Andrey Zvyagintsev

Andrey Petrovich Zvyagintsev born 6 February 1964 is a Russian film director and screenwriter His film The Return 2003 won him a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival Following The Return Zvyagintsev directed The Banishment and Elena 2011 His film Leviathan 2014 was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2014 and won the Best Film award at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards His most recent film Loveless won the Jury Prize at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival and was among the nominees for Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards He also won the Achievement in Directing award for this film at the 2017 Asia Pacific Screen Awards Above information from Wikipedia