Japan Academy Film Prize

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Japan Academy Film Prize
Current: 47th Japan Academy Film Prize
Trophy of the Japan Academy Prize
Awarded for	Excellence in film making
Country	Japan
Presented by	Japan Academy Film Prize Association
First awarded	1978
Website	japan-academy-prize.jp

The Japan Academy Film Prize (日本にっぽんアカデミー賞しょう, Nippon Akademii-shou), often called the Japan Academy Prize, the Japan Academy Awards, and the Japanese Academy Awards, is a series of awards given annually since 1978 by the Japan Academy Film Prize Association (日本にっぽんアカデミー賞しょう協会きょうかい, Nippon Akademii-shou Kyoukai) for excellence in Japanese film. Award categories are similar to the Academy Awards.

Venue

Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa

Since 1998, the venue is regularly held at the Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa of Prince Hotels in Takanawa, Minato-ku, Tokyo. Admission tickets for this award ceremony are also sold to regular customers.

As of 2015, there is a charge of 40,000 Yen which includes a French cuisine course dinner named after the award ceremony. Spectators are expected to attend in semi-formal attire. Elementary school students and younger are not permitted.

Award

The winners are selected from the recipients of the Award for Excellence. The award statue of the winner measures 27 cm × 11 cm × 11 cm (10.7 in × 4.4 in × 4.4 in). The recipients of the Award for Excellence receive a smaller statue.

Categories

• Picture of the Year
• Animation of the Year
• Director of the Year
• Screenplay of the Year
• Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
• Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
• Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
• Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
• Outstanding Achievement in Music
• Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography
• Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Direction
• Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction
• Outstanding Achievement in Sound Recording
• Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing
• Outstanding Foreign Language Film
• Newcomer of the Year
• Popularity Award
• Special Award of Honour from the Association
• Special Award from the Chairman
• Special Award from the Association

Award winners

Time	Year	Category	Award winners / winners	Notes
1	1977 (Shōwa 52)	Best Work Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	"The Yellow Handkerchief (1977 film)" (Yoji Yamada) Yoji Yamada-"Yellow Handkerchief of Happiness", "Otoko wa Tsurai yo" series Yoji Yamada / Yoshitaka Asama - "Otoko wa Tsurai yo" series, "The Yellow Handkerchief (1977 film)" Ken Takakura - “The Yellow Handkerchief (1977 film)”, “Mount Hakkoda (1977 film)” Shima Iwashita - "Ballad of Orin" Tetsuya Takeda -"The Yellow Handkerchief (1977 film)" Kaori Momoi - "The Yellow Handkerchief (1977 film)"
2	1978 (Shōwa 53)	Best Work Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	“The Incident (1978 film)” (Yoshitarō Nomura) Yoshitaro Nomura - "The Incident (1978 film)", "The Demon (1978 film)" Shinto Kaneto - The Incident (1978 film) Ken Ogata - The Demon (1978 film) Shinobu Otake - The Incident (1978 film) Tsunehiko Watase - The Incident (1978 film) Shinobu Otake - "The Incident (1978 film)", "Monument of priesthood" (聖職せいしょくの碑いしぶみ)	The 40,000 yen party admission ticket, which was partially criticized for its high price in the first round, was greatly reduced to 8000 yen. However, after that, it returned to 40,000 yen again.
3	1979 (Shōwa 54)	Best Work Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	“Vengeance Is Mine (1979 film)” (Shohei Imamura) Shohei Imamura - “Vengeance Is Mine (1979 film)” Baba Masaru - "Vengeance Is Mine (1979 film)" Tomisaburo Wakayama -"Impulse Murder Son" (衝動しょうどう殺人さつじん 息子むすこよ) Kaori Momoi - "A baby given by God" (神様かみさまのくれた赤あかん坊ぼう) “No More Easy Life” Bunta Sugawara - "Taiyō o Nusunda Otoko" (The Man who Stole the Sun) Mayumi Ogawa -"Three letters not delivered" (配達はいたつされない三さん通つうの手紙てがみ) “Revenge is on me”
4	1980 (Shōwa 55)	Best Work Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	“Zigeunerweisen (film)” (Seijun Suzuki) Seijun Suzuki - "Zigeunerweisen (film)" Yoshitaka Asama, Yoji Yamada - "A Distant Cry from Spring" "Tora-san's Tropical Fever" Ken Takakura - "Disturbance" (動乱どうらん), "A Distant Cry from Spring" Chieko Baisho - "A Distant Cry from Spring" "Tora-san's Tropical Fever" Tetsuro Tamba - "203 Highlands" (二に百ひゃく三さん高地こうち) Michiyo Ōkusu - “Zigeunerweisen (film)”	Akira Kurosawa declined to receive the award of excellence for Kagemusha. The best work award was won by Zigeunerweisen (film), an independent production and distribution company.
5	1981 (Shōwa 56)	Best Work Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	"Station (1981 film)" (Yasuo Furuhata) Kohei Oguri - "Muddy River (film)" Sō Kuramoto - "Station (1981 film)" Ken Takakura - "Station (1981 film)" Keiko Matsuzaka - “Youth Gate” (青春せいしゅんの門もん) Tora-san's Love in Osaka Katsuo Nakamura - “Kagero-za”, “Love Letter” (ラブレター (1981年ねんの映画えいが), "In-process Umeyasu" (仕掛しかけ人じん梅安ばいあん), "Tin Medal" (ブリキの勲章くんしょう) Yuko Tanaka - “Edo Porn”, "Eijanaika (film)"
6	1982 (Shōwa 57)	Best Work Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	"Fall Guy" (Kinji Fukasaku) Kinji Fukasaku -"Fall Guy", "Dotonbori River" Kōhei Tsuka - "Fall Guy" Mitsuru Hirata - "Fall Guy" Keiko Matsuzaka - "Fall Guy", "Dotonbori River" Morio Kazama - "Fall Guy" Rumiko Koyanagi -"To Trap a Kidnapper"
7	1983 (Shōwa 58)	Best Work Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	"The Ballad of Narayama (1983 film)" (Shohei Imamura) Hideo Gosha -“The Geisha (1983 film)” Koji Takahashi - “The Geisha (1983 film)” Ken Ogata - “The Ballad of Narayama (1983 film)”, “The Geisha (1983 film)”, “The Catch (1983 film)” Rumiko Koyanagi - Hakujasho Morio Kazama - "The Geisha (1983 film)", "Life Theater" (人生じんせい劇場げきじょう) Atsuko Asano -"The Geisha (1983 film)", "Dirty Hero" (汚よごれた英雄えいゆう)	The phenomenon of The Geisha (1983 film), which monopolized the best award in 5 of the 6 individual awards (director, screenwriter, leading actor, supporting actor, supporting actress), was not nominated for an excellence award for some reason. The cause is unknown because the selection process was not announced.
8	1984 (Shōwa 59)	Best Work Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	"The Funeral (1984 film)" (Juzo Itami) Juzo Itami - "The Funeral (1984 film)" Juzo Itami - "The Funeral (1984 film)" Tsutomu Yamazaki - "The Funeral (1984 film)", "Farewell to the Ark" Sayuri Yoshinaga - "Ohan (film)", "Station to Heaven" Kaku Takashina - “Mahjong hōrōki” Kin Sugai - "The Funeral (1984 film)", "Hissatsu: Sure Death"	Independent production "The Funeral (1984 film)" (distribution: ATG Japan Art Theatre Guild) won the Best Film Award.
9	1985 (Shōwa 60)	Best Work Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	“Gray Sunset” (Toshiya Ito) Shinichiro Sawai - "Early Spring Story", "W's Tragedy" Hiro Matsuda (松田まつだ寛ひろし夫おっと) - "Gray Sunset" Minoru Chiaki - "Gray Sunset" Mitsuko Baisho - "The flowers in my life are flowers until death” (生いきているうちが花はななのよ死しんだらそれまでよ党とう宣言せんげん), “Love Letter (1985 film)”, "Friend, meditate quietly" (友ともよ、静しずかに瞑つぶれ) Kaoru Kobayashi - "Love Letter (1985 film)", "Sorekara" Yoshiko Mita - "W's Tragedy", "Haru no Kane"
10	1986 (Shōwa 61)	Best Work Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	“House on Fire (film)” (Kinji Fukasaku) Kinji Fukasaku - “House on Fire (film)” Fumio Konami, Kinji Fukasaku - “House on Fire (film)” Ken Ogata - "House on Fire (film)" Ayumi Ishida - “House on Fire (film)”, “Tokei – Adieu l'hiver” Hitoshi Ueki -"Congratulations" (祝辞しゅくじ), "New years of joy and sorrow" (新しん・喜よろこびも悲かなしみも幾いく歳月さいげつ) Mieko Harada - “House on Fire (film)”, “Kokushi Musou” (国士無双こくしむそう), "Portrait of Prussian Blue" (プルシアンブルーの肖像しょうぞう)	“Sea and Poison”, which had won numerous awards both in Japan and abroad, was expected to dominate the awards, but it was not even nominated. Instead, it received a Special Award. The result was thus unclear and this opaque result was widely covered in the media. The film critic Oguro Toyoshi, who is known for his acerbic tongue, severely criticized and condemned the existence of the Japan Academy Awards using a whole page of the movie magazine "Roadshow" "Ijiwaru Critic Enma Book".
11	1987 (Shōwa 62)	Best Work Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	“A Taxing Woman” (Juzo Itami) Juzo Itami - "A Taxing Woman" Juzo Itami - "A Taxing Woman" Tsutomu Yamazaki - "A Taxing Woman" Nobuko Miyamoto - "A Taxing Woman" Masahiko Tsugawa - "A Taxing Woman", "Night Train" Rino Katase - "The Polar Wife II" (極道ごくどうの妻つまたち II), "Yoshiwara Enjyo" (吉原よしはら炎上えんじょう)
12	1988 (Shōwa 63)	Best Work Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	“The Silk Road (film)” (Junya Sato) Junya Sato - "The Silk Road (film)" Ichikawa Shinichi (市川いちかわ森一もりいち ) - "The Discarnates" Toshiyuki Nishida - "The Silk Road (film)" Sayuri Yoshinaga - "Tsuru-Crane-" (つる-鶴づる-), "A Chaos of Flowers" Tsurutaro Kataoka - "The Discarnates", "Age of Witches" (妖女ようじょの時代じだい) Eri Ishida - “Wuthering Heights (1988 film)”, “Hope and Pain”, "A Chaos of Flowers"
13	1989 (Shōwa 64 / Heisei 1)	Best Work Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	"Black Rain" (Shohei Imamura) Shohei Imamura -"Black Rain" Toshiro Ishido (石堂いしどう淑よし朗ろう), Shohei Imamura - "Black Rain" Rentaro Mikuni - “Tsuribaka Nisshi”, “Sen no Rikyū” Yoshiko Tanaka - "Black Rain" Bando Eiji - “Ah yes” (あ・うん) Etsuko Ichihara - “Black Rain”	Beat Takeshi, who was nominated for Outstanding Actor in “Violent Cop (1989 film)” appeared at the beginning of Kurama Tengu (a novel by Jirō Osaragi) and became a hot topic.
14	1990 (Heisei 2)	Best Work Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	“Childhood Days” (Masahiro Shinoda) Masahiro Shinoda - Childhood Days Taichi Yamada - "Childhood Days" Ittoku Kishibe - "The Sting of Death" Keiko Matsuzaka - "The Sting of Death" Renji Ishibashi - “Park Street Cats” (公園こうえん通どおりの猫ねこたち), “Roningai”, "Ready to shoot me" (われに撃うつ用意よういあり) Eri Ishida - “Tsuribaka Nisshi 2”, “Tsuribaka Nisshi 3” “I haven't dreamed of flying for a while” (飛とぶ夢ゆめをしばらく見みない)	Akira Kurosawa, who declined the nomination for “Kagemusha” in the 4th edition, accepted the work award and director nomination for “Dreams (1990 film)”, but did not win an award.
15	1991 (Heisei 3)	Best Work Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	"My Sons" (Yoji Yamada) Kihachi Okamoto - "Rainbow Kids" Kihachi Okamoto - "Rainbow Kids" Rentaro Mikuni - “Tsuribaka Nisshi 4”, “My Sons” Tanie Kitabayashi- "Rainbow Kids" Masatoshi Nagase - "My Sons", "Mourning Work" (喪もの仕事しごと) Emi Wakui - “No Worries on the Recruit Front”, “My Sons”	Nakao Sakai, who worked on many actresses' hairstyles for director Yasujiro Ozu and director Akira Kurosawa, received the Association Special Award.
16	1992 (Heisei 4)	Best Work Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	“Sumo Do, Sumo Don't" (Masayuki Suo) Masayuki Suo - “Sumo Do, Sumo Don't" Masayuki Suo - “Sumo Do, Sumo Don't" Masahiro Motoki - “Sumo Do, Sumo Don't" Yoshiko Mita - "Tōki Rakujitsu" Naoto Takenaka - “Sumo Do, Sumo Don't",“ Original Sin (1992 film) ” Miwako Fujitani - "The Oil-Hell Murder", Sobered Sosuke (寝ね盗とられ宗むね介かい)
17	1993 (Heisei 5)	Best Work Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	"School" (学校がっこう (映画えいが) (Yoji Yamada) Yoji Yamada - "Tora-san's Matchmaker", "School" (学校がっこう (映画えいが) Yoji Yamada, Yoshitaka Asama - "Tora-san's Matchmaker", "School" (学校がっこう (映画えいが) Toshiyuki Nishida - "School" (学校がっこう (映画えいが), “Tsuribaka Nisshi 6” Emi Wakui - "Rainbow Bridge" (虹にじの橋はし) Kunie Tanaka - "School" (学校がっこう (映画えいが), "Lone Wolf and Cub: Final Conflict", "Rainbow Bridge" (虹にじの橋はし) Kyoko Kagawa - "Madadayo"
18	1994 (Heisei 6)	Best Work Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	“Crest of Betrayal” Kinji Fukasaku Kinji Fukasaku - “Crest of Betrayal”” Motomu Furuta (古田ふるた求もとむ) / Kinji Fukasaku - “Crest of Betrayal”” Kōichi Satō (actor) - “Crest of Betrayal”” Saki Takaoka - “Crest of Betrayal”” Kiichi Nakai - "47 Ronin (1994 film)" Shigeru Muroi - "Ghost Pub"
19	1995 (Heisei 7)	Best Work Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	"A Last Note" (Kaneto Shindo) Kaneto Shindo - "A Last Note" Kaneto Shindo - "A Last Note" Rentaro Mikuni - "Three times straits" (三さんたびの海峡かいきょう) Yuko Asano - "Kura (film)" Naoto Takenaka - "East Meets West (1995 film)" Nobuko Otowa - "A Last Note"	Independent production “A Last Note" (distribution: Japanese Herald Film) won the Best Film Award.
20	1996 (Heisei 8)	Best Work Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	“Shall We Dance? (1996 film)” (Masayuki Suo) Masayuki Suo - “Shall We Dance?” Masayuki Suo - “Shall We Dance?” Koji Yakusho - “Shall We Dance?” Tamiyo Kusakari- “Shall We Dance?” Naoto Takenaka - “Shall We Dance?” Eriko Watanabe - “Shall We Dance?”	"Shall We Dance? (1996 film)" won 14 awards, the highest ever.
21	1997 (Heisei 9)	Best Work Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	“Princess Mononoke” (Hayao Miyazaki) Shohei Imamura - "The Eel (film)" Koki Mitani - “Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald” Koji Yakusho - "The Eel (film)" Hitomi Kuroki - A Lost Paradise Masahiko Nishimura - “Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald” Mitsuko Baisho - "The Eel (film)"	“Princess Mononoke” was the first animated work nominated for an award and won the Best Film Award.
22	1998 (Heisei 10)	Best Work Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	"Begging for Love" (Hideyuki Hirayama) Hideyuki Hirayama - "Begging for Love" Yoshinobu Tei (鄭てい 義信よしのぶ) - "Begging for Love" Akira Emoto - "Dr. Akagi" Mieko Harada - "Begging for Love" Chosuke Ikariya - "Bayside Shakedown (film)" Kumiko Aso - "Dr. Akagi"
23	1999 (Heisei 11)	Best Work Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	"Poppoya" (Yasuo Furuhata) Yasuo Furuhata - "Poppoya" Yoshiki Iwama (岩間いわま芳樹よしき), Yasuo Furuhata - "Poppoya" Ken Takakura - "Poppoya" Shinobu Otake - "Poppoya" Jun Kobayashi - "Poppoya" Kishimoto Kayoko - "Kikujiro"
24	2000 (Heisei 12)	Best Work Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	"After the Rain (film)" (Takashi Koizumi) Junji Sakamoto - "Face (2000 film)" Akira Kurosawa - “After the Rain (film)” Akira Terao - "After the Rain (film)" Sayuri Yoshinaga - "Nagasaki Hanging out" (長崎ながさきぶらぶら節ふし) Kōichi Satō (actor) - "Whiteout (2000 film)" Mieko Harada - "After the Rain (film)"
25	2001 (Heisei 13)	Best Work Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	“Spirited Away” (Hayao Miyazaki) Isao Yukisada - "Go (Kaneshiro novel)" Kankurō Kudō - “Go” Yosuke Kubozuka - “Go” Keiko Kishi -"Kaa-chan" (かあちゃん) Tsutomu Yamazaki - “Go” Ko Shibasaki - “Go”	Ken Takakura declined the Best Actor Award for Firefly (2001). Arnold Schwarzenegger also appeared as a special guest to commemorate the 25th anniversary.
26	2002 (Heisei 14)	Best Work Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	"The Twilight Samurai" (Yoji Yamada) Yoji Yamada - “The Twilight Samurai” Yoji Yamada, Yoshitaka Asama (朝間あさま 義隆よしたか) - "The Twilight Samurai" Hiroyuki Sanada - "The Twilight Samurai" Rie Miyazawa - "The Twilight Samurai" Min Tanaka - "The Twilight Samurai" Tanie Kitabayashi - “Letters from the Mountains (2002) ” (阿弥陀堂あみだどうだより)	“The Twilight Samurai” achieved 12 awards after “Shall We Dance?” At the 20th edition.
27	2003 (Heisei 15)	Best Work Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	“When the Last Sword Is Drawn” (Yojiro Takida) Yoshimitsu Morita - “Like Asura” Tomomi Tsutsui (筒井つつい ともみ) - "Like Asura" Kiichi Nakai - "When the Last Sword Is Drawn" Shinobu Terajima- "Akame 48 Waterfalls" Kōichi Satō (actor) - "When the Last Sword Is Drawn" Eri Fukatsu - “Like Asura”
28	2004 (Heisei 16)	Best Work Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	"Half a Confession" (半はん落おち) (Kiyo Sasabe) Yoichi Sai - Blood and Bones Shinobu Yaguchi - "Swing Girls" Akira Terao - "Half a Confession" (半はん落おち) Kyoka Suzuki - Blood and Bones Odagiri Joe - Blood and Bones Masami Nagasawa - "Socrates in Love"	Masami Nagasawa, who appeared in “Socrates in Love” won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the age of 17, the youngest in all categories.
29	2005 (Heisei 17)	Best Work Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	"Always Sanchōme no Yūhi" (Takashi Yamazaki) Takashi Yamazaki - "Always Sanchōme no Yūhi" Takashi Yamazaki, Ryota Kosawa (古沢ふるさわ良太りょうた) - "Always Sanchōme no Yūhi" Hidetaka Yoshioka -"Always Sanchōme no Yūhi" Sayuri Yoshinaga - "Year One in the North" (北きたの零れい年ねん) Shinichi Tsutsumi - "Always Sanchōme no Yūhi" Hiroko Yakushimaru - "Always Sanchōme no Yūhi"	“Always Sanchōme no Yūhi” achieved 12 crowns in line with “The Twilight Samurai” at the 26th.
30	2006 (Heisei 18)	Best Work Award Best Animation Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	“Hula Girls” (Lee Sang-il) “The Girl Who Leapt Through Time” (Mamoru Hosoda) Lee Sang-il - “Hula Girls” Lee Sang-il, Daisuke Habara - “Hula Girls” Ken Watanabe - "Memories of Tomorrow" Miki Nakatani - "Memories of Matsuko" Takashi Sasano - "Love and Honor (2006 film)" Yū Aoi - “Hula Girls”	The animation division was newly established at this time, and “The Girl Who Leapt Through Time” became the first award-winning work after the establishment of the animation division. Takuya Kimura, “Love and Honor (2006 film)”, declined the Best Actor Award. In addition, “Hula Girl” (production / distribution: Cinekanon) won the Best Film Award since “Zigeunerweisen (film)” (4th) as an independent production and distribution.
31	2007 (Heisei 19)	Best Work Award Best Animation Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	"Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad" (Joji Matsuoka) "Tekkonkinkreet" (Michael Arias) Joji Matsuoka - "Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad" Suzuki Matsuo - "Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad" Hidetaka Yoshioka - "Always Zoku Sanchōme no Yūhi" Kirin Kiki - "Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad" Kaoru Kobayashi - "Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad" Masako Motai - “I Just Didn't Do It”	"Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad" has won several awards and won numerous awards. In an interview with Kirin Kiki in the magazine En-Taxi she said "I was not enough work to win the award", "I did not agree with the director from the time of shooting, I did not feel good work was completed", objection to the favorable evaluation of this work and each prize winning.
32	2008 (Heisei 20)	Best Work Award Best Animation Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	"Departures" (Yōjirō Takita) "Ponyo" (Hayao Miyazaki) Yōjirō Takita - "Departures" Kundō Koyama - "Departures" Masahiro Motoki - "Departures" Tae Kimura - "All Around Us" Tsutomu Yamazaki - "Departures" Kimiko Yo - "Departures"
33	2009 (Heisei 21)	Best Work Award Best Animation Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	"Shizumanu Taiyō" (Setsuro Wakamatsu) “Summer Wars” (Mamoru Hosoda) Daisaku Kimura - "Mt. Tsurugidake" Miwa Nishikawa - "Dear Doctor (film)" Ken Watanabe - Shizumanu Taiyō Takako Matsu - "Villon's Wife (film)" Teruyuki Kagawa - “Mt. Tsurugidake" Kimiko Yo - "Dear Doctor (film)"	Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama attended the award ceremony as the first active prime minister. He gave a speech about the management restructuring issue of Japan Airlines, which was the model of the film, and the work that won the Best Film Award.
34	2010 (Heisei 22)	Best Work Award Best Animation Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	"Confessions (2010 film)" (Tetsuya Nakashima) "Arrietty" (Hiromasa Yonebayashi) Tetsuya Nakashima - "Confessions (2010 film)" Tetsuya Nakashima - "Confessions (2010 film)" Satoshi Tsumabuki - Villain (2010 film) Eri Fukatsu - Villain (2010 film) Akira Emoto- Villain (2010 film) Kirin Kiki - Villain (2010 film)
35	2011 (Heisei 23)	Best Work Award Best Animation Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	"Yō kame no semi (八日ようか目めの蟬)" (Izuru Narushima) “From Up on Poppy Hill” (Gorō Miyazaki) Izuru Narushima - "Yō kame no semi (八日ようか目めの蟬)" Satoko Okudera - "Yō kame no semi (八日ようか目めの蟬)" Yoshio Harada - "Someday (2011 film)" Mao Inoue - "Yō kame no semi (八日ようか目めの蟬)" Denden - "Cold Fish" Hiromi Nagasaku - "Yō kame no semi (八日ようか目めの蟬)"	Since this time was the start of stereophonic broadcasting with terrestrial digital broadcasting of the NTV series. In addition to the 10th day of the “Eighth Day Samurai”, the deceased Yoshio Harada won the Best Actor Award at the award ceremony.
36	2012 (Heisei 24)	Best Work Award Best Animation Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	“The Kirishima Thing” (Daihachi Yoshida) “Wolf Children” (Mamoru Hosoda) Daihachi Yoshida - “The Kirishima Thing” Kenji Uchida (film director) - "The Kirishima Thing" Hiroshi Abe - "Thermae Romae" Kirin Kiki - "Chronicle of My Mother" Hideji Ōtaki - "Anata e" Kimiko Yo - "Anata e"
37	2013 (Heisei 25)	Best Work Award Best Animation Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	“The Great Passage” (Yuya Ishii (director)) "The Wind Rises" (Hayao Miyazaki) Yuya Ishii - “The Great Passage” Kensaku Watanabe - “The Great Passage” Ryuhei Matsuda - “The Great Passage” Yōko Maki - "The Ravine of Goodbye" Lily Franky - "Like Father, Like Son (2013 film)" Yōko Maki - "Like Father, Like Son (2013 film)"	“The Great Passage” received 6 crowns. In addition, Yoko Maki won the Best Actress Award for “The Grudge” and the Supporting Actress Award for “Like Father, Like Son (2013 film)”.
38	2014 (Heisei 26)	Best Work Award Best Animation Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	“The Eternal Zero” (Takashi Yamazaki) "Stand by Me Doraemon" (Takashi Yamazaki) Takashi Yamazaki - “The Eternal Zero” Akihiro Dobashi (土橋どばし章宏あきひろ) - "Samurai Hustle" Junichi Okada - “The Eternal Zero” Rie Miyazawa - Pale Moon (film) Junichi Okada - "A Samurai Chronicle" Haru Kuroki - “The Little House (film)”	"The Eternal Zero" received 8 crowns。 Additionally, Junichi Okada won the Best Actor in The Eternal Zero and Best Supporting Actor in A Samurai Chronicle.
39	2015 (Heisei 27)	Best Work Award Best Animation Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	“Our Little Sister” (Hirokazu Kore-eda) "The Boy and the Beast" (Mamoru Hosoda) Hirokazu Kore-eda - “Our Little Sister ” Shin Adachi (足立あだち紳しん) - "100 Yen Love" Kazunari Ninomiya - “Nagasaki: Memories of My Son” Sakura Ando - "100 Yen Love" Masahiro Motoki - “The Emperor in August” Haru Kuroki - “Nagasaki: Memories of My Son”
40	2016 (Heisei 28)	Best Work Award Best Animation Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	"Shin Godzilla" (Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi) “In This Corner of the World (film)” (Sunao Katabuchi) Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi - "Shin Godzilla" Makoto Shinkai - "Your Name" Kōichi Satō - "64: Part I" Rie Miyazawa - "Her Love Boils Bathwater" Satoshi Tsumabuki - Rage (2016 film) Hana Sugisaki - "Her Love Boils Bathwater"	"Shin Godzilla" achieved 7 crowns. For the first time at the 40th time, an animation work won the Best Screenplay Award.
41	2017 (Heisei 29)	Best Work Award Best Animation Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	"The Third Murder" (Hirokazu Kore-eda) "Night Is Short, Walk On Girl" (夜よるは短たんし歩あるけよ乙女おとめ) (Masaaki Yuasa) Hirokazu Kore-eda - "The Third Murder" Hirokazu Kore-eda - "The Third Murder" Masaki Suda -"Wilderness: Part One" (あゝ、荒野あらの前編ぜんぺん) Yū Aoi - "Birds Without Names" Kōji Yakusho - "The Third Murder" Suzu Hirose - "The Third Murder"	"The Third Murder" achieved 6 crowns. Director Hirokazu Kore-eda of "The Third Murder" won the Best Editorial Award, Best Editing Award and Best Screenplay Award at the same time.
42	2018 (Heisei 30)	Best Work Award Best Animation Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	“Shoplifters”” (Hirokazu Kore-eda) “Mirai (film)” (Mamoru Hosoda) Hirokazu Kore-eda - “Shoplifters” Hirokazu Kore-eda - “Shoplifters” Kōji Yakusho - "The Blood of Wolves" Sakura Ando - “Shoplifters” Tori Matsuzaka - "The Blood of Wolves" Kirin Kiki - “Shoplifters”
43	2019 (Heisei 31 / Reiwa 1)	Best Work Award Best Animation Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	“The Journalist” (Michihito Fuji) “Weathering with You” (Makoto Shinkai) Hideki Takeuchi - “Fly Me to the Saitama” Yūichi Tokunaga - “Fly Me to the Saitama” Tori Matsuzaka - "The Journalist" Shim Eun-kyung - “The Journalist” Ryo Yoshizawa - "Kingdom" Masami Nagasawa - "Kingdom"
44	2020 (Reiwa 2)	Best Work Award Best Animation Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Award Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	Midnight Swan Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train Setsurō Wakamatsu - Fukushima 50 Akiko Nogi – The Voice of Sin Tsuyoshi Kusanagi - Midnight Swan Masami Nagasawa – Mother Ken Watanabe - Fukushima 50 Haru Kuroki - The Asadas
45	2021 (Reiwa 3)	Best Work Award Best Animation Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Award Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	Drive My Car Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time Ryusuke Hamaguchi - Drive My Car Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Ōe - Drive My Car Hidetoshi Nishijima - Drive My Car Kasumi Arimura – We Made a Beautiful Bouquet Ryohei Suzuki - Last of the Wolves Kaya Kiyohara - In The Wake
46	2022 (Reiwa 4)	Best Work Award Best Animation Award Best Director Award Best Screenplay Award Best Actor Award Best Actress Award Best Supporting Actor Award Best Supporting Actress Award	A Man The First Slam Dunk Kei Ishikawa - A Man Kōsuke Mukai - A Man Satoshi Tsumabuki - A Man Yukino Kishii - Small, Slow but Steady Masataka Kubota - A Man Sakura Ando - A Man

External links

• Official website - (in Japanese)
• Awards of the Japanese Academy - Overview on IMDb