Japan Media Arts Festival

The Japan Media Arts Festival is an annual festival held by Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs since 1997.

During the festival, awards are given in four categories: Art, Entertainment (formerly called Interactive Art; including video games and websites), Animation, and Manga. Within each category, one Grand Prize, four Excellence Prizes, and (since 2002) one Encouragement Prize are awarded. These are sometimes also called Japan Media Arts Awards.

1 Art awards
2 Entertainment/Interactive Art awards
3 Animation awards
4 Manga awards
5 References
6 External links

Year	Grand Prize	Excellence Prizes	Encouragement Prize
1997 (1st)	Kage	Final Fantasy VII Intelligent Qube Wanna be a Ruby melting in the sky image dive Site	n/a
1998 (2nd)	The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time	Metal Gear Solid One-line.com Project Cluster Works Net Rezonator	n/a
1999 (3rd)	AIBO, model ERS-110	Maywa Denki Live Performance motion dive2 Seaman Earth from Above	n/a
2000 (4th)	Dragon Warrior VII	Shenmue Stand-up Comedy Simulation Vectrial Elevation, Relational Architectecture Forest of Thoughts	n/a
2001 (5th)	Protrude, Flow	Pikmin Floating Eye Contact Water J-PHONE Sky Pavilion	n/a
2002 (6th)	Social Mobiles	CamCamtime Course type R His Master's Voice	Youkai Yamiwarashi
2003 (7th)	Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles	EyeToy: Play Ski Jumping Pair Official DVD Pokemotion THEgarden	atMOS: Self-Packaging Movie
2004 (8th)	WarioWare: Twisted!	Alice in Vivaldi's Four Seasons PictoChat Onimusha 3 Opening Cinematics YKK AP Evolution	Cherry-Clouds
2005 (9th)	Flipbook!, Khronos Projector	Nintendogs Hifana "Wamono" Mitsui Fudosan Shibaura Island 3LDK Image Movie Vodafone Design File	Incompatible Block
2006 (10th)	Ōkami	Rhythm Tengoku Shaberu! DS Oryouri Navi Cornelius: "Fit Song" (music video) Rediscovery Map Nippon	Amagatana

Year	Grand Prize	Excellence Prizes	Encouragement Prize
1997 (1st)	Princess Mononoke	Mini Cartoon ～Knyacki～ Donguri's House The Bugs Neon Genesis Evangelion	n/a
1998 (2nd)	Glassy Ocean	Kaidohryoku REAL Serial Experiments Lain Believe in It Doraemon: Nobita's South Sea Adventure	n/a
1999 (3rd)	The Old Man and the Sea	Ojarumaru 2 Mother Tyo Story My Neighbors the Yamadas	n/a
2000 (4th)	Blood: The Last Vampire	Luz Kidamari no Ki TarePanda S.O.S	n/a
2001 (5th)	Spirited Away and Millennium Actress (tie)	Nostalgia Cat Soup	n/a
2002 (6th)	Crayon Shin-chan: Arashi o Yobu Appare! Sengoku Dai Kassen	Mt. Head Magical☆Shopping Arcade Abenobashi Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex The Cat Returns	The Evening Traveling
2003 (7th)	Winter Days	Tokyo Godfathers Mr. Stain on Junk Alley Komaneko Frank	Hoshi no Ko
2004 (8th)	Mind Game	Howl's Moving Castle Grrl Power Colors (Part 1) Birthday Boy	Dream
2005 (9th)	Flow	The Book of the Dead Kamichu! Flowery The Old Crocodile	Seasons
2006 (10th)	The Girl Who Leapt Through Time	Bloomed Words A Country Between the World My Love Pike Pika	La grua y la jirafa
2007 (11th)	Summer days with Coo	Ukkari Pénélope Gurren Lagann Denno Coil Franz Kafka's 'A country doctor'	Ushi-nichi

Year	Grand Prize	Excellence Prizes	Encouragement Prize
1997 (1st)	The Manga classics of Japan (32 volumes)	Seirei tsukai erementarā, Takeshi Okazaki Blade of the Immortal, Hiroaki Samura Azumi, Yū Koyama Monster, Naoki Urasawa	n/a
1998 (2nd)	Sakamoto Ryōma, Hiroshi Kurogane	Shindō (The Prodigy), Akira Sasō Firefighter! Daigo of Fire Company M, Masahito Soda Gon, Masashi Tanaka Ron, Motoka Murakami	n/a
1999 (3rd)	I'm home, Kei Ishizaka	All nude, Shinichi Sugimura Kokuritsu hakubutsukan monogatari, Jirō Okazaki Onaji getsu o miteiru, Seiki Tsuchida Harukana Machi-E, Jirō Taniguchi	n/a
2000 (4th)	Vagabond, Takehiko Inoue (art) and Eiji Yoshikawa (original story)	Ōdō no ku, Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Massuguni-ikō, Kira Paji, Takashi Murakami (村上たかし) Tasogare Ryūseigun, Kenshi Hirokane	n/a
2001 (5th)	F-shiteki nichijō, Yōji Fukuyama	Real, Takehiko Inoue Viva, Chef!, JAPUNCH Kamigami no Itadaki, Baku Yumemakura and Jirō Taniguchi Kurosawa / Blazing movie director: Akira Kurosawa biography, Masahiro Sonomura	n/a
2002 (6th)	Sexy Voice and Robo, Iō Kuroda	Ōzukami Genji monogatari Maro, n?, Yoshihiro Koizumi Taishi kakka no ryōrinin, Mitsuru Nishimura (story) and Hiroshi Kawasumi (art) 20th Century Boys, Naoki Urasawa Say Hello to Black Jack, Shūhō Satō	Naze Hakase wa okotte iru no ka, Isao Ikegaya
2003 (7th)	Kajimunugatai: Kaze ga kataru Okinawa-sen, Susumu Higa	Helter Skelter, Kyōko Okazaki Tenjin-san, Naomi Kimura Mushishi, Yuki Urushibara Baka-kyodai, Tetsu Adachi	Junkissa Nokoribi, Tai Itō
2004 (8th)	Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms, Fumiyo Kōno	With the Light: Raising an Autistic Child, Keiko Tobe Mainichi Kasan, Rieko Saibara Witches, Daisuke Igarashi Bande Sculptée: La Planète des Samouraïs, Shin'ichirō Natsusaka	Shōwa nijūnen no edekami, shi no Hachigatsu jūgojitsu, Watashi no Hachigatsu Jugonichi Association
2005 (9th)	Shissou Nikki, Hideo Azuma	Pluto, Naoki Urasawa Emma, Kaoru Mori Dragon Zakura, Norifusa Mita a continuous day, Yuki Sekine	E-Cartoon , Yoshio Nakae
2006 (10th)	A Spirit of the Sun, Kaiji Kawaguchi	Ōoku, Fumi Yoshinaga Osaka Hamlet, Hiromi Morishita Hyakkiyakō Shō, Ichiko Ima Yotsuba&!, Kiyohiko Azuma	Shiritori, Kazuko Chikuhama (story) and Kenichi Chikuhama (art)
2007 (11th)	Mori no Asagao, Mamora Gōda	Suzuki Sensei, Kenzi Taketomi Umimachi Diary, Akimi Yoshida Takemitu Zamurai, Issei Eifuku (story) and Taiyo Matsumoto (art) Pride, Yukari Ichijō	Tenken-sai, Yumiko Shirai
2008 (12th)	Piano no Mori, Makoto Isshiki	Real Clothes, Satoru Makimura Shiori to Shimiko, Daijiro Morohoshi Maestro, Akira Saso Munakata Kyouju Ikouroku, Yukinobu Hoshino	Cartoon 2008, Masafumi Kikuchi