The tenor and conductor Plácido Domingo and the film director Francis Ford Coppola are among the 2013 winners of the Praemium Imperiale arts awards from the Japan Art Association. The awards, which bring about $150,000 for each recipient, recognize lifetime achievement in the arts in categories not covered by the Nobel Prize. They are scheduled to be presented Oct. 16 at a ceremony in Tokyo.
 The other winners, recognized on the prizes’ 25th anniversary, are Michaelangelo Pistoletto for painting (Italy); Antony Gormley for sculpture (Britain); and David Chipperfield for architecture (Britain).
The Praemium Imperiale is one of the world’s largest prizes for painting, sculpture, architecture, music and theater/film. Past winners have included Ingmar Bergman, Leonard Bernstein, Frank Gehry, Jean-Luc Godard, David Hockney, Willem de Kooning, Akira Kurosawa, Renzo Piano, Robert Rauschenberg and Ravi Shankar.Â
Candidates for the prize are nominated by a panel of international advisers and selected by the Japan Art Association.
