The Japan Academy Film Prize (日本アカデミー賞 / Nippon Akademī-shō) is the Japanese Academy Awards (Oscars). It is awarded each year by the Nippon Academy-shō Association. The nominees were announced on January 15th and the winners were revealed at the ceremony held at the Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa on March 6th. (Sources: Japan Academy Prize, Google, IMDb, Wikipedia).

See our entries for the previous years: 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2010, 2007.

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Full Awards list (winners in red) after the jump:

Best Picture of the Year

• Kingdom
• The Journalist
• Fly Me to the Saitama
• Closed Ward
• Listen to the Universe

Best Animation

• Her Blue Sky
• Weathering with You
• Detective Conan: The Fist of Blue Sapphire
• Lupin III: The First
• One Piece: Stampede

Best Director

• Shinsuke Sato (Kingdom)
• Masayuki Suo (Talking the Pictures)
• Hideki Takeuchi (Fly Me to the Saitama)
• Hideyuki Hirayama (Closed Ward)
• Michihito Fujii (The Journalist)

Best Screenplay

• Shozo Katashima (Talking the Pictures)
• Roba Shimori, Akihiko Takaishi, Michihito Fujii (The Journalist)
• Yuichi Tokunaga (Fly Me to the Saitama)
• Hideyuki Hirayama (Closed Ward)
• Koki Mitani (Hit Me Anyone One More Time)

Best Actor

• Tsurube Shofukutei (Closed Ward)
• Masaki Suda (The Great War of Archimedes)
• Kiichi Nakai (Hit Me Anyone One More Time)
• Tori Matsuzaka (The Journalist)
• GACKT (Fly Me to the Saitama)

Best Actress

• Shim Eun-kyung (The Journalist)
• Fumi Nikaido (Fly Me to the Saitama)
• Mayu Matsuoka (Listen to the Universe)
• Rie Miyazawa (No Longer Human)
• Sayuri Yoshinaga (The Bucket List)

Best Supporting Actor

• Go Ayano (Closed Ward)
• Yusuke Iseya (Fly Me to the Saitama)
• Tasuku Emoto (The Great War of Archimedes)
• Takashi Okamura (The 47 Ronin in Debt)
• Kuranosuke Sasaki (Kubo Ibuki)
• Ryo Yoshizawa (Kingdom)

Best Supporting Actress

• Yuki Amami (The Bucket List)
• Nana Komatsu (Closed Ward)
• Mitsuki Takahata (A Banana? At This Time of Night?)
• Masami Nagasawa (Kingdom)
• Fumi Nikaido (No Longer Human)

Best Cinematography

• Taro Kawazu (Kingdom)
• Kozo Shibasaki (Closed Ward)
• Shohei Tanigawa (Fly Me to the Saitama)
• Piotr Niemyjski (Listen to the Universe)
• Junichi Fujisawa (Talking the Pictures)

Best Lighting Direction

• Nariyuki Ueda (Closed Ward)
• Shunri Rinoie (Fly Me to the Saitama)
• Kenjiro So (Listen to the Universe)
• Tatsuya Osada (Talking the Pictures)

Best Music (Composer)

• Yoshikazu Suo (Talking the Pictures)
• Dai Fujikura, Daisuke Shinoda (Listen to the Universe)
• Yutaka Yamada (Kingdom)
• Face 2 fAKE (Fly Me to the Saitama)
• RADWIMPS (Weathering with You)

Best Art Direction

• Yoji Abeki (Fly Me to the Saitama)
• Norihiro Isoda (Talking the Pictures)
• Iwao Saito (Kingdom)
• Anri Johjo (The Great War of Archimedes)
• Katsumi Nakazawa (Closed Ward)

Best Sound Recording

• Hirokazu Kato (Fly Me to the Saitama)
• Yoshifumi Kureishi (Listen to the Universe)
• Hiromichi Kori (Talking the Pictures)
• Masato Komatsu (Closed Ward)
• Kazushiko Yokono (Kingdom)

Best Film Editing

• Tsuyoshi Imai (Kingdom)
• Shinji Kawamura (Fly Me to the Saitama)
• Chieko Suzaki (Closed Ward)
• Tatsuma Furukawa (The Journalist)
• Ryuji Miyajima (The Great War of Archimedes)

Best Foreign Language Film

• Yesterday
• Green Book
• Joker
• The Mule
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Newcomers of the year (all winners)

• Yukino Kishii (Just Only Love)
• Yuina Kuroshima (Talking the Pictures)
• Riho Yoshioka (Blind Witness, Parallel World Love Story)
• Oji Suzuka (Listen to the Universe)
• Win Morisaki (Listen to the Universe)
• Ryusei Yokohama (Aiuta: My Promise To Nakuhito; Go Away, Ultramarine; Cheer Boys!)

Special Awards (Technicals)

• Tetsuo Kaneko (Opticals)
• Yoichi Kotabe (Animator)
• Kunio Niwa (Location Manager)
• Yoshio Yamada (Production Designer)

Awards for Distinguished Service (Creatives)

• Koji Takada (Screenwriter)
• Akira Takarada (Actor)
• Yoko Tsukasa (Actress)
• Sadao Nakajima (Director)
• Ayako Wakao (Actress)

Popularity Awards

• The 47 Ronin in Debt