---
name: "Yorgos Lanthimos"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/yorgos-lanthimos"
fi1m_id: "yorgos-lanthimos"
imdb_id: "nm0487166"
tmdb_id: 122423
wikidata_id: "Q975410"
roles: ["Director","Producer","Writer"]
born: "23 September 1973"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 7
average_fi1m_score: 75
average_as: "director"
average_over: 6
updated: "2026-09-21T01:41:34.693814+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Yorgos Lanthimos

## Identity

Yorgos Lanthimos

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/yorgos-lanthimos
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** yorgos-lanthimos
- **IMDb ID:** nm0487166
- **TMDB ID:** 122423
- **Wikidata ID:** Q975410
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorgos_Lanthimos, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q975410, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0487166/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/122423

Director and producer. Born 23 September 1973 in Athens, Greece.

## Details

- **Work:** Director, Producer, Writer
- **Born:** 23 September 1973, Athens, Greece
- **Active:** 2015–present
- **Also known as:** یورگوس لانتیموس, Йорґос Лантімос, يورغوس لانثيموس, Յորղոս Լանտիմոս, ยอร์กอส ลานธิมอส, יורגוס לנטימוס, Yórgos Lánthimos
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 7: 6 directing, 1 other
- **Frequently works with:** [Ed Guiney](https://film.one/person/ed-guiney.md), [Emma Stone](https://film.one/person/emma-stone.md), [Andrew Lowe](https://film.one/person/andrew-lowe.md), [Efthimis Filippou](https://film.one/person/efthimis-filippou.md), [Ceci Dempsey](https://film.one/person/ceci-dempsey.md), [Colin Farrell](https://film.one/person/colin-farrell.md), [Jesse Plemons](https://film.one/person/jesse-plemons.md), [Lee Magiday](https://film.one/person/lee-magiday.md)
- **Venice Film Festival:** 1 Venice prize (1 won)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 75, as director, over 6 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 79 (3), 2020s 68 (4)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 75 to 74 across 6 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 5 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 5, Drama 4, Romance 2, Science Fiction 2, Thriller 2, History 1
- **Screen time:** 13 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $300m across 6 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorgos_Lanthimos, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q975410, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0487166/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/122423

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Lobster*](https://film.one/film/the-lobster.md) (78), [*The Killing of a Sacred Deer*](https://film.one/film/the-killing-of-a-sacred-deer.md) (72)
- **Hulu:** [*Poor Things*](https://film.one/film/poor-things.md) (76)
- **Netflix:** [*Bugonia*](https://film.one/film/bugonia.md) (72)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Yorgos Lanthimos

> Yorgos Lanthimos makes obedience absurd and often painfully funny. We value him most when his actors let us feel what the rules cost, but he too often repeats a lesson we have already understood.

In *The Lobster* (2015), finding a partner is compulsory if you want to remain human. Lanthimos and co-writer Efthimis Filippou state the rule plainly and let people adjust their behaviour to fit it. Colin Farrell makes that adjustment hurt. We found the hotel scenes painfully funny because his unhappiness remains recognisable beneath the absurd demand. That is where we rate Lanthimos most highly: when his people can still suffer despite their stiff, formal speech.

*Dogtooth* (2009) made the family a small dictatorship; *The Lobster* carried that interest in control into his first English-language feature. *The Favourite* (2018), with Tony McNamara among its writers, allowed more warmth, and *Poor Things* (2023) went further. Emma Stone’s Bella travels across an invented Europe, but even in his best-looking film the pauses after the jokes feel like requests for approval. It runs short of things to say about her well before it finishes.

*Kinds of Kindness* (2024) reunited him with Filippou for three stories about obedience, and showed how easily that precision becomes repetition. The first is sharp enough to justify the severity; the next two keep teaching the same lesson. Robbie Ryan’s camera staying on Stone’s face gives the cruelty a human consequence that the repeated rituals cannot. At 164 minutes, the film gives us too long to notice how little the subject has developed.

*Bugonia* (2025) works best with Stone and Jesse Plemons arguing in a cellar. Will Tracy’s script sets a pharmaceutical chief executive against the man convinced she is an alien. Lanthimos makes their opposed certainties tense and often funny. Editor Yorgos Mavropsaridis gives a dialogue-free passage considerable force, but the film’s insistence on explaining itself weakens what the actors have already conveyed.

We do not need him to become kinder, and *Poor Things* suggests that being more eager to please is no solution. He does need to stop repeating himself. Start with *The Lobster*, provided a comedy that offers little reassurance sounds like a reasonable evening.

## Biography

Yorgos Lanthimos is a Greek filmmaker born in Athens on 23 September 1973. He began his career in experimental theatre before making his directorial debut with the 2001 film *My Best Friend*.

Lanthimos gained international recognition with *Dogtooth* (2009), which won the Un Certain Regard prize at the Cannes Film Festival. He later directed English-language films including *The Lobster* (2015), *The Killing of a Sacred Deer* (2017) and *The Favourite* (2018).

His more recent credits include directing and producing *Poor Things* (2023) and *Bugonia* (2025), and writing and directing *Kinds of Kindness* (2024). He has frequently collaborated with actress Emma Stone. *Poor Things* won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, lanthimos.com.*

## On Fi1m (7)

### Directed (6) — the average rests on these

- *Bugonia* (2025), Fi1m 72, Producer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/bugonia.md)
- *Kinds of Kindness* (2024), Fi1m 63, Producer, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/kinds-of-kindness.md)
- *Poor Things* (2023), Fi1m 76, Producer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/poor-things.md)
- *The Favourite* (2018), Fi1m 87, Director, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-favourite.md)
- *The Killing of a Sacred Deer* (2017), Fi1m 72, Writer, Director, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-killing-of-a-sacred-deer.md)
- *The Lobster* (2015), Fi1m 78, Producer, Director, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-lobster.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *September Says* (2025), Fi1m 63, Thanks — [page](https://film.one/film/september-says.md)

## Complete filmography (24)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Bugonia* (2025), Director, Producer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/bugonia.md)
- *September Says* (2025), Thanks — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/september-says.md)
- *Kinds of Kindness* (2024), Director, Writer, Producer — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/kinds-of-kindness.md)
- *Poor Things* (2023), Producer, Director — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/poor-things.md)
- *Bleat* (2022), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Nimic* (2020), Director, Writer
- *Winona* (2020), Thanks
- *In Fabric* (2018), Thanks
- *The Favourite* (2018), Director, Producer — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/the-favourite.md)
- *Pity* (2018), Thanks
- *The Killing of a Sacred Deer* (2017), Director, Producer, Writer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-killing-of-a-sacred-deer.md)
- *Chevalier* (2015), Thanks
- *The Lobster* (2015), Director, Producer, Writer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-lobster.md)
- *Venice 70: Future Reloaded* (2013), Director
- *Alps* (2011), Director, Screenplay, Producer
- *Attenberg* (2010), as Engineer · Producer
- *Dogtooth* (2009), Director, Screenplay, Producer
- *The Last Fakir* (2005), Thanks
- *Kinetta* (2005), Director, Writer
- *Uranisco Disco* (2002), Writer, Director
- *My Best Friend* (2001), Director
- *The Rape of Chloe* (1995), Director, Writer
- *Fatale*, Director, Writer
- *My Year of Rest and Relaxation*, Screenplay

## Gallery

- ![Yorgos Lanthimos](https://film.one/media/person/7798/gallery-867cb0170771.jpg) Yorgos Lanthimos — LucaFazPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Yorgos_Lanthimos_at_82nd_Venice_International_Film_Festival-1_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Yorgos_Lanthimos_at_82nd_Venice_International_Film_Festival-1_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![BugoniaBFILFF101025-10 (2025)](https://film.one/media/person/7798/gallery-f9903b3844f6.jpg) BugoniaBFILFF101025-10 (2025) — Raph_PH, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/BugoniaBFILFF101025-10_%2854849804091%29.jpg/1280px-BugoniaBFILFF101025-10_%2854849804091%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![BugoniaBFILFF101025-11 (2025)](https://film.one/media/person/7798/gallery-e27f90b87ae6.jpg) BugoniaBFILFF101025-11 (2025) — Raph_PH, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/BugoniaBFILFF101025-11_%2854850058118%29.jpg/1280px-BugoniaBFILFF101025-11_%2854850058118%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![BugoniaBFILFF101025-12 (2025)](https://film.one/media/person/7798/gallery-d3f77cd6d6ec.jpg) BugoniaBFILFF101025-12 (2025) — Raph_PH, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/BugoniaBFILFF101025-12_%2854850058198%29.jpg/1280px-BugoniaBFILFF101025-12_%2854850058198%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Yorgos Lanthimos](https://film.one/media/person/7798/gallery-1e862a0b7d10.jpg) Yorgos Lanthimos — Image via TMDB
- ![Yorgos Lanthimos](https://film.one/media/person/7798/gallery-19d1e939fa5d.jpg) Yorgos Lanthimos — Image via TMDB
- ![Yorgos Lanthimos](https://film.one/media/person/7798/gallery-217bc513cc1a.jpg) Yorgos Lanthimos — Image via TMDB
- ![BugoniaBFILFF101025-13 (2025)](https://film.one/media/person/7798/gallery-b73307e6fc6c.jpg) BugoniaBFILFF101025-13 (2025) — Raph_PH, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/BugoniaBFILFF101025-13_%2854850058313%29.jpg/1280px-BugoniaBFILFF101025-13_%2854850058313%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![BugoniaBFILFF101025-51 (2025)](https://film.one/media/person/7798/gallery-8c5958c2b3f7.jpg) BugoniaBFILFF101025-51 (2025) — Raph_PH, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/BugoniaBFILFF101025-51_%2854848942207%29.jpg/1280px-BugoniaBFILFF101025-51_%2854848942207%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Yorgos Lanthimos](https://film.one/media/person/7798/gallery-e3790afd590e.jpg) Yorgos Lanthimos — Image via TMDB
- ![Yorgos Lanthimos](https://film.one/media/person/7798/gallery-32fe2a5ceeb1.jpg) Yorgos Lanthimos — Image via TMDB
- ![Yorgos Lanthimos](https://film.one/media/person/7798/gallery-04505ef2d78f.jpg) Yorgos Lanthimos — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 7 nominated

- 2026: Best Picture (nominated), for *Bugonia*
- 2024: Best Picture (nominated), for *Poor Things*
- 2024: Best Director (nominated), for *Poor Things*
- 2019: Best Director (nominated), for *The Favourite*
- 2019: Best Picture (nominated), for *The Favourite*
- 2017: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *The Lobster*
- 2010: Best International Feature Film (nominated), for *Dogtooth*

### Venice Film Festival — 1 won

- 2023: Golden Lion (won), for *Poor Things*

### Other awards — 4 won, 6 nominated

- European Film Award for Best Comedy 2019: European Film Award for Best Comedy (won), for *The Favourite*
- European Film Award for Best Director 2019: European Film Award for Best Director (won), for *The Favourite*
- European Film Award for Best Film 2019: European Film Award for Best Film (won), for *The Favourite*
- European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film 2019: European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film (nominated), for *The Favourite*
- European Film Award for Best Director 2017: European Film Award for Best Director (nominated), for *The Killing of a Sacred Deer*
- European Film Award for Best Screenwriter 2017: European Film Award for Best Screenwriter (nominated), for *The Killing of a Sacred Deer*
- European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film 2016: European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film (nominated), for *The Lobster*
- European Film Award for Best Director 2015: European Film Award for Best Director (nominated), for *The Lobster*
- European Film Award for Best Film 2015: European Film Award for Best Film (nominated), for *The Lobster*
- European Film Award for Best Screenwriter 2015: European Film Award for Best Screenwriter (won), for *The Lobster*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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