Mamoru Hosoda (ç´°ç"° 守, Hosoda Mamoru, born September 19, 1967) is
a Japanese film director and animator. He was nominated for an Academy
Award in the category Best Animated Feature Film at the 91st Academy
Awards for his eighth film Mirai.Hosoda was born in Kamiichi,
Nakaniikawa District, Toyama, Japan. His father worked as a railway
engineer, and his mother was a tailor. Hosoda initially felt inspired
to take up animation as a career after seeing The Castle of
Cagliostro, the first film directed by Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli
fame. He majored in oil painting at the Kanazawa College of Art in
Ishikawa Prefecture.After graduation, Hosoda was able to land an
animation job at Toei Animation, after submitting a short film that he
had animated in his spare time. He initially applied at Studio Ghibli;
though he did not get the job, he received a rejection letter of
praise from Hayao Miyazaki himself.During his time at Toei, Hosoda
worked his way up, garnering public attention in the early 2000s with
the first two films in the Digimon Adventure series. It was his first
co-directed film, Digimon: The Movie, which attracted the eye of
Ghibli head producer Toshio Suzuki.
a Japanese film director and animator. He was nominated for an Academy
Award in the category Best Animated Feature Film at the 91st Academy
Awards for his eighth film Mirai.Hosoda was born in Kamiichi,
Nakaniikawa District, Toyama, Japan. His father worked as a railway
engineer, and his mother was a tailor. Hosoda initially felt inspired
to take up animation as a career after seeing The Castle of
Cagliostro, the first film directed by Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli
fame. He majored in oil painting at the Kanazawa College of Art in
Ishikawa Prefecture.After graduation, Hosoda was able to land an
animation job at Toei Animation, after submitting a short film that he
had animated in his spare time. He initially applied at Studio Ghibli;
though he did not get the job, he received a rejection letter of
praise from Hayao Miyazaki himself.During his time at Toei, Hosoda
worked his way up, garnering public attention in the early 2000s with
the first two films in the Digimon Adventure series. It was his first
co-directed film, Digimon: The Movie, which attracted the eye of
Ghibli head producer Toshio Suzuki.
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