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The Last Samurai
2003
· Movie
· 154 min
B
MEANRANK
75/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1385
- IMDb #529
- Google retired #117
- Rotten Tomatoes #2098
- Metacritic #1827
- Letterboxd #1109
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3033
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1295
- Metacritic Critics #2891
- Metacritic Audience #320
- Criticker #1513
- Douban #726
- Kinopoisk #176
- AlloCiné #816
- Trakt #430
Every rating
51–96
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 51, highest is Google on 96. Critics average 60, everyone else 78.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A traumatized American military officer is hired by the Emperor of Japan to train a modern army in the use of firearms. He is captured in battle by the very samurai he was sent to destroy. Living among them, he learns their culture and code of honor, finding a sense of peace he thought he had lost and becoming conflicted in his loyalties.
Details
- Director
- Edward Zwick
- Writers
- Edward Zwick, John Logan, Marshall Herskovitz
- Released
- 5 December 2003
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Japanese, Spanish, Danish
- Runtime
- 154 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $140.0M
- Box office
- $456.8M
- Awards
- 19 wins, 34 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| Academy Awards 2004 | Best Supporting Actor | Ken Watanabe | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 2004 | Best Production Design | Lilly Kilvert and Gretchen Rau | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 2004 | Best Costume Design | Ngila Dickson | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 2004 | Best Sound | Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Jeff Wexler | Nominee |
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2004 | Best Picture | The Last Samurai | Nominee |
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2004 | Best Score | Hans Zimmer | Nominee |
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2004 | Best Supporting Actor | Ken Watanabe | Nominee |
| Golden Globe Awards 2004 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama | Tom Cruise | Nominee |
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Academy Awards
4 nominations
| Best Costume Design | Ngila Dickson | Nominee |
| Best Production Design | Lilly Kilvert and Gretchen Rau | Nominee |
| Best Sound | Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Jeff Wexler | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor | Ken Watanabe | Nominee |
Critics' Choice Movie Awards
3 nominations
| Best Picture | The Last Samurai | Nominee |
| Best Score | Hans Zimmer | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor | Ken Watanabe | Nominee |
Golden Globe Awards
3 nominations
| Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama | Tom Cruise | Nominee |
| Best Original Score | Hans Zimmer | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture | Ken Watanabe | Nominee |
Producers Guild of America Awards
1 nomination
| Best Theatrical Motion Picture | The Last Samurai | Nominee |
Screen Actors Guild Awards
1 nomination
| Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role | Ken Watanabe | Nominee |
Satellite Awards
10 nominations, 4 won
| Best Cinematography | John Toll | Winner |
| Best Costume Design | Ngila Dickson | Winner |
| Best Editing | Victor Du Bois and Steven Rosenblum | Winner |
| Best Original Score | Hans Zimmer | Winner |
| Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama | Tom Cruise | Nominee |
| Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Drama | Ken Watanabe | Nominee |
| Best Art Direction and Production Design | Lilly Kilvert and Gretchen Rau | Nominee |
| Best Motion Picture, Drama | The Last Samurai | Nominee |
| Best Sound | Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Jeff Wexler | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | The Last Samurai | Nominee |
National Board of Review Award
2 nominations, 2 won
| Best Director | Edward Zwick | Winner |
| Top Ten Films | The Last Samurai | Winner |
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards
2 nominations, 1 won
| Top 10 Films | The Last Samurai | Winner |
| Best Supporting Actor | Ken Watanabe | Nominee |
Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild Award
2 nominations, 1 won
| Best Period Hair Styling - Feature | Janice Alexander, Terry Baliel, Karen Asano-Myers, Carol Pershing and Kimberley Spiteri | Winner |
| Best Period Makeup - Feature | Lois Burwell, Margaret E. Elliott and Tina Harrelson | Nominee |
ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Top Box Office Films | Hans Zimmer | Winner |
All Def Movie Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Most Out of Place White Person in a Movie | Tom Cruise | Winner |
American Film Institute Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| AFI Movies of the Year | The Last Samurai | Winner |
Blue Ribbon Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Special Award | Ken Watanabe | Winner |
EMMA Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Film Actor | Tom Cruise | Winner |
Japan Academy Film Prize
1 nomination, 1 won
| Outstanding Foreign Language Film | The Last Samurai | Winner |
MTV Movie Awards Mexico
1 nomination, 1 won
| Most Funniest "Gringo" in Japan | Tom Cruise | Winner |
Nikkan Sports Film Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Foreign Film | The Last Samurai | Winner |
Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Most Overrated Movie | The Last Samurai | Winner |
Taurus World Stunt Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Fire | The Last Samurai | Winner |
Visual Effects Society Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Feature Motion Picture | Jeffrey A. Okun, Thomas Boland, Bill Mesa and Ray McIntyre Jr. | Winner |
Saturn Awards
5 nominations
| Best Action or Adventure Film | The Last Samurai | Nominee |
| Best Actor | Tom Cruise | Nominee |
| Best Director | Edward Zwick | Nominee |
| Best Performance by a Younger Actor | Sosuke Ikematsu | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor | Ken Watanabe | Nominee |
Golden Reel Awards
2 nominations
| Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Dialogue and ADR for Feature Film | Mark Stoeckinger, Kerry Dean Williams, Laura Harris Atkinson, Anna MacKenzie, Kelly Oxford, Michelle Pazer and David A. Cohen | Nominee |
| Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley for Feature Film | Mark Stoeckinger, Michael Kamper, Jon Title, Craig S. Jaeger, Christopher Assells, Dino Dimuro, Alan Rankin, Bruce Tanis, Ben Wilkins, Bob Beher and Frank Smathers | Nominee |
Online Film Critics Society Awards
2 nominations
| Best Cinematography | John Toll | Nominee |
| Best Original Score | Hans Zimmer | Nominee |
ADG Excellence in Production Design Awards
1 nomination
| Excellence in Production Design for a Period Film | Lilly Kilvert, Christopher Burian-Mohr, Jess Gonchor, Kim Sinclair, Tristan Paris Bourne, Martha Johnston, Elizabeth Flaherty, Harry E. Otto and John Berger | Nominee |
American Society of Cinematographers Awards
1 nomination
| Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases | John Toll | Nominee |
Cinema Audio Society Awards
1 nomination
| Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Motion Pictures | Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Jeff Wexler | Nominee |
Costume Designers Guild Award
1 nomination
| Excellence in Period/Fantasy Film | Ngila Dickson | Nominee |
MTV Movie & TV Awards
1 nomination
| Best Actor in a Movie | Tom Cruise | Nominee |