The Tokyo Anime Awards started in 2002, but was named in 2005. The first, second and third award ceremonies were simply named 'Competition'.^[1] The award ceremonies were held at the Tokyo International Anime Fair (TAF) until 2013. In 2014, after the merger of the Tokyo International Anime Fair with the Anime Contents Expo and the formation of the AnimeJapan convention, the Tokyo Anime Awards was changed into a separate festival called Tokyo Anime Awards Festival (TAAF).

Notably, there are Open Entry Awards for amateur creators (the Grand Prize winner is awarded with one million yen).^[2] Though there are ten main judges,^[3] the total number of judges is over one hundred people.^[4][5] Various groups participate in judging the festival, such as anime studio staff members, professors of universities, as well as producers and chief editors of various magazines. (See also: Animation Kobe).

Animation of the Year

All anime released from December 1 of the year before the festival to November 30 of the current year in Japan become candidates.^[2] The anime that best represents the category it was nominated in is chosen as the winner of that category.

In the first year of the celebration, the award was given to Spirited Away as 'Grand Prix'. In the second year, there was no Animation of the Year award; therefore, the 'Best Entry Awards' in the 'Notable Entries' are often recognized as 'Grand Prix', they were: Millennium Actress (film), Hanada Shōnen-shi (TV) and Sentō Yōsei Yukikaze (OVA)

Since 2014, Tokyo Anime Award Festival has given an Anime of the Year Grand Prize in two categories, Film and Television.

Notes

a. ^ Anime of the Year Grand Prize for Best Picture

Anime Fan Award

Picking from over 300-400 titles from television and films, anime fans vote from the candidate pool to pick the best 100 from those titles, with 20 of these titles being films and 80 being television titles. Fans then participate in a runoff vote in order to determine a recipient amongst the 100 chosen titles for the Anime Fan Award.

Initial qualifications to become candidates required titles to have aired from November of the year before the festival to October of the current year in Japan. However, this has since been twice changed — first in 2017 to be from October to October, and again in 2020 to be from October to September.^[6]

Open Entries / Competition Grand Prize

The awards for the creator of the non-commercialized work for TV, movie and OVA, to find new talents and to provide support for subsequent commercialization. The work must be an animation longer than 15 seconds, and no longer than 30 minutes. If the work was not commercialized before, professional creator also can enter this Grand Prize.^[7] The 2007 winner, Flutter, was the first work from a non-Asian country to win this award.^[8]

Tokyo Anime Award
Year	Winner	Title	Note
2002	Youhei Takamatsu	Tokyo Animarathonb
2003	Jung Min-Young	Say My Namec
2004	Han Tae-Ho	Africa a.F.r.I.c.A
2005	Shin Hosokawa	The Demon
2006	Kazuo Ebisawa	Crow that wears clothes
2007	Howie Shia	Flutter
2008	Helen Huang	Adventures in the NPM
2009	Heiko van der Scherm	Descendants
2010	G9+1	Tokyo Fantasia
2011	Alice Dieudonne	Trois petits points
2012	Chen Xifeng	Pig Sale
2013	Tsai Shiu-Cheng	Time of Cherry Blossoms
Tokyo Anime Award Festivald
2014	Ari Folman	The Congress	Featured Film Category
	Augusto Zanovello	Lettres de femmes	Short Film Category
2015	Tomm Moore	Song of the Sea	Featured Film Category
	Konstantin Bronzit	We Can't Live Without Cosmos	Short Film Category
2016	Rémi Chayé	Long Way North	Featured Film Category
	Siniša Mataić	Off Belay	Short Film Category
2017	Sébastien Laudenbach	The Girl Without Hands	Feature Film Category
	Elice Meng	Of Shadows and Wings...	Short Film Category
2018	Hsin Yin Sung	On Happiness Road	Feature Film Category
	Ru Kuwahata, Max Porter	Negative Space	Short Film Category
2019	Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow	Another Day of Life	Feature Film Category
	Nienke Deutz	Bloeistraat 11	Short Film Category

Notes

b. ^ Best Entry Award in Amateur Category

c. ^ Best Entry Award in Student Category

d. ^ Competition Winning Programs

Notable Entry

The excellent works of the year are chosen according to each section.

Individual awards

The individual awards for the activities of the previous year.^[2]

See also

• List of animation awards
• Lists of animated feature films
• BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film
• Annie Award for Best Animated Feature
• Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film
• Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Animated Feature
• Crunchyroll Anime Awards
• Annie Award for Best Animated Feature — Independent
• Saturn Award for Best Animated Film
• Japan Media Arts Festival
• Animation Kobe

References

External links

• Tokyo Anime Award Festival
• Tokyo Anime Award