Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Quick Facts

Full Name	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	May 2, 1973(1973-05-02)
Age	51
Country	Germany
Birth City	Cologne
Horoscope	Taurus

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Biography

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on May 2, 1973 in Cologne, Germany. Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck was born in 1973 in Cologne, West Germany, into the aristocratic Roman Catholic Henckel von Donnersmarck family. He was raised within New York City, Brussels, Frankfurt, and West Berlin and is proficient of English, German, French, Russian, and Italian. After having graduated with the highest marks in his class at the German section of the European School of Brussels I and II, he pursued a degree in Russian literary studies at St. Petersburg for two years. He also passed an official state Exam to be a teacher of Russian as an International Language. He has an MA in Arts degree in philosophy, politics and economics from New College, Oxford, as well as a certificate in film direction at The University of Television and Film Munich.

His debut feature film Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) that Donnersmarck wrote for three years and directing, as well as finishing and won the European Film Award for Best Film and the Best Actor and the Best Screenplay in the year 2006. Donnersmarck received an award from the LA Film Critics Association to Best Foreign Film, was nominated for the Golden Globe (which went to Clint Eastwood instead), and on February 25, 2007 was awarded the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. In 2007 Donnersmarck was among the 115 new members who were admitted to AMPAS.

His next film, The Tourist, was released in 2010. Donnersmarck re-wrote, directed and completed his sophomore work in under eleven months, telling Charlie Rose he had wanted a break from writing a dark screenplay about suicide). The Tourist was a thriller starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp, and was nominated for three Golden Globes: Best Musical or Comedy, Depp for Actor Musical or Comedy and Jolie for Actress Musical or Comedy. It also won three Teen Choice Awards nominations (Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress) of which it won two. The film opened to middling number, but eventually ended up grossing US$278.3 million at the worldwide box office, prompting The Hollywood Reporter belatedly to proclaim it an “international hit”.

In 2011, Donnersmarck was honoured by the University of Oxford, his alma mater, as one of its 100 most distinguished members from 10 centuries. The university named 100 streets in Oxford’s historical centre after these graduates, with Upper Oxpens Road renamed for Donnersmarck.

The year 1996 was the first time he received an acting apprenticeship alongside Richard Attenborough on In Love and War Then, he attended the Fiction Directing Class of the Hochschule fur Fernsehen und Film Munchen (University of Television and Film Munich), Germany, alma school of directors like Wim Wenders Roland Emmerich and Maren Ade who was Donnersmarck’s classmate. The first short film he directed, Dobermann (which he wrote and produced, directed and edited) was a record of the school for the number of awards given to students’ productions. The film became an international festival hit and Donnersmarck made it to festivals for over a whole year.

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Net Worth

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck is one of the richest Film Director from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Florian Maria Georg-Christian Graf Henckel of Donnersmarck (German: [‘flo:.Ri.a:n ‘heNGkl”fon’donas” maRk[‘flo’] ( listen ) born 2 May 1973) is a German film director who is most well-known for his script and the direction of the 2006 Oscar-winning drama action thriller The Lives of Others, the three-time Golden Globe nominated romantic thriller The Tourist starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp, and the two-time Oscar nominated dramatic film Never Look Away.

In 1977, as he lived as a kid living in New York, he saw his first film in the Museum of Modern Art. He had hoped to see the movie Doctor Dolittle however, he was “exposed instead to” the German Melodrama Variete. He credits this experience as the beginning of his fascination with film.

In a 2010 interview with The Guardian, director Howard Davies named Donnersmarck as the artist he most admired.

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