Spirited Away (film information)

This page contains miscellaneous showbiz information about the film Spirited Away.

Awards

• Best Animated Feature Film; 75th Annual Academy Awards
• Best Film; 2001 Japanese Academy Awards
• Golden Bear (tied); 2002 Berlin International Film Festival
• Best Animated Feature; 2002 New York Film Critics Circle Awards
• Special Commendation for Achievement in Animation; 2002 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
• Best Animated Feature; 2002 Los Angeles Film Critics Awards
• Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Feature Production; 2002 Annie Awards
• Best Directing in an Animated Feature Production; 2002 Annie Awards
• Best Writing in an Animated Feature Production; 2002 Annie Awards
• Best Music in an Animated Feature Production; 2002 Annie Awards
• Best Animated Feature; 2002 Critics' Choice Awards
• Best Animated Feature; 2002 New York Film Critics Online Award
• Best Animated Feature; 2002 Florida Film Critics Circle
• Best Animated Feature; 2002 National Board of Review
• Best Original Score in the Category of Comedy or Musical; 78th Annual Glaubber Awards
• Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media; 7th Annual Golden Satellite Awards
• Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature; 45th San Francisco International Film Festival
• Special Mention from the Jury; 2002 Sitges Film Festival
• Best Asian Film; 2002 Hong Kong Film Awards
• Best Animated Film; 29th Annual Saturn Awards
• Best Film (tied); Cinekid 2002 International Children's Film Festival
• Best Animated Feature; Online Film Critic Society
• Best Animated Feature; Dallas-Forth Worth Critics
• Best Animated Film; Phoenix Film Critics Society
• Silver Scream Award; 19th Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival
• Best Family/Animation Trailer; Fourth Annual Golden Trailer Awards
• Brilliant Dreams Award 2003; Bulgari
• Award Winner, Film; 2003 Christopher Awards
• Award Winner, Most Spiritually Literate Films of 2002 (You); Spirituality & Health Awards
• Best Movie for Grownups who Refuse to Grow Up, Best Movies for Grownups Awards; AARP The Magazine
• #3 most popular foreign film in UK; Pearl and Dean survey (2007)

Critic's Pick

Dave Kehr, New York Times: #1 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Tied for #1 Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: #1 Lawrence Toppman, Charlotte Observer: #1 Jeff Vice, Deseret News: #1 Travis Crawford, Village Voice: #1 Gene Seymour, Newsday: #1 Luke Y. Thompson, New Times: #1 Jeanne Aufmuth, Palo Alto Weekly: #1 Lance Goldenberg, Weekly Planet: #1 Sasha Stone, Santa Monica Mirror: #1 Rob Nelson, City Pages: #1 Staff, Filmjerk.com: Tied for #1 Mark Palermo, Halifax Weekly Coast: #1 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: #2 Jeffrey Anderson, San Francisco Examiner: #2 Jan Stuart, Newsday: #2 Sarah Kerr, Vogue: #2 Nick Rutigliano, Village Voice: #2 Barry Caine, Alameda Newspaper Group: #2 Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: #2 Ron Weiskind, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: #2 Curt Holman, Creative Loafing Atlanta: #2 Terri Sutton, City Pages: #2 Kyle Counts, Gay and Lesbian Times: #2 David Ansen, NEWSWEEK: #3 Sean Means, Salt Lake Tribune: #3 Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune: #3 Kent Jones, Village Voice: #3 Michael Sragow, Baltimore Sun: #3 Matt Brunson, Creative Loafing Charlotte: #3 Lou Lumenick, New York Post: #3 Nathan Rabin, The Onion Audio/Visual Club: #3 Richard von Busack, Metro Santa Cruz: #3 Father Geek, Ain't It Cool News: #3 Rachel Gordon, Filmcritic.com: #3 Anne Thompson, Premiere Magazine: #3 Phillip Lopate, Film Comment: #3 Jay Carr, New England Cable News: #3 Shay Casey, Daily-Reviews.com: #3 Craigh Outhier, Orange County Register: #4 Soren Anderson, Tacoma News Tribune: #4 Todd Anthony, Florida Sun-Sentinel: #4 Josh Gilchrist, The Billings Outpost: #4 Staff, Reel.com: #4 Mark Scheinin, Santa Cruz Sentinel: #4 Eugene Novikov, Ultimate Movies: #4 Greg Muskewitz, Mesa Press: #4 David Fellerath, Independent Weekly: #4 Nathan Lee, New York Sun: #4 Justine Elias, The Guardian: #5 Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: #5 Carol Cling of the Las Vegas Review Journal: #5 Mark Hinson, Tallahassee Democrat: #5 Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News: #5 Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: #5 Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine: #5 Deborah Hornblow, Hartford Courant: #5

Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: #6 A.O. Scott, New York Times: #6 Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: #6 Andrew Johnson, US Magazine: #6 Hap Erstein, Palm Peach Post: #6 Gregory Weinkauf, New Times: #6 Keith Phipps, The Onion Audio/Visual Club: #6 David Levine, Filmcritic.com: #6 Dan Pearson, Daily Southtown: #6 Jeffrey Chen, Window to the Movies: #6 Christopher Borrelli, Toledo Blade: #7 Ray Pride, Movie City News: #7 Drew Mcweeny, Ain't It Cool News: #7 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: #8 Richard Corliss, Time Magazine: #8 BBC Viewers, Film 2003 with Jonathan Ross: #8 Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: #8 Frank Gabrenya, Columbus Dispatch: #8 David Hunter, Hollywood Reporter: #8 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: #8 David Walker, Willamette Week: #8 Edward Crouse, Village Voice: #8 Jeremy Heilman, MovieMartyr.com: #8 Scott Tobias, The Onion Audio/Visual Club: #8 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: #9 Bob Mondello, NPR: #9 John Beifuss, The Commercial Appeal: #9 Brian Libby, Willamette Week: #9 Michael B. Scrutchin, Flipside Movie Emporium: #9 Andrew Wright, Portland Mercury: #9 Claudia Puig, USA Today: #10 Moira MacDonald, macdonald Seattle Times: #10 Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: #10 Joshua Rothkopf, In These Times: #10 James Berardinelli, James Berardinelli's Reelviews: #10 Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald: Tied for #10 Staff, E! Online: #20 Non-numbered Lists Peter M. Nichols, The New York Times Essential Library: Children's Movies Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer Mike Prevatt, Las Vegas Mercury Adam Nayman, Eye Magazine David Bordwell, Artforum John Powers, LA Weekly People Magazine: Best Movies of 2002 Maryann Johanson, The Flick Filospher Peter Brunette, indieWIRE Michael Musto, Village Voice Elliott Stein, Village Voice Susan Tavernetti, Palo Alto Weekly Ken Eisner, Georgia Straight Ron Yamauchi, Georgia Straight Kent Jones, Film Comment

Thanks to Jonathan Peck and Alex Fung's Top 10 Project for finding most of the above list.