SHORT TAKES : Kurosawa to Get Honorary Oscar

Akira Kurosawa, 79-year-old Japanese director of such films as “Rashomon” and “Seven Samurai,” will receive an honorary Oscar award at the presentations March 26, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Monday.

“The award will be presented to Kurosawa for his cinematic accomplishments that have inspired, delighted, enriched and entertained worldwide audiences and influenced filmmakers throughout the world,” the academy, which presents the awards, said.

Kurosawa, whose 1951 production of “Rashomon” won an Oscar for best foreign language film, is also a film producer and scriptwriter.

His 1975 film “Dersu Uzala,” submitted by the Soviet Union, also won an Oscar for best foreign language film, making him the only director to win that category for two countries. He was nominated as best director in 1985 for “Ran.”