- Blue Ribbon Awards (1951) – Best Screenplay: Akira Kurosawa and Shinobu Hashimoto
- Mainichi Film Concours (1951) – Best Actress: Machiko Kyō
- Venice Film Festival (1951) – Golden Lion: Akira Kurosawa
- National Board of Review USA (1951) – Best Director: Akira Kurosawa and Best Foreign Film: Japan
- 24th Academy Awards, USA (1952) – Honorary Award for "most outstanding foreign language film"
Top lists
The film appeared on many critics' top lists of the best films.
- 5th – Top ten list in 1950, Kinema Junpo
- 10th – Directors' Top Ten Poll in 1992, Sight & Sound[46]
- 10th - 100 Greatest Films list in 2000 The Village Voice[47]
- 76th - "Top 100 Essential Films of All Time" by the National Society of Film Critics in 2002.[48][49]
- 9th – Directors' Top Ten Poll in 2002, Sight & Sound[50]
- 13th - Critics' poll in 2002, Sight & Sound[51][52]
- 290th – The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time in 2008, Empire[53]
- 50 Klassiker, Film by Nicolaus Schröder in 2002[54]
- 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider in 2003[55]
- 7th – Kinema Junpo's The Greatest Japanese Films of All Time in 2009.[56]
- 22nd – Empire's "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010.[57]
- 26th - Critics top ten poll, 100 Greatest Films of All Time, Sight & Sound (2012)
- 18th - Director's top ten poll, 100 Greatest Films of All Time, Sight & Sound (2012)
- Woody Allen included it among his top ten films.[58]
- 4th - BBC's list of "100 greatest foreign language films" in 2018.[59]
