TOKYO: Celebrated Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki won his second Oscar on Sunday with "The Boy and the Heron" -- the Studio Ghibli co-founder's first film in a decade, and potentially his last.

It bested top rival "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse", Disney's "Elemental", Netflix's "Nimona" and the dialogue-free "Robot Dreams." Miyazaki was not present in Los Angeles to accept the award.

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