6th Student Newspaper Film Awards
<About the 6rd Student Newspaper Film Awards>
From July 1st to December 31st, 2025, 200 university students will vote on theatrical feature films of 60 minutes or longer that premiered in the Tokyo area for a fee and were screened for at least two consecutive weeks in the same theater. Six awards will be given to the top three Japanese films out of 10, and to the top two foreign films out of 5: Best Actor (2 slots), Best Actress (2 slots), Best Young Actor (1 male and 1 female under 25), Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Theme Song (Best Music). The total prize money is 3 million yen (1 million yen for each winning film).
<Nominated Japanese films>
■Babanbabanban Vampire
■ About a certain place in the Kinki region
■Exit 8
■Body Search THE LAST NIGHT
■Light of distant mountain ranges
■ Black Showman
■ 5 centimeters per second
■ Bomb
■TOKYO Taxis
■Movie Last Man -FIRST LOVE-
*Listed in order of release date.
<Nominated Films: Foreign Films>
■ Superman
■ Jurassic World: Land of Resurrection
■Ballerina: The World of John Wick
■ Predator: Badlands
■Avatar: Fire and Ash
*Listed in order of release date.
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<6rd Student Newspaper Film Awards Winners and Their Winners>
■Japanese films

大 賞
"Exit 8"
Best Actor: Kazunari Ninomiya, Yamato Kawachi
Best Actress: Nana Komatsu, Kotone Hanase
Young Actor Award: Narumi Asanuma
Best Screenplay: Kentaro Hirase
Best Director: Genki Kawamura
Music Award: PiKi "88888888"
©2025 "Exit 8" Film Production Committee

Runner-up
"5 Centimeters Per Second"
Best Actor Award: Hokuto Matsumura, Yuzu Aoki
Best Actress: Mitsuki Takahata, Nana Mori
Young Actor Award: Yuto Ueda, Noa Shirayama
Best Screenplay: Fumiko Suzuki
Best Director: Yoshiyuki Okuyama
Music Award: Kenshi Yonezu "1991"
©2025 "5 Centimeters Per Second" Production Committee

Runner-up
"The Last Man -FIRST LOVE-"
Best Actor Award: Masaharu Fukuyama, Yo Oizumi
Best Actress: Rie Miyazawa, Mio Imada
Young Actor Award: Rui Tsukishima
Best Screenplay: Tsutomu Kuroiwa
Best Director: Shunichi Hirano
Music Award: Masaharu Fukuyama "Jupiter feat. Koshi Inaba"
©2025 "Last Man" Film Production Committee
■ Western films
Grand Prize: Jurassic World: Land of Resurrection
Runner-up: Avatar: Fire & Ash

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The 7th Student Newspaper Film Awards is scheduled to be held on Monday, October 26, 2026.


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