"Sky Crawlers" takes 3 at Sitges

[ryuk007]

The Sitges Film Festival came to a close on Sunday, and the full list of award winners has been revealed. Overall, Japanese films picked up fewer prizes compared to last year, but Mamoru Oshii's animated movie "The Sky Crawlers" won three awards on its own.

"Sky Crawlers" was the only animated film in the competition section of this year's festival. One other Japanese film, Takashi Miike's "Crows ZERO," also competed.

"Sky Crawlers" was one of the competition winners, earning Best Original Soundtrack for Kenji Kawai's score. It also earned the Jose Luis Guarner Critic Award and shared the Best Motion Picture award from the Carnet Jove Jury (a youth jury).

Meanwhile, Miike's "Kamisama no Puzzle" ("God's Puzzle") received Special Mention in the Noves Visions awards. Fernando Meirelles' "Blindness," which had Yoshino Kimura and Yusuke Iseya in its supporting cast, received the Grand Audience Award.

-Sitges Film Festival

[hillinger]

Im really interested in watching Sky Crawlers, so its nice to hear thet its get such a good feedback!
I hope the movie will be available soon

[360*]

will be waiting for the movie......

i watched Sky Crawlers over and over again......

[jeek]

There was impossibility in the outline of the talk for a moment, and it withered though the picture was good so that there may beautifully and overall be the distinctive atmosphere by you.

I want to meet the work with a deep depth of the story like koukaku again.

[Wolfy]

Oshii-san is definately a favourite director of mine so really looking forward to seeing this. Just hoping it will get a cinema (theater) release over here but doubt it will. There is a live action movie he directed called Avalon which I don't think many people know about and if you like his stuff then you should definitely check that out.