# Tokyo International Film Festival

The Tokyo International Film Festival (東京国際映画祭, Tōkyōkokusaieigasai, TIFF) is a film festival established in 1985. The event was held biennially from 1985 to 1991 and annually thereafter. According to the FIAPF, it is one of Asia's competitive film festivals and the second largest film festival in Asia behind the Shanghai International Film Festival, as well as the only Japanese festival accredited by the FIAPF.
The awards handed out during the festival have changed throughout its existence, but the Tokyo Grand Prix, handed to the best film, has stayed as the top award. Other awards that have been given regularly include the Special Jury Award and awards for best actor, best actress and best director.
In recent years, the festival's main events have been held over one week in late October, at the Roppongi Hills development. Events include open-air screenings, voice-over screenings, and appearances by actors, as well as seminars and symposiums related to the film market.

## List of festivals and award winners

| Edition | Year | Jury president | Award winners | Award winners | Award winners | Award winners | Award winners |
| Edition | Year | Jury president | Tokyo Grand Prix Director | Best Director Film | Best Actor Film | Best Actress Film | Special Jury Prize Director |
| 1st | 1985 | David Puttnam | Typhoon Club Shinji Sōmai | Péter Gothár Time Stands Still | Not awarded | Not awarded | Jacques and November François Bouvier and Jean Beaudry Kiss of the Spider Woman Héctor Babenco |
| 2nd | 1987 | Gregory Peck | Old Well Wu Tianming | Lana Gogoberidze Turnover | Zhang Yimou Old Well | Rachel Ward The Good Wife | Housekeeping Bill Forsyth |
| 3rd | 1989 | Yves Montand | That Summer of White Roses Rajko Grlić | Rajko Grlić That Summer of White Roses | Marlon Brando A Dry White Season | Elena Yakovleva Intergirl | Intergirl Pyotr Todorovsky |
| 4th | 1991 | Lewis Gilbert | City of Hope John Sayles | Alan Parker The Commitments | Otar Megvinetukhutsesi Get Thee Out | Zhao Lirong The Spring Festival | A Brighter Summer Day Edward Yang The Spring Festival Huang Jianchong |
| 5th | 1992 | Richard D. Zanuck | White Badge Chung Ji-young | Chung Ji-young White Badge | Max Von Sydow The Silent Touch | Lumi Cavazos Like Water for Chocolate | About Love, Tokyo Mitsuo Yanagimachi |
| 6th | 1993 | Franco Zeffirelli | The Blue Kite Tian Zhuangzhuang | Taylor Hackford Blood In Blood Out | Masahiro Motoki Last Song | Lü Liping The Blue Kite Lolita Davidovich Younger and Younger | Searching for Bobby Fischer Steven Zaillian |
| 7th | 1994 | Mike Medavoy | The Day the Sun Turned Cold Yim Ho | Yim Ho The Day the Sun Turned Cold | Niu Zhenhua Back to Back, Face to Face | Debra Winger A Dangerous Woman | 47 Ronin Kon Ichikawa |
| 8th | 1995 | Hugh Hudson | Not awarded | Joseph Novoa Sicario | Not awarded | Yasuko Tomita The Christ of Nanjing | The Man Who Read Music from Plates Jan Jakub Kolski |
| 9th | 1996 | Serge Silberman | Kolya Jan Svěrák | Wu Tianming The King of Masks | Zhu Xu The King of Masks | Hildegun Riise and Marie Theisen The Other Side of Sunday | In Full Gallop Krzysztof Zanussi Libertarias Vicente Aranda |
| 10th | 1997 | Saul Zaentz | The Perfect Circle Ademir Kenović Beyond Silence Caroline Link | Ademir Kenović The Perfect Circle | Koji Yakusho Cure | Rene Liu and Jing Tseng Murmur of Youth | Brassed Off Mark Herman |
| 11th | 1998 | Jeremy Thomas | Open Your Eyes Alejandro Amenábar | Guy Ritchie Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | Brad Renfro Apt Pupil | Maki Miyamoto The Geisha House | Leaf on a Pillow Garin Nugroho |
| 12th | 1999 | Karel Reisz | Darkness and Light Chang Tso-chi | Martha Fiennes Onegin | Carlos Alvarez-Novoa Alone | María Galiana Alone | Rainbow Trout Park Jong-won |
| 13th | 2000 | Volker Schlöndorff | Amores perros Alejandro González Iñárritu | Alejandro González Iñárritu Amores perros | Moussa Maaskri Mondialito | Jennifer Jason Leigh The King is Alive | Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors Hong Sang-soo |
| 14th | 2001 | Norman Jewison | Slogans Gjergj Xhuvani | Reza Mirkarimi Under the Moonlight Gjergj Xhuvani Slogans | Andrew Howard Mr In-Between | Luiza Xhuvani Slogans | Under the Moonlight Reza Mirkarimi |
| 15th | 2002 | Luc Besson | Broken Wings Nir Bergman | Carlo Rola Sass | Graham Greene Skins | Donatella Finocchiaro Angela | Hotel Hibiscus Yuji Nakae |
| 16th | 2003 | Gong Li | Nuan Huo Jianqi | Chris Valentien and Till Schauder Santa Smokes | Teruyuki Kagawa Nuan | Shinobu Terajima Vibrator Khristy Jean Hulslander Santa Smokes | The Suit Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov |
| 17th | 2004 | Yoji Yamada | Whisky Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll | Im Chan-sang The President's Barber | Olzhas Nusuppaev Schizo | Mirella Pascual Whisky | Kekexili: Mountain Patrol Lu Chuan |
| 18th | 2005 | Zhang Yimou | What the Snow Brings Kichitaro Negishi | Kichitaro Negishi What the Snow Brings | Kōichi Satō What the Snow Brings | Helena Bonham Carter Conversations with Other Women Jin Yaqin You and Me | Conversations with Other Women Hans Canosa |
| 19th | 2006 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies Michel Hazanavicius | Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris Little Miss Sunshine | Roy Dupuis The Rocket | Abigail Breslin Little Miss Sunshine | Thirteen Princess Trees Lü Yue |
| 20th | 2007 | Alan Ladd Jr. | The Band's Visit Eran Kolirin | Peter Howitt Dangerous Parking | Damian Ul Tricks | Shefali Shah Gandhi, My Father | The Western Trunk Line Li Ji-xian |
| 21st | 2008 | Jon Voight | Tyulpan Sergey Dvortsevoy | Sergey Dvortsevoy Tyulpan | Vincent Cassel Mesrine | Félicité Wouassi With a Little Help from Myself | Four Nights with Anna Jerzy Skolimowski |
| 22nd | 2009 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Eastern Plays Kamen Kalev | Kamen Kalev Eastern Plays | Christo Christov Eastern Plays | Julie Gayet Eight Times Up | Rabia Sebastián Cordero |
| 23rd | 2010 | Neil Jordan | Intimate Grammar Nir Bergman | Gilles Paquet-Brenner Sarah's Key | Wang Qianyuan The Piano in a Factory | Fan Bingbing Buddha Mountain | Postcard Kaneto Shindo |
| 24th | 2011 | Edward R. Pressman | The Intouchables Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache | Ruben Östlund Play | François Cluzet The Intouchables | Glenn Close Albert Nobbs | The Woodsman and the Rain Shuichi Okita |
| 25th | 2012 | Roger Corman | The Other Son Lorraine Lévy | Lorraine Lévy The Other Son | Seo Young-joo Juvenile Offender | Neslihan Atagül Araf | Juvenile Offender Kang Yi-kwan |
| 26th | 2013 | Chen Kaige | We Are the Best! Lukas Moodysson | Benedikt Erlingsson Of Horses and Men | Wang Jingchun To Live and Die in Ordos | Eugene Domingo Barber's Tales | Bending the Rules Behnam Behzadi |
| 27th | 2014 | James Gunn | Heaven Knows What Joshua Safdie and Ben Safdie | Joshua Safdie and Ben Safdie Heaven Knows What | Robert Więckiewicz The Mighty Angel | Rie Miyazawa Pale Moon | The Lesson Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov |
| 28th | 2015 | Bryan Singer | Nise: The Heart of Madness Roberto Berliner | Mustafa Kara Cold of Kalandar | Roland Møller and Louis Hofmann Land of Mine | Glória Pires Nise: The Heart of Madness | All Three of Us Kheiron |
| 29th | 2016 | Jean-Jacques Beineix | The Bloom of Yesterday Chris Kraus | Hana Jušić Quit Staring at My Plate | Paolo Ballesteros Die Beautiful | Lene Cecilia Sparrok Sami Blood | Sami Blood Amanda Kernell |
| 30th | 2017 | Tommy Lee Jones | Grain Semih Kaplanoğlu | Edmund Yeo Aqérat (We, The Dead) | Duan Yihong The Looming Storm | Adeline D'Hermy Maryline | Crater Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino |
| 31st | 2018 | Brillante Mendoza | Amanda Mikhaël Hers | Edoardo De Angelis The Vice of Hope | Jesper Christensen Before the Frost | Pina Turco The Vice of Hope | Before the Frost Michael Noer |
| 32nd | 2019 | Zhang Ziyi | Uncle Frelle Petersen | Saeed Roustayi Just 6.5 | Navid Mohammadzadeh Just 6.5 | Nadia Tereszkiewicz Only the Animals | Atlantis Valentyn Vasyanovych |
| 33rd | 2020 | No competition due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | No competition due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | No competition due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | No competition due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | No competition due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | No competition due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 34th | 2021 | Isabelle Huppert | Vera Dreams of the Sea Kaltrina Krasniqi | Darezhan Omirbaev Poet | Amir Aghaei, Fatih Al, Bariş Yildiz, and Onur Buldu The Four Walls | Julia Chávez The Other Tom | La civil Teodora Mihai |
| 35th | 2022 | Julie Taymor | The Beasts Rodrigo Sorogoyen | Rodrigo Sorogoyen The Beasts | Denis Ménochet The Beasts | Aline Küppenheim 1976 | World War III Houman Seyyedi |
| 36th | 2023 | Wim Wenders | Snow Leopard Pema Tseden | Kishi Yoshiyuki (Ab)normal Desire | Yasna Mirtahmasb Roxana | Zar Amir Ebrahimi Tatami | Tatami Guy Nattiv, Zar Amir Ebrahimi |
| 37th | 2024 | Tony Leung | Teki Cometh Daihachi Yoshida | Daihachi Yoshida Teki Cometh | Kyōzō Nagatsuka Teki Cometh | Anamaria Vartolomei Traffic | Adios Amigo Iván David Gaona |

## Other awards
### Best Screenplay Award

* 2017 - Euthanizer, Teemu Nikki
* 2018 - Amanda, Mikhael Hers and Maud Ameline
* 2019 - A Beloved Wife, Shin Adachi

### Best Artistic Contribution Award

* 2012 - Pankaj Kumar, Ship of Theseus
* 2014 - Ispytanie, Aleksandr Kott
* 2015 - Family Film, Olmo Omerzu
* 2017 - The Looming Storm
* 2018 - The White Crow
* 2019 - Chaogtu with Sarula
* 2021 - Crane Lantern
* 2022 - Peacock Lament, Sanjeewa Pushpakumara
* 2024 - My Friend An Delie, Dong Zijian

### Audience Award

* 2013 - Red Family, Lee Ju-hyoung
* 2014 - Pale Moon, Daihachi Yoshida
* 2015 - God Willing, Edoardo Falcone
* 2016 - Die Beautiful, Jun Lana
* 2017 - Tremble All You Want, Akiko Ooku
* 2018 - Another World, Junji Sakamoto
* 2019 - Only the Animals, Dominik Moll
* 2020 - Hold Me Back, Akiko Ooku (sole award given)
* 2021 - Just Remembering, Daigo Matsui
* 2022 - By the Window, Rikiya Imaizumi
* 2024 - Big World, Yang Lina

### Asian Future Best Film Award

* 2014 - Bedone marz بدون مرز, Amirhossein Asgari امیرحسین عسگری
* 2015 - Pimpaka Towira, The Island Funeral
* 2016 - Birdshot
* 2017 - Passage of Life
* 2018 - A First Farewell
* 2019 - Summer Knight
* 2021 - World, Northern Hemisphere
* 2022 - Butterflies Live Only One Day, Mohammadreza Vatandoust
* 2024 - Apollon by Day Athena by Night, Emine Yildirim

### Japanese Cinema Splash Best Picture Award

* 2014 - 100 Yen Love, Masaharu Take
* 2015 - Ken and Kazu, Hiroshi Shoji
* 2017 - Of Love & Law, Hikaru Toda
* 2016 - Poolsideman, Hirobumi Watanabe
* 2018 - Lying to Mom, Katsumi Nojiri
* 2019 - i -Documentary of the Journalist-, Tatsuya Mori

### Tokyo Gemstone Award

* 2017 - Mayu Matsuoka, Shizuka Ishibashi, Adeline D'Hermy, Daphne Low
* 2018 - Lien Binh Phat, Karelle Tremblay, Mai Kiryu, Nijiro Murakami
* 2019 - Josefine Frida Pettersen, Sairi Ito, Riru Yoshina, Yui Sakuma