![]() His fourth feature film Alps (2011) won the Osella Award for Best Screenplay at the 68th Venice International Film Festival. In 2010, he acted and co-produced Attenberg a Greek drama film directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari. His third feature film Dogtooth won the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards. ![]() His feature film career started with the mainstream film My Best Friend where he shared directing credits with Lakis Lazopoulos and was followed by the experimental film Kinetta which premiered at the 2005 Toronto Film Festival. He was also a member of the creative team which designed the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Since 1995 he has directed a large number of TV commercials, in addition to music videos, short films and experimental theater plays. Through the 1990s he directed a series of videos for Greek dance-theater companies. He eventually dropped out of everything and went on to study directing for film and television at the Hellenic Cinema and Television School Stavrakos (HCTSS) in Athens. ![]() Having graduated from the Moraitis School he went on to study Business Administration and played for a period in Pagrati B.C. His father, Antonis Lanthimos, was a professional basketball player who played for Pagrati B.C., Greece national basketball team and was also a basketball instructor at the Moraitis School. Graceful, enigmatic, and often frightening, DOGTOOTH is an ingenious dark comedy that won the Prix Un Certain Regard at the. He has received four Academy Award nominations for his work, including Best Foreign Language Film for Dogtooth (2009), Best Original Screenplay for The Lobster (2015), and Best Picture and Best Director for The Favourite (2018). Tired of these dutiful acts of carnality, Christina disturbs the domestic balance.Georgios 'Yorgos' Lanthimos (Greek: Γιώργος Λάνθιμος, romanized: Giorgos Lanthimos born ) is a Greek film and stagedirector, producer, and screenwriter. The father is the only family member who can leave the manicured lawns of their self-inflicted exile, earning their keep by managing a nearby factory, while the only outsider allowed on the premises is his colleague Christina, who is paid to relieve the son of his male urges. ![]() Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience, the über-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission. ![]() Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair and 'zombies' are little yellow flowers. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. ![]()
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