Spirited Away

Spirited Away is a Japanese animated film released in 2001. Directed, written and produced by Studio Ghibli's Hayao Miyazaki.

Plot Summary
A young girl and her family move to a new house, but on their way they take a wrong turn and come upon the entrance to the Spirit Realm. With her mother and father transformed into pigs because of a curse and threatened with becoming meals for the spirits, ten year old Chihiro must depend on the help of the inhabitants and workers of the Bathhouse as well as her own courage to survive and find a way to save her parents and return to the human realm.

Awards
Spirited Away won an Oscar in 2003 for best animated feature, making it the first anime to ever win an Academy Award. Spirited Away also picked up a number of other awards around the world, including a Saturn Award.