Yorgos Lanthimos

Yorgos Lanthimos (born May 27, 1973, in Athens, Greece) began his career directing music videos, commercials, and plays before moving into feature films. His 2005 debut, Kinetta, was followed by the breakthrough Dogtooth (2009), an outrageous dark comedy about two parents shielding their children from the outside world in disturbing ways. Dogtooth won the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes and was nominated for an Oscar as foreign-language film. His next work, Alps (2011) was followed by The Lobster (2015), starring Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz, which won the Jury Prize at Cannes. He followed this with The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017). His most celebrated films are The Favourite (2018), a wickedly absurd historical drama starring Olivia Colman (who won an Oscar), Emma Stone, and Rachel Weisz, and Poor Things (2023). The former received five Golden Globe nominations; Poor Things was nominated for seven, winning as best musical or comedy and Emma Stone as musical/comedy actress.