 Miyazaki received the honorary Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement award at the 62nd Venice International Film Festival in 2005.In March 2005, Studio Ghibli split from Tokuma Shoten.In the 1980s, Miyazaki contacted Ursula K. Le Guin expressing interest in producing an adaptation of her "Earthsea" novels; unaware of Miyazaki's work, Le Guin declined.