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Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Turkish film director and producer (born 1959)

4.40body-of-work score · ranked #250 of 2631 directors · 4 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
January 26, 1959 · Istanbul
Nationality
Turkey
Work
film director, screenwriter, cinematographer, film producer
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Cines del Sur Granada Film Festival from Spain · CC BY-SA 2.0

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1
    Winter SleepKış UykusuMust-See #383

    2014 · Turkey / Germany / France · drama

    Palme d'Or winner 2014 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 2015 #8 · Film Comment year-end poll 2014 #38

    2.003 citations
  2. 2
    Once Upon a Time in AnatoliaBir Zamanlar Anadolu'da

    2011 · Turkey / Bosnia and Herzegovina · crime, drama

    Cannes Grand Prix winner 2011 · Film Comment year-end poll 2012 #8

    1.072 citations
  3. 3
    Uzak

    2002 · Turkey · drama

    Cannes Grand Prix winner 2003

    0.751 citation
  4. 4
    Climatesİklimler

    2006 · Turkey / France · drama

    Film Comment year-end poll 2006 #21 · Hoberman's annual top 10 2006 #6 · Sarris's annual top 10 2006 #6

    0.583 citations

Complete filmography

All 10 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.