5 Nominations

Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa (born in Tokyo, Japan, March 23, 1910, died September 6, 1998) is the master filmmaker who directed Japanese films like Rashomon (1950), Seven Samurai (1954), Throne of Blood (1957), The Hidden Fortress (1958), Yojimbo (1961), High and Low (1963). Sixteen of his movies starred Toshiro Mifune, from Drunken Angel (1948) to Red Beard (1965). Later he directed Kagemusha (Shadow Warrior, 1980), Ran (1985), Dreams (1990) with Martin Scorsese playing Vincent Van Gogh, Rhapsody in August (1991).

Read Kurosawa’s Autobiography: Something Like An Autobiography”, by Jean-Paul Chaillet.

Lee en español Kurosawa: Autobiografia (o algo parecido), por Jean-Paul Chaillet y Paz Mata.

Golden Globe Awards

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  1991 Nominee
  Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language
  • Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
  • Japan
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  1986 Nominee
  Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language
  • Ran
  • Japan
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  1981 Nominee
  Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language
  • Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior)
  • Japan
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  1966 Nominee
  Foreign Film - Foreign Language
  • Red Beard
  • Japan
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  1964 Nominee
  Foreign Film - Foreign Language
  • High And Low
  • Japan