Nuri Bilge Ceylan Biography

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Nuri Bilge Ceylan (born 26 January 1959 in Istanbul ) is a Turkish photographer and film director. He is married to the filmmaker, photographer, and actress Ebru Ceylan, his co-star in İklimler.

Biography

Training and first Director

Nuri Bilge Ceylan was born in Istanbul and moved at the age of two years in the province of Çanakkale in western Turkey, before he and ten years back in his native city returned. Ceylan studied at the Bosphorus University in electrical engineering and decided after a trip to the Himalayas a military career. A year and a half, he served in an army corps in Anatolia and distribution taking the time to read. His reading included the autobiography of Roman Polanski, who after reading about this drive, a future as a filmmaker should be. Ceylan studied in Istanbul and later London Film Science 1995 and celebrated his debut as a director with the short film Koza in the competition at the Cannes Film Festival 1995 for the Golden Palm competed.

Three years after Kozan realized Nuri Bilge Ceylan the autobiographical film dyed city. The drama, the first part of his trilogy about the differences between rural and city life told from the perspective of a child's everyday life and growing up in the Turkish province. Even with his first long feature film was Ceylan success with critics and the city has decided, inter alia, at the Berlinale 1998, the Tokyo International Film Festival and the Istanbul Film Festival awards. That could tie the Turkish film-maker a year later with distress in May in which he Muzaffer young (played by Muzaffer Özdemir), the alter ego of Ceylan, the focus moves. Muzaffer returns to Anatolia in his home town back to a film project with his family members to realize. There, the filmmakers with the problems of parents and relatives confronted his cousin dreams of a future in Istanbul, while threatening father Muzaffer, a piece of wood at the Land Registry to lose. The highly autobiographical film colored (father and mother are the parents of the director played) was approved by the tageszeitung because of his almost Buddhist calm and unusual cutting technique was praised during the New York Times with the work of Abbas Kiarostami's work compared the family plays a central role for the Turkish film director, both thematically and for his way of working. Often relatives he occupied in his films and in interviews as a reason the great familiarity, which makes it superfluous, many words to say. Distress in May won a number of international film and festival prizes, including the FIPRESCI Award at the presentation of the European Film Awards 2000 and the awards from the Film Festival of Angers, Ankara, Antalya, Istanbul and Bergamo.

Success with "Uzak - Far"

The breakthrough as a director Ceylan achieved in 2002 through the new collaboration with his Muzaffer Özdemir and Mehmet Emin Toprak cousin to the drama Uzak - Far (2002), the last part of his trilogy. Here again Özdemir act as "alter ego of the director," as ambitious photographer Mahmut, of his living with publicity photos for catalogs deserves. The visit of Yusuf, a young relatives from the province (played by Mehmet Emin Toprak), but brings Mahmut small world out of balance and plunges him into an existential crisis. Yusuf tried in vain youthful zeal in the Turkish metropolis to find a job for his retarded family.

Uzak - long celebrated its premiere in Turkey at the end of 2002 and was almost five months later in the competition of the Film Festival of Cannes 2003 represented, where he worked in the favor of critics stood. It had to Nuri Bilge Ceylan film in competition for the Palme d'Or the drama of the Elephant American Gus Van Sant beaten type, but with the second award, the Grand Jury Prize rewarded. As the first and so far only received Turkish actors Muzaffer Özdemir actor for the part of the crude Mahmut egoists and the 2002 late Mehmet Emin Toprak shared the award for best actor of the film festival. In 2004, the production of Turkish as an official contribution to a nomination in the 76th Oscar Award in the category of best foreign language film is selected, however, belonged not to the subsequent five nominated films. Even in Germany, where the film until three years after it was published, received Uzak - wide positive reviewers. Refrigeration conquer between the characters, such as the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the movie works by Andrei Tarkowski compared, while the tageszeitung on the 35-mm-wide screen format, the slow pans and built the elliptical mounting pointed. This would be a time and create a feeling of spaciousness, which has the narrow view of the anti-heroes involved.

"İklimler" and "Three Monkeys"

Through the successes Nuri Bilge Ceylan, his friends and colleagues Zeki Demirkubuz (Yazgı, 2001) and Reha Erdem (BES Vakit, 2006) is now a renaissance of Turkish cinema is spoken, although this is denied Ceylan and the rising popularity of Turkish artists with the Nobel Prize award Orhan Pamuk founded. 2006 was the director with the seasons - Iklimler again in the 59th competition Cannes Film Festival represented. Here came the Turks, not only as director, screenwriter and film producer in appearance, but also celebrated his acting debut. Together with his wife Ebru, he solidified the marriage of Unidozenten Isa and Bahar Fernsehproduzentin a face to the Western lifestyle indulge. The New York Times praised Ceylan as a good actor and a filmmaker, which is in the depiction of marriage to the French and Italian cinema and modern cinema d'auteur, in particular by Michelangelo Antonioni, orients. His personal films were sociable, but the film would be nothing new language to add. Seasons - Iklimler brought Ceylan 2006 the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes and the director's award at the Antalya Film Festival On. Despite the praise he is no longer as an actor before the camera and refused to act, the director and the lead role for a film biography of his famous countryman from Yilmaz Güney polite.

Ceylan was 2008 with three monkeys again in the competition of the 61st Cannes Film Festival represented. The family drama, in its premiere from the mirror as a "spy movie among blood relatives" praised, tells the story of a Turkish family father, against payment of the fleeing driver of a politician is to take a prison sentence and compete. Three monkeys had while in the award of the Palme the French contribution Entre les murs by Laurent Cantet beaten type, but was with the Director Award. Months later, the film was an official Turkish contribution to the nomination for the best film nichtenglischsprachigen at the 2009 Oscar Award is selected, but was not among the five final nominees. 2009 he was appointed to the jury of the 62nd International Film Festival of Cannes invoked.

Besides the Filmemacherei occurs Ceylan also successful as a photographer in appearance. His images were among others in Istanbul, Thessaloniki, Granada and London's National Theater is issued. Ceylan 2005, the jury of the 42nd Antalya Film Festival, which Ahmet Ulucays tragicomedy ships out of water melons to the best film selected.

Filmography

* 1995: Koza (Short Film)
* 1998: Town (Kasaba)
* 1999: Bedrängnis in May (Mayıs Sıkıntısı)
* 2002: Uzak - Wide (Uzak)
* 2006: Seasons - Iklimler (İklimler)
* 2008: Three monkeys (üç maymun)

Awards

Premiers Plans - Festival d'Angers

* 2001: European Jury Award for distress in May

Uluslararasi Ankara Film Festivali

* 2000: Best Film on plight in May

Antalya Altin Portakal Film Festivali

* 1999: Best Director for distress in May
* 2002: Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay for Uzak - Wide
* 2006: Best Director for Seasons - Iklimler

Berlin International Film Festival

* 1998: Cagliari Prize for Koza
* 2000: nominated for the Golden Bear for best film for distress in May

Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente

* 2001: Best Director, nominated in the category of Best Film for distress in May

International Film Festival in Cannes

* 1995: nominated for the Golden Palm - Best Short Film for Koza
* 2003: Grand Jury Prize, nominated for the Palme d'Or for Uzak - Wide
* 2004: French Cultural Award as best foreign film-makers of the year
* 2006: FIPRESCI Prize, nominated for the Golden Palm - Best Film for seasons - Iklimler
* 2008: Best Director, nominated for the Palme d'Or for three monkeys

Chicago International Film Festival

* 2003: Special Jury Prize for Uzak - Wide

European Film Award

* 2000: FIPRESCI Prize for distress in May
* 2003: nominated in the category of Best Director for Uzak - Wide

International Istanbul Film Festival

* 1998: FIPRESCI Prize for Urban
* 2000: Best Film, Audience Award, Golden Tulip and FIPRESCI Prize for distress in May
* 2003: Best Film, Best Director and FIPRESCI Prize for Uzak - Wide
* 2006: nominated in the category for Best Film Seasons - Iklimler

Festival Internacional de Cine Contemporáno de la Ciudad de México

* 2004: Best Director for Uzak - Wide

Festival International Cinéma Méditerranéen Montpellier

* 2003: Best Film for Uzak - Wide

San Sebastián International Film Festival

* 2003: FIPRESCI Prize for Uzak - Wide

Tokyo International Film Festival

* 1998: Silver Award for distress in May

Nuri Bilge Ceylan Pictures ( 16 Pictures)