Ken Watanabe - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	21-October-1959
Place of Birth	Koide (Japan)
Nationality	Japan
Also know as	Watanabe Ken, Kensaku Watanabe, Kensaku Watanabe, Ken, æ¸¡è¾º è¬™
Profession	Actor
Ken Watanabe is a Japanese stage, film, and television actor. To English-speaking audiences, he is known for playing tragic hero characters, such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima and Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu in The Last Samurai, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Among other awards, he has won the Japan Academy Prize for Best Actor twice, in 2007 for Memories of Tomorrow and in 2010 for Shizumanu TaiyÅ. He is also known for his roles in director Christopher Nolan's Hollywood films Batman Begins and Inception. He is also set to star in the 2014 reboot of Godzilla.

Awards by Ken Watanabe

Check all the awards nominated and won by Ken Watanabe.

2014

Nominations 2014 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role	Unforgiven

2010

Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

Honored for : The Unbroken

Nominations 2010 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role	The Unbroken

2007

Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

Honored for : Memories of Tomorrow

Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role	Memories of Tomorrow

2006

Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Asian Film Award for Best Actor	Memories of Tomorrow Japan

2004

Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role	The Last Samurai Role: Katsumoto
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture	The Last Samurai role: Katsumoto
Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Drama	The Last Samurai

2003

Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role	The Last Samurai Role: Katsumoto
Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role	Hi wa mata noboru
Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor	The Last Samurai

2002

Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role	Sennen no Koi Story of Genji

1999

Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role	Kizuna

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