2010Winner
Best Performance
Inception
Ken Watanabe
Actor · Producer
Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
October 21, 1959
Biography
Ken Watanabe (born October 21, 1959) is a Japanese stage, film, and television actor. To English-speaking audiences he is known for playing tragic hero characters, such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima and Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu in The Last Samurai, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Among other awards, he has won the Japan Academy Prize for Best Actor twice, in 2007 for Memories of Tomorrow and in 2010 for Shizumanu Taiyō. He is also known for his roles in director Christopher Nolan's Hollywood blockbusters Batman Begins and Inception.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2005Winner
Best Performance
Batman Begins
2003Winner
Best Performance
The Last Samurai
Career Highlights
2019Highlight
Best Performance
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2014Highlight
Best Performance
Transformers: Age of Extinction