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Timur Nuruakhitovich Bekmambetov (Russian: ?????? ????????????? ????????????; Kazakh: ????? ??????????? ???????????; born June 25, 1961) is a Russian director, producer and screenwriter of mixed Kazakh-Jewish origin who has worked on films and commercials. He is best known for the film Night Watch (2004) and its sequel Day Watch (2006), and the American films Wanted (2008) and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012). 

Full Name Timur Bekmambetov
Net Worth $700,000
Date Of Birth June 25, 1961
Place Of Birth Guryev, Kazakh SSR, USSR [now Atyrau, Kazakhstan]
Height 1.68 m
Profession Screenwriter, Film producer, Film director
Spouse Varvara Avdyushko
Parents Mira Bogoslavskaya, Nuruakhit Bekmambetov
Nicknames Timur Bekmambetov, Bekmambetov, Timur
IMDB http://imdb.com/name/nm0067457
Nominations Nika Award for Best Film, Golden Eagle Award for Best Motion Picture, PGA Producer of the Year Award in Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures, European Film Awards Audience Award for Best Director
Movies Ben-Hur, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Wanted, Night Watch, Hardcore Henry, Day Watch, Unfriended, Yolki, The Irony of Fate 2, The Darkest Hour, Apollo 18, Escape from Afghanistan, 9, The Arena, Lucky Trouble, Yolki 2, Yolki 1914, The Snow Queen, The Snow Queen 2, Gorko!, Kikoriki: Team Invincibl…
Star Sign Cancer
Quote
1 [how Hardcore Henry (2015) got made] As usual, we all live on the Internet. I’m spending probably a third of my life in front of a screen. I found this music video Ilya [director Ilya Naishuller] made and immediately found him through Facebook just to meet him, to talk to him out of curiosity. I asked him if he wanted to do it as a movie and at first he said he doesn’t feel it could be a movie because it’s a very specific language. But we kept talking and I asked if he wanted to see it as a story on the big screen and he said absolutely. We discussed what it could be and he found a story. (…) My role was mostly to protect him, to give him freedom to do what he wants. For this specific kind of movie, you do need that freedom. Because I’m a director myself and I understand how important it is to have a chance. I’m learning. To make a movie is an excuse to meet people and find new friends and new partners, the same thing has happened in my life many times. It happened in 2009 with Shane Acker and 9 (2009), it happened last year with Cybernatural (2014). It’s most exciting for me to deal with young filmmakers and figure out how to make innovative movies. [2016]
2 [on Hardcore Henry (2015)] There is no way a studio would make this movie. I’m the only crazy person in the world who can agree to greenlight the project with no script and have the language to make the movie not exist. It’s a challenge, but it’s why we make movies. (…) My only motivations are challenge and curiosity. If I don’t know how to do something, then I’m doing it. [2016]
3 [on producing Hardcore Henry (2015)] Sharlto [Sharlto Copley] was a big part of the plan. He’s very creative. His first movie, District 9 (2009), was a really good example of collaboration between actor and director. And I knew he was brave. I had invited him to go to Kazakhstan for a small film festival and he jumped on a plane and came. I figured he would be very, very important for Ilya [director Ilya Naishuller]. Producing is about the people you choose. Choosing the right people is about 90% of producing. (…) The sense of humor is really, really important. I understood that Ilya has a very similar sensibility as Sharlto. “District 9” also had this mischievous tone but at the same time was very emotional and heartbreaking. Ilya had the same taste, so that collaboration made this movie. [2016]
4 …but the most powerful special effect is the actor. All the visual style is an extension of character.
5 It was like an army operation… We understood from the very beginning that Russia needs big, ambitious and brave film-making. Before us, there was only art-house – great, talented movies for European festivals – and very bad, very cheap and creatively weak commercial movies.
Fact
1 First name is pronounced “TEE-Moor”

Producer

Title Year Status Character
The Current War 2017 producer pre-production
Liked 2016 producer post-production
Yolki 5 2016 producer filming
Unfriended 2 producer announced
Wanted 2 producer announced
Samyy luchshiy den! 2015 producer
On – drakon 2015 general producer
Hardcore Henry 2015 producer
Dabl trabl 2015 producer
Elki lokhmatye 2015 producer
Yolki 1914 2014 producer
Snezhnaya koroleva 2. Perezamorozka 2014 producer
Gorko! 2 2014 producer
Unfriended 2014 producer
Yolki 3 2013 producer
Gorko! 2013 producer
Igra v pravdu 2013 producer
Snow Queen 2012 producer
Dzhentlmeny, udachi! 2012 producer
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter 2012 producer
Smeshariki: Nachalo 2011 producer
The Darkest Hour 2011 producer
Yolki 2 2011 producer
Apollo 18 2011 producer
Vykrutasy 2011 executive producer
Yolki 2010 producer
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga 2010 Documentary executive producer
Chernaya Molniya 2009 producer
9 2009/I producer
Ironiya sudby. Prodolzhenie 2007 producer
Gaz – russkie mashiny 2002 Documentary producer
Nashi 90-e 2000 TV Mini-Series producer – 1 episode

Director

Title Year Status Character
Yolki 5 2016 filming
Ben-Hur 2016
Yolki 1914 2014
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter 2012
Yolki 2010
Wanted 2008
Ironiya sudby. Prodolzhenie 2007
Dnevnoy dozor 2006
Nochnoy bazar 2005
Nochnoy dozor 2004
Escape from Afghanistan 2002 Video
Gaz – russkie mashiny 2002 Documentary
The Arena 2001/I
Nashi 90-e 2000 TV Mini-Series 1 episode
Peshavarskiy vals 1994

Writer

Title Year Status Character
Yolki 2 2011
Yolki 2010
Ironiya sudby. Prodolzhenie 2007
Dnevnoy dozor 2006
Nochnoy dozor 2004 screenplay
Escape from Afghanistan 2002 Video
Peshavarskiy vals 1994

Miscellaneous

Title Year Status Character
Apollo 18 2011 presenter

Thanks

Title Year Status Character
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter: The Great Calamity 2012 Video short thanks

Self

Title Year Status Character
Dancing with the Stars 2013 TV Series Himself
34-y Moskovskiy mezhdunarodnyy kinofestival 2012 TV Special Himself
Evening Urgant 2012 TV Series Himself
Up Close with Carrie Keagan 2009-2012 TV Series Himself
Last Call with Carson Daly 2012 TV Series Himself
‘9’: The Long and the Short of It 2009 Video short Himself
‘9’: U-Control Picture in Picture 2009 Video documentary Himself
Prozhektorperiskhilton 2009 TV Series Himself – Guest
Groundbreaking Visual Effects: From Imagination to Execution 2008 Video documentary short Himself
Through the Eyes of Director Timur Bekmambetov 2008 Video documentary short Himself
Max on Set: Wanted 2008 TV Short documentary Himself
Le grand journal de Canal+ 2005 TV Series documentary Himself
Shkola zlosloviya 2005 TV Series Himself – Guest
Kak snimalsya ‘Nochnoy dozor’ 2004 TV Movie documentary Himself

Won Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
2012 CinemaCon Award CinemaCon, USA International Filmmaker of the Year
2005 Silver Raven Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film (BIFFF) Nochnoy dozor (2004)
1994 Best Director Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Peshavarskiy vals (1994)

Nominated Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
2015 Asia Pacific Screen Award Asia Pacific Screen Awards Best Animated Feature Film Snezhnaya koroleva 2. Perezamorozka (2014)
2014 Golden Eagle Golden Eagle Awards, Russia Best Feature Film Gorko! (2013)
2014 Nika Nika Awards Best Film Gorko! (2013)
2014 White Elephant Russian Guild of Film Critics Best Debut Gorko! (2013)
2010 PGA Award PGA Awards Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures 9 (2009)
2007 Narcisse Award Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival Best Feature Film Dnevnoy dozor (2006)
2005 Audience Award European Film Awards Best European Director Nochnoy dozor (2004)
2005 Narcisse Award Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival Best Feature Film Nochnoy dozor (2004)
1994 Crystal Globe Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Peshavarskiy vals (1994)
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