Thee Wreckers Tetralogy from Dutch artist Rosto, no stranger to competition recognition throughout his lifetime, received the Evolve award for works that assist to evolve the animation artform. Over the course of his spectacular profession, Rosto received prizes at Cannes, Clermont-Ferrand, Hiroshima, and Ottawa, amongst others. Sadly, the filmmaker, effective artist, and musician died from lung most cancers in 2019.
Ryôtarô Makihara’s Vampire within the Backyard: The Film, obtainable on Netflix as a collection within the U.S., acquired an honorable point out from the jury.
Ghost within the Shell director Mamoru Oshii, who presided over this 12 months’s jury, defined the group’s decisions, saying:
Animation expression is inherently various. And there’s at all times a method that matches every work. For this 12 months’s competition, the standards for judging have been considerably completely different from these of a traditional movie competition, primarily based on whether or not there was a method that greatest suited the supposed message of the work. The three awards, aside from the Grand Prix, have been newly invented in discussions amongst the jury members and are, so to talk, unprecedented awards. Every of those awards symbolizes the present place of the work or the expression of animation and the place it’s in in the present day.
2023 Niigata Worldwide Animation Movie Pageant Awards
Grand Prix
Blind Willow, Sleeping Girl, Pierre Földes
Kabuku Award
Khamsa – The Effectively of Oblivion, Khaled Chiheb
Evolve Award
Thee Wreckers Tetralogy, Rosto
Honorable Point out
Vampire within the Backyard: The Film, Ryôtarô Makihara
