Blue Ribbon Awards Special Award
# Blue Ribbon Awards Special Award

The Blue Ribbon Awards Special Award is a special prize. It is awarded irregularly by the Association of Tokyo Film Journalists as one of the Blue Ribbon Awards. It was firstly awarded in 1988 at 31st Blue Ribbon Awards.

## List of winners

| No. | Year | Recipient(s) |
| - | - | - |
| 31 | 1988 | My Neighbor Totoro Grave of the Fireflies |
| 32 | 1989 | N/A |
| 33 | 1990 | N/A |
| 34 | 1991 | N/A |
| 35 | 1992 | N/A |
| 36 | 1993 | Kinchan no Cinema Jack directed by Kinichi Hagimoto |
| 37 | 1994 | N/A |
| 38 | 1995 | Kiyoshi Atsumi |
| 39 | 1996 | Kiyoshi Atsumi for his honorable work of the film Otoko wa Tsurai yo series. |
| 39 | 1996 | Nemuru Otoko produced by the local government Gunma Prefecture. |
| 40 | 1997 | Princess Mononoke |
| 41 | 1998 | Akira Kurosawa, Keisuke Kinoshita |
| 42 | 1999 | N/A |
| 43 | 2000 | N/A |
| 44 | 2001 | N/A |
| 45 | 2002 | Kinji Fukasaku |
| 46 | 2003 | Ken Watanabe for his appearance of The Last Samurai. |
| 47 | 2004 | N/A |
| 48 | 2005 | Kihachi Okamoto |
| 49 | 2006 | Shohei Imamura |
| 50 | 2007 | Hitoshi Ueki |
| 51 | 2008 | Kon Ichikawa, Ken Ogata |
| 52 | 2009 | Series of the film Tsuribaka Nisshi |
| 53 | 2010 | N/A |
| 54 | 2011 | Yoshio Harada |
| 55 | 2012 | Kōji Wakamatsu |
| 56 | 2013 | Nagisa Oshima, Rentarō Mikuni |
| 57 | 2014 | N/A |
| 58 | 2015 | N/A |
| 59 | 2016 | Your Name |
