Masaaki Yuasa’s Night is Short, Walk On Girl anime film won the Animation of the Year award at the 41st annual Japan Academy Prizes on Friday.
The Third Murder, a live-action film, won the most awards including Picture of the Year, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Editing.
Before that, Studio Ghibli won the overall Picture of the Year Award for Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away.
The Nippon Academy-Sho Association, a Japanese group roughly comparable to America’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Oscars fame, presents the Japan Academy Prizes every year.