TOKYO, March 11 — Celebrated Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki won his second Oscar yesterday 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.