Blue Ribbon Awards Announces Winners for 66th Edition

The Blue Ribbon Awards, presented by film critics and writers in Tokyo, has announced the winners for the 66th edition which honours films released in 2023. This year’s big winner was Godzilla Minus One which picked up best film, actor, and supporting actress while Yuya Ishii took the Best Director award for his films The Moon and Masked Hearts.

Best Film

Masked Hearts
Ichiko
Egoist
Monster
The Dry Spell
Godzilla Minus One
Mom, Is That You?!
(Ab)normal Desire
The Moon
One Last Bloom
Perfect Days
Bad Lands
September 2023
Do Unto Others
As Long as We Both Shall Live

Best Director

Yuya Ishii (The Moon, Masked Hearts)
Hirokazu Koreeda (Monster)
Daishi Matsunaga (Egoist)
Takashi Yamazaki (Godzilla Minus One)
Yoji Yamada (Mom, Is That You?!)

Best Actor

Goro Inagaki ((Ab)normal Desire)
Ryunosuke Kamiki (Godzilla Minus One, We’re Broke, My Lord!)
Ryohei Suzuki (Egoist, Tokyo MER: Mobile Emergency Room)
Masahiro Higashide (Winny, The Flower in the Sky, Trapped Balloon)
Kenichi Matsuyama (Do Unto Others)
Koji Yakusho (Perfect Days, Father of the Milky Way Railroad, Familia)
Ryusei Yokohama (One Last Bloom, The Village)

Best Actress

Haruka Ayase (Revolver Lily)
Sakura Ando (Bad Lands)
Mayu Matsuoka (Masked Hearts)
Rie Miyazawa (The Moon)
Sayuri Yoshinaga (Mom, Is That You?!)

Best Supporting Actor

Hayato Isomura (The Moon, The Dry Spell, Ripples, Hard Days)
Yo Oizumi (Mom, Is That You?!)
Jo Odagiri (The Moon, Yoko)
Masataka Kubota (One Last Bloom, Yudo: The Way of the Bath)
Koichi Sato (Masked Hearts, Okiku and the World, We’re Broke, My Lord!, Familia, etc)
Hio Miyazawa (Egoist, The Legend & Butterfly)

Best Supporting Actress

Sawako Agawa (Egoist)
Haru Kuroki (Ichikei’s Crow: The Movie, The Village, Okiku and the World, Fly On, Kyrie)
Yuko Tanaka (Monster)
Fumi Nikaido (The Moon)
Kanna Hashimoto (One Last Bloom)
Minami Hamabe (Godzilla Minus One, Shin Kamen Rider)
Haru (Analog)
Suzu Hirose (Kyrie)

Best Newcomer

Aina The End (Kyrie)
Riku Ohnishi (The Water Flows to the Sea)
Soya Kurokawa (Monster)
Ami Toma (The Water Flows to the Sea, Immersion)
Hinata Hiiragi (Monster, One Second Ahead, One Second Behind)
Ren Meguro (As Long as We Both Shall Live)
Nanami Yamazaki (The Dry Spell)

Best Foreign Film

Living
Air
Everything Everywhere All at Once
A Man Called Otto
Gran Turismo
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Tar
Napoleon
Barbie
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

Source: Sponichi