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Hideaki Anno is best known for creating the Evangelion franchise, beginning with the anime television series Neon Genesis Evangelion, which aired from 1995 to 1996. The franchise has had a significant influence on the anime television industry and Japanese popular culture.
Anno began working professionally while attending Osaka University of Arts, animating on The Super Dimension Fortress Macross from 1982 to 1983. He gained wider recognition after being hired by Hayao Miyazaki to animate some of the most complicated scenes in Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind in 1984, after responding to a help-wanted advertisement in the magazine Animage.
Gainax was co-founded in December 1984, with Anno as one of its co-founders. He served as animation director on the studio's first feature-length film, Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise in 1987, and went on to become Gainax's leading anime director.
Timing constraints at Gainax forced Anno to replace the planned ending of Neon Genesis Evangelion with two episodes set inside the main characters' minds. A subsequent film project to recreate the scrapped ending ran into budgeting problems, producing only twenty-seven minutes of completed animation before ultimately culminating in The End of Evangelion.
Anno's Shin trilogy consists of Shin Godzilla (2016), Shin Ultraman (2022), and Shin Kamen Rider (2023). All three are reboots of major Japanese tokusatsu franchises. Shin Godzilla was co-directed with Shinji Higuchi.
Shin Godzilla earned Anno the Best Director award at the 41st Hochi Film Award, Best Director and Best Screenplay at the 71st Mainichi Film Awards, Best Screenplay at the 90th Kinema Junpo Awards, and Director of the Year at the 40th Japan Academy Prize. He also received a Special Grand Prize at the 38th Yokohama Film Festival.