Nuri Bilge CEYLAN

He was born in İstanbul in 1959. In 1978, he started to study in the Department of Electricity Engineering in Boğaziçi University. He left that department to study cinema in Mimar Sinan University. He was mainly interested in photography in the 1980s.He started his director career with his twenty minutes short movie, “Koza”, which was also shown at the competition of short films of Cannes Film Festival in 1995. In 1997, he shot his first feature movie, “Kasaba (The Small Town)” which was shown in many international festivals including Berlin Film Festival. In 1999, he shot “Mayıs Sıkıntısı (Clouds of May)” that was selected for competition in Berlin Film Festival. “Uzak (Distant)” shot in 2002 won the prize of Grand Prix and Best Leading Actor. Ceylan’s next film was “İklimler (Climates)” that won the FIPRESCI Prize in Cannes Film Festival in 2006. He won the prize for best director in 61th Cannes Film Festival with “Üç Maymun (Three Monkeys)” in 2008. “Üç Maymun” became the first Turkish film which achieved to be among the first nine Oscar nominee films for the best foreign film prize.