23rd Japan Academy Film Prize

23rd Japan Academy Film Prize
23rd Japan Academy Film Prize
Date	March 10, 2000
Site	Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa, Tokyo, Japan
Hosted by	Hiroshi Sekiguchi; Mieko Harada
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The 23rd Japan Academy Film Prize (第23回日本アカデミー賞) is the 23rd 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 1999 and it took place on March 10, 2000 at the Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa in Tokyo, Japan.^[1]^[2] The ceremony was hosted by actor and television presenter Hiroshi Sekiguchi and actress Mieko Harada.

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Poppoya won nine awards, including Picture of the Year. Other winners included Dreammaker and Kikujiro with two, and Gohatto, I Love You, Messengers, Moumantai, Osaka Story, Owls' Castle, Salaryman Kintarō, Spellbound, The Geisha House, and The Sixth Sense with one.

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Picture of the Year	Director of the Year
Poppoya Gohatto Kikujiro Owls' Castle Spellbound	Yasuo Furuhata – Poppoya Nagisa Oshima – Gohatto Masahiro Shinoda – Owls' Castle Masato Harada – Spellbound Kinji Fukasaku – The Geisha House
Screenplay of the Year	Popularity Award
Yoshiki Iwama – Poppoya Nagisa Oshima – Gohatto Sumio Oomori – Keiho Ryo Takasugi and Satoshi Suzuki – Spellbound Kaneto Shindo – The Geisha House	Hiroyuki Yabe – Messengers (Actor Category) Moumantai (Production Category)
Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role	Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Ken Takakura – Poppoya Kaoru Kobayashi – Himitsu Kiichi Nakai – Keiho Masahiro Motoki – Gemini Kōji Yakusho – Spellbound	Shinobu Otake – Poppoya Shinobu Otake – The Black House Kyōka Suzuki – Keiho Ryōko Hirosue – Himitsu Shigeru Muroi – Amateur Singing Contest
Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role	Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Nenji Kobayashi – Poppoya Takaya Kamikawa – Owls' Castle Kippei Shiina – Spellbound Shinji Takeda – Gohatto Masahiko Nishimura – The Black House	Kayoko Kishimoto – Kikujiro Kayoko Kishimoto – Himitsu Ryōko Hirosue – Poppoya Sumiko Fuji – The Geisha House Mayumi Wakamura – Spellbound
Outstanding Achievement in Music	Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography
Joe Hisaishi – Kikujiro Joji Yuasa – Owls' Castle Ryoichi Kuniyoshi – Poppoya Masamichi Amano – Spellbound	Daisaku Kimura – Poppoya Toyomichi Kurita – Gohatto Tatsuo Suzuki – Owls' Castle Yoshitaka Sakamoto – Spellbound Daisaku Kimura – The Geisha House
Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Direction	Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction
Mitsuo Watanabe – Poppoya Toyomichi Kurita and Hiroshi Takehisa – Gohatto Yoshio Unno – Owls' Castle Takeshi Okubo – Spellbound Kiyoto Ando – The Geisha House	Yoshinobu Nishioka – Owls' Castle Yoshinobu Nishioka – Gohatto Katsuhiro Fukuzawa – Poppoya Kyoko Heya – Spellbound Yoshinobu Nishioka – The Geisha House
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Recording	Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing
Kenichi Benitani – Poppoya Kunio Andō – Gohatto Fumio Hashimoto – Keiho Tetsuo Segawa – Owls' Castle Hitoshi Tsurumaki and Jun Nakamura – Spellbound	Akimasa Kawashima – Spellbound Tomoyo Oshima – Gohatto Hiroshi Yoshida – Owls' Castle Kiyoaki Saito – Poppoya Koichi Sonoi – The Geisha House
Outstanding Foreign Language Film	\|Newcomer of the Year
The Sixth Sense Elizabeth Life Is Beautiful Shakespeare in Love The Matrix	Issa Hentona – Dreammaker Takako Uehara – Dreammaker Ryuhei Matsuda – Gohatto Chizuru Ikewaki – Osaka Story Katsunori Takahashi – Salaryman Kintarō Maki Miyamoto – The Geisha House
Special Award from the Chairman	Special Award from the Association
Utaemon Ichikawa (Actor) Masaru Sato (Composer) Kazuo Miyagawa (Cinematographer)	I Love You (Film) Shinichi Ito and team (Sound Effects) Sunao Sakagami (Producer)

23rd Japan Academy Film Prize

Winners and nominees

Awards

Films with multiple nominations and awards

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