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| 2024 | The Boy and the Heron won multiple prestigious awards including the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film, and the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. |
| September 16 2024 | Netflix began streaming Grave of the Fireflies digitally outside of Japan after acquiring distribution rights. |
| 2023 | Released The Boy and the Heron, marking a significant recent addition to their filmography. |
| 2021 | Warner Bros. Home Entertainment became the home media distributor of Studio Ghibli's catalog via a distribution deal with Wild Bunch. |
| August 27 2021 | Studio Ghibli released 'Earwig and the Witch', directed by Goro Miyazaki, marking their first fully 3D computer-animated feature film. |
| September 2020 | Disney's French distribution rights to Ghibli's library expired and transitioned to Wild Bunch. |
| December 17 2019 | GKIDS made Ghibli films available for digital purchases on major services in the United States and Canada through Shout! Factory. |
| July 2017 | Disney relinquished home video rights to GKIDS, with GKIDS handling all theatrical and home media distribution of Ghibli films in North America. |
| March 28 2015 | Studio Ghibli aired 'Ronja, the Robber's Daughter' television series on NHK, based on Astrid Lindgren's book, directed by Gorō Miyazaki. |
| 2013 | GKIDS acquired US and Canadian distribution rights to From Up on Poppy Hill, marking the first time Disney handed a Ghibli film to another distributor. |
| July 1 2013 | StudioCanal released a Blu-ray of Grave of the Fireflies in the United Kingdom. |
| November 20 2012 | Sentai Filmworks released a Blu-ray edition of Grave of the Fireflies with a new English dub by Seraphim Digital. |
| July 18 2012 | Walt Disney Studios Japan released Grave of the Fireflies on Blu-ray, with both a single release and a two-film set with My Neighbor Totoro. |
| 2011 | GKIDS acquired North American theatrical distribution rights for Studio Ghibli films, with Disney retaining home video rights. |
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