The Academy Awards were held recently, both here in the US and in Japan, and in the US it's been a notable one, since Godzilla Minus One became the first Godzilla movie to win an Oscar. So as long as we're all currently thinking about the Academy Awards... can you guess who co-hosted the second ceremony?
The 2nd Japan Academy Awards were presented at the Keio Plaza Hotel in Tokyo on April 7, 1979, and co-hosted by Akira Takarada and Akihiko Hirata. All extant photos (as far as I know) from the ceremony can be viewed here. Somehow, incredibly frustratingly, Hirata did not end up in ANY pictures, but there's no shortage of Takarada.
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The winners are as follows:
Best picture: Incident
Best director: Yoshitaro Nomura, for Incident
Best screenplay: Kaneto Shindo, for Incident
Best actor award: Ken Ogata
Best actress: Shinobu Otake
Best supporting actor: Tsunehiko Watase
Best supporting actress: Shinobu Otake
Best music: Toru Takemitsu
Best technology: Takashi Kawamata, for Incident
Best foreign film: Portrait of the Family
It was an Incident sweep that year, to say the very least. Best music and foreign film are the only categories in which Incident or someone related to it didn't win.
I'm not already full of random trivia enough, so: Station is the only film Hirata had a role in that won a Japan Academy Award, in 1982 (not sure if he was in attendance for that or not), but Nomugi Pass was also nominated in 1980.
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