| Best Screenplay | Hayao Miyazaki | Winner |
| Best Voice Actor | Rumi Hiiragi as Chihiro | Winner |
| Notable Entry | Hayao Miyazaki | Winner |
30th Annie Awards
4 nominations, 4 won
| Best Animated Feature | Spirited Away | Winner |
| Directing in an Animated Feature Production | Hayao Miyazaki | Winner |
| Music in a Feature Production | Joe Hisaishi | Winner |
| Writing in a Feature Production | Hayao Miyazaki | Winner |
56th Mainichi Film Awards
3 nominations, 3 won
| Best Animated Film | Spirited Away | Winner |
| Best Director | Hayao Miyazaki | Winner |
| Best Film | Spirited Away | Winner |
29th Saturn Awards
3 nominations, 1 won
| Best Animated Film | Spirited Away | Winner |
| Best Music | Joe Hisaishi | Nominee |
| Best Writing | Hayao Miyazaki Cindy Davis Hewitt (English adaptation) Donald H. Hewitt (English adaptation) | Nominee |
19th Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival
1 nomination, 1 won
| Silver Scream Award | Spirited Away | Winner |
21st Hong Kong Film Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Asian Film | Spirited Away | Winner |
44th Blue Ribbon Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Film | Spirited Away | Winner |
54th Christopher Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Feature Film | Spirited Away | Winner |
5th Japan Media Arts Festival
1 nomination, 1 won
| Grand Prize | Spirited Away | Winner |
68th New York Film Critics Circle Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Animated Feature | Spirited Away | Winner |
6th Animation Kobe
1 nomination, 1 won
| Theatrical Film Award | Spirited Away | Winner |
7th Golden Satellite Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature | Spirited Away | Winner |
Cinekid Festival
1 nomination, 1 won
| Cinekid Film Award | Spirited Away | Winner |
National Board of Review
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Animated Film | Spirited Away | Winner |
New York Film Critics Online
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Animated Feature | Spirited Away | Winner |
57th British Academy Film Awards
1 nomination
| Best Film Not in the English Language | Spirited Away | Nominee |
Hugo Awards
1 nomination
| Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form) | Spirited Away | Nominee |