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Hayao Miyazaki Inducted Into Science Fiction & Fantasy Hall of Fame
posted on by Egan Loo
The Science Fiction & Fantasy Hall of Fame announced on Thursday that it is inducting Leigh Brackett, author Olaf Stapledon, and director Stanley Kubrick.
Miyazaki rose to prominence in the 1970s on such television anime series as Isao Takahata founded Studio Ghibli.
With Ghibli, Miyazaki helmed the feature films Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess.
Spirited Away retired from directing feature films last year.
The Hall of Fame was founded in 1996 to honor "the lives, work, and ongoing legacies of science fiction and fantasy's greatest creators." It moved from the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas to its current home at the EMP Museum in Seattle in 2004. Its previous honorees have included Jules Verne. Miyazaki is the first Japanese inductee.
[Via Boing Boing]
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