Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Nuri Bilge Ceylan's biography

Nuri Bilge Ceylan is 63 years old film director born at Istanbul. Nuri was born on Monday 26th of January 1959. According to year of birth 1959 Nuri belongs to Boomers. Birthday on 26th of January means he is Aquarius. Aquarius is an Airy sign. They are smart thinkers, social, communicative, independent and intelligent people.

He is middle eastern turkish. Nuri is citizen of Turkey. His primary profession is to be film director. You can know Nuri also as photographer, screenwriter, cinematographer, film producer, film editor. He is recently known as actor. He received Golden Orange Best Film Director Award Clouds of May in 1999

Nuri Bilge Ceylan's family

Nuri Bilge Ceylan's ex wife

Ebru Ceylan

Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Ebru Ceylan have been together. She is known as actor. His ex wife was born in 1976 in Ankara.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan's schools

We found 2 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: Boğaziçi University, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University.

Detailed informations about Nuri´s schools

He studied university - Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Boðaziçi University, Cinema, Mimar Sinan University.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan's career

Nuri´s main focus is to be film director.

Is Nuri Bilge Ceylan gay ?

He is known to be straight.

Awards and competitions

Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Awards

• He received award for Golden Orange Best Film Director Award for work Clouds of May in 1999
• He received award for Golden Orange Best Film Director Award for work Uzak in 2002
• Nuri received award for Golden Orange Award Best FILM for work Uzak in 2003
• He received award for Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix for work Uzak in 2003
• He received award for FIPRESCI Prize of the Festival de Cannes for work Climates in 2006
• Nuri received award for Golden Orange Best Film Director Award for work Climates in 2006
• He received award for Cannes Best Director Award for work Three Monkeys in 2008
• Nuri received award for Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix for work Once Upon a Time in Anatolia in 2011
• Nuri received award for Palme d'Or for work Winter Sleep in 2014
• Nuri received award for FIPRESCI Prize of the Festival de Cannes for work Winter Sleep in 2014
• He received award for European Film Academy Critics Award for work Clouds of May in 2000

Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Nominations

• Nuri was nominated for European Film Award for Best Director for work Uzak in 2003
• Nuri was nominated for European Film Award - People's Choice Award for Best Director for work Uzak in 2003
• He was nominated for European Film Award for Best Director for work Once Upon a Time in Anatolia in 2012
• He was nominated for European Film Award for Best Director for work Winter Sleep in 2014
• He was nominated for European Film Award for Best Screenwriter for work Winter Sleep in 2014
• Nuri was nominated for European Film Award for Best Film for work Winter Sleep in 2014

What else you don't know about Nuri Bilge Ceylan ?

Nuri´s middle name is Bilge.

What Nuri Bilge Ceylan has done for a first time

• With Three Monkeys (2008), he become the first Turkish director to make the Oscar shortlist in the Academy Awards Foreign Language Film category.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan's quotes

• [on the girl with the lamplight in Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)] This girl is a catalyst. We were searching for a reason why this suspect would confess. An innocent girl could be a reason for the change in his soul.
• [On humor] I do see humor in even the most tragic situations. I think humor is always the brother of tragedy or sad things; and I think that with humor tragedy becomes more convincing.
• We need to slow down our life's beat in order to sharpen our perception.
• I feel a different kind of satisfaction when I finish a photograph. In film, you deal with hundreds of people, which is sometimes difficult. But with photography, you are like God. You are alone. It's a kind of meditation.
• Sometimes everything touches you completely differently. That is what the melancholy want - to feel they exist.
• In my films the landscapes connect the characters to a sense of something cosmic. I try to recapture those moments in life where you suddenly feel that connection to a wider universe.
• [on what interests him] I am interested in the unknown. Elements in human nature that surprise me, which astonish me, which are muddy for me. I feel like a fish swimming in muddy water, so I try to understand life, like all of us.
• Film is like a letter you send to the audiences, like a bottle you put in the ocean.
• I think the human face is the most interesting landscape in the world.
• I quit celluloid at a point when I believed digital cameras reached a considerable quality in terms of my criteria. Uzak (2002) was my last celluloid film. Climates (2006), which was shot in 2004 and 2005, was my first film with digital.
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Nuri Bilge Ceylan's body shape, eye color

Lets describe how Nuri Bilge Ceylan looks. We will focus on Nuri´s body shape, eye color and hair color. Body build is average. His eyes are tinted brown - dark. Nuri´s hair is shade of brown - dark.