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Spirited Away was the first anime to win an Oscar

Studio Ghibli's film won Best Animated Feature in 2003

Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 2003 ceremony, becoming the first anime film to do so. Made by Studio Ghibli, it had earlier become the highest-grossing film in Japanese history.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Studio Ghibli's film won Best Animated Feature in 2003. The figure is taken from Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 1,090 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.