The following table is a selected list of awards and honors given to the Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa.
For reasons of space, two categories of awards have been excluded from the table below:
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) |
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(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)[3] | Venice Film Festival | Italy | Film | Rashomon |
1951 | NBR Award | National Board of Review | USA | Film, Directing | Rashomon |
1952 | Honorary Award - Outstanding Foreign Language Film[4] | 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 | Foreign Honorary Member[5] | 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[6] | 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[6] | Ministry of Education | Japan | Film | Dodesukaden (aka, Dodeskaden) (1970) |
1975 | Golden Prize[7] | 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[8] | - |
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 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 | 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 |
1990 | Special Prize | Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize | Japan | Career |
1992 | theatre/film | Praemium Imperiale | 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 | - |
1. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000041/awards |title=Akira Kurosawa - Awards |accessdate=2010-08-27}}
2. ^{{Harvnb|Galbraith|pp=651–751}}
3. ^First major international film prize won by a Japanese production.
4. ^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.
5. ^{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter K|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterK.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|accessdate=July 25, 2014}}
6. ^1 {{Harvnb|Bock|p=187}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1975 |title=9th Moscow International Film Festival (1975) |accessdate=2013-01-04 |work=MIFF |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116194905/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1975 |archivedate=2013-01-16 |df= }}
8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1979 |title=11th Moscow International Film Festival (1979) |accessdate=2013-01-20 |work=MIFF |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140403102012/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1979 |archivedate=2014-04-03 |df= }}