Sergey Bondarchuk

Directing

Born September 25, 1920 · Belozerka, Kherson Governorate, Ukrainian SSR

Died October 20, 1994

Also known as Сергей Фёдорович Бондарчук · Sergei Bondarchuk · Sergej Bondartschuk

Biography

Sergei Bondarchuk (25 September 1920 — 20 October 1994) was a Soviet director, actor, and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1952). Academy Awards winner (War and Peace, 1969). BAFTA winner (Waterloo, 1971). His directorial debut was Fate of a Man, a WWII classic where he portrayed the main role. Bondarchuk is considered a master of big scale pieces with epic battle scenes that involved thousands of extras (War and Peace, Waterloo). He often starred star in his films, as well as cast his family, notably his wife, actor Irina Skobtseva (e.g. War and Peace, Vybor Tseli, Molchanie Doktora Ivensa). In late 1980s-early 1990s Bondarchuk started his long-term passion project – an adaptation of an epic novel “And Quiet Flows the Don,” together with the UK and Italy; however, the work couldn't be finished before the actor-director passed away in 1994. His son, actor-director Fyodor Bondarchuk, finished the piece in 2006.

Awards & recognition

Order of Friendship of Peoples · 1986
Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class · 1985
USSR State Prize · 1984
Shevchenko National Prize · 1982
"Hammer and Sickle" gold medal · 1980

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Hero of Socialist Labour · 1980
Order of Lenin · 1980
Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR · 1977
Order of the October Revolution · 1974
David di Donatello — Best Film · 1971
Order of the Red Banner of Labour · 1970
Golden Globe Awards · 1969
Order of Lenin · 1967
Lenin Prize · 1960
People's Artist of the USSR · 1952
State Stalin Prize, 1st degree · 1952
Merited Artist of the RSFSR · 1951
Academy Awards
Badge "25 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War"
Crystal Globe
Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Knight of the Legion of Honour
Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus"
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Medal "Veteran of Labour"