Japan Academy Award for Newcomer of the Year

Shiori Kutsuna

Honored for : Unforgiven, Tsuya's Nights

Haru Kuroki

Honored for : The Great Passage, A Chair on the Plains

Mitsu Dan

Honored for : Sweet Whip

Gō Ayano

Honored for : A Story of Yonosuke, The End of Summer

Kokone Hamada

Honored for : Oshin

Masaki Suda

Honored for : The Backwater

Gen Hoshino

Honored for : Blindly in Love, Why Don't You Play in Hell?

Tatsuki Yoshioka

Honored for : Shônen H

Emi Takei

Honored for : Rurouni Kenshin, Kyô, koi o hajimemasu, For Love's Sake

Fumi Nikaido

Honored for : Himizu, Lesson of the Evil

Ai Hashimoto

Honored for : Another, The Kirishima Thing, Home: Itoshi no Zashiki Warashi

Shota Sometani

Honored for : Himizu, Lesson of the Evil

Changmin

Honored for : Fly with the Gold

Masahiro Higashide

Honored for : The Kirishima Thing

Tori Matsuzaka

Honored for : Kyô, koi o hajimemasu, Until the Break of Dawn, The Wings of the Kirin

Masaki Okada

Honored for : I Give My First Love to You, Honokaa Boy, A Pierrot

Nana Eikura

Honored for : April Bride

Maki Horikita

Honored for : Always: Sunset on Third Street

Aya Ueto

Honored for : Azumi

Satomi Ishihara

Honored for : My Grandpa

Min Tanaka

Honored for : The Twilight Samurai

Mansai Nomura

Honored for : Onmyoji

Toshiaki Karasawa

Eri Fukatsu