Oleg Negin

Oleg Negin
Born	(1970-07-02) 2 July 1970 (age 54)[1] Moscow, Soviet Union
Occupation(s)	Screenwriter Novelist
Awards	Cannes Film Festival Best Screenplay Award

Oleg Negin (born 2 July 1970) is a Russian screenwriter and novelist. He was born in Moscow.[1]

Negin's novels include П.Ушкин and Кипарис во дворе, published in 2004.[2] In film, he became a collaborator with director Andrey Zvyagintsev, and at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival their Leviathan won the Best Screenplay Award.[3] For their 2017 film Loveless, Negin and Zvyagintsev were jointly nominated for the European Film Award for Best Screenwriter.[4]

Filmography

Negin's films include:[5]

• The Banishment (2007)
• Elena (2011)
• Leviathan (2014)
• Loveless (2017)

References

1. "Elena". Sundance Institute. p. 9. Archived from the original on 10 November 2012. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
2. Arkhangelsky, Andrei (2014). "Мы и есть союз интеллигенции и рабочего класса". Kommersant (in Russian). Retrieved 24 June 2018.
3. Porton, Richard (27 May 2014). "Inside 'Leviathan': Russian Filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev's Award-Winning Anti-Putin Cannes Film". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
4. Cabeza, Elisabet (4 November 2017). "'The Square' leads 2017 European Film Awards nominations". Screen Daily. Screen International. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
5. "Oleg Negin". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on October 13, 2017. Retrieved 24 June 2018.