Elmo Nüganen

Directing

Born 1962-02-15 Jõhvi, Kohtla-Järve District, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Ida-Viru County, Estonia] 26 credits State Prize of the Russian Federation in Literature and the Arts 1 Coat of Arms of Tallinn 1 Baltic Star 1 Tallinn City Cross 1

Awards

Won 1 State Prize of the Russian Federation in Literature and the Arts Award

State Prize of the Russian Federation in Literature and the Arts 1 won

— State Prize of the Russian Federation in Literature and the Arts Won

Coat of Arms of Tallinn 1 won

2017 Coat of Arms of Tallinn Won

Baltic Star 1 won

2016 Baltic Star Won

Tallinn City Cross 1 won

2002 Tallinn City Cross Won

Award data from Wikidata (CC0). Coverage may be incomplete.

Read biography

Elmo Nüganen (born February 15, 1962 in Jõhvi) is an Estonian theatre director, film director, and actor. He has been the artistic director of the Tallinn City Theatre since 1992. He was a graduate of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in 1988 and then a professor at the academy in 1998–2002 and 2008–2012. He directed the war films Names in Marble from 2002 and 1944 from 2015. Names in Marble was seen by more than 168,000 people in Estonia and was selected for the 2003 Taormina Film Fest, while 1944 had the highest opening-week audience numbers in Estonian film history and became the country's submission for the Academy Awards. Nüganen has received multiple awards for his work in theatre, including the Estonian Annual Theatre Award for Best Director in 1992, 1995, 2000, 2007, and 2010, and the Estonian National Cultural Award in 1996, 1999, and 2009.