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Costa-Gavras
Sign in to saveKonstantinos "Kostas" Gavras (; 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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Costa-Gavras, born Κωνσταντίνος Γαβράς in Loutra-Iraias, Greece, is a film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He holds citizenship in both France and Greece and resides in Paris. Educated at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques, he began his professional work period in 1968. His notable works include *State of Siege* and *Opération Condor - Un homme face à la terreur en Amérique latine*.
Gavras has received several honors, including the Officer of the Legion of Honour, a Writers Guild of America Award, an Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, and Edgar Awards. He has also been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director, and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director. His archives are held at the Cinémathèque Française, and his works are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
He is married to Michèle Ray-Gavras and has three children: Alexandre Gavras, Julie Gavras, and Romain Gavras. Gavras speaks English, Modern Greek, French, and Spanish.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Va où il est impossible d'aller
- Opération Condor - Un homme face à la terreur en Amérique latine
- State of Siege
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Film & TV
Directing · Loutra-Iraias, Greece
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…
Known for
- Carolco, un rêve hollywoodien2026
- Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français — Self - filmmaker2026
- La scripte — Lui-même2026
- The Legend of the Palme d’Or Continues — Self2025
- La Saga du Napoléon d'Abel Gance — Self - President of the Cinémathèque Française2025
- Beau geste — Self2023
- Film: The Living Record of Our Memory — Self2022
- Romy : 40 ans après, ultimes confidences — Self2022
- A Daughter's Tribute to Her Father: Souleymane Cissé — Self2022
- Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion — Self2022
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Brazil
- Active from
- 1945-09-26
- Active to
- 2022-11-09
Discography
- Domingo1967
- Gal1969
- Gal Costa1969
- Legal1970
- Índia1973
- Cantar1974
- Gal canta Caymmi1976
- Caras & bocas1977
- Água viva1978
- Gal tropical1979
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 23
- Total plays
- 48
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Costa-Gavras">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,975x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,704x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,997x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,241x
- Diagnosis and Management of the Metabolic Syndrome
· 2005 · cited 9,438x
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- Loutra Iraias, Greece
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- Michèle Ray
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- Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Early life
- Early career
- Selected films
- Political-commercial film
- Issues and style
- Influences
- Legacy and influence
- Accolades
- Personal life
- Filmography
- Films
- References
- Further reading
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Konstantinos "Kostas" Gavras (; 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.
==Early life== Costa-Gavras was born in Loutra Iraias, Arcadia. His family spent the Second World War in a village in the Peloponnese, and moved to Athens after the war. His father had been a member of the Pro-Soviet branch of the Greek Resistance, and was imprisoned during the Greek Civil War. His father's Communist Party membership made it impossible for Costa-Gavras to attend university in Greece or to be granted a visa to the United States, so after high school, he settled in France, where he began studying literature at the Sorbonne in 1951.
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