In addition to the VFX win from the Chicago Film Critics Association and the Hochi Film Awards Best Director Win, Godzilla Minus One has received another accolade! The Las Vegas Film Critic Society has given their Best International Film award to Godzilla Minus One!
Takashi Yamazaki's film topped Anatomy of a Fall, Society of the Snow, When Evil Lurks and The Zone of Interest for the award.
It has also been nominated in the same category for the Critic Choice Association's Critic's Choice Awards. The winners will be announced on January 14th, 2024 and televised on The CW. (Check you local listings.)
Set in a post-war Japan, Godzilla Minus One once again shows us a Godzilla that is a terrifying and overwhelming force. Japan, which had already been devastated by the war, faces a new threat with Godzilla, bringing the country from nothing (zero) into the ‘minus.’
Godzilla Minus One is directed by Takashi Yamazaki. An award winning filmmaker and avid Godzilla fan, his work on Always: Sunset on Third Street (2005) earned him two Japanese Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Screenwriter. He was honored with another Best Director and Best Screenplay nomination for the sequel, Always: Sunset on Third Street 2 (2007). In 2016, he won the Best Director category again for The Eternal Zero. Yamazaki also helmed highly acclaimed actioners, Returner, Space Battleship Yamato and many others.
He gave Godzilla a cameo during an opening dream sequence in Always: Sunset on Third Street 2. In 2021 he returned to Godzilla and directed footage for Seibuen Amusement Park's Godzilla the Ride: Giant Monster Battle Summit.
Godzilla Minus One is now playing in both Japan and North America.
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Next Best Picture
Critics Choice Association
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About Godzilla Minus Zero
Godzilla Minus Zero is the next Toho Godzilla movie coming to theaters November 6th, 2026 (Nov. 3rd in Japan)! Like Godzilla Minus One, the next film is again written and directed once again by the talented Takashi Yamazaki.
Godzilla Minus Zero will release 3 days earlier in Japan than in North America!
Toho will release Godzilla Minus Zero three days earlier in Japan than in North America, arriving November 3rd, 2026!
CONFIRMED: The Godzilla Minus Zero release date is November 6th, 2026!
As we reported, the June 2026 release date was WRONG – Toho have officially confirmed the real release date for Takashi Yamazaki's Godzilla Minus Zero.
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