Born: 21 October 1945
Place: Moscow, RSFSR, USSR

Directing

Nikita Mikhalkov

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.

As director

Sunstroke

2014 · Director

Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel

2011 · Director

Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus

2010 · Director

2007 · Director

General Kozhugetych

2005 · Director

Father

2003 · Director

Mother

2003 · Director

The Barber of Siberia

1998 · Director

A Sentimental Trip to My Homeland. Music of Russian Painting

1995 · Director

Requiem of the Great Victory

1995 · Director

Burnt by the Sun

1994 · Director

Anna

1993 · Director

The King of Ads, Part 2

1993 · Director

Close to Eden

1991 · Director

Auto Stop

1991 · Director

Dark Eyes

1987 · Director

Without Witness

1983 · Director

Kin

1982 · Director

Oblomov

1980 · Director

Five Evenings

1979 · Director

An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano

1977 · Director

A Slave of Love

1976 · Director

At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own

1974 · Director

A Quiet Day at the End of the War

1970 · Director

…And I'm Going Home

1968 · Director

Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes

1967 · Director

A Girl and Things

1967 · Director

As actor

Not Like Dad 2: Granddad

2025 · Narrator (voice)

Brother Forever

2025 · self

Nikita

2025 · self

Nikita Mikhalkov. Method

2025

The Son

2023 · Self (archive footage)

Георгий Данелия. Любовный марафон

2023 · Self

The Film That Went Wrong

2022 · Self

Крым Юлиана Семёнова

2021 · Self - Кинорежиссер

Stanislavski: Lust for Life

2021 · Self

БесогонTV «Jedem das Seine / Каждому свое»

2021

БесогонTV «Если папа – коррупция, а мама – двуличие, какой у них будет ребенок?»

2021

Bondarchuk. Battle

2021 · self