Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981), the American comedy film Galaxy Quest (1999), and the 2016 remake of The Magnificent Seven. Awards and nominations Venice Film Festival (1954) Winner - Silver Lion - Akira Kurosawa Nominated - Golden Lion - Akira Kurosawa Mainichi Film Award (1955) Winner - Best Supporting Actor - Seiji Miyaguchi British Academy Film Awards (1956) Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Film Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor - Toshiro Mifune Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor - Takashi Shimura Academy Awards (1957) Nominated - Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White - So Matsuyama Nominated - Best Costume Design, Black-and-White - Kohei Ezaki Jussi Awards (1959) Winner - Best Foreign Director - Akira Kurosawa Winner''' - Best Foreign Actor - Takashi Shimura See also List of films considered the best List of historical drama films of Asia Edo no Gekitou'' a 1979 Japanese jidaigeki drama inspired by the film and produced by Toho List of films with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a film review aggregator website Notes References External links A Time of Honor: Seven Samurai and Sixteenth-Century Japan an essay by Philip Kemp at the Criterion Collection The Hours and Times: Kurosawa and the Art of Epic Storytelling an essay by Kenneth Turan at the Criterion Collection 1954 films Japanese black-and-white films Films scored by Fumio Hayasaka Films directed by Akira Kurosawa Films produced by Sōjirō Motoki Films set in feudal Japan Films set in the 1580s Japanese epic films 1950s Japanese-language films Jidaigeki films Samurai films Films with screenplays by Akira Kurosawa Films with screenplays by Hideo Oguni Films with screenplays by Shinobu Hashimoto Sengoku period in fiction Siege films Toho films Historical epic films Japanese action drama films 1954 drama films 1950s Japanese films