Nuri Bilge Ceylan
26 January 1959 – present
Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a Turkish film director, screenwriter and photographer whose slow-paced, landscape-driven films are set largely in Anatolia and Istanbul. Trained first as an engineer, he turned to cinema in the 1990s and became a regular presence at the Cannes Film Festival, winning the Grand Prix twice and the Palme d'Or for Winter Sleep in 2014.
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Life events
Born in Istanbul and raised partly in Yenice, Canakkale province.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgTook up photography and film-going seriously while a student in Istanbul.
Enrolled in film studies in Istanbul after returning from a period abroad and military service.
His black-and-white short became the first Turkish short film selected for the Cannes competition.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe Small Town, shot in his family's home region with non-professional actors, began a loosely autobiographical trilogy.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDistant took the festival's second prize, and its two leads shared the best actor award.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe three-hour drama set in Cappadocia took the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe film competed for the Palme d'Or and its lead, Merve Dizdar, won the festival's best actress award.
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