Awards & Winners

J?ji Matsuoka

Date of Birth 07-November-1961
Place of Birth Ichinomiya, Aichi
(Aichi Prefecture, Chūbu region)
Nationality Japan
Also know as Jôji Matsuoka, George Matsuoka
Profession Film Director, Screenwriter
Jōji Matsuoka is a Japanese film director. After studying filmmaking in the College of Art at Nihon University, he won an award for his independent short Inaka no hōsoku at the Pia Film Festival in 1984. He directed his first commercial feature, Bataashi kingyo, in 1990 and received a number of awards for best new director, including the Hochi Film Award. He won the Japan Academy Prize for best director for his film Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad. Matsuoka is known for his delicate depictions of complicated romantic and familial relationships, including a homosexual triangle in Kirakira Hikaru, a daughter caring for an abusive but now senile mother in Akashia no Michi, and a son caring for a cancer-stricken mother in Tokyo Tower. He has also shot many television commercials.

Awards by J?ji Matsuoka

Check all the awards nominated and won by J?ji Matsuoka.

2008


Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year
Honored for : Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year
Honored for : Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad

Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad