The winners for the 28th Nikkan Sports Film Award/ Ishihara Yujiro Memorial Awards were announced. The award ceremony was held last December 28 at the Hotel New Otani in Tokyo, attended by more than 600 movie officials.

The Nikkan Sports Film Award are film-specific prizes awarded solely by the Nikkan Sports. Last year, Okada Junichi and Miyazawa Rie won the Best Actor and Best Actress awards respectively, while “Eien no Zero” won Best Movie and Takahashi Yamazaki for “Eien no Zero and STAND BY ME Doraemon” won Best Director.

Find out this year’s winners and check out some pictures from the ceremony below.

Ayase Haruka won Best Actress for the movie “Umimachi Diary” while Kora Kengo won Best Actor Award.

You can watch more videos of the ceremony at Nikkan Sports site.

28th Nikkan Sports Film Award 2015
Best Movie	Solomon’s Perjury
Best Director	Harada Masato (Japan’s Longest Day)
Best Actor	Kora Kengo (Itamu Hito / Kimi wa Iiko)
Best Actress	Ayase Haruka (Umimachi Diary)
Best Supporting Actor	Motoki Masahiro (Tenkuu no Hachi / Nihon no Ichiban Nagai Hi)
Best Supporting Actress	Nagasawa Masami (Umimachi Diary)
Best Newcomer	Hirose Suzu (Umimachi Diary)
Best Foreign Movie	Whiplash
Ishihara Yujiro Award	Japan’s Longest Day
Lifetime Achievement Award	Shinada Yukichi
Fan Award	Joker Game (Director: Irie Yu / Cast: Kamenashi Kazuya, Fukada Kyoko & Iseya Yusuke)