Blue Ribbon Awards

Profile

Event: Blue Ribbon Awards (ブルーリボン賞 )
Date: Annually February
Presented By: The Association of Tokyo Film Journalists (film correspondents from seven Tokyo-based sports newspapers)
Began: 1950
Website: http://cinemahochi.yomiuri.co.jp/b_award/

Winners

2012 (55th) Blue Ribbon Awards

Ceremony held January 30, 2013.

Best Picture: "Our Homeland" (Yang Yong-Hi)
Best Director: Kenji Uchida ("Key Of Life")
Best Actor: Hiroshi Abe ("Thermae Romae")
Best Actress: Sakura Ando ("Our Homeland")
Best Supporting Actor: Arata Iura ("Our Homeland")
Best Supporting Actress: Ryoko Hirosue ("Key Of Life")
Best Newcomer: Makita Sports ("The Drudgery Train")
Best Foreign Language Film: "Les Misérables" (Tom Hooper)
Special Award: Koji Wakamatsu

2011 (54th) Blue Ribbon Awards

Announcement of winners January 24, 2012/Ceremony held February 14, 2012.

Best Picture: "Cold Fish" (Sion Sono)
Best Director: Kaneto Shindo ("Post Card")
Best Actor: Yutaka Takenouchi ("Oba: The Last Samurai")
Best Actress: Hiromi Nagasaku ("Rebirth")
Best Supporting Actor: Yusuke Iseya ("Tomorrow's Joe"/"Kaiji 2")
Best Supporting Actress: Masami Nagasawa ("Love Strikes!")
Best Newcomer: Mana Ashida ("Bunny Drop"/"Hankyu Railways - A 15-Minute Miracle")
Best Foreign Language Film: "Black Swan" (Darren Aronofsky)
Special Award: Yoshio Harada

2010 (53rd) Blue Ribbon Awards

Award ceremony held February 15, 2011.

Best Picture: "Confessions" (Tetsuya Nakashima)
Best Director: Yuya Ishii ("Sawako Decides")
Best Actor: Satoshi Tsumabuki ("Villain")
Best Actress: Shinobu Terajima ("Caterpillar")
Best Supporting Actor: Renji Ishibashi ("Outrage"/"A Good Husband")
Best Supporting Actress: Yoshino Kimura ("Confessions")
Best Newcomer: Toma Ikuta ("The Fallen Angel"/"Hanamizuki -May your love bloom a hundred years-")
Best Newcomer: Nanami Sakuraba ("Shodo Girls!! Watashitachi no koshien")
Best Foreign Language Film:

2009 (52nd) Blue Ribbon Awards

Award ceremony held February 16, 2010.

Best Picture: "The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity" (Daisaku Kimura)
Best Director: Miwa Nishikawa ("Dear Doctor")
Best Actor: Tsurube Shofukutei ("Dear Doctor")
Best Actress: Haruka Ayase ("Oppai Volleyball")
Best Supporting Actor: Eita ("Dear Doctor")
Best Supporting Actress: Kyoko Fukada ("Yatterman")
Best Newcomer: Daisaku Kimura ("The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity"), Masaki Okada ("Gravity's Clowns"/"The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity"/"Honokaa Boy")
Best Foreign Film: "Gran Torino"
Special Award: Toshiyuki Nishida ("Free and Easy" series)

2008 (51st) Blue Ribbon Awards

Award ceremony held February 3, 2009.

Best Picture: "The Climber's High" (Masato Harada)
Best Director: Hirokazu Koreeda ("Still Walking")
Best Actor: Masahiro Motoki ("Departures")
Best Actress: Tae Kimura ("All Around Us")
Best Supporting Actor: Masato Sakai ("The Climbers High")
Best Supporting Actress: Kirin Kiki ("Still Walking")
Best Newcomer: Yuriko Yoshitaka (Snakes and Earrings), Lily Franky ("All Around Us")
Best Foreign Film: "The Dark Knight"

2007 (50th) Blue Ribbon Awards

Award ceremony held February 12, 2008.

Best Picture: "Kisaragi" (Yuichi Sato)
Best Director: Masayuki Suo ("I Just Didn't Do It")
Best Actor: Ryo Kase ("I Just Didn't Do It")
Best Actress: Kumiko Aso ("Yunagi City, Sakura Country")
Best Supporting Actor: Tomokazu Miura ("The Matsugane Potshot Affair"/"Adrift in Tokyo")
Best Supporting Actress: Hiromi Nagasaku ("Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!")
Best Newcomer: Yui Aragaki ("Waruboro"/"Sky of Love"/"Tokyo Serendipity")
Best Foreign Film: "Dreamgirls"

2006 (49th) Blue Ribbon Awards

Award ceremony held February 13, 2007.

Best Picture: "Hula Girls" (Sang-il Lee)
Best Director: Miwa Nishikawa ("Sway")
Best Actor: Ken Watanabe ("Memories of Tomorrow")
Best Actress: Yu Aoi ("Hula Girls"/"Honey & Clover")
Best Supporting Actor: Teruyuki Kagawa ("Sway" / "Sea Without Exit" / "Memories of Tomorrow")
Best Supporting Actress: Sumiko Fuji ("The Inugamis"/ "Hula Girls")
Best Newcomer: Muga Tsukaji ("The Mamiya Brothers") / Rei Dan ("Love and Honor")
Best Foreign Film: "Flags of Our Fathers"
Special Award: Shohei Imamura

2005 (48th) Blue Ribbon Awards

Award ceremony held February 7, 2006.

Best Picture: "Break Through!" (Kazuyuki Izutsu)
Best Director: Junya Sato ("Yamato")
Best Actor: Hiroyuki Sanada ("Aegis")
Best Actress: Kyoko Koizumi ("Hanging Garden")
Best Supporting Actor: Shin'ichi Tsutsumi ("Always: Sunset on Third Street" / "Fly, Daddy, Fly")
Best Supporting Actress: Hiroko Yakushimaru ("Always: Sunset on Third Street"/ "Princess Raccoon")
Best Newcomer: Mikako Tabe ("Hinokio: Inter Galactic Love" / "Way of Blue Sky")
Best Foreign Film: "Million Dollar Baby"
Special Award: Kihachi Okamoto

2004 (47th) Blue Ribbon Awards

Award ceremony held February 14, 2005.

Best Picture: "Nobody Knows" (Hirokazu Koreeda)
Best Director: Hirokazu Koreeda ("Nobody Knows")
Best Actor: Akira Terao ("Half a Confession")
Best Actress: Rie Miyazawa ("The Face of Jizo")
Best Supporting Actor: Joe Odagiri ("Blood and Bones"/"Out of This World")
Best Supporting Actress: Masami Nagasawa ("Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World"/ "Breathe In, Breathe Out")
Best Newcomer: Anna Tsuchiya ("Kamikaze Girls")/"The Taste of Tea") / Mirai Moriyama ("Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World")
Best Foreign Film: "Mystic River"

2003 (46th) Blue Ribbon Awards

Award ceremony held February 6, 2004.

Best Picture: "Akame 48 Waterfalls" (Genjiro Arato)
Best Director: Yoshimitsu Morita ("Like Asura")
Best Actor: Toshiyuki Nishida ("Free and Easy 14"/"Get Up!")
Best Actress: Shinobu Terajima ("Akame 48 Waterfalls"/"Vibrator")
Best Supporting Actor: Taro Yamamoto ("Moon Child"/"Get Up!"/"The Boat to Heaven")
Best Supporting Actress: Michiyo Ookusu ("Zatoichi"/ "Akame 48 Waterfalls")
Best Newcomer: Satomi Ishihara ("My Grandpa")
Best Foreign Film: "Infernal Affairs"
Special Award: Ken Watanabe ("The Last Samurai")

2002 (45th) Blue Ribbon Awards

Award ceremony held February 18, 2003.

Best Picture: "The Twilight Samurai" (Yoji Yamada)
Best Director: Yoichi Sai ("Doing Time")
Best Actor: Koichi Sato ("KT"/"Utsutsu")
Best Actress: Reiko Kataoka ("Hush!")
Best Supporting Actor: Kanji Tsuda ("Copycat Killer")
Best Supporting Actress: Rie Miyazawa ("The Twilight Samurai"/"Utsutsu")
Best Newcomer: Manami Konishi ("Letter from the Mountain" / Shido Nakamura ("Ping Pong")
Best Foreign Film: "Shaolin Soccer"
Special Award: Kinji Fukasaku

2001 (44th) Blue Ribbon Awards

Award ceremony held February 8, 2002.

Best Picture: "Spirited Away" (Kinji Fukasaku)
Best Director: Isao Yukisada ("Go")
Best Actor: Mansai Nomura ("The Yin Yang Master")
Best Actress: Yuki Amami ("Inugami"/"Quartet for Two"/"Genji: A Thousand-Year Love")
Best Supporting Actor: Tsutomu Yamazaki ("Go")
Best Supporting Actress: Tomoko Naraoka ("The Firefly")
Best Newcomer: Kou Shibasaki ("Go")
Best Foreign Film: "Joint Security Area"

2000 (43rd) Blue Ribbon Awards

Award ceremony held February 9, 2001.

Best Picture: "Battle Royale" (Kinji Fukasaku)
Best Director: Junji Sakamoto ("Face")
Best Actor: Yuji Oda ("Whiteout")
Best Actress: Sayuri Yoshinaga ("Nagasaki burabura bushi")
Best Supporting Actor: Teruyuki Kagawa ("Pickpocket"/"Boy's Choir")
Best Supporting Actress: Yoshiko Miyazaki ("After the Rain")
Best Newcomer: Tatsuya Fujiwara ("Battle Royale"/"Persona")
Best Foreign Film: "Dancer in the Dark"

1999 (42nd) Blue Ribbon Awards

Award ceremony held February 12, 2000.

Best Picture: "Taboo" (Nagisa Oshima)
Best Director: Nagisa Oshima (Taboo")
Best Actor: Ken Takakura ("Railroad Man")
Best Actress: Kyoka Suzuki ("Keiho")
Best Supporting Actor: Shinji Takeda ("Taboo")
Best Supporting Actress: Sumiko Fuji ("The Geisha House"/"Dream Maker")
Best Newcomer: Ryuhei Matsuda ("Taboo")
Best Foreign Film: "Life Is Beautiful" (Roberto Benigni)