Even if I had seen the film yet I can't really comment on whether its deserving of the nominations, mainly because I have absolutely no basis of comparison with the other nominees apart from Your Name.

Even if it has terrible acting and music, it could still be a whole lot better than all the other films nominated.

Would recommend seeing it, its IMO the best Godzilla film since the original.

I'll get around to it eventually. It's not that I don't want to see it, it's that it never came out in cinemas here and I don't want to settle for a camrip.

There is hd version going around that's missing about 20 min of footage, all Godzilla scenes are there but some human scenes are missing.

Shin was great, but it probably wouldn't break my top 10 list, at least until I see it a few more times.

Here's all of Godzilla's previous Japan Academy Prize nominations (no Showa films were ever nominated because the award didn't exist until 1978):


- Godzilla vs. Biollante – Newcomer of the Year – Masanobu Takashima as Sho Kuroki Won
- Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah – Special Award – Koichi Kawakita and his staff-Won
- Godzilla vs. Mothra – Best Supporting Actor nomination – Takehiro Murata as Kenji Andoh
- Godzilla vs. Mothra – Best Music nomination – Akira Ifukube
- Godzilla vs. Mothra – Newcomers of the Year – Keiko Imamura and Sayaka Osawa as the Cosmos -Won
- Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla 2 – Best Sound nomination – Kazuo Miyauchi
- Godzilla vs. Destoroyah – Best Sound nomination – Kazuo Miyauchi
- Godzilla vs. Destoroyah – Best Editing nomination – Chizuko Osada
- Godzilla (the character) – Special Award in 2005- Won
- Godzilla (2014) – Best Foreign Film nomination