Yorgos Lanthimos is a Greek filmmaker. Known for his absurdist, eccentric, and disturbing films, he is often described as one of the most preeminent talents of his generation. He has received various accolades including a BAFTA Award as well as nominations for six Academy Awards, four Critics' Choice Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. His films have competed at the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice International Film Festival, where he has won four prizes and two prizes respectively. He has also received two British Independent Film Awards, and four European Film Awards as well as nominations for two Gotham Awards, an Independent Spirit Award, and three Producers Guild of America Awards.
After making directorial debut in 2001 Lanthimos gained attention for his absurdist psychological drama film Dogtooth (2009) which was won the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. He directed another psychological drama Alps (2011) which won the Golden Osella for Best Screenplay at the 68th Venice International Film Festival. Lanthimos directed his first English-language film, the absurdist black comedy The Lobster (2015) which won the Jury Prize at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film. With psychological horror film The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) he received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay.
Lanthimos gained mainstream success with the black comedy costume drama The Favourite (2018), his first collaboration of many with actress Emma Stone, earned him the Grand Jury Prize at the 75th Venice International Film Festival and the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film as well as Academy Award nominations for the Best Picture and Best Director. He was Oscar–nominated in the same categories for his second collaboration with Emma Stone in the Gothic fantasy Poor Things (2023), in addition to the Golden Lion win at the 80th Venice International Film Festival, and a nomination for the Golden Globe for Best Director. Lanthimos reunited with Stone for the third time in his anthology film, Kinds of Kindness (2024) which competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.
Major associations Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 2016 Best Original Screenplay The Lobster 2018 Best Picture The Favourite Best Director 2023 Best Picture Poor Things Best Director 2025 Best Picture Bugonia
BAFTA Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 2015 Outstanding British Film The Lobster 2018 Best Film The Favourite Outstanding British Film Best Direction 2023 Best Film Poor Things Outstanding British Film 2025 Best Direction Bugonia
Cannes Film Festival Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 2009 Un Certain Regard Dogtooth Prix de la Jeunesse 2015 Palme d'Or The Lobster Jury Prize Queer Palm - Special Mention 2017 Palme d'Or The Killing of a Sacred Deer Best Screenplay 2024 Palme d'Or Kinds of Kindness
Critics' Choice Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.Critics' Choice Awards 2018 Best Picture The Favourite Best Director 2023 Best PicturePoor Things Best Director
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 2023 Best Director Poor Things
Venice Film Festival Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 2011 Golden Lion Alps Golden Osella for Best Screenplay 2018 Golden Lion The Favourite Queer Lion Grand Jury Prize 2023 Golden Lion Poor Things 2025 Bugonia
Miscellaneous accolades Organizations Year Category Work Result Ref. British Independent Film Awards 2010 Best Foreign Film Dogtooth 2015 Best British Independent Film The Lobster Best Director Best Screenplay Producer of the Year 2018 Best British Independent Film The Favourite Best Director Dublin International Film Festival 2010 Best Director Dogtooth European Film Awards 2015 Best Film The Lobster Best Director Best Screenwriter 2017 Best Director The Killing of a Sacred Deer Best Screenwriter 2019 Best Film The Favourite Best Comedy Best Director 2025 Best Director Bugonia Evening Standard British Film Awards 2015 Best Film The Lobster Gotham Awards 2018 Best Feature The Favourite 2025 Bugonia Hellenic Film Academy Awards 2009 Best Film Dogtooth Best Director Best Screenplay 2011 Best Film Attenberg 2012 Best Screenplay Alps 2016 Best Foreign Film The Lobster Independent Spirit Awards 2019 Best International Film The Favourite Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival 2009 Grande Premio Dogtooth Producers Guild of America 2019 Best Theatrical Motion Picture The Favourite 2024 Poor Things 2026 Bugonia Sarajevo Film Festival 2009 Special Prize of the Jury Dogtooth Sitges Film Festival 2009 Citizen Kane Award for Best Directorial Revelation Dogtooth Stockholm International Film Festival 2009 Bronze Horse Dogtooth Sydney Film Festival 2011 Official Competition Prize for New Directions in Cinema Alps Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2005 Golden Alexander Kinetta Telluride Film Festival 2023 Silver Medallion Yorgos Lanthimos
Critics awards Organizations Year Category Work Result Ref. Belgian Film Critics Association 2016 Grand Prix The Lobster Los Angeles Film Critics Association 2016 Best Screenplay The Lobster London Film Critics' Circle 2016 British / Irish Film of the Year The Lobster Online Film Critics Society 2015 Best Non-U.S. Films The Lobster
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