Thomas Storai 
The cast and crew of Godzilla Minus One at the 47th Japanese Academy Awards
Godzilla Minus One takes home 8 awards including Best Picture at the Japanese Acedemy Awards!
Today took place the big awards ceremony in Japan, the 47th annual Japan Academy Film Prizes. The ceremony took place at the Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa in Tokyo. Godzilla Minus One was nominated in 12 categories and ended up winning 8 of its nominations including Best Picture. This is an impressive feast for the highly-acclaimed film. The film has also been a tremendous success at the box office grossing $106,7 million worldwide, being the highest grossing Japanese Godzilla film. It is still playing in Japanese cinemas and is set for a home video release in May in Japan.
Godzilla Minus One won the following categories at the Japanese Academy Awards:
Best Picture
Best Supporting Actress – Sakura Ando (she has also won Best Actress for her role in Monster)
Best Screenplay – Takashi Yamazaki
Best Cinematography – Kōzō Shibasaki
Best Lighting – Nariyuki Ueda
Best Art Direction – Anri Jōjō
Best Sound Recording – Hisafumi Takeuchi
Best Editing – Ryūji Miyajima
THOUGHTS
In our FIVE-STAR review, Thomas said:
Godzilla Minus One is an epic film with breathtaking visuals and a wonderful soundtrack. It is truly one of the best films of the year. At its heart, it is a deeply moving postwar drama that tells a character-driven story. Ryunosuke Kamiki delivers a powerful and heartfelt performance as the lead. He is also supported by a great cast.
ABOUT GODZILLA MINUS ONE:
The worst despair in the series’ history strikes Japan! After the war, Japan has been reduced to zero. Godzilla appears and plunges the country into a negative state. The most desperate situation in the history of Japan. Who? And how? Will Japan stand up to it?
It stars Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Sakura Andor, Hidetaka Yoshioka and Munetaka Aoki. The film was directed and written by Takashi Yamazaki (Lupin III: The First) who also supervised the visual effects.
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