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The Boy and the Heron
2023
· Movie
· 124 min
B
MEANRANK
79/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #157
- IMDb #206
- Google retired #395
- Rotten Tomatoes #73
- Metacritic #32
- Letterboxd #133
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #57
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #116
- Metacritic Critics #13
- Metacritic Audience #118
- Criticker #89
- Douban #176
- Kinopoisk #118
- AlloCiné #223
- Trakt #173
Every rating
58–96
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 58, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 96. Critics average 94, everyone else 76.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A young boy grieving his mother's death moves to a new home in the countryside during World War II. He discovers an abandoned tower and enters a fantastical world shared by the living and the dead, where life finds a new beginning and death finds a new end.
Details
- Director
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Writer
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Studio
- Studio Ghibli
- Released
- 14 July 2023
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $50.0M
- Box office
- $294.2M
- Awards
- 27 wins, 32 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 59 →2 major awards won · 27 wins from 59 nominations across 36 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 2024 | Best Animated Feature | Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki | Winner |
| Golden Globe Awards 2024 | Best Animated Feature Film | The Boy and the Heron | Winner |
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2024 | Best Animated Feature | The Boy and the Heron | Nominee |
| Critics' Choice Super Awards 2024 | Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Movie | The Boy and the Heron | Nominee |
| Golden Globe Awards 2024 | Best Original Score | Joe Hisaishi | Nominee |
| Producers Guild of America Awards 2024 | Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures | Toshio Suzuki | Nominee |
| Saturn Awards 2025 | Best Animated Film | The Boy and the Heron | Nominee |
| ADG Excellence in Production Design Awards 2024 | Excellence in Production Design for an Animated Film | Yōji Takeshige | Nominee |
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Golden Globe Awards
2 nominations, 1 won
| Best Animated Feature Film | The Boy and the Heron | Winner |
| Best Original Score | Joe Hisaishi | Nominee |
Academy Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Animated Feature | Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki | Winner |
Critics' Choice Movie Awards
1 nomination
| Best Animated Feature | The Boy and the Heron | Nominee |
Critics' Choice Super Awards
1 nomination
| Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Movie | The Boy and the Heron | Nominee |
Producers Guild of America Awards
1 nomination
| Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures | Toshio Suzuki | Nominee |
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
4 nominations, 3 won
| Best Animated Film | The Boy and the Heron | Winner |
| Best Film | The Boy and the Heron | Winner |
| Best Score | Joe Hisaishi | Winner |
| Best Foreign Language Film | The Boy and the Heron | Nominee |
Annie Awards
7 nominations, 2 won
| Outstanding Achievement for Character Animation in a Feature Production | Takeshi Honda | Winner |
| Outstanding Achievement for Storyboarding in a Feature Production | Hayao Miyazaki | Winner |
| Best Animated Feature | The Boy and the Heron | Nominee |
| Outstanding Achievement for Directing in a Feature Production | Hayao Miyazaki | Nominee |
| Outstanding Achievement for Music in a Feature Production | Joe Hisaishi | Nominee |
| Outstanding Achievement for Production Design in an Animated Feature Production | Yōji Takeshige | Nominee |
| Outstanding Achievement for Writing in a Feature Production | Hayao Miyazaki | Nominee |
International Cinephile Society Awards
4 nominations, 2 won
| Best Animated Film | The Boy and the Heron | Winner |
| Best Score | Joe Hisaishi | Winner |
| Best Picture | The Boy and the Heron | Nominee |
| Best Sound Design | Kōji Kasamatsu | Nominee |
Dorian Awards
3 nominations, 1 won
| Animated Film of the Year | The Boy and the Heron | Winner |
| Film Music of the Year | Joe Hisaishi | Nominee |
| Non-English Language Film of the Year | The Boy and the Heron | Nominee |
Astra Film and Creative Arts Awards
2 nominations, 1 won
| Best International Filmmaker | Hayao Miyazaki | Winner |
| Best Animated Feature | The Boy and the Heron | Nominee |
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
2 nominations, 1 won
| Best Animated Film | The Boy and the Heron | Winner |
| Best Foreign Language Film | The Boy and the Heron | Nominee |
International Film Music Critics Association Awards
2 nominations, 1 won
| Best Original Score for an Animated Film | Joe Hisaishi | Winner |
| Film Score of the Year | Joe Hisaishi | Nominee |
London Film Critics' Circle Awards
2 nominations, 1 won
| Animated Film of the Year | The Boy and the Heron | Winner |
| Foreign Language Film of the Year | The Boy and the Heron | Nominee |
AWFJ EDA Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Animated Film | The Boy and the Heron | Winner |
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Animated Film | The Boy and the Heron | Winner |
British Academy Film Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Animated Film | Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki | Winner |
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Animated Film | The Boy and the Heron | Winner |
Imagine Film Festival
1 nomination, 1 won
| Silver Scream Award | The Boy and the Heron | Winner |
Japan Academy Film Prize
1 nomination, 1 won
| Animation of the Year | The Boy and the Heron | Winner |
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Animated Film | The Boy and the Heron | Winner |
Mainichi Film Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Ōfuji Noburō Award | The Boy and the Heron | Winner |
National Board of Review Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Top Ten Films | The Boy and the Heron | Winner |
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Animated Film | The Boy and the Heron | Winner |
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Animated Film | The Boy and the Heron | Winner |
San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Animated Feature | The Boy and the Heron | Winner |
Satellite Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature | The Boy and the Heron | Winner |
Austin Film Critics Association Awards
2 nominations
| Best Animated Film | The Boy and the Heron | Nominee |
| Best International Film | The Boy and the Heron | Nominee |
Houston Film Critics Society Awards
2 nominations
| Best Animated Feature | The Boy and the Heron | Nominee |
| Best Original Score | Joe Hisaishi | Nominee |
Seattle Film Critics Society Awards
2 nominations
| Best Animated Feature | The Boy and the Heron | Nominee |
| Best International Film | The Boy and the Heron | Nominee |
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards
2 nominations
| Best Animated Feature | The Boy and the Heron | Nominee |
| Best Voice Performance | Masaki Suda | Nominee |
ADG Excellence in Production Design Awards
1 nomination
| Excellence in Production Design for an Animated Film | Yōji Takeshige | Nominee |
Cinema Audio Society Awards
1 nomination
| Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Motion Picture – Animated | Kōji Kasamatsu | Nominee |
Georgia Film Critics Association Awards
1 nomination
| Best International Film | The Boy and the Heron | Nominee |
Online Film Critics Society Awards
1 nomination
| Best Animated Film | The Boy and the Heron | Nominee |
Saturn Awards
1 nomination
| Best Animated Film | The Boy and the Heron | Nominee |
Society of Composers & Lyricists Awards
1 nomination
| Outstanding Original Score for a Studio Film | Joe Hisaishi | Nominee |