Yorgos Lanthimos Articles

Athena Rachel Tsangari's Attenberg Athena Rachel Tsangari's Attenberg is Greece's official submission for the 2012 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. Last year, Attenberg earned Ariane Labed the Best Actress Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival, and the Special Jury Prize at the Thessaloniki Film Festival. In addition to Labed, Attenberg stars Yorgos Lanthimos, director of the 2011 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nominee [...]

Yorgos Lanthimos, Ariane Labed, Aggeliki Papoulia Yorgos Lanthimos, whose Dogtooth (Greece) was an Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year, arrives with Venice Film Festival Best Actress winner Ariane Labed (for Attenberg) and Dogtooth actress Aggeliki Papoulia at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Dogtooth lost to Susanne Bier's In a Better World (Denmark). Though widely acclaimed, [...]

Dogtooth by Giorgos Lanthimos (top); Mo'Nique in Precious (middle); Edgar Flores in Sin Nombre (bottom) In Giorgos Lanthimos' Dogtooth, winner of the 2009 Stockholm Film Festival's Bronze Horse for best film, a patriarch (Christos Stergioglou) tries to shield his cloistered wife (Michelle Valley) and two daughters (Aggeliki Papoulia and Mary Tsoni) from the outside world. Apart from selected home video entertainment and Frank Sinatra records [...]

2009 Stockholm Film Festival Awards 2009 Stockholm Film Festival: Nov. 18-29, 2009 2009 Stockholm Film Festival Award winners   Dogtooth by Giorgos Lanthimos   BRONZE HORSE AWARDS Best Film: Dogtooth by Giorgos Lanthimos Best First Feature: Sin Nombre by Cory Juji Fukanaga Best Actress Mo'Nique for Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire Best Actor Edgar Flores in Sin Nombre Best Screenplay Eran Creevy [...]