Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (2026).
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Aki Kaurismäki
Aki Olavi Kaurismäki is a Finnish filmmaker. He is best known for films such as Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989), Drifting Clouds (1996), The Man Without a Past (2002), Le Havre (2011), The Other Side of Hope (2017), and Fallen Leaves (2023).
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entertainment · Finnish film director · film director · film editor · actor · film producer · theatre director · film screenwriter · screenwriter · director · also Aki Kaurismäki, Aki Olavi Kaurismäki, Kaurismäki
Born 4 April 1957 · Q276186
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2026· 1 entry
2024· 1 entry
The Guardian: Zig-a-zig-pah: Finland’s ‘Spice Girls’ find joy in misery – and a Kaurismäki collaboration
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2023· 2 entries
The Guardian: Fallen Leaves review – Aki Kaurismäki’s almost feelgood romance is a droll delight
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The Guardian: Fallen Leaves review – deadpan Aki Kaurismäki comedy with springtime in its heart
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2021· 1 entry
Opened a cinema called Kino Laika in his hometown of Karkkila, which was the subject of the documentary Cinéma Laika by Croatian-French director Veljko Vidak
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2017· 2 entries
Earned Silver Bear for Best Director for The Other Side of Hope (2017).
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The Guardian: Aki Kaurismäki: 'I can watch Marvel movies – if it's Sunday and I'm hungover'
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2016· 1 entry
Awarded Carrosse d'or (2016).
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2014· 1 entry
Called it "a devil's invention which destroys human culture as we know it, robs us of our jobs and makes us in the long run slaves"
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2012· 4 entries
The Guardian: Seven rounds with Aki Kaurismäki
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The Guardian: Aki Kaurismäki's Le Havre is like all his other work and thank goodness for that
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The Guardian: Watch Aki Kaurismäki's new film Le Havre online with us
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Said he would never "make a digital film in this life"
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2011· 2 entries
Awarded Louis Delluc Prize for Le Havre (2011).
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Awarded Annual award ACFK presented by Association of Czech Film Clubs (2011).
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded Leopard of Honour (2006).
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded Berliner Kunstpreis (2005).
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2002· 3 entries
Awarded Nordic Council Film Prize for The Man Without a Past (2002).
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Awarded Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix for The Man Without a Past (2002).
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Kaurismäki also boycotted the 40th New York Film Festival in a show of solidarity with the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, who was not given a US visa in time for the festival
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (2001).
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1994· 1 entry
Won Pro Finlandia Medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland (1994).
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1992· 2 entries
Awarded FIPRESCI Prize at Berlinale for The Bohemian Life (1992).
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New York Times film critic Vincent Canby declared him "an original, one of cinema's most distinctive and idiosyncratic new artists, and possibly one of the most serious" and said he "could well turn out to be the seminal
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1957· 1 entry
Born 1957-04-04.
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