24th Japan Academy Film Prize

24th Japan Academy Film Prize
Date	March 9, 2001
Site	Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa, Tokyo, Japan
Hosted by	Hiroshi Sekiguchi Shinobu Otake

The 24th Japan Academy Film Prize (第24回日本アカデミー賞) is the 24th 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 2000 and it took place on March 9, 2001 at the Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa in Tokyo, Japan.

Nominees

Awards

Picture of the Year	Director of the Year
After the Rain Face A Class to Remember 4: Fifteen Battle Royale Whiteout	Junji Sakamoto - Face Takashi Koizumi - After the Rain Kinji Fukasaku - Battle Royale Yoji Yamada - A Class to Remember 4: Fifteen Setsurō Wakamatsu - Whiteout
Screenplay of the Year	Popularity Award
Akira Kurosawa - After the Rain Shinichi Ichikawa - Nagasaki Burabura Bushi Junji Sakamoto and Isamu Uno - Face Kenta Fukasaku - Battle Royale Yoji Yamada, Yoshitaka Asama, Emiko Hiramatsu - A Class to Remember 4: Fifteen	Battle Royale (Production Category) Morning Musume - Pinch Runner (Actor Category)
Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role	Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Akira Terao - After the Rain Yūji Oda - Whiteout Naoto Takenaka - By Player Tatsuya Fujiwara - Battle Royale Kōji Yakusho - Dora-heita	Sayuri Yoshinaga - Nagasaki Burabura Bushi Rena Tanaka - First Love Nanako Matsushima - Whiteout Yoshiko Miyazaki - After the Rain Mitsuko Mori - Kawa no Nagare no Yō ni
Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role	Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Kōichi Satō - Whiteout Hidekazu Akai - A Class to Remember 4: Fifteen Tsurutaro Kataoka - Dora-heita Tetsurō Tamba - A Class to Remember 4: Fifteen Shirō Mifune - After the Rain	Mieko Harada - After the Rain Rei Asami - A Class to Remember 4: Fifteen Michiyo Okusu - Face Reiko Takashima - Nagasaki Burabura Bushi Mieko Harada - First Love
Outstanding Achievement in Music	Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography
Masaru Sato - After the Rain Masamichi Amano - Battle Royale Michiru Ōshima - Nagasaki Burabura Bushi Ken Ishii and Norihito Sumitomo - Whiteout coba - Face	Masaharu Ueda - After the Rain Yukio Isohata - Dora-heita Tatsuo Suzuki - Nagasaki Burabura Bushi Mutsuo Naganuma - A Class to Remember 4: Fifteen Hideo Yamamoto - Whiteout
Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Direction	Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction
Takeji Sano - After the Rain Kazuo Shimomura - Dora-heita Kiyoto Andō - Nagasaki Burabura Bushi Sōsuke Yoshikado - A Class to Remember 4: Fifteen Yoshikazu Motohashi - Whiteout	Yoshirō Muraki - After the Rain Fumio Ogawa - Whiteout Mitsuo Degawa - A Class to Remember 4: Fifteen Yoshinobu Nishioka - Dora-heita and Nagasaki Burabura Bushi
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Recording	Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing
Osamu Onodera - Whiteout Kunio Andō - Battle Royale Kazumi Kishida - A Class to Remember 4: Fifteen Mike Samata and Yōji Takemoto - Nagasaki Burabura Bushi Kenichi Benitani - After the Rain	Hirohide Abe - Battle Royale Hideto Aga - After the Rain Chizuko Osada - Dora-heita Yoshifumi Fukazawa - Whiteout Hiroshi Miyake - Nagasaki Burabura Bushi
Outstanding Foreign Language Film	Newcomer of the Year
Dancer in the Dark American Beauty Gladiator The Green Mile Shiri	Yuta Kanai - A Class to Remember 4: Fifteen Tatsuya Fujiwara - Battle Royale Tomoyasu Hotei -New Battles Without Honor and Humanity Kyoko Fukada - Shisha no Gakuensai Aki Maeda - Battle Royale Morning Musume - Pinch Runner
Special Award of Honour from the Association	Award for Distinguished Service from the Chairman
Isuzu Yamada (Actor)	Yasuyoshi Tokuma
Special Award from the Chairman	Special Award from the Association
Yasuo Tanami (Screenwriter) So Yamamura (Actor) Kōzaburō Yoshimura (Director)	Tomoko Asami (Hairdressing) Toshio Iwata (Development Timing) Makoto Negishi (Technical Coordinator)

External links

• Japan Academy Film Prize official website - (in Japanese)
• Complete list of awards and nominations for the 24th Japan Academy Prize - (in Japanese)