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| Birthname | Florian Maria Georg Christian, Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck |
|---|---|
| Birth date | May 02, 1973 |
| Birth place | Cologne, Germany |
| Spouse | Christiane Asschenfeldt |
| Years active | 1996 - present}} |
Florian Maria Georg Christian, Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck (born May 2, 1973) is a German film director, best known for his 2007 Oscar-winning film The Lives of Others.
He is the younger son of Leo-Ferdinand Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck, a former President of the German division of the Order of Malta, and Anna Maria von Berg. He holds German and Austrian citizenship. His uncle, Gregor Henckel-Donnersmarck, is a Cistercian abbot at Heiligenkreuz Abbey in the Vienna Woods, where Florian spent a month writing the first draft of The Lives of Others (German: Das Leben der Anderen).
Henckel von Donnersmarck is married to Christiane Asschenfeldt, the former International Executive Director of Creative Commons. They have three children: Lara Cosima (born in 2003), Leo Sylvester (born in 2005) and Alexis Jaguar (born in 2007). They currently live in Los Angeles. He stands 6'8" tall.
In 1996, he won a directing internship with Richard Attenborough on In Love and War, and then went to study at the Fiction Directing Class of the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München (University of Television and Film Munich), Germany, alma mater of directors as diverse as Wim Wenders and Roland Emmerich.
His first short film, Dobermann (which Donnersmarck wrote, produced, directed and edited) broke the school record for the number of awards won by a student production. It became an international festival sensation, and Donnersmarck travelled the festival circuit for over a year. His first feature film Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) won the European Film Award for Best Film, Best Actor and Best Screenplay in 2006. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck went on to win the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's award for Best Foreign Film, was nominated for the Golden Globe (which went to Clint Eastwood instead), and on 25 February 2007 won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
In 2007, Henckel von Donnersmarck was one of 115 new members to be invited to join AMPAS.
Category:1973 births Category:Alumni of New College, Oxford Category:BAFTA winners (people) Category:German film directors Category:Henckel von Donnersmack Category:Living people Category:European Film Awards winners (people) Category:Members of the Bavarian Order of Merit Category:Members of the Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia Category:People from Cologne Category:University of Television and Film Munich alumni
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