2015Winner
Best Director
Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
Evgeny Afineevsky
Actor · Director · Producer · Writer
Kazan, Tatarskaya ASSR, RSFSR, USSR (now Tatarstan, Russia)
October 21, 1972
Biography
Evgeny Mikhailovich Afineevsky (Russian: Евгений Михайлович Афинеевский; born October 21, 1972) is an Israeli-American film director, producer and cinematographer who lives in the United States. In 2016 Afineevsky was nominated for an Academy Award and Emmys for his documentary "Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom" (2016). Afineevsky was born in Kazan, Tatar ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union on October 21, 1972 to a Russian-Jewish family. In the early 1990s, Afineevsky became an Israeli citizen and served in the Israeli Defence Forces. As he became involved in the film industry, he relocated to Los Angeles in the United States through connections to Menahem Golan, living there since 1999. Afineevsky is openly homosexual.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2017Nominee
Best Director
Cries from Syria
2001Nominee
Best Performance
Death Game
Career Highlights
2002Highlight
Best Picture
Crime and Punishment
2010Highlight
Best Director
Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!
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Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
Cries from Syria
Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!