The Big Picture: Ken Watanabe Career & Biographical Notes: Won Supporting Actor at Japanese Academy Awards for Kizuna Was only the fifth Asian to be nominated for a American Academy Award Still waiting for the other hundred pages from his Batman Begins script

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Ken Watanabe Trivia Quizzes
at HowWellDoYouKnow.com:

• Batman Begins
• Godzilla (2014)

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Recent Movies:

Film	Date	Rating	Screens	Opening	Total	Box Office
Inception	7/16/10	N/A
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant	10/23/09	N/A
Letters from Iwo Jima	12/20/06		5	0.12	13.66	Info
Memoirs of a Geisha	12/23/05	PG-13	8	0.68	56.48	Info
Batman Begins	6/15/05	PG-13	3858	48.75	205.09	Info
The Last Samurai	12/5/03	R	2908	24.27	111.11	Info

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Awards:

2003
The Last Samurai

• Runner-Up: Best Supporting Actor, Academy Awards
• Runner-Up: Best Supporting Actor - Drama, Golden Satellites
• Runner-Up: Best Supporting Actor, Washington (DC) Area Film Critics Association
• Runner-up: Best Supporting Actor, BOP's Calvin Awards
• Runner-Up: Best Supporting Actor, Broadcast Film Critics Association
• Runner-Up: Best Supporting Actor, Golden Globes
• Runner-Up: Best Supporting Actor, Screen Actors' Guild

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