Fatih Akin Net Worth
Fatih Akin Net Worth is
$5 Million
Fatih Akin Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Fatih Akin was born in 1973 in Hamburg of Turkish parentage. He began studying Visual Communications at Hamburg's College of Fine Arts in 1994. His collaboration with Wueste Film also dates from this time. In 1995, he wrote and directed his first short feature, "Sensin - You're The One!" ("Sensin - Du Bist Es!"), which received the Audience Award ... | Full Name | Fatih Akin |
| Date Of Birth | August 25, 1973 |
| Place Of Birth | Hamburg, West Germany |
| Profession | Actor, Producer, Director |
| Education | University of Fine Arts of Hamburg |
| Spouse | Monique Akın (m. 2004) |
| Children | Emin Akın |
| Parents | Hadiye Akın, Mustafa Enver Akın |
| Siblings | Cem Akın |
| Awards | Golden Bear, Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay, Grand Jury Prize, German Film Award for Best Feature Film, German Film Award for Best Direction, Goya Award for Best European Film, European Film Award for Best Screenwriter, German Film Award for Best Screenplay, Golden Orange Award for B... |
| Nominations | Golden Lion, European Film Award for Best Film, Palme d'Or, European Film Award for Best Director, César Award for Best Foreign Film, Best Screenplay Award, People's Choice Award for Best European Film, Silver Lion for Best Director, David di Donatello for Best European Film, Independent Spirit Awa... |
| Movies | Head-On, The Edge of Heaven, Soul Kitchen, The Cut, Goodbye Berlin, Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul, In July, Solino, Short Sharp Shock, New York, I Love You, In the Fade, Polluting Paradise, Kebab Connection, Getürkt, Visions of Europe, Chiko, Deutschland 09 - 13 kurze Filme zur Lage de... |
| Star Sign | Virgo |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | All my films are very personal. They're auteur films, in a way. I'm the scriptwriter, I'm producing it, and I'm the director. Soul Kitchen (2009) is more like a diary. The other films were really more like my reflections about the world and my issues. I want to change the world. I want to make it a better world, whatever that means. Soul Kitchen is very liberated from these things. It has other problems; it has other issues. It is like a diary. I was in those clubs; I was carrying this drunken woman home. We always had the temptation, because these people were so beautiful, but they were drunk. I was not stealing turntables, because they were too heavy, but I was stealing records at a time before I could afford them. A lot of the world in the film is really much about the filmmaking. I don't think I will ever do a film about filmmaking. I think it's too boring; there's a lot of insider stuff. The best film about filmmaking, I think, is Day for Night (1973) by François Truffaut, and 8½ (1963). There's nothing to add, I think. They told it how it is. I could really use the world of the restaurant as a symbol for the filmmaking. The chef is really much like a director, cooking and improvising. The owner of a restaurant is really much like the producer of a film. The customers are like the audiences; the dishes are like films. You even have film critics with the critics of the restaurant. It was really an opportunity to do a film about filmmaking. It went so far that I was wondering what Adam [Bousdoukos] was acting as, and I was asking him, "What are you doing there?" and he said, "I'm imitating you, man. That's you." |
| 2 | [on informing the Turkish audience about the historic Armenian Genocide through The Cut (2014)] I believe in that. Certain people may not need it. But other people need another rhetoric to understand this, I don't want to be preachy or act as a teacher but I want to create empathy. I made the film so that the Turkish audience could identify with an Armenian hero, which isn't easy. To do this you have to keep it simple and not challenge the audience with too much intellectual attitudes, but challenge them emotionally. |
| 3 | [on the message of The Cut (2014):] I come from a religious family, with strict dogmas and it took a while to get rid of them. I now have my own definition of what is right and wrong, good and evil. You can say I'm a spiritual person. The film is about that: Someone losing his religion but getting the sense of spirituality. |
| 4 | [on his inspirations for The Cut (2014)] Elia Kazan's America America (1963), certain aesthetics of the cinematography, as well as shooting the film in English and naturally the long voyage of the young man through the impoverished towns and villages on the way to Constantinople. (...) I had Westerns in my mind to inspire me, The Searchers (1956) by John Ford, and also Homer's 'The Odyssey' certainly was a reference for me: The journey of the hero who tries to return to his family. |
| 5 | Growing my audience is a target of mine. Cinema is a collective experience. Many people sit together, there's a lot of seats, and you want those seats to be filling up. I'm not that egotistic, to say, "No, I only want to do a film for me, I don't care." That's not true. For sure I do them for me, but I hope I can share it with as many people as possible. |
| 6 | [on Rainer Werner Fassbinder] Comparisons with Fassbinder have followed me around since my first film, Short Sharp Shock (1998). Critics said that the character Gabriel, who emerges from prison determined never to return to crime, reminded them of Franz Biberkopf in Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980). It's funny, because I hadn't even seen the film at the time. I admire Fassbinder, but he and I work in different ways. Hanna Schygulla once told me that Fassbinder forced his actors never to deviate from the script. But in my films everyone can do as he or she wishes. I like it when actors depart from the script to find their characters. Of course, that's also why it takes me three years to make a movie. Fassbinder would have been able to turn out 10 films in that amount of time. |
| 7 | If you love the cinema, you have to love America. |
| 8 | What I'm always trying to say is, this Turkish-German gap, you know, or this connecting element of the two nations, or systems, or worlds - you can change that and put other things instead. Mexico and the U.S., same thing. |
| # | Fact |
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| 1 | Fatih Akin and his wife Monique, who is of German-Mexican descent, live together with their two children (born 2005 and 2011) in Hamburg-Altona (Germany), where he was born. [August 2014] |
| 2 | He visited Argentina to promote his film Soul Kitchen (2009) in Buenos Aires. [November 2009] |
| 3 | Started writing short stories and scripts in his youth. |
| 4 | His father worked in a dry cleaning company, his mother was an elementary school teacher. |
| 5 | Fatih Akin studied 'Visual Communication' at Hamburg's 'College of Fine Arts (Hochschule der Bildenden Künste)' from 1994 to 2000. He never went to a conventional film school. |
| 6 | Two of his films were submitted for the Best Foreign Langugage Film category of The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008): The Edge of Heaven (2007) (as director, writer and producer) for Germany and Takva (2006) (as producer) for Turkey (September 2007). |
| 7 | His hobbies include boxing and appearing as 'DJ Superdjango' in clubs. |
| 8 | Brother of Cem Akin. |
| 9 | His parents emigrated from Turkey to Germany in the 1960s. |
| 10 | In 2013 Fatih Akin was a member of the Official Competition Jury at the 13th 'Marrakech International Film Festival'. His fellow members included Chan-wook Park, Marion Cotillard, Paolo Sorrentino, Patricia Clarkson, Anurag Kashyap, Golshifteh Farahani, Amat Escalante, Narjiss Nejjar, François Cluzet and Martin Scorsese, who led the Jury. |
| 11 | In 2005 Fatih Akin was a member of the Official Competition Jury at the 'Cannes International Film Festival'. |
| 12 | In 2001 Fatih Akin was a member of the Official Competition Jury at the 'Berlin International Film Festival'. |
| 13 | Is a fan of Jim Jarmusch, Martin Scorsese, Billy Wilder, Elia Kazan and John Ford. |
Director
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aus dem Nichts | 2017 | filming | |
| Tschick | 2016 | attached | |
| The Cut | 2014/I | ||
| Müll im Garten Eden | 2012 | Documentary | |
| Soul Kitchen | 2009 | ||
| Deutschland 09 - 13 kurze Filme zur Lage der Nation | 2009 | segment "Der Name Murat Kurnaz" | |
| New York, I Love You | 2008 | segment "Fatih Akin" | |
| The Edge of Heaven | 2007 | ||
| Altyapi | 2007 | TV Short documentary | |
| Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul | 2005 | Documentary | |
| Visions of Europe | 2004 | segment "Die alten bösen Lieder" | |
| Head-On | 2004 | ||
| Solino | 2002 | ||
| Denk ich an Deutschland - Wir haben vergessen zurückzukehren | 2001 | Documentary | |
| In July | 2000 | ||
| Short Sharp Shock | 1998 | ||
| Getürkt | 1996 | Short | |
| Sensin - Du bist es! | 1995 | Short |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hirsiz Var! | 2005 | Lokman | |
| Ein krasser Deal | 2004 | TV Movie | Türsteher |
| Planet der Kannibalen | 2001 | Mr. Dark | |
| Die Liebenden vom Hotel von Osman | 2001 | Short | Ahmet |
| Ein göttlicher Job | 2001 | Ex Gott | |
| The Experiment | 2001 | Taxifahrer (voice) | |
| In July | 2000 | Rumänischer Grenzbeamter | |
| Kismet | 1999/I | Tony | |
| Der letzte Flug | 1999 | Short | Raffi |
| Short Sharp Shock | 1998 | Nejo | |
| Back in Trouble | 1997 | Kebab-Fatih | |
| Trickser | 1997 | TV Movie | |
| Einsatz Hamburg Süd | 1997 | TV Series | Feroz |
| Getürkt | 1996 | Short | |
| SK Babies | 1996 | TV Series | Bekir |
| Stadtklinik | 1996 | TV Series | Mehmet Gürsel |
| Sensin - Du bist es! | 1995 | Short | |
| Doppelter Einsatz | 1994 | TV Series | Erdal |
Producer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aus dem Nichts | 2017 | producer filming | |
| The Cut | 2014/I | producer | |
| Mamaros | 2013 | producer | |
| Fraktus - Das letzte Kapitel der Musikgeschichte | 2012 | associate producer | |
| Adini Feriha Koydum | 2012 | TV Series producer - 1 episode | |
| Müll im Garten Eden | 2012 | Documentary producer | |
| Blutzbrüdaz | 2011 | producer | |
| UFO in Her Eyes | 2011 | executive producer | |
| Before Your Eyes | 2009 | co-producer | |
| Soul Kitchen | 2009 | producer | |
| Chiko | 2008 | producer | |
| The Edge of Heaven | 2007 | producer | |
| Takva | 2006 | co-producer | |
| Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul | 2005 | Documentary producer | |
| Visions of Europe | 2004 | producer - segment "Die alten bösen Lieder" | |
| Head-On | 2004 | co-producer |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aus dem Nichts | 2017 | filming | |
| The Cut | 2014/I | writer | |
| Soul Kitchen | 2009 | screenplay | |
| Deutschland 09 - 13 kurze Filme zur Lage der Nation | 2009 | segment "Der Name Murat Kurnaz" | |
| New York, I Love You | 2008 | segment "Faith Akin" | |
| The Edge of Heaven | 2007 | ||
| Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul | 2005 | Documentary | |
| Kebab Connection | 2004 | screenplay | |
| Visions of Europe | 2004 | screenwriter - segment "Die alten bösen Lieder" | |
| Head-On | 2004 | book | |
| In July | 2000 | ||
| Short Sharp Shock | 1998 | writer | |
| Getürkt | 1996 | Short | |
| Sensin - Du bist es! | 1995 | Short |
Miscellaneous
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Djangos Erben | 2008 | TV Movie documentary creative consultant | |
| Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul | 2005 | Documentary translator |
Camera Department
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul | 2005 | Documentary camera operator: second unit |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ein Atem | 2015 | thanks | |
| Method | 2011/I | very special thanks | |
| Keske olmasaydi... | 2007 | TV Series documentary thanks - 1 episode | |
| Vineta | 2006 | thanks |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ronny & Klaid | 2017 | pre-production | Himself |
| Circus Halligalli | 2016 | TV Series | Himself |
| Von Caligari zu Hitler: Das deutsche Kino im Zeitalter der Massen | 2014 | Documentary | Himself |
| Champions: Mia asteia istoria | 2011 | Documentary | Himself |
| Días de cine | 2009-2010 | TV Series | Himself |
| III nach neun | 2009 | TV Series | Himself |
| DAS! | 2009 | TV Series | Himself |
| The 2007 European Film Awards | 2007 | TV Special | Himself |
| Mein Leben | 2007 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Fatih Akin - Tagebuch eines Filmreisenden | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| NDR Talk Show | 2005-2007 | TV Series | Himself |
| Metropolis | 2007 | TV Series | Himself |
| Paraskinio | 2006 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Durch die Nacht mit... | 2003-2005 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| TV total | 2005 | TV Series | Himself |
| The 2004 European Film Awards | 2004 | TV Special | Himself |
| Nachtstudio | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
| Wa(h)re Liebe | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
| Menschen bei Maischberger | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
| Fremde Kinder | 2004 | TV Series documentary | |
| Denk ich an Deutschland - Wir haben vergessen zurückzukehren | 2001 | Documentary | Himself |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cinema mil | 2005 | TV Series | Himself |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Douglas Sirk Award | Hamburg Film Festival | ||
| 2014 | Vittorio Veneto Film Festival Award - Special Mention | Venice Film Festival | The Cut (2014) | |
| 2011 | Honorary Award | Nuremberg Film Festival "Turkey-Germany" | ||
| 2009 | Art Cinema Award | Hamburg Film Festival | Soul Kitchen (2009) | |
| 2009 | Special Jury Prize | Venice Film Festival | Soul Kitchen (2009) | |
| 2009 | Young Cinema Award | Venice Film Festival | Best Film in Competition | Soul Kitchen (2009) |
| 2008 | Best Screenplay | Ankara International Film Festival | National Competition | Auf der anderen Seite (2007) |
| 2008 | Bavarian Film Award | Bavarian Film Awards | Best Director (Regiepreis) | Auf der anderen Seite (2007) |
| 2008 | Film Award in Gold | German Film Awards | Outstanding Feature Film (Bester Spielfilm) | Auf der anderen Seite (2007) |
| 2008 | Film Award in Gold | German Film Awards | Best Direction (Beste Regie) | Auf der anderen Seite (2007) |
| 2008 | Film Award in Gold | German Film Awards | Best Screenplay (Bestes Drehbuch) | Auf der anderen Seite (2007) |
| 2008 | Jury Prize | RiverRun International Film Festival | Best Feature Film | Auf der anderen Seite (2007) |
| 2008 | Jury Prize | RiverRun International Film Festival | Best Screenplay | Auf der anderen Seite (2007) |
| 2007 | Golden Orange | Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival | Best Director | Auf der anderen Seite (2007) |
| 2007 | Special Jury Award | Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival | Auf der anderen Seite (2007) | |
| 2007 | Best Screenplay | Cannes Film Festival | Auf der anderen Seite (2007) | |
| 2007 | Prize of the Ecumenical Jury | Cannes Film Festival | Auf der anderen Seite (2007) | |
| 2007 | Lino Brocka Award | Cinemanila International Film Festival | International Competition | Auf der anderen Seite (2007) |
| 2007 | European Film Award | European Film Awards | European Screenwriter | Auf der anderen Seite (2007) |
| 2007 | Lux Prize | LUX Prize | Auf der anderen Seite (2007) | |
| 2007 | The Review Award | Seville European Film Festival | Auf der anderen Seite (2007) | |
| 2005 | Canvas Audience Award | Ghent International Film Festival | Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (2005) | |
| 2005 | Goya | Goya Awards | Best European Film (Mejor Película Europea) | Gegen die Wand (2004) |
| 2005 | Festival Award | Mexico City International Contemporary Film Festival | Best Narrative Feature Director | Gegen die Wand (2004) |
| 2004 | Golden Berlin Bear | Berlin International Film Festival | Gegen die Wand (2004) | |
| 2004 | FIPRESCI Prize | Berlin International Film Festival | Competition | Gegen die Wand (2004) |
| 2004 | Audience Award | European Film Awards | Best European Director | Gegen die Wand (2004) |
| 2004 | Film Award in Gold | German Film Awards | Best Direction (Beste Regie) | Gegen die Wand (2004) |
| 2004 | Guild Film Award - Gold | Guild of German Art House Cinemas | German Film (Deutscher Film) | Gegen die Wand (2004) |
| 2004 | Films from the South Award | Oslo Films from the South Festival | Gegen die Wand (2004) | |
| 2004 | Grand Prize | Ourense Independent Film Festival | Gegen die Wand (2004) | |
| 2004 | Audience Award | Seville European Film Festival | Gegen die Wand (2004) | |
| 2003 | Guild Film Award - Silver | Guild of German Art House Cinemas | German Film (Deutscher Film) | Solino (2002) |
| 2003 | Best Documentary | Nuremberg Film Festival "Turkey-Germany" | Denk ich an Deutschland - Wir haben vergessen zurückzukehren (2001) | |
| 2001 | Adolf Grimme Award | Adolf Grimme Awards, Germany | Fiction/Entertainment | Kurz und schmerzlos (1998) |
| 2001 | Audience Award | Tromsø International Film Festival | Im Juli (2000) | |
| 1999 | Bavarian Film Award | Bavarian Film Awards | Best Direction - Young Film (Regienachwuchspreis) | Kurz und schmerzlos (1998) |
| 1997 | Gold Plaque | Chicago International Film Festival | Best Student Narrative Short | Getürkt (1996) |
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Politiken's Audience Award | CPH PIX | The Cut (2014) | |
| 2014 | Art Cinema Award | Hamburg Film Festival | The Cut (2014) | |
| 2014 | Golden Lion | Venice Film Festival | The Cut (2014) | |
| 2012 | Art Cinema Award | Hamburg Film Festival | Müll im Garten Eden (2012) | |
| 2010 | Silver Condor | Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards | Best Foreign Film, Not in the Spanish Language (Mejor Película Extranjera) | Auf der anderen Seite (2007) |
| 2010 | David | David di Donatello Awards | Best European Film (Miglior Film dell'Unione Europea) | Soul Kitchen (2009) |
| 2010 | Audience Award | European Film Awards | Soul Kitchen (2009) | |
| 2010 | European Film Award | European Film Awards | European Film | Soul Kitchen (2009) |
| 2010 | Film Award in Gold | German Film Awards | Outstanding Feature Film (Bester Spielfilm) | Soul Kitchen (2009) |
| 2009 | FCCA Award | Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards | Best Foreign Language Film | Auf der anderen Seite (2007) |
| 2009 | Film Award in Gold | German Film Awards | Outstanding Feature Film (Programmfüllende Spielfilme) | Chiko (2008) |
| 2009 | Gopos Award | Gopo Awards, Romania | Best European Film | Auf der anderen Seite (2007) |
| 2009 | Goya | Goya Awards | Best European Film (Mejor Película Europea) | Auf der anderen Seite (2007) |
| 2009 | ICS Award | International Cinephile Society Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Auf der anderen Seite (2007) |
| 2009 | Golden Lion | Venice Film Festival | Soul Kitchen (2009) | |
| 2008 | César | César Awards, France | Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger) | Auf der anderen Seite (2007) |
| 2008 | Jury Award | Santa Barbara International Film Festival | Best International Film | Auf der anderen Seite (2007) |
| 2007 | Golden Kinnaree Award | Bangkok International Film Festival | Best Film | Auf der anderen Seite (2007) |
| 2007 | Palme d'Or | Cannes Film Festival | Auf der anderen Seite (2007) | |
| 2007 | European Film Award | European Film Awards | European Film | Auf der anderen Seite (2007) |
| 2007 | European Film Award | European Film Awards | European Director | Auf der anderen Seite (2007) |
| 2006 | Independent Spirit Award | Independent Spirit Awards | Best Foreign Film | Gegen die Wand (2004) |
| 2005 | Bodil | Bodil Awards | Best Non-American Film (Bedste ikke-amerikanske film) | Gegen die Wand (2004) |
| 2005 | David | David di Donatello Awards | Best European Film (Miglior Film dell'Unione Europea) | Gegen die Wand (2004) |
| 2005 | Silver Ribbon | Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists | Best Foreign Director (Regista del Miglior Film Straniero) | Gegen die Wand (2004) |
| 2005 | Robert | Robert Festival | Best Non-American Film (Årets ikke-amerikanske film) | Gegen die Wand (2004) |
| 2004 | European Film Award | European Film Awards | European Director | Gegen die Wand (2004) |
| 2004 | European Film Award | European Film Awards | European Screenwriter | Gegen die Wand (2004) |
| 2004 | Best Film | Nuremberg Film Festival "Turkey-Germany" | Gegen die Wand (2004) | |
| 1999 | Film Award in Gold | German Film Awards | Best Direction (Beste Regie) | Kurz und schmerzlos (1998) |
| 1998 | Golden Leopard | Locarno International Film Festival | Kurz und schmerzlos (1998) | |
| 1998 | Golden Alexander | Thessaloniki Film Festival | Kurz und schmerzlos (1998) |
Known for movies
Head-On (2004)
as Director
The Edge of Heaven (2007)
as Director
Soul Kitchen (2009)
as Director
New York, I Love You (2008)
as Director