Nikita Mikhalkov

Nikita Mikhalkov is a heavyweight of Russian cinema, full stop. He directed, wrote, produced and acted, and his Burnt by the Sun won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, with Commander of the Legion of Honour among his decorations. The man can carry an entire film world on his shoulders. I'm endlessly fascinated by creators with that kind of total command of the medium. He's also a genuinely polarising figure for his nationalist politics and Kremlin ties, which I won't pretend to ignore, but that controversy only underlines how outsized his presence in Russian culture really is.

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Name (English)

Nikita Mikhalkov

Name (Japanese)

ニキータ・ミハルコフ

Reading

にきーた・みはるこふ

Born

October 21, 1945 (age 81)

Origin

Moscow, Soviet Union

Occupation

actor / film director / screenwriter / film producer / film actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Rooster

Awards & achievements

• 1994 Commander of the Legion of Honour
• Golden Medal for Merit to Culture
• 2005 Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class
• 1995 Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class
• 2010 Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class
• 1978 Lenin Komsomol Prize
• 1984 People's Artist of the RSFSR
• 1976 Merited Artist of the RSFSR

• Official sitehttps://besogontv.ru/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/nikita__mikhalkov/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita%20Mikhalkov
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8B%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9F%E3%83%8F%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%95
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55207

Tags

• actor
• film director
• screenwriter

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.