25th Japan Academy Film Prize

25th Japan Academy Film Prize
Date	March 8, 2002
Site	Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa, Tokyo, Japan
Hosted by	Hiroshi Sekiguchi Sayuri Yoshinaga
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The 25th Japan Academy Film Prize (第25回日本アカデミー賞) is the 25th 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 2001 and it took place on March 8, 2002 at the Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa in Tokyo, Japan.

Nominees

Awards

Picture of the Year	Director of the Year
Spirited Away Waterboys Go Sennen no Koi Story of Genji Hotaru	Isao Yukisada – Go Yōjirō Takita – Onmyōji Yasuo Furuhata – Hotaru Kōki Mitani – Minna no Ie Shinobu Yaguchi – Waterboys
Screenplay of the Year	Popularity Award
Kankurō Kudō – Go Yō Takeyama and Yasuo Furuhata – Hotaru Akira Hayasaka – Sennen no Koi Story of Genji Kōki Mitani – Minna no Ie Shinobu Yaguchi – Waterboys	Platonic Sex (Production Category) Naoki Tanaka – Minna no Ie (Actor Category)
Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role	Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Yōsuke Kubozuka – Go Yutaka Takenouchi – Calmi Cuori Appassionati Satoshi Tsumabuki – Waterboys Mansai Nomura – Onmyōji Kōji Yakusho – Warm Water Under a Red Bridge	Keiko Kishi – Kāchan Kyōko Koizumi – Fūka Yūko Tanaka – Hotaru Narumi Yasuda – Taiga no Itteki Sayuri Yoshinaga – Sennen no Koi Story of Genji
Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role	Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Tsutomu Yamazaki – Go Nenji Kobayashi – Hotaru Kunie Tanaka – Minna no Ie Rentarō Mikuni – Taiga no Itteki Ken Watanabe – Sennen no Koi Story of Genji	Ko Shibasaki – Go Yūki Amami – Sennen no Koi Story of Genji Shinobu Otake – Go Kyōko Koizumi – Onmyōji Tomoko Naraoka – Hotaru
Outstanding Achievement in Music	Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography
Gakuji Matsuda and Hitomi Shimizu – Waterboys Shigeru Umebayashi – Onmyōji Ryōichi Kuniyoshi – Hotaru Isao Tomita – Sennen no Koi Story of Genji Meina Co. – Go	Katsumi Yanagishima – Go Naoki Kayano – Onmyōji Daisaku Kimura – Hotaru Tatsuo Suzuki – Sennen no Koi Story of Genji Toyoshi Tsuda – Calmi Cuori Appassionati
Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Direction	Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction
Hitoshi Takaya – Go Tatsuya Osada – Onmyōji Mitsuo Watanabe – Hotaru Kiyoto Andō – Sennen no Koi Story of Genji Minoru Kawai – Calmi Cuori Appassionati	Yoshinobu Nishioka and Toshiyuki Matsumiya – Sennen no Koi Story of Genji Yoshinobu Nishioka – Kāchan Katsuhiro Fukuzawa – Hotaru Kyōko Heya – Onmyōji Hiroshi Wada – Go
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Recording	Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing
Osamu Onodera and Kiyoshi Kakizawa – Onmyōji Hiromichi Koori – Waterboys Mike Samata and Tetsuo Segawa – Sennen no Koi Story of Genji Nobuhiro Shibayama – Go Tsutomu Honda – Hotaru	Tsuyoshi Imai – Go Kiyoaki Saitō – Hotaru Shinya Tadano – Sennen no Koi Story of Genji Isao Tomita and Nobuko Tomita – Onmyōji Ryūji Miyajima – Waterboys
Outstanding Foreign Language Film	Newcomer of the Year
Billy Elliot A.I. Artificial Intelligence Chocolat Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Postmen in the Mountains	Yōsuke Kubozuka – Go Naoki Tanaka – Minna no Ie Satoshi Tsumabuki – Waterboys Mansai Nomura – Onmyōji Saki Kagami – Platonic Sex Ko Shibasaki – Go Hitomi Manaka – Koko ni Iru Koto Akiko Yagi – Minna no Ie
Award for Distinguished Service from the Chairman	Special Award from the Chairman
Hayao Miyazaki	Kōji Shūndō (Producer) Shinji Sōmai (Director) Hiroshi Teshigahara (Director)
Special Award from the Association
Ichirō Uno (Music Coordinator) Youmi Kimura (Thema Song for Spirited Away) Yoshiko Matsumoto (Hairdressing) Sumie Maruyama (Hairdressing)

References

第25回日本アカデミー賞特集（2002）全受賞一覧 (in Japanese). eiga.com. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
日本アカデミー賞 2001年(第25回). allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 2016-03-16.

External links

Japan Academy Film Prize official website - (in Japanese)
Complete list of awards and nominations for the 25th Japan Academy Prize - (in Japanese)

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