Akira Kurosawa's handprint in cement in Cannes, France, home of the Cannes Film Festival.

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

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

Film Awards

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 West 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 West Germany Directing The Hidden Fortress
1959 FIPRESCI Prize The International Federation
of Film Critics
(Berlin Film Festival) 		West Germany Film The Hidden Fortress
1961 Golden Laurel Award [3] 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 Foreign Honorary Member[4] American Academy of Arts and Sciences USA Career
1965 Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts Ramon Magsaysay Award Philippines Career
1965 OCIC Award OCIC (later Signis)
(Venice Film Festival) 		Italy Directing Red Beard
(NK) Soviet Filmmakers'
Association Prize[5] 		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[5] 		Ministry of Education Japan Film Dodesukaden
(aka, Dodeskaden) (1970)
1975 Golden Prize[6] 9th Moscow International 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
1977 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 11th Moscow International Film Festival USSR Career[7] -
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 NFCC Award New York Film Critics Circle USA Film Ran
1986 NSFC Award National Society of Film Critics USA Film Ran
1986 Amanda Award 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 directing 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[note 3] 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
1990 Special Prize Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize Japan Career
1992 Lifetime Achievement Award Directors Guild of America USA Career
1994 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy Inamori Foundation Japan 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 -

State and National Awards

Year of Award Name of Award Native Name Country Notes
1976 Person of Cultural Merit 文化功労者 Japan Japan [8]
1981 Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic Grande Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana Italy Italy [9]
1984 Officer of the Legion of Honour Officier du Légion d'honneur France France [10]
1985 Order of Culture 文化勲章 Japan Japan [11]
Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters Commandeur du Ordre des Arts et des Lettres France France [12]
1986 Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic Cavaliere di Gran Croce Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana Italy Italy [13]
1992 Praemium Imperiale 高松宮殿下記念世界文化賞 Japan Japan [8]
1998 People's Honour Award 国民栄誉賞 Japan Japan (P)[14]
Junior Third Rank 従三位 Japan Japan (P)[14]

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.
  3. ^ SFIFF's directing award, named for its first recipient, Akira Kurosawa, from 1986-2003. The award has since been renamed the Irving M. Levin Directing Award, in honor of the festival's founder

Citations

  1. ^ "Akira Kurosawa - Awards". Retrieved 2010-08-27.
  2. ^ Galbraith, pp. 651–751
  3. ^ Kurosawa, Akira (2008). Akira Kurosawa Interviews. ISBN 9781578069972.
  4. ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter K" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved July 25, 2014.
  5. ^ a b Bock, p. 187
  6. ^ "9th Moscow International Film Festival (1975)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-01-16. Retrieved 2013-01-04.
  7. ^ "11th Moscow International Film Festival (1979)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2014-04-03. Retrieved 2013-01-20.
  8. ^ a b "黒澤明". praemiumimperiale.org.
  9. ^ "Kurosawa Sig. Akira". Presidenza della Repubblica. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  10. ^ "Film Director Akira Kurosawa Awarded Legion D'honneur". Asahi Shimbun. Getty Images. 7 May 1984.
  11. ^ "１９９８年、映画監督の黒沢明氏が脳卒中のため死去した。". Tokyo Web. 6 September 2019.
  12. ^ "Kurosawa : un monument du cinéma mondial". Le Télégramme. 7 September 1998.
  13. ^ "Kurosawa Akira". Presidenza della Repubblica. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  14. ^ a b "国民栄誉賞 受賞者一覧". nippon.com. 5 April 2019.

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