The Japan Academy Film Prize is a prize given out by a group of people in Japan to recognize the best movies made in Japan each year. The prize is chosen by movie critics and professionals from the Japanese film industry who all get together and decide which movies are the best. They take many things into consideration when deciding which movies deserve the prize, such as the quality of the movie, originality, and the impact the movie made on people who watched it. Every year, the prize is awarded to the film makers who make the movies that the group of people think are the best.