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The attention brought by the Oscar win resulted in the film becoming a strong seller. In North America, the film was released on DVD and VHS formats by Buena Vista Home Entertainment on April 15, 2003. It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 75th Academy Awards.

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Acclaimed by international critics, the movie was considered one of the best films of the 2000s decade and one of the greatest animated films of all time. The film overtook Titanic (at the time the top grossing film worldwide) in the Japanese box office to become the highest-grossing film in Japanese history with a $229,607,878 total. Spirited Away was released on July 20, 2001, and became the most successful film in Japanese history, grossing over $274 million worldwide. Hewitt wrote the English-language dialogue, which they wrote to match the characters' original Japanese-language lip movements. Screenwriters Cindy Davis Hewitt and Donald H. Lasseter hired Kirk Wise as director and Donald W. Pixar director John Lasseter, a fan of Miyazaki, was approached by Walt Disney Pictures to supervise an English-language translation for the film's North American release. During production, Miyazaki realized the film would be over three hours and decided to cut out several parts of the story. With a budget of US$15 million, production of Spirited Away began in 2000.

At the time, Miyazaki was developing two personal projects, but they were rejected. Miyazaki wrote the script after he decided the film would be based on his friend's ten-year-old daughter, who came to visit his house each summer. After her parents are transformed into pigs by the witch Yubaba, Chihiro takes a job working in Yubaba's bathhouse to find a way to free herself and her parents and escape to the human world. The film tells the story of Chihiro Ogino, a sullen ten-year-old girl who, while moving to a new neighborhood, enters an alternate reality inhabited by spirits and monsters. 6:45 PM Spirited Away is a 2001 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli.