The award ceremony for the 47th Japan Academy Film Prizes was held at the Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa in Tokyo on March 8. The Boy and the Heron , Hayao Miyazaki's first feature film in ten years, won the Best Animation of the Year award. Related: The 47th Japan Academy Film Prize Announces Excellent Animation of the Year Winners Films eligible for the prize included those released in Japan between January 1 and December 31, 2023. The Boy and the Heron was selected from the five Japanese anime films that received the Excellent Animation of the Year award . The other four films included — Kitaro Tanjou: GeGeGe no Nazo (Go Koga), Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window (Shinnosuke Yakuwa), Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine (Yuzuru Tachikawa), and Blue Giant (Yuzuru Tachikawa). Blue Giant , an anime film adaptation of Shinichi Ishizuka's jazz-themed manga of the same name, won the Outstanding Achievement in Music award.
- 3/9/2024
- by Mikikazu Komatsu
- Crunchyroll
While we wait to see if Toho’s Godzilla Minus One will take home the “Visual Effects” Oscar at the Academy Awards this weekend – it’s the only category the film is nominated in – some big news is coming out of Japan this week. The new Godzilla movie was nominated in twelve categories at the Japanese Academy Awards, and it just took most of them home!
Godzilla Minus One dominated eight of the twelve total categories it was nominated in, and most importantly the smash hit monster movie won Best Picture of the year!
The following awards were handed to Godzilla Minus One this week…
Best Picture – Godzilla Minus One Best Screenplay – Takashi Yamazaki Best Supporting Actress – Sakura Ando Best Cinematography – Kozo Shibasaki Best Lighting – Nariyuki Ueda Best Art Direction – Anri Jojo Best Sound – Hisafumi Takeuchi Best Editing – Ryuji Miyajima
Back in 2017, Toho’s previous Godzilla movie Shin Godzilla took...
Godzilla Minus One dominated eight of the twelve total categories it was nominated in, and most importantly the smash hit monster movie won Best Picture of the year!
The following awards were handed to Godzilla Minus One this week…
Best Picture – Godzilla Minus One Best Screenplay – Takashi Yamazaki Best Supporting Actress – Sakura Ando Best Cinematography – Kozo Shibasaki Best Lighting – Nariyuki Ueda Best Art Direction – Anri Jojo Best Sound – Hisafumi Takeuchi Best Editing – Ryuji Miyajima
Back in 2017, Toho’s previous Godzilla movie Shin Godzilla took...
- 3/8/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
‘Godzilla Minus One’ Nominated for Best Picture at Japanese Academy Awards Plus 11 Other Nominations
In the wake of Godzilla Minus One becoming the first-ever Godzilla movie to get an Academy Awards nomination – it’s up for the “Visual Effects” Oscar – we’ve learned that Toho’s smash hit monster movie has also been nominated for 12 awards at the Japanese Academy Awards.
And unlike the American Oscars, Godzilla Minus One is nominated for “Best Picture” over in Japan, a nomination many felt the movie should’ve received here in the United States.
First brought to our attention by the website Godzilla-Movies.com this afternoon, here’s the full list of Japanese Academy Awards nominations for Godzilla Minus One…
Best Film – Godzilla Minus One Best Director – Takashi Yamazaki Best Screenplay – Takashi Yamazaki Best Actor – Ryunosuke Kamiki Best Actress – Minami Hamabe Best Supporting Actress – Sakura Ando Best Music – Naoki Sato Best Cinematography – Kozo Shibasaki Best Lighting – Nariyuki Ueda Best Art Direction – Anri Jojo Best Sound – Hisafumi Takeuchi...
And unlike the American Oscars, Godzilla Minus One is nominated for “Best Picture” over in Japan, a nomination many felt the movie should’ve received here in the United States.
First brought to our attention by the website Godzilla-Movies.com this afternoon, here’s the full list of Japanese Academy Awards nominations for Godzilla Minus One…
Best Film – Godzilla Minus One Best Director – Takashi Yamazaki Best Screenplay – Takashi Yamazaki Best Actor – Ryunosuke Kamiki Best Actress – Minami Hamabe Best Supporting Actress – Sakura Ando Best Music – Naoki Sato Best Cinematography – Kozo Shibasaki Best Lighting – Nariyuki Ueda Best Art Direction – Anri Jojo Best Sound – Hisafumi Takeuchi...
- 1/24/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
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