Best Director1986 Film Fan Awards58th Academy Awards
Best Director Nominee
Ran (1985)
Nominated Talent & Credits
Akira Kurosawa— Akira Kurosawa
Synopsis / Overview
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.
Historical Academy Record
DIRECTING — 58th Academy Awards (1986)
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