49th Japan Academy Film Prize

The is the 49th edition of the Japan Academy Film Prize, an award presented by the Nippon Academy-Sho Association to award excellence in filmmaking.

The nominations were announced on January 19, 2026.

Winners and nominees Awards Best Film Best Animation FilmKokuho Hero's Island Suzuki=Bakudan 1st Kiss Tokyo TaxiDemon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc 100 Meters Peleliu: Guernica of Paradise Detective Conan: One-eyed Flashback Best Director Best ScreenplayLee Sang-il – Kokuho Eiji Uchida – Night Flower Keishi Ōtomo – Hero's Island Ayuko Tsukahara – 1st Kiss Akira Nagai – Suzuki=BakudanSatoko Okudera – Kokuho Eiji Uchida – Night Flower Kaho Fukuda – 366 Days Masahiro Yamaura and Hiroyuki Yatsu – Suzuki=Bakudan Yoji Yamada and Yuzo Asahara – Tokyo Taxi Best Actor Best ActressRyo Yoshizawa – Kokuho Satoshi Tsumabuki – Hero's Island Kyōzō Nagatsuka – Teki Cometh Hokuto Matsumura – 5 Centimeters per Second Yuki Yamada – Suzuki=BakudanChieko Baisho – Tokyo Taxi Keiko Kitagawa – Night Flower Masami Nagasawa – Dollhouse Suzu Hirose – A Pale View of Hills Takako Matsu – 1st Kiss Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting ActressJiro Sato – Suzuki=Bakudan Min Tanaka – Kokuho Hokuto Matsumura – 1st Kiss Ryusei Yokohama – Kokuho Ken Watanabe – KokuhoMisato Morita – Night Flower Yū Aoi – Tokyo Taxi Mitsuki Takahata – Kokuho Shinobu Terajima – Kokuho Nana Mori – Kokuho Best Music Best CinematographyMarihiko Hara – Kokuho Taisei Iwasaki – Tokyo Taxi Naoki Satō – Hero's Island Moe Hyuga – 366 Days Yaffle – Suzuki=BakudanSofian El Fani – Kokuho Keisuke Imamura – 5 Centimeters per Second Tetsuya Kondo – Suzuki=Bakudan Daisuke Soma – Hero's Island Masashi Chikamori – Tokyo Taxi Best Lighting Direction Best Art DirectionYuki Nakamura – Kokuho Koshiro Ueno – 5 Centimeters per Second Satoshi Mizoguchi – Suzuki=Bakudan Hidenori Nagata – Hero's Island Masato Tsuchiyama – Tokyo TaxiYohei Taneda and Nao Shimoyama – Kokuho Ryo Sugimoto and Takuya Okada – Suzuki=Bakudan Takashi Nishimura – Tokyo Taxi Hidefumi Hanatani – Hero's Island Hiroto Matsuzaki – Muromachi Outsiders Best Sound Recording Best Film EditingMitsugu Shiratori – Kokuho Hiroshi Ishigai – Suzuki=Bakudan Masaharu Tanabe – 366 Days Shota Nagamura – Tokyo Taxi Fusao Yuwaki – Hero's IslandTsuyoshi Imai – Kokuho Hiroshi Sugimoto – Tokyo Taxi Sakura Seya – Exit 8 Mitsuo Nishio – 1st Kiss Suguru Ninomiya – Suzuki=Bakudan Best Foreign Language Film Newcomer of the YearConclave Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning One Battle After Another F1Yamato Kochi – Exit 8 Noa Shiroyama – 5 Centimeters per Second Runa Nakashima – Tokyo Taxi Ryota Bando – Suzuki=Bakudan Takaya Matsutani – One Last Throw Ai Mikami – Kokuho Misato Morita – Night Flower Special Award of Honour from the Association Award for Distinguished Service from the Chairman Kumiko Ogawa Kazuko Kurosawa Jiro Shindo Tadamitsu Nishida Mayumi Ogawa Yoshiko Sakuma Gisaburō Sugii Yozo Tanaka Seiji Mori In Memoriam Special Award from the Chairman Shoji Ueda Masahiro Shinoda Kazuko Yoshiyuki Kazuo Ikehiro Ayumi Ishida Tatsuya Nakadai Masato Harada Nobuyoshi Otani

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