The Blue Ribbon Awards (ブルーリボン賞, Burū Ribon Shō) are film-specific prizes awarded solely by movie critics and writers in Tokyo, Japan, established in 1950 by The Association of Tokyo Film Journalists (東京映画記者会, Tōkyō Eiga Kishakai), established under the name of the "Association of Tokyo Film Journalists Award", which was formed mainly by film reporters from the Yomiuri Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun, and Mainichi Shimbun.
[3] From the 4th (1953) to the 7th editions (1956), the award ceremony took place in Namikiza, in Ginza, with the cooperation of Toho producer Sanezumi Fujimoto, its owner.
[2] In 1966, the "Black Mist Incident," a political scandal centered on the Liberal Democratic Party, that eventually enveloped Japan's baseball industry,[6] led to the temporary suspension of the Blue Ribbon Award (as well as other awards).
It resumed in 2024 for the 66th edition, the hosts being Chieko Baisho and Arashi's Kazunari Ninomiya in this occasion.
[9][10] The Association of Tokyo Film Journalists opened on 23 January 2024 an official X (formerly Twitter) account for the Blue Ribbon Awards.