Yorgos Lanthimos

Known for DirectingBorn 1973-09-23 (age 52)Athens, Greece

Yorgos Lanthimos (Greek: Γιώργος Λάνθιμος, born 23 September 1973) is a Greek filmmaker. He has received multiple accolades, including a BAFTA Award and a Golden Lion, as well as nominations for five Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. Lanthimos started his career in experimental theatre before making his directorial film debut with the sex comedy My Best Friend (2001). He rose to prominence by directing the psychological drama film Dogtooth (2009), which won the Un Certain Regard prize at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Lanthimos transitioned to making English-language films with the black comedy The Lobster (2015), which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, and the psychological thriller The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017). He collaborated with actress Emma Stone in the period black comedies The Favourite (2018) and Poor Things (2023) and the anthology film Kinds of Kindness (2024). He received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture for The Favourite and Poor Things, in addition to winning the Golden Lion for the latter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yorgos Lanthimos, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

The Birth and the Bees: The Making of Bugonia

An Impossible Conundrum

Poor Things

The Favourite

Bugonia

September Says

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

The Lobster

Dogtooth

Nimic

Kinds of Kindness

The Oscars

Pity

Alps

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Attenberg

In Fabric

Chevalier

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

Winona

My Best Friend

Kinetta

The Rape of Chloe

Bleat

Directors on Directors

Square

The Last Fakir

Uranisco Disco

Fatale