38th Japan Academy Prize winners (2015)

The nominees for the 38th Annual Japan Academy Prizes were announced on January 14th and on February 27th the Japan Academy Prize Associations revealed the winners (hi-lighted in yellow). Here they are (after the jump):


Best Picture of the Year

• The Eternal Zero
• Paper Moon
• Little House
• A Samurai's Chronicle
• Cape Nostalgia

Best Animation

• When Marnie was There
• Giovanni's Island
• Detective Conan: Dimensional Sniper (movie 18)
• Stand by Me Doraemon
• Buddha 2: Tezuka Osamu no Budda - Owarinaki tabi

Best Director

• Izuru Narushima (Cape Nostalgia)
• Daihachi Yoshida (Paper Moon)
• Takashi Yamazaki (The Eternal Zero)
• Takashi Koizumi (A Samurai's Chronicle)
• Katsuhide Motoki (Samurai Hustle)

Best Screenplay

• Dobashi Akihiro (Chokosoku ! Sankin Kotai)
• Kato Masato / Abe Teruo (Fushigina Misaki no Monogatari)
• Hayafune Kaeko (Kami no Tsuki)
• Takashi Yamazaki / Hayashi Tamio (Eien no Zero)
• Yamada Yoji / Hiramatsu Emiko (Chiisai Ouchi)

Best Actor

• Abe Hiroshi (Cape Nostalgia)
• Junichi Okada (The Eternal Zero)
• Kuranosuke Sasaki (Samurai Hustle)
• Koji Yakusho (A Samurai's Chronicle)
• Kiichi Nakai (Snow On The Blades)

Best Actress

• Sakura Ando (0.5mm)
• Chizuru Ikewaki (The Light Shines Only There)
• Mao Inoue (Snow White Murder Case)
• Fumi Nikaido (My Man)
• Rie Miyazawa (Paper Moon)
• Sayuri Yoshinaga (Cape Nostalgia)

Best Supporting Actor

• Abe Hiroshi (Snow on the Blades)
• Ito Hideaki (Wood Job!)
• Junichi Okada (A Samurai's Chronicle)
• Shôfukutei Tsurube (Cape Nostalgia)
• Haruma Miura (The Eternal Zero)

Best Supporting Actress

• Yuko Oshima (Paper Moon)
• Haru Kuroki (The Little House)
• Satomi Kobayashi (Paper Moon)
• Yuko Takeuchi (Cape Nostalgia)
• Sumiko Fuji (Lady Maiko)

Best Cinematography : Shibasaki Kozo (Eien no Zero)
Best Lighting Direction : Nariyuki Ueda (Eien no Zero)
Best Composer : Suo Yoshikazu (Maiko wa Lady)
Best Art Direction : Asato Kamijo (Eien no Zero)
Best Sound Recording : Fujimoto Kenichi (Eien no Zero)
Best Film Editing : Ryuji Miyajima (Eien no Zero)
Best Foreign Language Film : Frozen

Newcomers of the year

• Mone Kamishiraishi (Lady Maiko)
• Nana Komatsu (The World of Kanako)
• Rena Nōnen (Hot Road)
• Sosuke Ikematsu (Paper Moon, Vortex of Love, Our Family)
• Hiroomi Tosaka (Hot Road)
• Sota Fukushi (In The Hero, As the God's Will, Say "I Love You")

All Night Nippon Wadai-Sho Prize

• Film Department : Rurouni Kenshin Kyoto Taika hen, Densetsu no Saigo hen
• Actor Department : Okada Junichi (Eien no Zero)

Sources: Anime News Network, The Hollywood Reporter, Japan Academy Prize Associations [translated], Psycho-Drama, tumblr, Variety.

You can also read our entries for the Japan Academy Prizes' winners for 2014 and for 2013.

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