Mainichi Film Awards

Mainichi Film Awards
Awarded for	Excellence in film making
Country	Japan
Presented by	Mainichi Shimbun
First award	1946
Website	mainichi.jp/enta/cinema/mfa/

The Mainichi Film Awards (毎日映画コンクール, Mainichi Eiga Konkūru) are a series of annual film awards, sponsored by Mainichi Shimbun (毎日新聞), one of the largest newspaper companies in Japan, since 1946. It is the first film festival in Japan.^[1]

The origins of the contest date back to 1935, when the Mainichi Shinbun organized a festival then called Zen Nihon eiga konkūru (全日本映画コンク ー ル^? ). It was interrupted during World War 2. The current form of the Mainichi Film Awards officially came into being in 1946.^[1]

• Mainichi Film Award for Best Film
• Mainichi Film Award for Excellence Film
• Mainichi Film Award for Best Director
• Mainichi Film Award for Best Cinematography
• Mainichi Film Award for Best Art Direction
• Mainichi Film Award for Best Animation Film
• Mainichi Film Award for Best Lead Performance (2024–)
• Mainichi Film Award for Best Supporting Performance (2024–)
• Mainichi Film Award for Best Actor (1947–2023)
• Mainichi Film Award for Best Supporting Actor (1947–2023)
• Mainichi Film Award for Best Actress (1947–2023)
• Mainichi Film Award for Best Supporting Actress (1947–2023)
• Mainichi Film Award for Best Film Score
• Mainichi Film Award for Foreign Film Best One Award
• Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay
• Mainichi Film Award for Best Music
• Mainichi Film Award for Best Sound Recording
• Ōfuji Noburō Award
• Kinuyo Tanaka Award

• Official website (in Japanese)
• IMDb: Mainichi Film Concours
• Table of awards
• Pellas page on Ōfuji Noburō Award
• Ōfuji past winners showing at the Laputa anime festival in 2000