Villion’s Wife

The Sun That Doesn’t Set

Zero Focus

Mt. Tsurugidake

Dear Doctor

The Japan Academy Prize aka Japanese Academy Awards nominees list is now out. The major categories below. Winners will be announced in March 2010.

Picture of the Year:
• Villon’s Wife (Kichitaro Negishi)
• The Sun That Doesn’t Set (Setsuro Wakamatsu)
• Zero Focus (Isshin Inudo)
• Mt. Tsurugidake (Daisaku Kimura)
• Dear Doctor (Miwa Nishikawa)

Animation of the Year
• Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (Khara)
• Summer Wars (Mamoru Hosoda)
• Doraemon (Shigeo Koshi)
• Yona Yona Penguin (Rintaro)
• Detective Conan: The Raven Chaser (Yasuichiro Yamamoto)

Director of the Year
• Isshin Inudo (Zero Focus)
• Daisaku Kimura (Mt. Tsurugidake)
• Kichitaro Negishi (Villon’s Wife)
• Miwa Nishikawa (Dear Doctor)
• Setsuro Wakamatsu (The Sun That Doesn’t Set)

Screenplay of the Year
• Isshin Inudo/Kenji Nakazono (Zero Focus)
• Daisaku Kimura/Atsuo Kikuchi/Toshimasa Miyamura (Mt. Tsurugidake)
• Yozo Tanaka (Villon’s Wife)
• Takuya Nishioka (The Sun That Doesn’t Set)
• Miwa Nishikawa (Dear Doctor)

Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
• Tadanobu Asano (Villon’s Wife)
• Tadanobu Asano (Mt. Tsurugidake)
• Nao Omori (The Vulture)
• Tsurube Shofukutei (Dear Doctor)
• Ken Watanabe (The Sun That Doesn’t Set)

Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
• Haruka Ayase (Oppai Volleyball)
• Ryoko Hirosue (Zero Focus)
• Du-na Bae (Airdoll)
• Takako Matsu (Villon’s Wife)
• Aoi Miyazaki (The Shonen Merikensack)

Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
• Eita (Dear Doctor)
• Teruyuki Kagawa (Mt. Tsurugidake)
• Masato Sakai (The Triumphant Return of General Rouge)
• Tetsuji Tamayama (The Vulture)
• Tomokazu Miura (The Sun That Doesn’t Set)

Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
• Tae Kimura (Zero Focus)
• Kyoka Suzuki (The Sun That Doesn’t Set)
• Miki Nakatani (Zero Focus)
• Shigeru Muroi (Villon’s Wife)
• Kimiko Yo (Dear Doctor)

Outstanding Achievement in Music
• Shinichiro Ikebe (Mt. Tsurugidake)
• Koji Ueno (Zero Focus)
• Norihito Sumitomo (The Sun That Doesn’t Set)
• Shutoku Mukai (The Shonen Merikensack)
• Takashi Yoshimatsu (Villon’s Wife)

Outstanding Foreign Language Film
• Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood)
• Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle)
• The Changeling (Clint Eastwood)
• The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky)
• Red Cliff – Part 2 (John Woo)

Special award from the chairman
• Genken Nakaoka (†2009/03/08)
• Shuei Matsubayashi (†2009/08/15)
• Yoshiro Muraki (†2009/10/26)

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