It's a clean sweep for "Drive My Car" at the Japan Academy Awards

by Nathaniel R

Hidetoshi Nishijima accepting BEST ACTOR for "Drive My Car" 

The 45th annual Japan Academy Awards were held last night (aka hours ago -- time differences are confusing!) in Tokyo. 濱口 竜介's Oscar-nominated Drive My Car was honored in all of its categories. The winners are after the jump... 

PICTURE

• ★ Drive My Car (9 nominations / 9 wins) 
• In the Wake (12 nominations / 1 win)
• It's a Flickering Life (8 nominations / no wins)
• Last of the Wolves aka The Blood of the Wolves II - (14 nominations / 2 wins) 
• Under the Open Sky -(7 nominations / no wins) 

DIRECTOR

• ★ Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car
• Izuru Narushima, A Morning of Farewell
• Miwa Nishikawa, Under the Open Sky
• Kazuya Shiraishi, Last of the Wolves
• Takahisa Zeze, In the Wake

Hamaguchi is also up for the Oscar

ANIMATION OF THE YEAR

• Belle
• ★ Evangelion: 3.0 + 1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
• Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko
• Jujutsu Kaisen 0
• Sing a Bit of Harmony

ACTRESS 

Masaki Suda and Kasumi Arimura are both nominated for their romantic drama "We Made a Beautiful Bouquet"

• Yuki Amami, What Happened To Our Nest Egg?
• ★ Kasumi Arimura, We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
• Mayu Matsuoka, Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction
• Mei Nagano, And So the Baton is Passed
• Sayuri Yoshinaga,  A Morning of Farewell

ACTOR 

• Tori Matsuzaka, Last of the Wolves
• ★ Hidetoshi Nishijima, Drive My Car
• Takeru Satoh, In the Wake
• Masaki Suda, We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
• Kôji Yakusho, Under the Open Sky

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Suzu Hirose, A Morning of Farewell
• Satomi Ishihara, And So the Baton is Passed
• ★ Kaya Kiyohara, In the Wake
• Mitsuko Kusabue, What Happened To Our Nest Egg?
• Nanase Nishino, Last of the Wolves

SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Hiroshi Abe, In the Wake
• Nijirô Murakami, Last of the Wolves
• Taiga Nakano, Under the Open Sky
• ★ Ryohei Suzuki, Last of the Wolves
• Shinichi Tsutsumi, The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill

NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR

• Fukase - Character
• Mio Imada - Tokyo Revengers
• Hayato Isomura - A Family and What Did You Eat Yesterday
• Tôko Miura - Drive My Car
• Hio Miyazawa - Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction
• Nanashe Nishino - Last of the Wolves
• Onoe Ukon II - Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
• Ai Yoshikawa - Honey Lemon Soda

From our understanding -- please correct us if we're wrong -- in this category the nomination is the complete honor. i.e. they're all considered winners though it's not one of the official statues. Again correct us if we're wrong. We can't read Japanese!

SCREENPLAY

• ★ Drive My Car
• It's a Flickering Life
• In the Wake
• Last of the Wolves
• Under the Open Sky

Drive My Car is also up for the Adapted Screenplay Oscar. The Japan Academy does not distinguish between original material and adapted material. 

CINEMATOGRAPHY

• ★ Drive My Car
• It's a Flickering Life
• In the Wake
• Last of the Wolves
• Under the Open Sky

LIGHTING DIRECTION

• ★ Drive My Car
• It's a Flickering Life
• In the Wake
• Last of the Wolves
• Under the Open Sky

ART DIRECTION

• ★ Baragaki Unbroken Samurai
• It's a Flickering Life
• In the Wake
• Last of the Wolves
• A Morning of Farewell

EDITING

• ★ Drive My Car
• It's a Flickering Life
• In the Wake
• Last of the Wolves
• A Morning of Farewell

SOUND RECORDING

• ★ Drive My Car
• It's a Flickering Life
• In the Wake
• Last of the Wolves
• A Morning of Farewell

ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC

• ★ Belle
• It's a Flickering Life
• In the Wake
• Last of the Wolves
• A Morning of Farewell
• We Made a Beautiful Bouquet

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

• Dune (Canada/US)
• Minari (US)
• Nomadland (US)
• ★ No Time To Die (UK)
• Tailor (Greece)

To find out more about the other non-Drive My Car nominees, check out our earlier nomination post. 

Comments

[ajnrules]

I'd say the biggest surprise of the night is Belle falling to the Evangelion film for Animation of the Year. This is the first time that Mamoru Hosoda has failed to capture the award since it was instituted.

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