23rd Japan Academy Prize

23rd Japan Academy Prize
Date	March 10, 2000
Site	Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa, Tokyo, Japan

The 23rd Japan Academy Prize (第23回日本アカデミー賞) is the 23rd edition of the Japan Academy 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.

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.

Winners and nominees

Joe Hisaishi, Outstanding Achievement in Music winner

Awards

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
Poppoya – Yoshiki Iwama Gohatto – Nagisa Oshima Keiho – Sumio Oomori Spellbound – Ryo Takasugi and Satoshi Suzuki The Geisha House – Kaneto Shindo	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
Kikujiro – Joe Hisaishi Owls' Castle – Joji Yuasa Poppoya – Ryoichi Kuniyoshi Spellbound – Masamichi Amano	Poppoya – Daisaku Kimura Gohatto – Toyomichi Kurita Owls' Castle – Tatsuo Suzuki Spellbound – Yoshitaka Sakamoto The Geisha House – Daisaku Kimura
Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Direction	Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction
Poppoya – Mitsuo Watanabe Gohatto – Toyomichi Kurita and Hiroshi Takehisa Owls' Castle – Yoshio Unno Spellbound – Takeshi Okubo The Geisha House – Kiyoto Ando	Owls' Castle – Yoshinobu Nishioka Gohatto – Yoshinobu Nishioka Poppoya – Katsuhiro Fukuzawa Spellbound – Kyoko Heya The Geisha House – Yoshinobu Nishioka
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Recording	Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing
Poppoya – Kenichi Benitani Gohatto – Kunio Andō Keiho – Fumio Hashimoto Owls' Castle – Tetsuo Segawa Spellbound – Hitoshi Tsurumaki and Jun Nakamura	Spellbound – Akimasa Kawashima Gohatto – Tomoyo Oshima Owls' Castle – Hiroshi Yoshida Poppoya – Kiyoaki Saito The Geisha House – Koichi Sonoi
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)

Films with multiple nominations and awards

Films that received multiple nominations
Nominations	Film
13	Poppoya
12	Spellbound
10	Gohatto
8	The Geisha House
4	Keiho
3	Himitsu
3	Kikujiro
2	Dreammaker
2	The Black House

Films that received multiple awards
Awards	Film
9	Poppoya
2	Dreammaker
2	Kikujiro

References

↑ 第23回　日本アカデミー賞特集（2000） (in Japanese). eiga.com. Retrieved 2017-07-21.
↑ 日本アカデミー賞１９９９年(第２３回) (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 2017-07-21.

External links

Official website (in Japanese)
Complete list of awards and nominations for the 23rd Japan Academy Prize (in Japanese)

Japan Academy Prize
Awards	Picture of the Year Animation of the Year Director of the Year Screenplay of the Year Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing Outstanding Foreign Language Film
Ceremonies	1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

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