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Costa-Gavras
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Person

Costa-Gavras

b. 1933

Greek-French film director (born 1933)

Born
12 Feb 1933 · Loutra
Part ofGreece776 BCE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 107 years
  1. 12 Feb 1933BornBorn in Loutra
  2. 1966AwardNational Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film
  3. 1969AwardJury Prize
  4. 1969AwardNew York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director
  5. 1970AwardEdgar Awards
  6. 1972AwardLouis Delluc Prize
  7. 1974AwardUnited Nations Awards
  8. 1975AwardCannes Best Director Award
  9. 1982AwardLondon Film Critics Circle Award for Director of the Year
  10. 1982AwardLondon Film Critics Circle Award for Film of the Year
  11. 1982AwardPalme d'Or
  12. 1982 – 1987RolePresident of the Cinémathèque Française
  13. 1983AwardAcademy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
  14. 1983AwardWriters Guild of America Award
  15. 2007 – 2026RolePresident of the Cinémathèque Française
  16. 2008RolePresident of the Jury at the Berlin International Film Festival

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1933 – today).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1939 – 1945World War II
  9. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  10. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  11. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  12. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  13. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  14. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  15. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  16. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  18. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  19. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  21. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  22. 1956Suez Crisis
  23. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  25. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  27. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  29. 1968Prague Spring
  30. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  31. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  32. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  33. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  35. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  36. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  37. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  38. 1985Schengen Agreement
  39. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  40. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall

Biography

Konstantinos "Kostas" Gavras (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος "Κώστας" Γαβράς; born 12 February 1933), known professionally as Costa-Gavras, is a Greek-French film director, screenwriter, and producer who lives and works in France. He is known for political films, such as the political thriller Z (1969), which won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Missing (1982), for which he won the Palme d'Or and an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Most of his films have been made in French, but six have been in English, including Hanna K.

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