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He has directed one film that has been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Drive My Car (2021). It was the first Japanese film to be nominated for Best Picture.

He becomes the third Japanese filmmaker to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director after his nomination for Drive My Car (2021). The other two are Hiroshi Teshigahara for Woman in the Dunes (1964) and Akira Kurosawa for Ran (1985).