2001Winner
Best Performance
Spirited Away
Nizou Yamamoto
Actor · Director · Writer
Fukue, Nagasaki, Japan [now Goto, Nagasaki, Japan]
June 27, 1953
Biography
Nizou Yamamoto (山本 二三, Yamamoto Nizō) was born on 27 June 1953 in Fukue-shi (a town within Gotou City [Gotou-shi]), in Nagasaki Prefecture, and was one of the most well-known anime art directors and background artists in Japan. He was especially famous for his work on several of the Studio Ghibli films directed or produced by Hayao Miyazaki or Isao Takahata including Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986), Grave of the Fireflies (1988), Only Yesterday (1991), Whisper of the Heart (1995), Princess Mononoke (1997), and Spirited Away (2001).
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1997Winner
Best Performance
Princess Mononoke
1998Winner
Best Performance
Perfect Blue
Career Highlights
1986Highlight
Best Performance
Castle in the Sky
1995Highlight
Best Performance
Whisper of the Heart
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Spirited Away
Princess Mononoke
Perfect Blue