Mikhail Krichman graduated from the Moscow State University of Printing Arts in 1995. Krichman has been Director of Photography on all of Andrey Zvyagintsev’s films, from his directorial debut The Return (2003) and The Banishment (2007), to Elena (2011), for which he was awarded the top cinematography prize at both the Bely Kvadrat (White Square) awards and the Golden Eagle awards presented by the National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Russia, and now Leviathan. In 2010, Krichman received a Golden Osella (Best Cinematography) award at the 67th Venice Film Festival for Alexey Fedorchenko’s Silent Souls. Mikhail worked as Cinematographer on the feature films Miss Julie (2014), directed by Liv Ullmann and starring Colin Farrell and Jessica Chastain and Loveless (2017) Andrey Zvyagintsev’s latest feature.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and present. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
