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Nikita Mikhalkov

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Biography

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.

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Known for

To Remember

as Narrator

Big Difference

as Self/Guest

The School for Scandal

2002

Full filmography

  • Fuse (1962)
  • To Remember (1993) as Narrator
  • Big Difference (2008) as Self/Guest
  • The School for Scandal (2002)
  • Projectorparishilton (2008)
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1980) as Sir Henry Baskerville
  • The State Counsellor (2005) as Gleb Georgievich Pozharskiy
  • Memories of Sherlock Holmes (2000) as Sir Henry Baskerville
  • Legends of Cinema (2016) as Self
  • Legends of Cinema (2016) as Self (archive footage)
  • The Artist's Adventures (2016) as Self
  • После школы (2012) as cameo
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1981) as Sir Henry Baskerville
  • Burnt by the Sun 2 (2011) as Сергей Петрович Котов - бывший комдив
  • Siberiade (1979) as Aleksei Ustyuzhanin
  • Dead Man's Bluff (2005) as Сергей Михайлович (Михалыч)
  • The Barber of Siberia (1998) as Imperator Aleksandr III
  • Quiet Flows The Don (2006) as narrator (voice)
  • Plankton Salesmen (2017) as Self (archive footage)
  • 12 (2007) as juror #2
  • A Slave of Love (1976) as Ivan
  • Burnt by the Sun (1994) as Sergey
  • Station for Two (1983) as Andrey
  • Oblomov (1980) as episode (uncredited)