Andrey Petrovich Zvyagintsev (born 6 February 1964) is a Russian film director and screenwriter. His film The Return (2003) won him the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. After The Return, Zvyagintsev made The Banishment and Elena (2011). His film Leviathan (2014) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2014 and won the Best Film award at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. His latest film Loveless won the Jury Prize at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival and was among the nominees for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards. For this film he also received the Achievement in Directing award at the 2017 Asia Pacific Screen Awards.

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