Japan Academy Film Prize for Outstanding Foreign Language Film
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Every year since its inception, the Japanese Academy has recognized an outstanding foreign film.[1] The year that any given film is nominated is not based on the film's domestic release date but rather on the date it is released in Japan. As delays of over four months are not uncommon, many films are nominated in Japan the following year after their release to the Japanese market (i.e. Million Dollar Baby won the American Academy Award for Best Picture for films made in 2004, but the Japanese award, based on its localized release date, is for 2005). In fact, not one of the five films nominated for the 2007 Academy Award for Best Picture had been released in Japan by February 15, 2008, the date of the Japan Academy Prize Ceremony.
Although the 2007 recipient of this award, Letters from Iwo Jima, a film almost entirely in Japanese, would not seem to meet the qualification of a "Foreign Language Film", the actual Japanese title of the award, 最優秀外国作品賞 makes no mention of language. It would be more accurately translated as "Best Foreign Production".
Winners and nominees[]
- 2021 – Parasite
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
- Ford v Ferrari
- 1917
- Tenet
- 2020 – Joker
- Yesterday
- Green Book
- The Mule
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
- 2019 – Bohemian Rhapsody
- 2018 – La La Land
- 2017 – Sully
- The Martian
- Zootopia
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- The Revenant
- 2016 – American Sniper
- Kingsman: The Secret Service
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- Spectre
- Whiplash
- 2015 – Frozen
- Interstellar
- Jersey Boys
- Fury
- Godzilla
- 2014 – Les Misérables
- 2013 – The Intouchables
- Argo
- The Dark Knight Rises
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Skyfall
- 2012 – The King's Speech
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes
- Moneyball
- The Social Network
- Black Swan
- 2011 – Avatar
- Inception
- Toy Story 3
- Invictus
- The Hurt Locker
- 2010 – Gran Torino
- 2009 – The Dark Knight
- 2008 – Letters from Iwo Jima
- Dreamgirls
- Babel
- Hairspray
- The Bourne Ultimatum
- 2007 – Flags of Our Fathers
- 2006 – Million Dollar Baby
- 2005 – The Last Samurai
- 2004 – The Pianist
- Chicago
- The Hours
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- Yeopgijeogin geunyeo
- 2003 – Monster's Ball
- 2002 – Billy Elliot
- Artificial Intelligence: AI
- Chocolat
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- Postmen in the Mountains
- 2001 – Dancer in the Dark
- 2000 – The Sixth Sense
- 1999 – L.A. Confidential
- Armageddon
- As Good as It Gets
- Good Will Hunting
- Saving Private Ryan
- 1998 – Titanic
- 1997 – Il Postino
- Independence Day
- Mission: Impossible
- Se7en
- 12 Monkeys
- 1996 – The Shawshank Redemption
- Apollo 13
- The Bridges of Madison County
- Forrest Gump
- Léon
- 1995 – Schindler's List
- 1994 – Jurassic Park
- 1993 – JFK
- 1992 – Dances with Wolves
- Awakenings
- La Femme Nikita
- The Silence of the Lambs
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- 1991 – Field of Dreams
- 1990 – Die Hard
- Black Rain
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Major League
- Rain Man
- 1989 – The Last Emperor
- Fatal Attraction
- Full Metal Jacket
- Moonstruck
- Wall Street
- 1988 – Platoon
- Hannah and Her Sisters
- Stand By Me
- Top Gun
- The Untouchables
- 1987 – Back to the Future
- 1986 – Amadeus
- 1985 – Once Upon a Time in America
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- The Natural
- The Right Stuff
- Terms of Endearment
- 1984 – An Officer and a Gentleman
- 1983 – E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
- 1982 – Die Blechtrommel
- 1981 – Kramer vs. Kramer
- All That Jazz
- Apocalypse Now
- Manhattan
- Tess
- 1980 – The Deer Hunter
- 1979 – Conversation Piece
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- The Goodbye Girl
- Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
- The Turning Point
- 1978 – Rocky
- The Fire Within
- Network
- Slap Shot
- Voyage of the Damned
References[]
- ^ 歴代受賞者・受賞作品 (in Japanese). 日本アカデミー賞公式サイト. Archived from the original on 2008-05-30. Retrieved 2008-06-11.
- ^ "3 Idiots to race for Japan Academy Awards".
- ^ "3 Idiots to race for Japan Academy Awards". Archived from the original on 2014-01-29.
- ^ "Aamir Khan's '3 Idiots' nominated for Japan Academy Awards".
- ^ "Film 3 Idiots nominated for 37th Japanese Academy Awards 2014". IANS. Biharprabha News. Retrieved 27 January 2014.
- Japan Academy Film Prize
- Film awards for Best Foreign Language Film