Nikita Mikhalkov

Known for DirectingBorn 1945-10-21 (age 80)Moscow, RSFSR, USSR (now Russia)

Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov (Russian: Никита Сергеевич Михалков; born 21 October 1945; Moscow) is a Russian filmmaker, actor, and head of the Russian Cinematographers' Union. Mikhalkov is a three-time laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1993, 1995, 1999) and is a Full Cavalier of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland". Nikita Mikhalkov won the Golden Lion of the Venice Film Festival (1991) and was nominated for the Academy Award (1993) in the category Best International Feature Film for the film Close to Eden. He won an Academy Award (1995) for Best Foreign Language Film and the Grand Prix of the Cannes Film Festival (1994) for the film Burnt by the Sun. Mikhalkov received the "Special Lion" of the Venice Film Festival (2007) for his contribution to the cinematography and nominated for an Academy Award for the film 12 (2007). Mikhalkov was born in Moscow into the noble and distinguished Mikhalkov family. His great-grandfather was the imperial governor of Yaroslavl, whose mother was a princess of the House of Golitsyn. Nikita's father, Sergey Mikhalkov, was best known as writer of children's literature, although he also wrote lyrics to his country's national anthem on three occasions spanning nearly 60 years – two sets of lyrics used for the Soviet national anthem, and the current lyrics of the Russian national anthem. Mikhalkov's mother, poet Natalia Konchalovskaya, was the daughter of the avant-garde artist Pyotr Konchalovsky and granddaughter of another outstanding painter, Vasily Surikov. Nikita's older brother is the filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsky, primarily known for his collaboration with Andrei Tarkovsky and his own Hollywood action films, such as Runaway Train and Tango & Cash.Read more

Movies & web series

A Sentimental Trip to My Homeland. Music of Russian Painting

250 Grammes – A Radioactive Testament

Belief, Hope and Blood

Hatred

Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes

The Artist's Adventures

Fire

Beautiful Stranger

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles

Silver Skates

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

Two Voices

The Wizard of the Emerald City, Part I

Tzadik

T-34

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 2

Fuse

Memories of Sherlock Holmes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 1

Station for Two

Ruthless Romance

The Barber of Siberia

Big Difference

The Turkish Gambit

Flight Crew

Without Witness

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles

Stop

Kraken

Three Seconds

Siberiade

To Remember

Legend No. 17

Burnt by the Sun

Walking the Streets of Moscow

Not Like Dad 2: Granddad

The Coach

Dead Man's Bluff

An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano

Couple From The Future

Azazel

The Song of Manshuk

…And I'm Going Home

12

The Red and the White

A Joke

Year as Long as Life

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