45th Japan Academy Film Prize explained

Number:	45
Award:	Japan Academy Film Prize
Date:	March 11, 2022
Site:	Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa, Tokyo, Japan
Host:	Shinichi Hatori Masami Nagasawa
Most Wins:	Drive My Car (8)
Most Nominations:	Last of the Wolves (13)
Last:	44th
Next:	46th

The is the 45th edition of the Japan Academy Film Prize, an award presented by the Nippon Academy-Sho Association to award excellence in filmmaking.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Winners and nominees

Awards

Picture of the Year	Animation of the Year
Drive My Car It's a Flickering Life Last of the Wolves Under the Open Sky In the Wake	Sing a Bit of Harmony Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Belle
Director of the Year	Screenplay of the Year
Ryusuke Hamaguchi – Drive My Car Kazuya Shiraishi – Last of the Wolves Takahisa Zeze – In the Wake Miwa Nishikawa – Under the Open Sky Izuru Narushima – A Morning of Farewell	Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Ōe – Drive My Car Jun'ya Ikegami – Last of the Wolves Miwa Nishikawa – Under the Open Sky Tamio Hayashi and Takahisa Zeze – In the Wake Yoji Yamada and Yūzō Asahara – It's a Flickering Life
Best Actor	Best Actress
Hidetoshi Nishijima – Drive My Car Takeru Satoh – In the Wake Masaki Suda – We Made a Beautiful Bouquet Tori Matsuzaka – Last of the Wolves Kōji Yakusho – Under the Open Sky	Kasumi Arimura – We Made a Beautiful Bouquet Yūki Amami – What Happened to Our Nest Egg	? Mei Nagano – And So the Baton Is Passed Mayu Matsuoka – Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction Sayuri Yoshinaga – A Morning of Farewell
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Ryohei Suzuki – Last of the Wolves Hiroshi Abe – In the Wake Shinichi Tsutsumi – The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill Taiga Nakano – Under the Open Sky Nijirō Murakami – Last of the Wolves	Kaya Kiyohara – In the Wake Satomi Ishihara – And So the Baton Is Passed Mitsuko Kusabue – What Happened to Our Nest Egg	? Nanase Nishino – Last of the Wolves Suzu Hirose – A Morning of Farewell
Outstanding Achievement in Music	Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography
Taisei Iwasaki / Ludvig Forssell / Yuta Bandoh  – Belle Taro Iwashiro – It's a Flickering Life Yoshihide Otomo – We Made a Beautiful Bouquet Takatsugu Muramatsu – In the Wake Goro Yasukawa – A Morning of Farewell Goro Yasukawa – Last of the Wolves	Hidetoshi Shinomiya – Drive My Car Norimichi Kasamatsu – Under the Open Sky Kohei Kato – Last of the Wolves Masashi Chikamori – It's a Flickering Life Atsuhiro Nabeshima – In the Wake
Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Direction	Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction
Daiki Takai – Drive My Car Kenjiro So – Under the Open Sky Minoru Kawai – Last of the Wolves Masato Tsuchiyama – It's a Flickering Life Kagetsuyoshi – In the Wake	Tetsuo Harada – Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai Tsutomu Imamura – Last of the Wolves Takashi Nishimura – It's a Flickering Life Katsuhiro Fukuzawa – A Morning of Farewell Fumiko Matsuo – In the Wake
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Recording	Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing
Kadoaki Izuta, Miki Nomura – Drive My Car Kazuharu Urata – Last of the Wolves Shinya Takada – In the Wake Shota Nagamura – It's a Flickering Life Kenichi Fujimoto – A Morning of Farewell	Azusa Yamazaki – Drive My Car Kazuhide Ishijima – It's a Flickering Life Hideaki Ohata – A Morning of Farewell Hitomi Kato – Last of the Wolves Ryo Hayano – In the Wake
Best Foreign Language Film	Newcomer of the Year
No Time to Die Tailor Nomadland Minari Dune	Mio Imada – Tokyo Revengers Nanase Nishino – Last of the Wolves Tōko Miura – Drive My Car Ai Yoshikawa – Honey Lemon Soda Hayato Isomura – A Family and What Did You Eat Yesterday? Onoe Ukon II – Hio Miyazawa – Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction Fukase – Character
Special Award from the Association	Award for Distinguished Service from the Chairman
Kyōko Ōbayashi Toshiyuki Sasatake Sadao Tsukioka	Mitsuko Kusabue Natsuko Toda Teruyo Nogami Masako Nozawa Hanae Mori Tsutomu Yamazaki
Special Award from the Chairman	Shigeru Okada Award
Yasuo Ōtsuka Masato Hara Kunie Tanaka Sonny Chiba Shinichiro Sawai Tan Takaiwa Emi Wada	Kyoto Animation Toei Animation

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Notes and References

1. Web site: 『第45回日本アカデミー賞』受賞者・作品発表 司会は羽鳥慎一&長澤まさみ. January 18, 2021. Oricon.
2. Web site: 今田美桜・西野七瀬・磯村勇斗・Fukaseら8人「第45回日本アカデミー賞」新人俳優賞受賞. January 18, 2021. Model Press.
3. Web site: 日本アカデミー賞「孤狼の血2」が最多13の優秀賞、「ドライブ・マイ・カー」は8部門. January 18, 2022. Natalie.
4. Web site: 【第45回日本アカデミー賞】「ドライブ・マイ・カー」が最多8冠！ 受賞者たちの言葉に「3.11」への思い. March 12, 2022. eiga.com.