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yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 01:44 PM Mar 2017

Shin Godzilla Just Won the Japanese Academy Award for Best Picture (ICYMI)

Epic reboot of a revered franchise! Just plain good movie!

Yes, the King of the Monsters is an Academy Award winner.

Last Sunday night’s Academy Awards here in the States were pretty crazy, ending with a twist that not even M. Night Shyamalan could’ve seen coming. Meanwhile, Japan’s version of the Academy Awards (technically called Japan Academy Prize) celebrated its 40th anniversary with a ceremony today, and we’re happy to report that Toho’s Shin Godzilla totally swept the show.

The Kaiju film won Best Picture, while directors Hideaki Anno & Shinji Higuchi took home the directing statue. Toho’s latest Godzilla production also won awards for Editing (Hideaki Anno and Atsuki Sato), Cinematography (Kousuke Yamada), Art Direction (Yuji Hayashida & Eri Sakushima), Lighting (Takayuki Kawabe), and Sound Recording (Jun Nakamura & Haru Yamada).

Yes, that’s SEVEN total awards. Congrats, Big G!

Shin Godzilla (also known as Godzilla Resurgence) was the highest grossing live-action film released in Japan last year and also the highest-grossing Japanese Godzilla film of all time.

http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3426983/shin-godzilla-just-won-japanese-academy-award-best-picture/

http://www.godzilla-movies.com/news/shin-godzilla-wins-best-picture--director-at-japanese-academy-awards

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Shin Godzilla Just Won the Japanese Academy Award for Best Picture (ICYMI) (Original Post) yallerdawg Mar 2017 OP
Yes shenmue Mar 2017 #1
Earthquakes, tsunamis, Fukishima. yallerdawg Mar 2017 #2
Message auto-removed Name removed Mar 2017 #3
Godzilla michael44 Apr 2017 #4
I need to see this still JuJuYoshida May 2017 #5
It has been widely shared on the internet... yallerdawg May 2017 #6
Saw it last weekend JuJuYoshida May 2017 #9
"Best Godzilla movie" - but this is still my favorite scene: yallerdawg May 2017 #10
so when pressbox69 May 2017 #7
There is no release date announcement. yallerdawg May 2017 #8
I may not wait until Christmas to get this JuJuYoshida May 2017 #11
I've been talking about that tail for a year now! yallerdawg May 2017 #12

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
2. Earthquakes, tsunamis, Fukishima.
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 04:11 PM
Mar 2017

"History shows again and again

How nature points up the folly of men."

Response to yallerdawg (Original post)

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
6. It has been widely shared on the internet...
Mon May 8, 2017, 04:08 PM
May 2017

for free, non-commercial, private use - if you know what I mean.

You can stream it, but downloading it to your computer would more than likely be illegal - at least that's what our ISP keeps telling us.

JuJuYoshida

(2,214 posts)
9. Saw it last weekend
Fri May 19, 2017, 06:58 PM
May 2017

The evolution was incredible, like I told Yui it's probably one of the best if not THE best Godzilla movie I've ever seen.

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