Hayao Miyazaki's popular animated film "Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi" ("Spirited Away") shared the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear prize Sunday with "Bloody Sunday," a British-Irish film about the troubles in Northern Ireland.
"This prize will be a great source of inspiration for people in the animation world," Miyazaki said in a message read out at the 52nd annual film festival in Berlin.
It is the first time for an animated film to win the top prize in Berlin, one of the world's pre-eminent film festivals.