The Blue Ribbon Awards are film-specific prizes awarded solely by movie critics and writers in Tokyo, Japan.
The awards were established in 1950 by the Tokyo Association of Reporters (東京映画記者会). The award ceremony is held i a variety of places in Tokyo every year in February.
Although the award is not acclaimed highly on an international level, in Japan it is nearly as prized as the Japanese Academy Awards, and anticipated as much, for it is a good sign of a person's status and level of recognition in the Japanese media. The Japanese Academy Awards have been held since 1977 to reward excellence in Japanese film. ...
In addition, the winning films themselves have a tendancy to recieve high distinctions in other film festivals around the world. Recent acclaimed nominations include films like Nobody Knows (2004) Tasogare Seibei' (2002)' andSpirited Away(2001). Nobody Knows (誰も知らãªã„; Dare mo shiranai) is a 2004 Japanese film directed by Hirokazu Koreeda. ... Spirited Away, or Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (åƒã¨åƒå°‹ã®ç¥žéš ã—; Sen and Chihiros Spiriting Away) is a 2001 movie by the Japanese anime studio Studio Ghibli, directed by renowned artist Hayao Miyazaki. ...
Categories
There are six categories of awards:
Best Film
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best New Artist
Most Popular Artist
Best Director
External links
Blue Ribbon Awards on IMDb
Blue Ribbon Awards Official Homepage Japanese only
BlueRibbon Schools of Excellence, Inc., is a not-for-profit organization established for the primary purpose of improving academic excellence for all children.
BlueRibbon Schools of Excellence (BRSE) utilizes the criteria from twenty years of research from the USDOE former National BlueRibbon Schools Program and has developed a Blueprint for Excellence assessment instrument that provides schools with a road map for school improvement.
The BlueRibbon Lighthouse School Award is a recognition program for schools designed by BlueRibbon Schools of Excellence, Inc. Schools are identified and selected for this award based on achievement of excellent perofrmance in all nine major categories of the Blueprint for Excellence.
Brentsville is the first public school in Prince William County to be awarded the designation since the BlueRibbon School program began in 1982.
When the BlueRibbon program began, schools were measured on criteria created by the federal government, said Stephen O'Brien, director of recognition programs for the Education Department.
BlueRibbon schools must meet one of two criteria: have at least 40 percent of their students from disadvantaged backgrounds and show improvement on test scores, or score in the top 10 percent on state tests.
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