Nominations for the 33rd Japan Academy Prize announced

By Siewaun
Reference: Japan Academy Prize

Nominations for the 33rd Japan Academy Prize (Japan's equivalent of the Oscars) was announced yesterday.

Director Kichitaro Negishi's "Villon's Wife" received the most nominations -- for Picture of the Year, Director of the Year (Kichitaro Negishi), Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Tadanobu Asano), and Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Takako Matsu).

Here are the nominees in 15 categories (award ceremony to be held on March 5th, 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 - late (2009/03/08)
Shuei Matsubayashi - late (2009/08/15)
Yoshiro Muraki - late (2009/10/26)

Achievement Award from the Chairman

Nishida Toshiyuki (The Fishing Maniac's Diary)
Mikuni Rentaro (The Fishing Maniac's Diary)

Association Special Award

Sumiko Hata - Director
Yukio Hokari - Acoustics
Kiyoshi Matsushita - Background
Matsuda Takashi - Costumes

Society Medal of Honor

Hisaya Morishige - late actor (2009/11/10)