Name : Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Birth Name : Florian Maria Georg Christian Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck
Date of Birth : 2 May 1973
Place of Birth : Cologne, Germany
Height : 6' 8¾" (2.05 m)
Years active : 1996 - present
Spouse : Christiane Asschenfeldt
Family
Daughter : Alexis Jaguar von Donnersmarck. Born in 2007; mother, Christiane Asschenfeldt
Daughter : Lara Cosima von Donnersmarck. Born in 2003; mother, Christiane Asschenfeldt
Father : Leo-Ferdinand Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck. Former President of the German division of the Order of Malta
Mother : Anna Maria von Berg.
Son : Leo Sylvester von Donnersmarck. Born in 2005; mother, Christiane Asschenfeldt
BIOGRAPHY
Henckel von Donnersmarck was born in Cologne, Germany, and grew up in New York, Brussels, Frankfurt and West Berlin. He speaks English, German, French, Russian and Italian fluently. After graduating from high school at the top of his class, he studied Russian Literature in Leningrad for two years and passed the Soviet State Exam for Teachers of Russian as a Foreign Language. Florian holds an MA Oxon from his studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Oxford University (New College). He holds a diploma in Film Directing from the University of Television and Film in Munich.For Academy Award-winning filmmaker Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, the only way to make the film that would launch his career was to do so on his own terms. After living in both Germany and the United States during his childhood, von Donnersmarck went on to study philosophy at Oxford University and Russian in St. Petersburg. He even interned for Sir Richard Attenborough before going back to his native Germany to join the Directing Class of the Munich Film Academy. There, von Donnersmarck worked on many short films, but none of his projects satisfied his creative needs, so in 2001, he left the school to make a full-length feature called The Lives of Others. Set during the 1980s in East Germany, the movie tells the story of a secret-service agent who becomes strangely preoccupied with the couple he spies upon. Five years went by as von Donnersmarck dealt with the process of writing, directing, and producing the film, but in 2006, the movie was released and met with tremendous critical acclaim, winning an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
CAREER
While living as a child for a while in New York, at the age of 4, von Donnersmarck saw his first movie at the Museum of Modern Art. He expected to see Doctor Doolittle but was "exposed instead to" the German melodrama Variete. "He cites this experience as the start of his interest in film."
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 Munchen (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.
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 Munchen (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.
1996 Won a directing internship with Richard Attenborough on In Love and War
2000 Wrote, produced and directed first short film, Dobermann
2006 Wrote, produced and directed his feature film debut, The Lives of Others
2010 Directed Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp in the thriller, The Tourist
FILMOGRAPHY
Mitternacht (1997) (short film)
Das Datum (1998) (short film)
Dobermann (1999) (short film)
Der Templer (2002) (short film)
The Lives of Others (2006) (writer, director, co-producer)
The Tourist (2010) (writer, director)
AWARDS
2007 - Academy Award for The Lives of Others
2007 - BAFTA for The Lives of Others
2007 - Cesar Award for The Lives of Others
2007 - New York Film Critics Circle Award for The Lives of Others
2007 - Los Angeles Film Critics Association for The Lives of Others
2006 – European Film Awards for The Lives of Others
Best Film
Best Screenplay
2006 - Deutscher Filmpreis (German Film Award) for The Lives of Others
Best Direction
Best Screenplay
2006 - Screenwriter Award within the Cologne Conference
2005 - Bavarian Film Award, Best Screenplay
2000 – Universal Studios Germany, Shocking Shorts Award for Dobermann
Best Short Film
2000 – Max Ophüls Preis for Dobermann
Best Short Film
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