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Akira Kurosawa

Awards

Akira Kurosawa

68 wins & 29 nominations

Academy Awards, USA

  • Ran (1985)
    1986 Nominee Oscar
    • Best Director
    • Ran
  • Akira Kurosawa
    1990 Winner Honorary Award
    For cinematic accomplishments that have inspired, delighted, enriched and entertained worldwide audiences and influenced filmmakers throughout the world.

Berlin International Film Festival

  • Toshirō Mifune, Kyōko Kagawa, and Tatsuya Mihashi in The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
    1961 Nominee Golden Berlin Bear
    • The Bad Sleep Well
  • Toshirō Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, and Misa Uehara in The Hidden Fortress (1958)
    1959 Winner Silver Berlin Bear
    • Best Director
    • The Hidden Fortress
  • Toshirō Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, and Misa Uehara in The Hidden Fortress (1958)
    1959 Winner FIPRESCI Prize
    • The Hidden Fortress
  • Toshirō Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, and Misa Uehara in The Hidden Fortress (1958)
    1959 Nominee Golden Berlin Bear
    • The Hidden Fortress
  • Ikiru (1952)
    1954 Winner Special Prize of the Senate of Berlin
    • Ikiru

Bodil Awards

  • Ran (1985)
    1986 Winner Bodil
    • Best European Film (Bedste europæiske film)
    • Ran

BAFTA Awards

  • Ran (1985)
    1987 Nominee BAFTA Film Award
    • Best Screenplay - Adapted
    • Ran
    Shared with: Hideo Oguni · Masato Ide
  • Ran (1985)
    1987 Winner BAFTA Film Award
    • Best Foreign Language Film
    • Ran
    France/Japan.
    Shared with: Serge Silberman · Masato Hara
  • Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior (1980)
    1981 Winner BAFTA Film Award
    • Best Direction
    • Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior
  • Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior (1980)
    1981 Nominee BAFTA Film Award
    • Best Film
    • Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior
    Shared with: Tomoyuki Tanaka

Cannes Film Festival

  • Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior (1980)
    1980 Winner Palme d'Or
    • Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior
    Tied with All That Jazz (1979).
  • I Live in Fear (1955)
    1956 Nominee Palme d'Or
    • I Live in Fear

César Awards, France

  • Ran (1985)
    1986 Nominee César
    • Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger)
    • Ran
  • Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior (1980)
    1981 Winner César
    • Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger)
    • Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior

Chicago Film Critics Association Awards

  • Madadayo (1993)
    1999 Nominee CFCA Award
    • Best Foreign Language Film
    • Madadayo

David di Donatello Awards

  • Ran (1985)
    1986 Winner David
    • Best Foreign Director (Migliore Regista Straniero)
    • Ran
  • Ran (1985)
    1986 Nominee David
    • Best Foreign Film (Miglior Film Straniero)
    • Ran
  • Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior (1980)
    1981 Winner David
    • Best Foreign Director (Migliore Regista Straniero)
    • Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior
  • Dersu Uzala (1975)
    1977 Winner David
    • Best Foreign Director (Migliore Regista Straniero)
    • Dersu Uzala

Directors Guild of America, USA

  • Akira Kurosawa
    1992 Winner Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Akira Kurosawa
    1986 Winner Golden Jubilee Special Award
  • Toshirō Mifune and Machiko Kyô in Rashomon (1950)
    1953 Nominee DGA Award
    • Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
    • Rashomon

Edgar Allan Poe Awards

  • Toshirō Mifune, Kenjirō Ishiyama, Kyōko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, and Tatsuya Nakadai in High and Low (1963)
    1964 Nominee Edgar
    • Best Foreign Film
    • High and Low
    Shared with: Ryûzô Kikushima · Eijirô Hisaita

French Syndicate of Cinema Critics

  • Dersu Uzala (1975)
    1978 Winner Critics Award
    • Best Foreign Film
    • Dersu Uzala
    Soviet Union

Hochi Film Awards

  • Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior (1980)
    1980 Winner Hochi Film Award
    • Best Film
    • Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists

  • Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior (1980)
    1981 Winner Silver Ribbon
    • Best Foreign Director (Regista del Miglior Film Straniero)
    • Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior
  • Dersu Uzala (1975)
    1977 Winner Silver Ribbon
    • Best Foreign Director (Regista del Miglior Film Straniero)
    • Dersu Uzala

Awards of the Japanese Academy

  • After the Rain (1999)
    2001 Winner Award of the Japanese Academy
    • Best Screenplay
    • After the Rain
  • Akira Kurosawa
    1999 Winner Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Rhapsody in August (1991)
    1992 Nominee Award of the Japanese Academy
    • Best Director
    • Rhapsody in August
  • Rhapsody in August (1991)
    1992 Nominee Award of the Japanese Academy
    • Best Screenplay
    • Rhapsody in August
  • Dreams (1990)
    1991 Nominee Award of the Japanese Academy
    • Best Director
    • Dreams

Jussi Awards

  • Toshirō Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Yoshio Inaba, Daisuke Katō, Isao Kimura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Takashi Shimura, and Keiko Tsushima in Seven Samurai (1954)
    1959 Winner Diploma of Merit
    • Best Foreign Director
    • Seven Samurai

London Critics Circle Film Awards

  • Ran (1985)
    1987 Winner ALFS Award
    • Director of the Year
    • Ran

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

  • Ran (1985)
    1985 Winner LAFCA Award
    • Best Foreign Film
    • Ran
    Tied with The Official Story (1985).
  • Akira Kurosawa
    1985 Winner Career Achievement Award
  • Ran (1985)
    1985 2nd Place LAFCA Award
    • Best Director
    • Ran

Moscow International Film Festival

  • Akira Kurosawa
    1979 Winner Honorary Prize
    For the contribution to the cinema.
  • Dersu Uzala (1975)
    1975 Winner Golden Prize
    • Dersu Uzala
  • Dersu Uzala (1975)
    1975 Winner FIPRESCI Prize
    • Dersu Uzala

National Board of Review, USA

  • Ran (1985)
    1985 Winner NBR Award
    • Best Director
    • Ran
  • Toshirō Mifune and Machiko Kyô in Rashomon (1950)
    1951 Winner NBR Award
    • Best Director
    • Rashomon

National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA

  • Ran (1985)
    1986 2nd Place NSFC Award
    • Best Director
    • Ran

New York Film Critics Circle Awards

  • Ran (1985)
    1985 2nd Place NYFCC Award
    • Best Director
    • Ran

San Francisco International Film Festival

  • Akira Kurosawa
    1986 Winner Akira Kurosawa Award

San Sebastián International Film Festival

  • Ran (1985)
    1985 Winner OCIC Award
    • Ran

Valladolid International Film Festival

  • Toshirō Mifune and Yûzô Kayama in Red Beard (1965)
    1967 Winner Golden Spike
    • Best Film
    • Red Beard

Venice Film Festival

  • Akira Kurosawa
    1982 Winner Career Golden Lion
  • Dodes'ka-den (1970)
    1971 Winner OCIC Award
    • Dodes'ka-den
  • Toshirō Mifune and Yûzô Kayama in Red Beard (1965)
    1965 Winner OCIC Award
    • Red Beard
  • Toshirō Mifune and Yûzô Kayama in Red Beard (1965)
    1965 Nominee Golden Lion
    • Red Beard
  • Toshirō Mifune and Yûzô Kayama in Red Beard (1965)
    1965 Winner San Giorgio Prize
    • Red Beard

WorldFest Houston

  • Ran (1985)
    1985 Winner Grand Remi Award
    • Best of Show
    • Ran

Amanda Awards, Norway

  • Ran (1985)
    1986 Winner Amanda
    • Best Foreign Feature Film (Årets utenlandske spillefilm)
    • Ran

Kinema Junpo Awards

  • Toshirō Mifune and Yûzô Kayama in Red Beard (1965)
    1966 Winner Kinema Junpo Award
    • Best Film
    • Red Beard
  • Toshirō Mifune and Yûzô Kayama in Red Beard (1965)
    1966 Winner Kinema Junpo Award
    • Best Director
    • Red Beard
  • Toshirō Mifune and Tatsuya Nakadai in Sanjuro (1962)
    1963 Nominee Kinema Junpo Award
    • Best Film
    • Sanjuro
    Fifth place
  • Toshirō Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Yoshio Inaba, Daisuke Katō, Isao Kimura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Takashi Shimura, and Keiko Tsushima in Seven Samurai (1954)
    1955 3rd Place Kinema Junpo Award
    • Best Film
    • Seven Samurai
  • Ikiru (1952)
    1953 Winner Kinema Junpo Award
    • Best Film
    • Ikiru

Mainichi Film Concours

  • Akira Kurosawa
    1999 Winner Special Award
    For his work.
  • Ran (1985)
    1986 Winner Mainichi Film Concours
    • Best Film
    • Ran
  • Ran (1985)
    1986 Winner Mainichi Film Concours
    • Best Director
    • Ran
  • Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior (1980)
    1981 Winner Mainichi Film Concours
    • Best Film
    • Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior
  • Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior (1980)
    1981 Winner Mainichi Film Concours
    • Best Director
    • Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior

Blue Ribbon Awards

  • Akira Kurosawa
    1999 Winner Special Award
    For his work.
  • Ran (1985)
    1986 Winner Blue Ribbon Award
    • Best Film
    • Ran
  • Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior (1980)
    1981 Winner Blue Ribbon Award
    • Best Film
    • Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior
  • Toshirō Mifune and Yûzô Kayama in Red Beard (1965)
    1966 Winner Blue Ribbon Award
    • Best Film
    • Red Beard
  • Toshirō Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, and Misa Uehara in The Hidden Fortress (1958)
    1959 Winner Blue Ribbon Award
    • Best Film
    • The Hidden Fortress

Nikkan Sports Film Awards

  • Akira Kurosawa
    1998 Winner Special Award
    For his work.

British Film Institute Awards

  • Akira Kurosawa
    1986 Winner BFI Fellowship

SESC Film Festival, Brazil

  • Ran (1985)
    1987 Winner Audience Award
    • Best Foreign Film (Melhor Filme Estrangeiro)
    • Ran

Online Film & Television Association

  • Akira Kurosawa
    2000 Winner OFTA Film Hall of Fame
    • Creative

20/20 Awards

  • Ran (1985)
    2006 Nominee Felix
    • Best Adapted Screenplay
    • Ran
    Shared with: Ryûzô Kikushima · Hideo Oguni

Cahiers du Cinéma

  • Rhapsody in August (1991)
    1991 Nominee Top 10 Film Award
    • Best Film
    • Rhapsody in August
    Eighth Place
  • Dreams (1990)
    1990 Nominee Top 10 Film Award
    • Best Film
    • Dreams
    Eighth Place; tied with Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and The Disenchanted (1990)
  • Ran (1985)
    1985 Nominee Top 10 Film Award
    • Best Film
    • Ran
    Ninth Place

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