The is a film festival established in 1985. The event was held biennially from 1985 to 1991 and annually thereafter. Along with the Shanghai International Film Festival, it is one of Asia's competitive film festivals, and is considered to be the largest film festival in Asia and the only Japanese festival accredited by the FIAPF. The awards handed out during the festival have changed throughout its existence, but the Tokyo Grand Prix, handed to the best film, has stayed as the top award. Other awards that have been given regularly include the Special Jury Award and awards for best actor, best actress and best director. In recent years, the festival's main events have been held over one week in late October, at the Roppongi Hills development. Events include open-air screenings, voice-over screenings, and appearances by actors, as well as seminars and symposiums related to the film market. Tokyo Grand Prix winners Best Director Award 1985 - Péter Gothár, Time Stands Still 1987 - Lana Gogoberidze, Oromtriali 1989 - Rajko Grlic, That Summer of White Roses 1991 - Alan Parker, The Commitments 1992 - Ji-yeong Jeong, White Badge 1993 - Taylor Hackford, Blood In, Blood Out 1994 - Ho Yim, The Day the Sun Turned Cold 1995 - Joseph Novoa, Sicario 1996 - Tian-Ming Wu, The King of Masks 1997 - Ademir Kenović, The Perfect Circle 1998 - Guy Ritchie, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 1999 - Martha Fiennes, Onegin 2000 - Alejandro González Iñárritu, Amores Perros 2001 - (tied) Reza Mirkarimi, Under the Moonlight and Gjergj Xhuvani, Slogans 2002 - Carlo Rola, Sass 2003 - Chris Valentien, Santa Smokes 2004 - Chan-sang Lim, The President's Barber 2005 - Kichitaro Negishi, What the Snow Brings 2006 - Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, Little Miss Sunshine 2007 - Peter Howitt, Dangerous Parking 2008 - Sergey Dvortsevoy, Tulpan 2009 - Kamen Kalev, Eastern Plays 2010 - Nir Bergman, Intimate Grammar 2011 - Ruben Östlund, Play 2012 - Lorraine Lévy, The Other Son 2013 - Benedikt Erlingsson, Of Horses and Men 2014 - Joshua Safdie and Ben Safdie, Heaven Knows What 2015 - Mustafa Kara, Cold of Kalandar 2016 - Hana Jusic, Quit Staring at My Plate 2017 - Edmund Yeo, Aqérat (We, The Dead) 2018 - Edoardo De Angelis, The Vice of Hope 2019 - Saeed Roustaee, Just 6.5 2021 - Darezhan Omirbaev, Poet 2022 - Rodrigo Sorogoyen, The Beasts Best Actor