Kunio Katō
Kunio Katō (加藤久仁生) (born April 24, 1977) is a Japanese animator known for the short film La Maison en Petits Cubes which won the 2008 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. In 2008, the same film won the Cristal for a Short Film (Grand Prix) at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, making Katō the second Japanese filmmaker to receive the award after Kōji Yamamura's Mt. Head in 2003.
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He also created The Diary Of Tortov Roddle, a surrealistic dream adventure.
After graduating from the graphic design department of Tama Art University, Katō joined the video production company Robot Communications in 2001. Affiliated with the character animation department's Animation Studio Cage, he worked on television programs, web animations, and spot commercials. In 2017, he left Robot Communications to work as a freelance animation artist. The same year, he directed the animation for NHK's Minna no Uta song "Kaze to Tomoni" (lyrics and music by Hiroji Miyamoto). In 2020, he also animated the song "Kaito" (sung by Arashi, written by Kenshi Yonezu) for the same program. During his acceptance speech for the Best Animated Short Film award at the 81st Academy Awards in 2009, Katō famously concluded with "Dōmo arigatō, Mr. Roboto," quoting the lyrics from the American rock band Styx's song "Mr. Roboto", which drew laughter from the audience and was a pun on his production company, Robot. In 2009, he also received the Commissioner for Cultural Affairs Award in the International Art Category, and the Grand Prize in the Animation Division at the 12th Japan Media Arts Festival for La Maison en Petits Cubes.
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Kunio Katō (born 1977) is recorded as a director. The birth of Kunio Katō is recorded in 1977 in Kagoshima.
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Kunio Katō was born on 24 April 1977.
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In 2015 the Chilean writer José Baroja published the story "El hombre del terrón de azúcar", the winning text of the XIII Gonzalo Rojas Pizarro International Contest, inspired by the short film "Middonaitokafe" ("The Midnight Cafe"), included in the film The Diary Of Tortov Roddle (或る旅人の日記, Aru tabibito no nikki; lit. The Diary of a Certain Traveler).
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- 1.Nikkan Sports. 「つみきのいえ」の加藤久仁生監督とは…. 2009-02-23.
- 2.Oscar Nominations 2021: The Complete List | 93rd Academy Awards.
- 3.Anime News Network. Oscar-Winning Petits Cubes' Kunio Katō Makes Anime Ad. 15 April 2010.
- 4.Morihiro Tsunoda. オスカー受賞に感じた戸惑い 「つみきのいえ」加藤久仁生が生み出した新たな表現. Asahi Shimbun GLOBE+. 2019-12-10.
- 5.Japan Animation Association. アヌシー国際アニメーションフェスティバルで最高賞受賞. 2008-06-25.
- 6.THEM Anime Reviews 4.0 – the Diary of Tortov Roddle.
- 7.Real Sound. 嵐「カイト」、加藤久仁生のアニメーションによる優しくあたたかい映像. 2020-04-11.
- 8.Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The 81st Academy Awards 2009. 2014-10-07.
- 9.Cinema Today. 短編アニメーション賞は日本の『つみきのいえ』が受賞！加藤監督英語でスピーチ！. 2009-02-23.
- 10.Cinema Today. 『ルー』湯浅政明、『この世界』片渕須直に文化庁長官表彰. 2017-07-12.
- 11.Japan Media Arts Festival. 12th Animation Division Grand Prize.
- 12.Agency for Cultural Affairs. アニメ / メディア芸術データベース – 加藤久仁生. Media Arts Database.
- 13.El hombre del terrón de azúcar – Wikisource. es.wikisource.org.
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