List_of_awards_and_honors_given_to_Akira_Kurosawa

List of awards and honors bestowed upon Akira Kurosawa

List of awards and honors bestowed upon Akira Kurosawa

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

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

Categories

The list represents three categories of film awards or honors:

  • Best Film awards given to a Kurosawa-directed film, whether Kurosawa directly received the award or not (including "Foreign Film" awards);
  • Best Director or Best Screenplay awards to Kurosawa for a Kurosawa-directed film;
  • Career achievement awards.

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

More information Year of Award or Honor (if known), Name of Award or Honor ...

State and National Awards

More information Year of Award, Name of Award ...

References

Notes

  1. [N 1]
    First major international film prize won by a Japanese production.
  2. [N 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. [N 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

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    "Akira Kurosawa - Awards". Retrieved 2010-08-27.
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    Galbraith, pp. 651–751
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    Kurosawa, Akira (2008). Akira Kurosawa Interviews. ISBN 9781578069972.
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    "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter K" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved July 25, 2014.
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    Bock, p. 187
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    "9th Moscow International Film Festival (1975)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-01-16. Retrieved 2013-01-04.
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    "11th Moscow International Film Festival (1979)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2014-04-03. Retrieved 2013-01-20.
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    "黒澤明". praemiumimperiale.org.
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    "Kurosawa Sig. Akira". Presidenza della Repubblica. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
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    "Film Director Akira Kurosawa Awarded Legion D'honneur". Asahi Shimbun. Getty Images. 7 May 1984.
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    "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.
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    "Kurosawa : un monument du cinéma mondial". Le Télégramme. 7 September 1998.
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    "Kurosawa Akira". Presidenza della Repubblica. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
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    "国民栄誉賞 受賞者一覧". nippon.com. 5 April 2019.

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