Blue Ribbon Award for Best Film

The Blue Ribbon Award for Best Film is a prize recognizing excellence in Japanese film. It is awarded annually by the Association of Tokyo Film Journalists as one of the Blue Ribbon Awards. Filmmakers Akira Kurosawa, Tadashi Imai and Mikio Naruse are among those who have received the award. Best Film winners Kagemusha (1980) and The Twilight Samurai (2002) also received an Academy Award nomination in the category of Best Foreign Language Film.[1][2]

Blue Ribbon Award for Best Film
Awarded forBest Performance by a Film
CountryJapan Japan
Presented byThe Association of Tokyo Film Journalists
First awarded1950

List of winners

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No. Year Film Director
1 1950 Until We Meet Again Tadashi Imai
2 1951 Repast Mikio Naruse
3 1952 Lightning Mikio Naruse
4 1953 An Inlet of Muddy Water Tadashi Imai
5 1954 Twenty-Four Eyes Keisuke Kinoshita
6 1955 Floating Clouds Mikio Naruse
7 1956 Mahiru no ankoku Tadashi Imai
8 1957 The Rice People Tadashi Imai
9 1958 The Hidden Fortress Akira Kurosawa
10 1959 Kiku to Isamu Tadashi Imai
11 1960 Her Brother Kon Ichikawa
12 1961 Pigs and Battleships Shohei Imamura
13 1962 Foundry Town Kirio Urayama
14 1963 The Insect Woman Shohei Imamura
15 1964 The Woman in the Dunes Hiroshi Teshigahara
16 1965 Red Beard Akira Kurosawa
17 1966 Shiroi Kyotō Satsuo Yamamoto
18 1975 The Fossil Masaki Kobayashi
19 1976 Lullaby of the Earth Yasuzo Masumura
20 1977 The Yellow Handkerchief Yoji Yamada
21 1978 Third Base Yōichi Higashi
22 1979 Vengeance Is Mine Shōhei Imamura
23 1980 Kagemusha Akira Kurosawa
24 1981 Muddy River Kōhei Oguri
25 1982 Fall Guy Kinji Fukasaku
26 1983 Tokyo Trial Masaki Kobayashi
27 1984 MacArthur's Children Masahiro Shinoda
28 1985 Ran Akira Kurosawa
29 1986 House of Wedlock Kichitaro Negishi
30 1987 A Taxing Woman Juzo Itami
31 1988 The Silk Road Junya Satō
32 1989 Dotsuitarunen Junji Sakamoto
33 1990 Childhood Days Masahiro Shinoda
34 1991 A Scene at the Sea Takeshi Kitano
35 1992 Sumo Do, Sumo Don't Masayuki Suo
36 1993 All Under the Moon Yōichi Sai
37 1994 Like a Rolling Stone Tatsumi Kumashiro
38 1995 A Last Note Kaneto Shindo
39 1996 Boys Be Ambitious Kazuyuki Izutsu
40 1997 Bounce Ko Gals Masato Harada
41 1998 Hana-bi Takeshi Kitano
42 1999 Gohatto Nagisa Oshima
43 2000 Battle Royale Kinji Fukasaku
44 2001 Spirited Away Hayao Miyazaki
45 2002 The Twilight Samurai Yōji Yamada
46 2003 Akame 48 Waterfalls Genjiro Arato
47 2004 Nobody Knows Hirokazu Koreeda
48 2005 Break Through! Kazuyuki Izutsu
49 2006 Hula Girls Sang-il Lee
50 2007 Kisaragi Yūichi Satō
51 2008 Climber's High Masato Harada
52 2009 Mt. Tsurugidake Daisaku Kimura
53 2010 Confessions Tetsuya Nakashima
54 2011 Cold Fish Sion Sono
55 2012 Our Homeland Yang Yong-hi
56 2013 A Story of Yonosuke Shūichi Okita
57 2014 Samurai Hustle Katsuhide Motoki
58 2015 The Emperor in August Masato Harada
59 2016 Shin Godzilla Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi
60 2017 Wilderness Yoshiyuki Kishi
61 2018 One Cut of the Dead Shinichiro Ueda
62 2019 Fly Me to the Saitama Hideki Takeuchi
63 2020 Fukushima 50 Setsurō Wakamatsu
64 2021 Last of the Wolves Kazuya Shiraishi
65 2022 A Man Kei Ishikawa
66 2023 Godzilla Minus One Takashi Yamazaki

References

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  1. ^ "ブルーリボン賞" [Blue Ribbon Awards]. allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 2015-04-26.
  2. ^ "Blue Ribbon Awards". IMDb.com, Inc. Retrieved 2015-04-26.
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