At the Future Film Festival in Italy, Byousoku 5 Centimeters by Makoto Shinkai won the Lancia Platinum Grand Prize for 2008. Typical of Shinkai's past work Byousoku is an artistically stunning piece, enjoyable to merely sit back and watch for the animation alone. 

The winner of the Lancia Platinum Grand Prize is Byousoku 5 Centimeters  (5 Centimeters per Second: A Chain of Short Stories about their Distance) by Makoto Shinkai “for the ability of combininig poetry, art and technical skills with animation and new technologies, a touching and deep-rooted story and a model direction. Every element of the movie, from the screenplay to the editing, is realized with great professionalism and inspiration”. A special mention has been assigned to Tekkonkinkreet by Michael Arias “for the interesting and original graphics; an involving story with a non-rhetorical message”.

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