FILM DIRECTOR

Nikita Mikhalkov

1945 - Today

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Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov (Russian: Никита Сергеевич Михалков; born 21 October 1945) is a Soviet and 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikita Mikhalkov has received more than 778,162 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Nikita Mikhalkov is the 131st most popular film director (up from 173rd in 2019), the 269th most popular biography from Russia (up from 343rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Russian Film Director.

Nikita Mikhalkov is a Russian filmmaker who is most famous for his films Burnt by the Sun and The Barber of Siberia.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Nikita Mikhalkov ranks 131 out of 2,041. Before him are Claude Lelouch, René Clément, Michael Curtiz, Peter Weir, William Hanna, and George A. Romero. After him are Wong Kar-wai, Giuseppe Tornatore, Lasse Hallström, Erich von Stroheim, Lewis Milestone, and Jacques Demy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Nikita Mikhalkov ranks 51. Before him are Anton Zeilinger, Roger Glover, Ram Nath Kovind, Linda Hunt, Dési Bouterse, and Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta. After him are Bryan Ferry, Steve Martin, Keith Jarrett, José Feliciano, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, and Laurent Gbagbo.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikita Mikhalkov ranks 269 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolai Yudenich (1862), Mykola Azarov (1947), Natalia Goncharova (1881), Vitaly Ginzburg (1916), Alexander Litvinenko (1962), and Patriarch Nikon of Moscow (1605). After him are Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855), Yermak Timofeyevich (1532), Lyudmila Putina (1958), Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (1895), Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856), and Viktor Chernomyrdin (1938).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Russia

Among film directors born in Russia, Nikita Mikhalkov ranks 3. Before him are Andrei Tarkovsky (1932), and Konstantin Stanislavski (1863). After him are Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874), Andrei Konchalovsky (1937), Genndy Tartakovsky (1970), Lev Kuleshov (1899), Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893), Leonid Gaidai (1923), Elem Klimov (1933), Eldar Ryazanov (1927), and Ladislas Starevich (1882).

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