1968Nominee
Best Director
Destroy All Monsters
Ishirō Honda
Actor · Director · Producer · Writer
Yamagata, Japan
May 5, 1911
Biography
Ishirō Honda (Honda Ishirō), sometimes miscredited in foreign releases as "Inoshiro Honda", (May 7, 1911, in Yamagata Prefecture – February 28, 1993) was a Japanese film director. His early film career included working as an assistant under the famed director Akira Kurosawa. Alongside his film duties, he was drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II in China and was a prisoner there when the war ended. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ishirō Honda, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1985Winner
Best Director
Ran
1954Winner
Best Performance
Godzilla
Career Highlights
1965Highlight
Best Director
Invasion of Astro-Monster
1980Highlight
Best Director
Kagemusha
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Destroy All Monsters
Ran
Godzilla