During the festival, 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. These are sometimes also called Japan Media Arts Awards.
| Year |
Grand Prize |
Excellence Prizes |
Encouragement Prize |
| 1997 (1st)[1] |
"Soul Blade" Opening Movie |
- Scene#97 -Generated After-
- Daisuki Me
- SMAP×SMAP Special Effects in the Tribute Songs
- hana
|
n/a |
| 1998 (2nd)[2] |
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)[3] |
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)[4] |
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)[5] |
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)[6] |
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) |
| Year |
Grand Prize |
Excellence Prizes |
Encouragement Prize |
| 2003 (1st)[7] |
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 Blue |
| 2004 (2nd)[8] |
3 minutes2 (installation) |
- Sky Ear (interactive art)
- GLOBAL BEARING (interactive art)
- OÏO (visual image)
- z reactor (visual image)
|
life-size (still image) |
| 2005 (3rd)[9] |
Khronos Projector (interactive) |
- The Six String Sonics (interactive)
- Spyglass (installation)
- Gate vision (visual image)
- Anima (visual image)
|
Conspiratio (interactive) |
| 2006 (4th)[10] |
Imaginary・Numbers 2006 (installation) |
- ×man vibration (interactive art)
- OLE Coordinate System (interactive art)
- front (installation)
- MediaFlies (installation)
|
Sagrada Familia Project (still image) |
| 2007 (5th)[11] |
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) |
| 2008 (6th)[12] |
Oups! (installation) |
- touched echo (interactive)
- Touch the Invisibles (interactive)
- Moment-performative wandering (visual image)
- OUTSIDE (still image)
|
insider||outsider (installation) |
| Year |
Grand Prize |
Excellence Prizes |
Encouragement Prize |
| 1997 (1st)[1] |
The Manga classics of Japan (32 volumes) |
|
n/a |
| 1998 (2nd)[2] |
Sakamoto Ryōma, Hiroshi Kurogane |
|
n/a |
| 1999 (3rd)[3] |
I'm home, Kei Ishizaka |
|
n/a |
| 2000 (4th)[4] |
Vagabond, Takehiko Inoue (art) and Eiji Yoshikawa (original story) |
|
n/a |
| 2001 (5th)[5] |
F-shiteki nichijō, Yōji Fukuyama |
|
n/a |
| 2002 (6th)[6] |
Sexy Voice and Robo, Iō Kuroda |
|
Naze Hakase wa okotte iru no ka, Isao Ikegaya |
| 2003 (7th)[7] |
Kajimunugatai: Kaze ga kataru Okinawa-sen, Susumu Higa |
|
Junkissa Nokoribi, Tai Itō |
| 2004 (8th)[8] |
Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms, Fumiyo Kōno |
|
Shōwa nijūnen no edekami, shi no Hachigatsu jūgojitsu, Watashi no Hachigatsu Jugonichi Association |
| 2005 (9th)[9] |
Disappearance Diary, Hideo Azuma |
|
E-Cartoon , Yoshio Nakae |
| 2006 (10th)[10] |
A Spirit of the Sun, Kaiji Kawaguchi |
|
Shiritori, Kazuko Chikuhama (story) and Kenichi Chikuhama (art) |
| 2007 (11th)[11] |
Mori no Asagao, Mamora Gōda |
|
Tenken-sai, Yumiko Shirai |
| 2008 (12th)[12] |
Piano no Mori, Makoto Isshiki |
|
Cartoon 2008, Masafumi Kikuchi |
