Miyazaki is a Japanese director, screenwriter, animator and producer. At the age of twenty-two, he started to work as an animator in the Toei Douga studio. By the mid 1970s, he changed several studios and worked on many different projects. In 1978, he directed his first TV series Mirai shônen Konan. He worked on the TV series Rupan sansei (Lupin III, 1971-1971) and his first feature animated film Rupan sansei: Kariosutoro no shiro (Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro, 1979), as well as its sequel Rupan sansei: Part II (1977). His second animated film, based on his own manga, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Kaze no tani no Naushika, 1984), achieved great success. He then founded his animation studio Studio Ghibli / Sutajio Jiburi. His films Princess Mononoke (Mononoke-hime, 1997) achieved even greater success and won the award of the Japanese Film Academy in 1998 for Best Film. His other successful films include Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi, 2001) that won an Oscar as Best Feature Animated Film in 2003 and Howl's Moving Castle (Hauru no ugoku shiro, 2004), nominated in the same category. His last film is Gake no ue no Ponyo (Ponyo on the Cliff, 2008), and his earlier important works include Tenkű no shiro Rapyuta (Castle in the Sky, 1986), Tonari no Totoro (My Neighbour Totoro, 1988), Majo no takkyűbin (Kiki's Delivery Service, 1989) and Kurenai no buta (Porco Rosso, 1992).