Emir Kusturica (Serbian Cyrillic: Емир ÐšÑƒÑ Ñ‚ÑƒÑ€Ð¸Ñ†Ð°; born 24
November 1954) is a Serbian filmmaker, actor and musician. He also has
French citizenship. He has been recognized for several internationally
acclaimed feature films, as well as his projects in town-building. He
has competed at the Cannes Film Festival on five occasions and won the
Palme d'Or twice (for When Father Was Away on Business and
Underground), as well as the Best Director prize for Time of the
Gypsies.Kusturica has also won a Silver Bear at the Berlin Film
Festival for Arizona Dream and a Silver Lion at the Venice Film
Festival for Black Cat, White Cat. In addition he was also named
Commander of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.Since the
mid-2000s, Kusturica's primary residence has been in Drvengrad, a town
built for his film Life Is a Miracle, in the Mokra Gora region of
Serbia. He had portions of the historic village reconstructed for the
film. He has been a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of the
Republika Srpska since 9 November 2011.
November 1954) is a Serbian filmmaker, actor and musician. He also has
French citizenship. He has been recognized for several internationally
acclaimed feature films, as well as his projects in town-building. He
has competed at the Cannes Film Festival on five occasions and won the
Palme d'Or twice (for When Father Was Away on Business and
Underground), as well as the Best Director prize for Time of the
Gypsies.Kusturica has also won a Silver Bear at the Berlin Film
Festival for Arizona Dream and a Silver Lion at the Venice Film
Festival for Black Cat, White Cat. In addition he was also named
Commander of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.Since the
mid-2000s, Kusturica's primary residence has been in Drvengrad, a town
built for his film Life Is a Miracle, in the Mokra Gora region of
Serbia. He had portions of the historic village reconstructed for the
film. He has been a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of the
Republika Srpska since 9 November 2011.
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