Award for Best Original Score 1987 – The Last Emperor (won) 1990 – The Sheltering Sky (won) 1993 – Little Buddha (nominated) 2015 – The Revenant (nominated) Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media 1987 – The Last Emperor (won) 1995 – Little Buddha (nominated) 2015 – The Revenant (nominated) Other awards 1997 – Golden Nica, grand prize of Prix Ars Electronica, for Music Plays Images X Images Play Music MTV Breakthrough Video Award, for music video of "Risky" Discography Solo studio albums Thousand Knives (1978) B-2 Unit (1980) Left-Handed Dream (1981) Ongaku Zukan (1984) Esperanto (1985) Futurista (1986) Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia (1986) Neo Geo (1987) Beauty (1989) Heartbeat (1991) Sweet Revenge (1994) Smoochy (1995) 1996 (1996) Discord (1997) BTTB (1999) Comica (2002) Elephantism (2002) Chasm (2004) Out of Noise (2009) Playing the Piano (2009) Three (2013) Async (2017) 12 (2023) Notes References Further reading External links Commmons – Sakamoto's record label Raster-Noton 1952 births 20th-century classical composers 20th-century classical pianists 20th-century Japanese composers 20th-century Japanese male actors 20th-century Japanese male musicians 21st-century classical composers 21st-century classical pianists 21st-century Japanese composers 21st-century Japanese male actors 21st-century Japanese male musicians Anime composers Avex Group artists Avex Group people Best Original Music BAFTA Award winners Best Original Music Score Academy Award winners Composers for piano Electronic composers Golden Globe Award-winning musicians Grammy Award winners Intellectual property activism Island Records artists Japanese anti–nuclear power activists Japanese classical composers Japanese classical pianists Japanese contemporary artists Japanese contemporary classical composers Japanese dance musicians Japanese electro musicians Japanese electronic musicians Japanese film score composers Japanese house musicians Japanese keyboardists Japanese male classical composers Japanese male classical pianists Japanese male film actors Japanese male film score composers Japanese male television actors Japanese opera composers Japanese record producers Japanese techno musicians Japanese trance musicians Living people Male opera composers Musicians from Tokyo New-age composers New-age musicians Progressivism in Japan Samadhi Sound artists Tokyo University of the Arts alumni Video game composers Virgin Records artists Yellow Magic Orchestra members