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Kôji Yakusho at an event for Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)

Awards

Kôji Yakusho

38 wins & 45 nominations

Asia-Pacific Film Festival

  • License to Live (1998)
    1999 Winner APFF Award
    • Best Supporting Actor
    • License to Live
  • The Eel (1997)
    1997 Winner APFF Award
    • Best Actor
    • The Eel

Critics Choice Awards

  • Babel (2006)
    2007 Nominee Critics Choice Award
    • Best Acting Ensemble
    • Babel
    Shared with: Brad Pitt · Cate Blanchett · Adriana Barraza · Rinko Kikuchi · Gael García Bernal

Cannes Film Festival

  • Kôji Yakusho in Perfect Days (2023)
    2023 Winner Best Actor
    • Perfect Days

Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival

  • Kôji Yakusho and Nana Komatsu in The World of Kanako (2014)
    2014 Winner Best Actor
    • The World of Kanako

Chicago International Film Festival

  • Under the Open Sky (2020)
    2020 Winner Silver Hugo
    • Best Performance
    • Under the Open Sky
  • Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001)
    2001 Winner Silver Hugo
    • Best Actor
    • Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

Gotham Awards

  • Babel (2006)
    2006 Winner Gotham Independent Film Award
    • Best Ensemble Performance
    • Babel
    Shared with: Brad Pitt · Cate Blanchett · Gael García Bernal · Adriana Barraza · Rinko Kikuchi · Said Tarchani · Boubker Ait El Caid

Hawaii International Film Festival

  • Kôji Yakusho at an event for Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
    2012 Winner Career Achievement Award

Hochi Film Awards

  • The Blood of Wolves (2018)
    2018 Winner Hochi Film Award
    • Best Actor
    • The Blood of Wolves
  • The Eel (1997)
    1997 Winner Hochi Film Award
    • Best Actor
    • The Eel
    • Lost Paradise
    • Cure
  • Shall We Dance? (1996)
    1996 Winner Hochi Film Award
    • Best Actor
    • Shall We Dance?
    • Sleeping Man
    • Shabu gokudo

Awards of the Japanese Academy

  • Kôji Yakusho in Perfect Days (2023)
    2024 Winner Award of the Japanese Academy
    • Best Actor
    • Perfect Days
  • Under the Open Sky (2020)
    2022 Nominee Award of the Japanese Academy
    • Best Actor
    • Under the Open Sky
  • The Blood of Wolves (2018)
    2019 Winner Award of the Japanese Academy
    • Best Actor
    • The Blood of Wolves
  • Masaharu Fukuyama, Kôji Yakusho, and Suzu Hirose in The Third Murder (2017)
    2018 Winner Award of the Japanese Academy
    • Best Supporting Actor
    • The Third Murder
  • Sekigahara (2017)
    2018 Nominee Award of the Japanese Academy
    • Best Supporting Actor
    • Sekigahara

Monte-Carlo TV Festival

  • Early Autumn (2011)
    2012 Nominee Golden Nymph
    • Television Films - Best Performance by an Actor
    • Early Autumn

Palm Springs International Film Festival

  • Babel (2006)
    2007 Winner Ensemble Cast Award
    • Babel
    Shared with: Brad Pitt · Cate Blanchett · Adriana Barraza · Rinko Kikuchi · Gael García Bernal · Said Tarchani · Boubker Ait El Caid

San Diego Film Critics Society Awards

  • Babel (2006)
    2006 Winner SDFCS Award
    • Best Ensemble Performance
    • Babel
    Shared with: Adriana Barraza · Cate Blanchett · Gael García Bernal · Rinko Kikuchi · Brad Pitt

Actors Awards

  • Babel (2006)
    2007 Nominee Actor
    • Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
    • Babel
    Shared with: Adriana Barraza · Cate Blanchett · Gael García Bernal · Rinko Kikuchi · Brad Pitt

Singapore International Film Festival

  • Kôji Yakusho at an event for Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
    2017 Winner Cinema Legend Award

Tokyo International Film Festival

  • Kôji Yakusho in Cure (1997)
    1997 Winner Best Actor Award
    • Cure

Toronto Film Critics Association Awards

  • Kôji Yakusho in Perfect Days (2023)
    2023 Nominee TFCA Award
    • Outstanding Lead Performance
    • Perfect Days

Sant Jordi Awards

  • Kôji Yakusho in Perfect Days (2023)
    2025 Winner Sant Jordi
    • Best Actor in a Foreign Film (Millor actor en pel·lícula estrangera)
    • Perfect Days

Kinema Junpo Awards

  • The Eel (1997)
    1998 Winner Kinema Junpo Award
    • Best Actor
    • The Eel
    • Lost Paradise
  • Shall We Dance? (1996)
    1997 Winner Kinema Junpo Award
    • Best Actor
    • Shall We Dance?
    • Sleeping Man
    • Shabu gokudo

Mainichi Film Concours

  • Shall We Dance? (1996)
    1997 Winner Mainichi Film Concours
    • Best Actor
    • Shall We Dance?
    • Sleeping Man
    • Shabu gokudo
  • Kamikaze Taxi (1995)
    1996 Winner Mainichi Film Concours
    • Best Actor
    • Kamikaze Taxi

Blue Ribbon Awards

  • The Eel (1997)
    1998 Winner Blue Ribbon Award
    • Best Actor
    • The Eel
    • Lost Paradise
    • Cure
  • Shall We Dance? (1996)
    1997 Winner Blue Ribbon Award
    • Best Actor
    • Shall We Dance?
    • Sleeping Man
    • Shabu gokudo

Chlotrudis Awards

  • Kôji Yakusho in Perfect Days (2023)
    2025 Nominee Chlotrudis Award
    • Best Performance in a Lead Role
    • Perfect Days
  • Shall We Dance? (1996)
    1998 Nominee Chlotrudis Award
    • Best Actor
    • Shall We Dance?

Yokohama Film Festival

  • Yudan taiteki (2004)
    2005 Winner Festival Prize
    • Best Actor
    • Yudan taiteki
    • Tokyo: Level One
    • University of Laughs
  • Shall We Dance? (1996)
    1997 Winner Festival Prize
    • Best Actor
    • Shall We Dance?
    • Sleeping Man
    • Shabu gokudo

Nikkan Sports Film Awards

  • The Blood of Wolves (2018)
    2018 Nominee Nikkan Sports Film Award
    • Best Actor
    • The Blood of Wolves
  • Shall We Dance? (1996)
    1996 Winner Nikkan Sports Film Award
    • Best Actor
    • Shall We Dance?
    • Sleeping Man
    • Shabu gokudo

Asian Film Awards

  • Kôji Yakusho in Perfect Days (2023)
    2024 Winner Asian Film Award
    • Best Actor
    • Perfect Days
  • Under the Open Sky (2020)
    2021 Nominee Asian Film Award
    • Best Actor
    • Under the Open Sky
  • The Blood of Wolves (2018)
    2019 Winner Asian Film Award
    • Best Actor
    • The Blood of Wolves
  • Kôji Yakusho at an event for Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
    2019 Winner Excellence in Asian Cinema Award
  • Chronicle of My Mother (2011)
    2012 Nominee Asian Film Award
    • Best Actor
    • Chronicle of My Mother

Dubai International Film Festival

  • The Woodsman and the Rain (2011)
    2011 Winner Muhr AsiaAfrica Award
    • Best Actor - Feature
    • The Woodsman and the Rain

Asia Pacific Screen Awards

  • Kôji Yakusho in Perfect Days (2023)
    2023 Nominee Asia Pacific Screen Award
    • Best Performance
    • Perfect Days
  • Masaharu Fukuyama, Kôji Yakusho, and Suzu Hirose in The Third Murder (2017)
    2017 Nominee Asia Pacific Screen Award
    • Best Performance by an Actor
    • The Third Murder

International Cinephile Society Awards

  • Kôji Yakusho in Perfect Days (2023)
    2024 Nominee ICS Award
    • Best Actor
    • Perfect Days

Asian Film Critics Association Awards

  • The Blood of Wolves (2018)
    2019 Winner NETPAC Award
    • Best Actor
    • The Blood of Wolves
  • Masaharu Fukuyama, Kôji Yakusho, and Suzu Hirose in The Third Murder (2017)
    2018 Nominee NETPAC Award
    • Best Supporting Actor
    • The Third Murder
  • The Emperor in August (2015)
    2016 Winner NETPAC Award
    • Best Actor
    • The Emperor in August
  • Jun'ichi Okada, Kôji Yakusho, Maki Horikita, and Mieko Harada in A Samurai Chronicle (2014)
    2015 Nominee NETPAC Award
    • Best Actor
    • A Samurai Chronicle
  • Chronicle of My Mother (2011)
    2013 Nominee NETPAC Award
    • Best Actor
    • Chronicle of My Mother

Awards Circuit Community Awards

  • Babel (2006)
    2006 Nominee ACCA
    • Best Cast Ensemble
    • Babel
    Shared with: Brad Pitt · Cate Blanchett · Adriana Barraza · Rinko Kikuchi · Gael García Bernal

Indiewire Critics' Poll

  • Kôji Yakusho in Perfect Days (2023)
    2023 Nominee ICP Award
    • Best Performance
    • Perfect Days
    Tied with Glenn Howerton for BlackBerry (2023), Benoît Magimel for Pacifiction (2022), and Franz Rogowski for Passages (2023) in 10th place

Gold Derby Awards

  • Babel (2006)
    2007 Nominee Gold Derby Film Award
    • Ensemble Cast
    • Babel
    Shared with: Adriana Barraza · Cate Blanchett · Gael García Bernal · Rinko Kikuchi · Brad Pitt

Nippon Connection Japanese Film Festival

  • Kôji Yakusho at an event for Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
    2017 Winner Nippon Honor Award

Online Association of Female Film Critics

  • Kôji Yakusho in Perfect Days (2023)
    2023 Nominee OAFFC Award
    • Best Male Lead
    • Perfect Days

Seattle Film Critics Society

  • Kôji Yakusho in Perfect Days (2023)
    2024 Nominee SFCS Award
    • Best Lead Actor
    • Perfect Days

Astra Film Awards

  • Kôji Yakusho in Perfect Days (2023)
    2024 Nominee Astra Award
    • Best International Actor
    • Perfect Days

Golden Panda Awards

  • Kôji Yakusho in Perfect Days (2023)
    2025 Nominee Golden Panda Award
    • Best Actor in a Leading Role for a Motion Picture
    • Perfect Days

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