The 66th edition of the Blue Ribbon Awards, presented by the Association of Tokyo Film Journalists, has announced its winners on January 24, 2024. The nominees are selected from movies released in 2023. The trifecta wins for “Godzilla Minus One” come as no surprise, sweeping the Best Film, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress categories. Yuya Ishii picks up the Best Director award for both his movies “The Moon” and “Masked Hearts”.
Best Film
Masked Hearts
Ichiko
Egoist
Monster
The Dry Spell
Godzilla Minus One
Mom, Is That You?!
(Ab)normal Desire
The Moon
One Last Bloom
Perfect Days
Bad Lands
September 1923
Do Unto Others
As Long as We Both Shall Live
Best Director
Yuya Ishii – The Moon, Masked Hearts
Hirokazu Koreeda – Monster
Daishi Matsunaga – Egoist
Takashi Yamazaki – Godzilla Minus One
Yoji Yamada – Mom, Is That You?!
Best Actor
Goro Inagaki – (Ab)normal Desire
Ryunosuke Kamiki – Godzilla Minus One, We're Broke, My Lord!
Ryohei Suzuki – Egoist, Tokyo MER: Mobile Emergency Room
Masahiro Higashide – Winny, The Flower in the Sky, Trapped Balloon
Kenichi Matsuyama – Do Unto Others
Koji Yakusho – Perfect Days, Father of the Milky Way Railroad, Familia
Ryusei Yokohama – One Last Bloom, The Village
Best Actress
Haruka Ayase – Revolver Lily
Sakura Ando – Bad Lands
Mayu Matsuoka – Masked Hearts
Rie Miyazawa – The Moon
Sayuri Yoshinaga – Mom, Is That You?!
Best Supporting Actor
Hayato Isomura – The Moon, The Dry Spell, Ripples, Hard Days
Yo Oizumi – Mom, Is That You?!
Jo Odagiri – The Moon, Yoko
Masataka Kubota – One Last Bloom, Yudo: The Way of the Bath
Koichi Sato – Masked Hearts, Okiku and the World, We're Broke, My Lord!, Familia, etc
Hio Miyazawa – Egoist, The Legend & Butterfly
Best Supporting Actress
Sawako Agawa – Egoist
Haru Kuroki – Ichikei's Crow: The Movie, The Village, Okiku and the World, Fly On, Kyrie
Yuko Tanaka – Monster
Fumi Nikaido – The Moon
Kanna Hashimoto – One Last Bloom
Minami Hamabe – Godzilla Minus One, Shin Kamen Rider
Haru – Analog
Suzu Hirose – Kyrie
Best Newcomer
Aina The End – Kyrie
Riku Ohnishi – The Water Flows to the Sea
Soya Kurokawa – Monster
Ami Toma – The Water Flows to the Sea, Immersion
Hinata Hiiragi – Monster, One Second Ahead, One Second Behind
Ren Meguro – As Long as We Both Shall Live
Nanami Yamazaki – The Dry Spell
Best Foreign Film
Living
Air
Everything Everywhere All at Once
A Man Called Otto
Gran Turismo
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Tar
Napoleon
Barbie
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