The Japan Media Arts Festival was an annual festival held since 1997 by Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs. The festival begins with an open competition and culminates with the awarding of several prizes and an exhibition.
Based on judging by a jury of artistic peers, awards are given in four categories: Art (formerly called Non-Interactive Digital 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. Other outstanding works, are selected by the Jury as Jury Selections.
The winning works of the four categories will receive a certificate, a trophy and a cash prize.
Digital Art (Non-Interactive Art) awards Year Grand Prize Excellence Prizes Encouragement Prize 1997 (1st) "Soul Blade" Opening Movie Scene#97 -Generated After- Daisuki Me SMAP×SMAP Special Effects in the Tribute Songs hana n/a 1998 (2nd) Tokitama Hustle (CG moving picture) REMtv (CG moving picture) Garahina (CG moving picture) Silent Hill (CG moving picture) Within the Cry of the Red Night (CG moving picture) n/a 1999 (3rd) The Diverting History of Mechanical Fellows (CG still picture, solid) Tall Small Stories (CG moving picture) Revelation Lugia (CG moving picture) Tekkon Kinkreet (CG moving picture) Tatsumi HIYAMA3EXHIBITION (CG still image) n/a 2000 (4th) 1 (CG moving picture) Csoda Pok (wonder spider) (CG moving picture) Garden of the metal (CG moving picture) Avalon (movie/CG moving picture) The nostalgic 21st century (CG moving picture) n/a 2001 (5th) Anjyu (CG moving picture) Insanity (CG still picture) After Image (CG still picture) FADE into WHITE #3 (CG moving picture) Beauty Kit (CG moving picture) n/a 2002 (6th) TextArc print:Alice's Adventure in Wonderland (CG still picture) I AGAINST I (CG still picture) Prize Re-typo "E""A""R""N" (CG still picture) Justice Runners(CG moving picture) Mustafrog and NINJA bunny (CG moving picture) FISHER MAN (CG moving picture)
Digital Art (Interactive Art) awards Year Grand Prize Excellence Prizes Encouragement Prize 1997 (1st) Kage Final Fantasy VII Intelligent Qube Wanna be a Ruby melting in the sky (movie) 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
Art awards Year Grand Prize Excellence Prizes Encouragement Prize (2003–2010) / New Face Award (since 2011) Social Impact Award (since 2020) 2003 (7th) Digital Gadgets #6,8,9 (interactive art) Panorama Ball & Zerograph -Another story of media evolution (still image) three (web) E-BABY (moving picture CG) Venus Villosa (installation) Tracks of Bluen/a 2004 (8th) 3 minutes2 (installation) Sky Ear (interactive art) GLOBAL BEARING (interactive art) OÏO (visual image) z reactor (visual image) life-size (still image)n/a 2005 (9th) Khronos Projector (Interactive) Six String Sonics, The (interactive) Spyglass (installation) Gate vision (visual image) Anima (visual image) Conspiratio (interactive)n/a 2006 (10th) Imaginary・Numbers 2006 (installation) ×man vibration (interactive art) OLE Coordinate System (interactive art) front (installation) MediaFlies (installation) Sagrada Familia Project (still image)n/a 2007 (11th) nijuman no borei (200000 phantoms) (visual image) Se Mi Sei Vicino (If you are close to me) (interactive art) BYU-BYU-View (interactive art) "Camera Lucida: Sonochemical Observatory" (installation) ISSEY MIYAKE A-POC INSIDE. (visual image) Super Smile (visual image)n/a 2008 (12th) Oups! (installation) Touched Echo (interactive) Touch the Invisibles (interactive) Moment-performative wandering (visual image) OUTSIDE (still image) insider''||outsider (installation)n/a 2009 (13th) Growth Modeling Device (Installation) Mr. Lee Experiment (Interactive) Nemo Observatorium (Installation) SEKILALA (Visual Image) Braun Tube Jazz Band (Performance) F - Void Sample (Installation)n/a 2010 (14th) Cycloïd-E (Sound sculpture) The Tenth Sentiment The EyeWriter NIGHT LESS The Men In Grey Succubusn/a 2011 (15th) plain voices, Yoshihiro Yamamoto particles, Daito Manabe, Motoi Ishibashi The Saddest Day of My Youth, Brian Alfred Tsunagaru-TENKI, Yoshiyuki Katayama BLA BLA, Vincent Morisset Monkey Business, Ralph Kistler, Jan Sieber Senseless Drawing Bot, So Kanno, Takahiro Yamaguchi Himatsubushi, Hideharu Uekin/a 2012 (16th) Pendulum Choir, Cod.Act (Michel Décosterd, André Décosterd) Desire of Codes, Seiko Mikami Between Yesterday & Tomorrow, SOL CHORD (Shinjiro Maeda, Rina Okazawa) Bye Buy, Neil Bryant On Pause, Mikhail Zheleznikov Outback and Beyond, Grayson Cooke, Mike Cooper Species series, Wonbin Yang Strata #4, Quayolan/a 2013 (17th) crt mgn, Carsten Nicolai the blank to overcome, Soichiro Mihara Dronestagram, James Bridle Situation Rooms, Rimini Protokoll The Big Atlas of LA Pools, Benedikt Gross Learn to be a Machine | DistantObject #1, Lau Hochi Maquila Region 4, Amor Munoz The SKOR Codex, La Societe Anonymen/a 2014 (18th) (no award) This may not be a movie, Kazuhiro Goshima Sensing streams invisible, inaudible, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Daito Manabe Drone Survival Guide, Ruben Peter Nyloïd, Cod.Act (Michel Décosterd, André Décosterd) "patrinia yellow" for Clarinet and Computer, Satoshi Fukushima The Tale of Tehrangeles, Anahita Razmi Symbiotic Machine, Ivan Henriques Temps mort / Idle times dinner scene, Alex Verhaestn/a 2015 (19th)50 Shades of Grey, Bryan Chung Wai Ching The sound of empty space, Adam Basanta Ultraorbism, Marcel·lí Antúnez Roca Wutbürger, KASUGA (Andreas Lutz / Christoph Grünberger) (Im)possible Baby, Case 01: Asako & Moriga, Ai Hasegawa Sando, Takaaki Yamamoto Communication with the Future – The Petroglyphomat, Lorenz Potthast Gill & Gill, Louis-Jack Horton-Stephensn/a 2017 (20th)Interface I, Ralf BaeckerCOLONY, Yukihiro Yoshihara Alter, "Alter" Production Team (Hiroshi Ishiguro / Takashi Ikegami, Representatives) Jller, Benjamin Maus / Prokop Bartoníček The Living Language Project, Ori ElisarYou would come back there to see me again the following day., Michiko Tsuda DCT: SYPHONING. The 1000000th interval., Rosa Menkman The Wall, Nina Kurtelan/a2018 (21st)Interstices / Opus I - Opus II, Haythem Zakaria Avatars, So Kanno / yang02 Rapid biography in a society of evolutionary lovers, Unemi Tatsuo / Daniel Bisig Datum Point, Orikasa Ryo Language Producing Factory, Dai Furen I'm In The Computer Memory!, Aida Torajiro Panderer (Seventeen Seconds), Gary Setzer The Dither is Naked, Yanon/a 2019 (22nd) Pulses/Grains/Phase/Moiré, Ken Furudate Culturing 'Paper'cut, Hideo Iwasaki datum, Norimichi Hirakawa discrete figures, Daito Manabe, Motoi Ishibashi, MIKIKO, Elevenplay Lasermice, So Kanno SPARE (not mine), Jonathan Fletcher Moore Total Tolstoy, Andrey Chugunov watage, (euglena)n/a 2020 (23rd) [ir]reverent: Miracles on Demand, Adam W. Brown between #4 Black Aura, Hideo Iwasaki Ferriscope, Bull.Miletic Soundform No. 1, Natura Machina Two Hundred and Seventy, Nils Volker drawhearts, Sebastian Wolf (web) Latent Space, Marian Essl alias MONOCOLOR Lenna, Hosoi MiyuSOMEONE, Lauren Lee McCarthy2021(24th)Prometheus Bound, Meiro Koizumi Acqua Alta – Crossing the mirror, Adrien M & Claire B Bricolage, Nathan THOMPSON / Guy BEN-ARY / Sebastian DIECKE Sea, See, She – To you, who is yet to come, See by Your Ears (evala, Representative) TH-42PH10EK x 5, Stefan TIEFENGRABER The reluming apparatus, Hayate Kobayashi Ether – liquid mirror, Kaito Sakuma VOX-AUTOPOIESIS V -Mutual-, Chiku KomiyaGoogle Maps Hacks, Simon WECKERT2022(25th)Sun and Moon Room, "Sun and Moon Room" Production Team Yamahyo Crossing, Shota Yamauchi The Square Makes It Through, Masaya Ishikawa / Hiroshi Sugihara / Hiroaki Nakaji / Campbell Aregenzio / Shohei Takei Augmented Shadow – Inside, Joon Yong Moon mEat me, Theresa Schubert Projection for the next three thousand years, Miki Hirase The Transparency of Randomness, Mathias Gartner / Vera Tolazzi Uber Existence, Shin HanagataBio Sculpture, Keio SFC Hiroya Tanaka Lab. + METACITY (Ryuta Aoki, Representative)
Entertainment awards Year Grand Prize Excellence Prizes Encouragement Prize (2003–2010) / New Face Award (since 2011) 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 Onimusha 3 Opening Cinematics YKK AP Evolution Cherry-Clouds 2005 (9th) Flipbook!, Khronos Projector Nintendogs "Wamono" by Hifana (music video) Mitsui Fudosan Shibaura Island 3LDK Image Movie Vodafone Design File Incompatible Block 2006 (10th) Ōkami Rhythm Tengoku Shaberu! DS Oryouri Navi "Fit Song" by Cornelius (music video) Rediscovery Map Nippon Amagatana 2007 (11th) Wii Sports Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Monster Hunter Freedom 2 Have You Seen It? (short movie) Daydream The moon princess being smelled by ~ Japanese old tales remix ~ (picture book) 2008 (12th) Tenori-On (electronic musical instrument) Wii Fit Exhibition Transform Yourself (exhibition) Carbon Footprint (visual image) FONTPARK 2.0 Gyorol (web) 2009 (13th) Hibi No Neiro (Tone of Everyday) Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm "Fake It!" / Denki Groove (music video) Love Distance ScoreLight Asahi Art Festival 2010 (14th) IS Parade echochrome ii "Aruku Around" by Sakanaction (music video) "Natsu o Matteimashita" by Amazarashi (music video) Tabio Slide Show iPad magic 2011 (15th) Space Balloon Project, Tsubasa Oyagi, Kempei Baba, Takeshi Nozoe, John Powell Berobero, Hideyuki Tanaka Phase Transition-ish Apparatus, Yuichiro Katsumoto The Museum of Me, Koichiro Tanaka, Eiji Tanigawa, Seiichi Saito, Masanori Sakamoto, Ken Murayama Song of Anagura Missing Researchers & their Remaining Devices, Hiroshi Inukai, Ryosuke Shibasaki, Kazutoshi Iida, Ichiro Ariyama, Kenji Sasajima, Shinya Kamuro Digital Warrior Sanjigen, Kaito Nakamura Hietsuki Bushi, Omodaka Rhythmushi, Tsubasa Naruse 2012 (16th) Perfume "Global Site Project", Daito Manabe, Mikiko, Yasutaka Nakata, Satoshi Horii, Hiroyasu Kimura The Warped Forest, Shunichiro Miki Smart Trashbox, Minoru Kurata Suidobashi Heavy Industry "KURATAS", Kogoro Kurata, Wataru Yoshizaki Gravity Daze, Keiichiro Toyama (Gravity Daze Team) Whatever Button, IDPW NAGANO Ryo "HAJIMEYOU", Fuyu Arai Haisuinonasa "Dynamics of the Subway", Keita Onishi 2013 (17th) Sound of Honda / Ayrton Senna 1989, Kaoru Sugano, Sotaro Yasumochi, Yu Orai, Nadya Kirillova, Kyoko Yonezawa, Kosai Sekine, Taeji Sawai, Daito Manabe Sports Time Machine, Hiroshi Inukai, Ryoko Ando Travis "Moving", Tom Wrigglesworth, Matt Robinson Fantasy Captured in Plastic Models: A Desk Diorama, Hiroto Ikeuchi The Burning Buddha Man, Ujicha ZEZEHIHI, Daisuke Tsuda Yakenohara "RELAXIN", Saigo No Shudan (Ayumu Arisaka, Mai Oita, Ren Kohata) TorqueL prototype 2013.03 @ E3, Nanmo (Takayuki Yanagihara) 2014 (18th) Ingress, Google's Niantic Labs (John Hanke, Founder) Noramoji project, Rintaro Shimohama, Naoki Nishimura, Shinya Wakaoka handii, Genta Kondo, Hiroshi Yamaura, Tetsuya Konishi Kintsugi, APOTROPIA (Antonella Mignone, Cristiano Panepuccia) 3RD, Hedwig Heinsman, Niki Smit, Simon van der Linden Auto-Complain, Florian Born Slime Synthesizer, Dorita / Airgarage lab (Naofumi Kawauchi, Yumi Sasaki)