Blue Ribbon Awards Announces Nominations for 67th Edition

Presented by the Association of Tokyo Film Journalists, the Blue Ribbon Awards has announced its nominations for the 67th edition honouring films released in 2024. This years front runners are Yu Irie’s A Girl Named Ann and Michihito Fujii’s Faceless which each pick up nominations in four categories, while A Samurai in Time, 11 Rebels, and Last Mile are nominated in three.

Best Film

A Girl Named Ann
Abudeka Is Back
Let’s Go Karaoke!
52-Hertz Whales
A Samurai in Time
11 Rebels
Faceless
All the Long Nights
LAST MILE
Look Back

Best Director

Yu Irie (A Girl Named Ann)
Kazuya Shiraishi (11 Rebels, Bushido)
Ayuko Tsukahara (Last Mile, La Grande Maison Paris)
Michihito Fujii (Faceless, 18×2 Beyond Youthful Days)
Junichi Yasuda (A Samurai in Time)

Best Actor

Tsuyoshi Kusanagi (Bushido)
Taiga Nakano (11 Rebels)
Makiya Yamaguchi (A Samurai in Time)
Kento Yamazaki (Kingdom 4: Return of the Great General, Golden Kamuy, The Yin Yang Master Zero)
Ryusei Yokohama (Faceless, MIRRORLIAR FILMS Season5)

Best Actress

Satomi Ishihara (Missing)
Yuumi Kawai (A Girl Named Ann, Desert of Namibia)
Hana Sugisaki (52-Hertz Whales, Sakura)
Masami Nagasawa (All About Suomi)
Hikari Mitsushima (Last Mile)

Best Supporting Actor

Sosuke Ikematsu (My Sunshine, Baby Assassins: Nice Days)
Takao Osawa (Kingdom 4: Return of the Great General)
Eiji Okuda (Stay Mum)
Jiro Sato (A Girl Named Ann, Arata Natsume’s Marriage, Saint☆Oniisan THE MOVIE ~Holy Men VS Akuma Gundan)
Ken Yasuda (Sakura, The War of Announcers)

Best Supporting Actress

Akiko Oshidari (Living in Two Worlds)
Maki Carrousel (Voice)
Kyoko Koizumi (Silence of the Sea, Bushido, i ai, Belonging, Muroi Shinji: Ikitsuzukeru Mono)
Yuri Nakamura (Amalock, Samurai Detective Onihei: Blood For Blood)
Ayaka Miyoshi (Sensei’s Pious Lie, The Real You)
Anna Yamada (Golden Kamuy, Faceless)
Riho Yoshioka (Faceless, Maru, At the Bench)

Best Newcomer

Keitatsu Koshiyama (My Sunshine, Arata Natsume’s Marriage)
Jun Saito (Let’s Go Karaoke!, Confetti, Teasing Master Takagi-san Movie, Muroi Shinji: Yaburezaru Mono, Muroi Shinji: Ikitsuzukeru Mono)
Akira Nakanishi (My Sunshine)
Jinsei Hamura (Golden Boy)
Ikoi Hayase (Worlds Apart, Sana: Let Me Hear)