List of awards and honors given to Akira Kurosawa

The following table is a selected list of awards and honors given to the Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa.

Contents

Categories

The list represents three categories of film awards or honors:

For reasons of space, two categories of awards have been excluded from the table below:

Data

The information in the table is derived from the IMDb Akira Kurosawa awards page[1] and the IMDb awards pages for the individual films, supplemented by the filmography by Kurosawa’s biographer, Stuart Galbraith IV[2], unless otherwise noted.

Key: (NK) = Not known; (P) = Posthumous award

Table

Year of Award or Honor
(if known)		 Name of Award or Honor Awarding Organization
(if known)		 Country of
Origin		 Given for… Film Title
(if applicable)
(NK) Sadao Yamanaka Prize (NK) Japan Film Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
(NK) The National Incentive Film Prize
[Shared with Torii Kyouemon]		 (NK) Japan Film Sanshiro Sugata
1948 Mainichi Film Concours Mainichi Shimbun
(newspaper)		 Japan Directing One Wonderful Sunday (1947)
1949 Kinema Jumpo Award
(Critics' Award)		 Kinema Jumpo magazine Japan Film Drunken Angel (1948)
1949 Mainichi Film Concours Mainichi Shimbun Japan Film Drunken Angel
(NK) Geijutsusai (Arts Festival)
Grand Prize		 Ministry of Education Japan Film Stray Dog (1949)
1951 Blue Ribbon Award The Association of Tokyo
Film Journalists		 Japan Screenplay (with
Shinobu Hashimoto)		 Rashomon (1950)
1951 Golden Lion
(First prize)[note 1]		 Venice Film Festival Italy Film Rashomon
1951 NBR Award National Board of Review USA Film,
Directing		 Rashomon
1952 Honorary Award - Outstanding
Foreign Language Film[note 2]		 AMPAS
(Academy Award)		 USA Film Rashomon
1953 Kinema Jumpo Award Kinema Jumpo magazine Japan Film Ikiru (1952)
1953 Mainichi Film Concours Mainichi Shimbun Japan Film,
Screenplay (with
Shinobu Hashimoto
and Hideo Oguni)		 Ikiru
(NK) Arts Festival Ministry of Education Japan Film Ikiru
1954 Special Prize of the
Senate of Berlin		 Berlin Film Festival Germany Film Ikiru
1954 Silver Lion of St. Mark
(Second Prize)		 Venice Film Festival Italy Film Seven Samurai (1954)
1959 Diploma of Merit Jussi Award Finland Directing Seven Samurai
1959 Blue Ribbon Award The Association of Tokyo
Film Journalists		 Japan Film The Hidden Fortress (1958)
1959 Silver Berlin Bear Berlin Film Festival Germany Directing The Hidden Fortress
1959 FIPRESCI Prize The International Federation
of Film Critics
(Berlin Film Festival)		 Germany Film The Hidden Fortress
1961 Golden Laurel Award David O. Selznick USA Film Ikiru
1964 Mainichi Film Concours Mainichi Shimbun Japan Film,
Screenplay (with
Ryuzo Kikushima,
Eijiro Hisaita
and Hideo Oguni)		 High and Low (1963)
1964 Golden Laurel Award David O. Selznick USA Film High and Low
1965 Asahi Culture Prize Asahi Shimbun Japan Film Red Beard (1965)
1965 OCIC Award OCIC (later Signis)
(Venice Film Festival)		 Italy Directing Red Beard
(NK) Soviet Filmmakers'
Association Prize[3]		 Moscow Film Festival USSR Film Red Beard
(NK) Million Pearl Award Tokyo Roei Japan Film Red Beard
(NK) NHK Award NHK (broadcaster) Japan Film Red Beard
1966 Blue Ribbon Award The Association of Tokyo
Film Journalists		 Japan Film Red Beard
1966 Mainichi Film Concours Mainichi Shimbun Japan Film Red Beard
1966 Kinema Jumpo Award Kinema Jumpo magazine Japan Film
Directing		 Red Beard
(NK) Geijutsusai (Arts Festival)
Prize for Excellence[3]		 Ministry of Education Japan Film Dodesukaden
(aka, Dodeskaden) (1970)
1971 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (nomination)[4] Academy Awards US Film Dodesukaden
(aka, Dodeskaden) (1970)
1975 Golden Prize Moscow Film Festival USSR Film Dersu Uzala (1975)
1975 FIPRESCI Prize The International Federation
of Film Critics
(Moscow Film Festival)		 USSR Film Dersu Uzala
1976 Best Foreign Language Film AMPAS
(Academy Awards)		 USA Film Dersu Uzala
1777 David David di Donatello Awards Italy Directing Dersu Uzala
1977 Silver Ribbon Italian National Syndicate
of Film Journalists		 Italy Film Dersu Uzala
1978 Prix Léon Moussinac Syndicate of French
Film Critics		 France Film Dersu Uzala
1978 Golden Halo Southern California Motion
Picture Council		 USA Film Dersu Uzala
1979 Honorary Prize Moscow Film Festival USSR Career -
1980 Palme d'Or
(First Prize)		 Cannes Film Festival France Film Kagemusha (1980)
1980 Hochi Film Award Hochi Shimbun
(newspaper)		 Japan Film Kagemusha
1981 Blue Ribbon Award The Association of Tokyo
Film Journalists		 Japan Film Kagemusha
1981 Mainichi Film Concours Mainichi Shimbun Japan Film,
Directing		 Kagemusha
1981 Reader's Choice Award Mainichi Shimbun Japan Film Kagemusha
1981 César César Awards France Film Kagemusha
1981 David David di Donatello Awards Italy Directing Kagemusha
1981 BAFTA Film Award BAFTA UK Directing Kagemusha
1981 Silver Ribbon Italian National Syndicate
of Film Journalists		 Italy Directing Kagemusha
1982 Career Golden Lion Venice Film Festival Italy Career -
1985 LAFCA Award Los Angeles Film
Critics Association		 USA Film,
Career		 Ran (1985)
1985 NBR Award National Board of Review USA Film,
Directing		 Ran
1985 OCIC Award OCIC (later Signis)
(San Sebastián Film Festival)		 Spain Film Ran
1985 BSFC Award Boston Society of Film Critics USA Film Ran
1985 NYFCC Award New York Film Critics Circle USA Film Ran
1986 NSFC Award National Society of Film Critics USA Film Ran
1986 Amanda Norwegian International Film Festival Norway Film Ran
1986 Blue Ribbon Award The Association of Tokyo
Film Journalists		 Japan Film Ran
1986 Bodil Bodil Awards Denmark Film Ran
1986 David David di Donatello Awards Italy Film Ran
1986 Mainichi Film Concours Mainichi Shimbun Japan Film,
Directing		 Ran
1986 Golden Jubilee Award Directors Guild of America USA Career -
1986 Akira Kurosawa Award San Francisco International
Film Festival		 USA Career -
1987 BAFTA Film Award BAFTA UK Film Ran
1987 ALFS Award London Film Critics' Circle UK Film,
Directing		 Ran
1989 Lifetime Achievement Award AMPAS
(Academy Awards)		 USA Career -
1992 Lifetime Achievement Award Directors Guild of America USA Career -
1998 Special Award
(for his work) (P)		 Nikkan Sports Film Award Japan Career -
1999 Lifetime Achievement Award (P) Awards of the Japanese Academy Japan Career -
1999 Blue Ribbon Award
Special Award
(for his work) (P)		 The Association of Tokyo
Film Journalists		 Japan Career -
1999 Mainichi Film Concours
Special Award
(for his work) (P)		 Mainichi Shimbun Japan Career -
1999 Asian of the Century Award
(Arts, Literature and Culture) (P)		 CNN
AsianWeek (US)		 USA Career -

References

Notes

  1. ^ First major international film prize won by a Japanese production.
  2. ^ During this period, the Academy's foreign film award was given as an honorary award, non-competitively. It would become a competitive, annual award several years later.

Citations

  1. ^ "Akira Kurosawa - Awards". http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000041/awards. Retrieved 2010-08-27. 
  2. ^ Galbraith, pp. 651–751
  3. ^ a b Bock, p. 187
  4. ^ "The 44th Academy Awards (1972) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/44th-winners.html. Retrieved 2011-11-27. 

Sources

  • Bock, Audie (1978). Japanese Film Directors. Tokyo, New York & San Francisco: Kodansha International Ltd.. ISBN 0870113046. 
  • Galbraith IV, Stuart (2002). The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune. New York-London: Faber and Faber, Inc. ISBN 0571199828. 
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