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Andrey Petrovich Zvyagintsev (born 6 February 1964) is a Russian film director and screenwriter. His film The Return (2003) won him a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Following The Return, Zvyagintsev directed The Banishment and Elena (2011). His film Leviathan (2014) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2014 and won the Best Film award at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. His most recent film Loveless won the Jury Prize at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, and was among the nominees for Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards. He also won the Achievement in Directing award for this film at the 2017 Asia Pacific Screen Awards. Above information from Wikipedia.
Andrey Zvyagintsev is a prominent Russian film director and screenwriter known for international festival darlings that critique contemporary society.
He is best known for directing acclaimed features such as The Return, which won the Golden Lion at Venice, and the Academy Award-nominated Leviathan and Loveless.
He makes deliberate, contemplative art-house dramas characterized by moral ambiguity, stark visual compositions, and incisive social commentary.