# 41st Japan Academy Film Prize

The 41st Japan Academy Film Prize (第41回日本アカデミー賞) is the 41st edition of the Japan Academy Film Prize, an award presented by the Nippon Academy-Sho Association to award excellence in filmmaking. It awarded the best films of 2017 and it took place on March 2, 2018 at the Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa in Tokyo, Japan.

## Winners & Nominees
### Awards

| Picture of the Year | Animation of the Year |
| The Third Murder Let Me Eat Your Pancreas Sekigahara Miracles of the Namiya General Store Flower and Sword | The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom? Napping Princess Mary and the Witch's Flower Detective Conan: Crimson Love Letter |
| Director of the Year | Screenplay of the Year |
| Hirokazu Kore-eda – The Third Murder Kiyoshi Kurosawa – Before We Vanish Tetsuo Shinohara – Flower and Sword Masato Harada – Sekigahara Ryūichi Hiroki – Miracles of the Namiya General Store | Hirokazu Kore-eda – The Third Murder Hiroshi Saitō – Miracles of the Namiya General Store Yoshiko Morishita – Flower and Sword Yoji Yamada and Emiko Hiramatsu – What a Wonderful Family! 2 Tomoko Yoshida – Let Me Eat Your Pancreas |
| Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role | Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role |
| Masaki Suda – Wilderness: Part One Yo Oizumi – The Last Shot in the Bar Junichi Okada – Sekigahara Takeru Satoh – The 8-Year Engagement Tatsuya Fujiwara – Memoirs of a Murderer | Yū Aoi – Birds Without Names Yui Aragaki – Mixed Doubles Tao Tsuchiya – The 8-Year Engagement Masami Nagasawa – Before We Vanish Yuriko Yoshitaka – Yurigokoro |
| Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role | Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role |
| Kōji Yakusho – The Third Murder Toshiyuki Nishida – Miracles of the Namiya General Store Masahiko Nishimura – What a Wonderful Family! 2 Ryuhei Matsuda – The Last Shot in the Bar Nijirō Murakami – Mukoku Kōji Yakusho – Sekigahara | Suzu Hirose – The Third Murder Machiko Ono – Miracles of the Namiya General Store Keiko Kitagawa – The Last Shot in the Bar Yui Natsukawa – What a Wonderful Family! 2 Hiroko Yakushimaru – The 8-Year Engagement |
| Outstanding Achievement in Music | Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography |
| Keiichi Suzuki – Outrage Coda Harumi Fūki – Sekigahara Takatsugu Muramatsu – The 8-Year Engagement Ludovico Einaudi – The Third Murder Jin – Kiseki: Sobito of That Day | Takahide Shibanushi – Sekigahara Tokushō Kikumura – Flower and Sword Kōzō Shibasaki – Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura Mikiya Takimoto – The Third Murder Masashi Chikamori – What a Wonderful Family! 2 |
| Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Direction | Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction |
| Takaaki Miyanishi – Sekigahara Tatsuya Osada – Flower and Sword Nariyuki Ueda – Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura Norikiyo Fujii – The Third Murder Kōichi Watanabe – What a Wonderful Family! 2 | Tomoko Kurata – Flower and Sword Tomoko Kurata and Hisayuki Kobayashi – What a Wonderful Family! 2 Anri Jōjō – Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura Tetsuo Harada – Sekigahara Tomoyuki Maruo and Rihito Nakagawa – Miracles of the Namiya General Store |
| Outstanding Achievement in Sound Recording | Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing |
| Masato Yano – Sekigahara Satoshi Ozaki – Flower and Sword Kazumi Kishida – What a Wonderful Family! 2 Yoshifumi Kureishi – Outrage Coda Kazuhiko Tomita – The Third Murder | Hirokazu Kore-eda – The Third Murder Hirohide Abe – Flower and Sword Iwao Ishii – What a Wonderful Family! 2 Takeshi Kitano and Yoshinori Ota – Outrage Coda Masato Harada – Sekigahara |
| Outstanding Foreign Language Film | Newcomer of the Year |
| La La Land Dunkirk Hidden Figures Beauty and the Beast Miss Sloane | Ayami Nakajo – Let's Go, Jets! Minami Hamabe – Let Me Eat Your Pancreas Takumi Kitamura – Let Me Eat Your Pancreas Ryoma Takeuchi – Teiichi: Battle of Supreme High |