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TIL that when Hayao Miyazaki he won an Oscar for Spirited Away in 2003, he didn't attend the ceremony, telling a reporter for the LA Times that he "didn't want to visit a country that was bombing Iraq." His producer "shut [him] up and did not allow [him] to say that", but apparently agreed privately

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