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Yorgos Lanthimos (Greek: Γιώργος Λάνθιμος, born 23 September 1973) is a Greek filmmaker. He has received multiple accolades, including a BAFTA Award and a Golden Lion, as well as nominations for five Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. Lanthimos started his career in experimental theatre before making his directorial film debut with the sex comedy My Best Friend (2001). He rose to prominence by directing the psychological drama film Dogtooth (2009), which won the Un Certain Regard prize at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Lanthimos transitioned to making English-language films with the black comedy The Lobster (2015), which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, and the psychological thriller The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017). He collaborated with actress Emma Stone in the period black comedies The Favourite (2018) and Poor Things (2023) and the anthology film Kinds of Kindness (2024). He received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture for The Favourite and Poor Things, in addition to winning the Golden Lion for the latter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yorgos Lanthimos, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
A Reboot of the 2001: A Space Odyssey franchise. Synopsis: An imposing black structure provides a connection between the past and the future. Characters: Dr. James Beckett - The main protagonist. Loosely based on Dr. Dave Bowman from the original film. Isla Griffith - An astronaut aboard the Spectrum X on the first mission to Jupiter. Heavily based on Dr. Frank Poole from the original film. Dr. Perla Hadley - An astronaut who is tracking down the source of the black alien structure found on the Earth's moon. Loosely based on Dr. Heywood Floyd from the original film. HAL 9000 - The main antagonist. An artificial intelligence computer ran by aliens. Rhett Lincoln - An astronaut aboard the Spectrum X. Phil (chief man-ape) - The chief of the man-ape tribe. Heavily based on Moonwatcher from the original film. Orion (man-ape) - A man-ape from the tribe. Harold Bishop - President of NASA.
