"Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea" accepted a loud applause in Venice.

An official screening of the Miyazaki Hayao's "Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea" at the 65th Venice International Film Festival was done in the August 31, it became the standing ovation of about five minutes after screened, and audience in the hall widely excited.
Deeply moved Miyazaki loudly described appreciative words "Thank you very much!!" toward the audience.

The excitement of the Miyazaki fan were terrific before starting of the screen. The tickets for 1,078 seats of the screening hall is sold-out on the same day.
Miyazaki was asked to put his signature by his fun anywhere he arrived, so he said in perplexity (when the signature was asked) "I usually put my signature to the book and DVD with no intention and want to put to anybody but it's puzzled because confusion occurs as much as possible though a lot of people want it".
When Miyazaki appeared in the red carpet, impatient fan waited for shouted "Miya! Miya! " with the fuss. And their applause did not finish for about three minutes by the standing ovation when Miyazaki entered the screening hall, then Miyazaki asked to sit them down by the gesture, "Please sit down" at last the audience stopped their loud applause.

While screening it Miyazaki went outside of the hall because he accepted coverages of TVs and said, "I do not want to see my movie any longer because there were many mistakes that as I thought 'Hang it' even while it was making...it's trade secret..(laughter)".
Meanwhile, the laughing happened to pretty movement of Ponyo and the audience watched/stared into the screen in the hall.

And, the voice of "Bravo" flew toward Miyazaki who appeared to the hall again when ending was faced. To our regret, the theme song started for the ending of movie was scratched out by the voice of applause though there were "Fujioka Fujimaki" who are the singers of "Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea" in the hall (Ohashi Nozomi was absent for the school), because of the hall has lightened just after the starting the song.
Miyazaki was relieved and said "It was regrettable that the hall had lightened though the movie had not ended yet. However, we can meet good audience is very happy. And it is very good to show our new work here because we couldn't show our new work at last time (2005 when 'Howl's moving Castle' lost Golden Lion award )".

Although the expectation of that becomes first experience of winning by an animation for the Golden Lion award and it's winning announcement on August 6, Miyazaki talked with a smile "I do not care about the winning by the work whether it's a movie or an animation. The people watched my movie will be our fan is very pleased, it is good enough".