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FILM DIRECTOR

Nikita Mikhalkov

1945 - Today

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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikita Mikhalkov has received more than 696,243 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Nikita Mikhalkov is the 173rd most popular film director (down from 162nd in 2019), the 344th most popular biography from Russia (down from 313th in 2019) and the 5th 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 173 out of 1,581Before him are Alexander Dovzhenko, Jonathan Demme, Kathryn Bigelow, Bille August, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Jesús Franco. After him are Claude Lanzmann, Robert Aldrich, Peter Weir, Don Siegel, G. W. Pabst, and Guy Ritchie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Nikita Mikhalkov ranks 56Before him are Richard Thaler, John McAfee, Keith Jarrett, José Feliciano, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, and Ernie Hudson. After him are Carmen Maura, Bryan Ferry, Joël Robuchon, Phil Jackson, Dirk Benedict, and Bubba Smith.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikita Mikhalkov ranks 344 out of 3,262Before him are Vasily Vereshchagin (1842), Prince Paul of Yugoslavia (1893), Anatoly Sobchak (1937), Nikolai Kuznetsov (1904), Sergey Brin (1973), and Aleksandr Lyapunov (1857). After him are Valentin Serov (1865), Eugen Sandow (1867), Naum Gabo (1890), Nikolai Rubinstein (1835), Karl Bryullov (1799), and Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Russia

Among film directors born in Russia, Nikita Mikhalkov ranks 5Before him are Andrei Tarkovsky (1932), Konstantin Stanislavski (1863), Andrei Konchalovsky (1937), and Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874). After him are Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893), Lev Kuleshov (1899), Leonid Gaidai (1923), Eldar Ryazanov (1927), Elem Klimov (1933), Ladislas Starevich (1882), and Yuri Norstein (1941).

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