Animation creator Hayao Miyazaki was voted the 2024 Forrest J Ackerman Award for Lifetime Achievement by the members of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society at their September 12 meeting.

The Forrest J Ackerman or Forry Award has been given by the LASFS annually since 1966 for lifetime achievement in the SF field. Usually, it is presented at Loscon, the convention hosted each Thanksgiving Weekend by the club. Ackerman joined LASFS in the year the club was founded, 1934.

Hayao Miyazaki  is a founder and the honorary chairman of Studio Ghibli, a masterful storyteller and creator of Japanese animated feature films who is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished filmmakers in the history of animation.

His films Spirited Away (2001) and The Boy and the Heron (2023) won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, while Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) and The Wind Rises (2013) received nominations. His other films include The Castle of Cagliostro (1979), Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984), Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986), My Neighbor Totoro (1988), Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989), Porco Rosso (1992), Princess Mononoke (1997), and Whale Hunt (2001).

The names of all previous Forry Award winners can be seen here.

[Thanks to Charles Lee Jackson II for the story.]