Nomination Details

Ceremony Year 2025
Nomination category
Country
Cinematographer

Nomination Detail

Born in Shizuoka Prefecture, Yuta Tsukinaga graduated from Nihon University College of Art, Department of Cinema. He has worked as cinematographer on numerous acclaimed films, including Shinji Aoyama’s Tokyo Park (2011) and Shuichi Okita’s The Woodsman and the Rain (2012). With Takuma Sato’s Any Crybabies Around? (2020), he won the Best Cinematography Award at the 68th San Sebastián International Film Festival. The same year, Naomi Kawase’s True Mothers earned him the Excellence in Cinematography Award at the 44th Japan Academy Prize. His collaborations with Sho Miyake include Small, Slow but Steady (2022) and All the Long Nights (2024), the former receiving the Best Cinematography Award at both the Mainichi Film Awards and the Yokohama Film Festival.

The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and present. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.