# 45th Japan Academy Film Prize

The 45th Japan Academy Film Prize (第45回日本アカデミー賞) is the 45th edition of the Japan Academy Film Prize, an award presented by the Nippon Academy-Sho Association to award excellence in filmmaking.

## 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 | Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time 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 – Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai 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 |