Director
A Greek filmmaker and theatre director. His feature DOGTOOTH won the Un Certain Regard Prize at the 2009 Cannes film festival and was nominated for a ‘Best Foreign Language Film’ Academy Award (Oscar) in 2011. His film THE FAVOURITE won the Grand Jury Prize — Silver Lion at the 2018 Venice film festival, received a record of ten BIFA awards and was nominated for twelve BAFTAS, winning seven of them. It was also nominated for ten Academy Awards (Oscars) and won ‘Best actress’ award.