Toho Studios and Takashi Yamazaki’s kaiju cinema masterpiece, Godzilla Minus One, won honors at the Japan Academy Film Award, also known as the Japanese Oscar, adding Best Equivalent Film of the Year. The Japan Academy Film Award was established 47 years ago. in 1978, in homage to the films of 1977.
Godzilla Minus One won a total of 8 awards. Toho’s previous film in the giant monster franchise, Shin Godzilla, won seven awards in 2016, adding Best Picture. These are the only two entries in the Godzilla franchise to win the accolade.
It’s surprising that Takashi-san wasn’t also nominated for Director of the Year for his remarkable work on Godzilla Minus One. Conversely, Shin Godzilla directors Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi earned a Parallel Directing nomination when their film was nominated.
In addition to Best Picture, Godzilla Minus One won Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Sound, Best Art Direction and Best Lighting.
It’s a fantastic projection, which contrasts with the woefully scant attention paid to Godzilla Minus One in the entertainment press and Western awards organizations. The Oscars for 2023 films, for example, nominated Godzilla Minus One for Best Visual Effects, a category I was expecting. No wonder he’ll win Sunday night at the Oscars.
Godzilla Minus One Toho’s highest-grossing Godzilla movie of all time. A total of $106. 7 million. It is also the highest-grossing Japanese live-action film ever released in the United States, with $56. 4 million. It’s also just $830,000 away from becoming the second-highest-grossing foreign-language opening of all time in the United States.
I think if Godzilla Minus One had won a number one black and white version, from the one that would come later in the desirable and even more documentary/Minus Color editing, then I think it would have also won a nod to Best Cinematography. , as was the case with the Japanese awards.
Godzilla Minus is one of the best on my list of the most important videos of the year, and you might be surprised to learn that it’s a difficult and emotionally complex exam that focuses on characters, trauma, pain, guilt, and finding a way. And an explanation of why: to live again. I hope it’s Japan’s nomination for the Oscar for Best International Film (without taking anything away from the eventual nominee Perfect Days, which I perceive as captivating I haven’t seen yet).
However, I sense the fear that the Academy’s electorate may have an opposite bias to genre imagery, especially monster movies, and that Godzilla Minus One’s prominence in pop culture may also hurt its chances in the Best International Picture category. Interestingly, the film’s transcendent storytelling and photorealism, as well as the deep ancient themes and observation of fashionable warfare and nuclear threats, and the fact that it has become a popular phenomenon, reflect Oppenheimer in many ways.
So the same things that impeded its unveiling may have been huge benefits to its chances of winning the foreign-language film statuette at Sunday’s Oscars.
But you’ll probably have to settle for the value of visual effects, if you can stand up to The Creator. I think the film’s stunning realistic effects didn’t attract as much of an audience and didn’t generate the same point of interest. awe encouraged through Godzilla Minus One’s massive effect paintings.
In addition, the small team of 35 other people for Toho’s film worked a miracle by producing such amazing work with such a small crew and such a small budget: the film’s shooting budget is around $12 million, but it turns out to be more than $100 million to $200 million. in investment in tent poles.
The focus on rewards is excellent news for Godzilla’s internal release, Minus One. A box sells in Japan for around $100 plus shipping and comes with the Cinema and /Minus Color editions, in a 4K UHD edition that includes Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos. It is also expected to launch in the U. S. In the U. S. , it’s not yet clear whether U. S. consumers will get the same box (which is packed with great extras and an impressive size). Either way, expect positive buzz and awards to significantly boost home sales.
However, regardless of the final results of this weekend’s Oscars, Godzilla Minus One has already earned endless praise, love, and respect from moviegoers and audiences around the world, and its super win at the Japan Film Academy Award is a glorious cornerstone of that success. . . Congratulations to Takashi-San and the entire cast and crew of Godzilla Minus One, as well as everyone at Toho Studios, on a monumental year and well-deserved and hard-earned recognition.