Finnish film director

Aki Kaurismäki

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Finnish film director

Awards Received

Legion of Honour

Pro Finlandia Medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland

Nordic Council Film Prize

Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix

Berliner Kunstpreis

Leopard of Honour

Carrosse d'or

Louis Delluc Prize

Silver Bear for Best Director

Nominated For

César Award for Best Film from the European Union César Award for Best Film César Award for Best Director David di Donatello for Best European Film European Film Award for Best Film European Film Award for Best Film European Film Award for Best Film European Film Award for Best Director European Film Award for Best Screenwriter European Film Award - People's Choice Award for Best Director European Film Award for Best Director European Film Award for Best Screenwriter European Film Award for Best Film European Film Award for Best Director European Film Award for Best Film European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film European University Film Award

Music

Aki Olavi Kaurismäki (Finnish: [ˈɑki ˈkɑu̯rismæki] (listen); born 4 April 1957) is a Finnish screenwriter and film director. He is best known for the award-winning Drifting Clouds (1996), The Man Without a Past (2002), Le Havre (2011) and The Other Side of Hope (2017), as well as for the mockumentary Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989). He is described as Finland's best-known film director.