Awards & Winners

Oleg Menshikov

Date of Birth 08-November-1960
Place of Birth Serpukhov
(Russia, Moscow Oblast)
Nationality Russia, Soviet Union
Also know as Oleg Yevgenyevich Menshikov, Oleg Menchikov, Oleg Evgenyevich Menshikov, Oleg Menšikov, Oleg Yevguénievich Ménshikov, Oleg Menchikov, Oleg Evgenevich Menshikov, Олег Меньшиков, Oleg Ievguenievitch Menchikov, О.Меньшиков, О. Меньшиков
Profession Actor, Entertainer, Singer, Theatre Director
Oleg Evgenyevich Menshikov PAR; is a Russian entertainer. He is a film and theatre actor, singer and director. He started his film career in the early 1980s playing in the comedy Pokrovskie vorota and in Nikita Mikhalkov's Rodnya. In 1993, Menshikov collaborated again with Mikhalkov in their most famous film, Burnt by the Sun. Portraying a manipulative and suicidal NKVD agent during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, Menshikov's performance brought him to the attention of a wide international audience. The film won the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1997 he was the President of the Jury at the 20th Moscow International Film Festival. Menshikov appeared in Régis Wargnier's 1999 film, East-West with Sandrine Bonnaire and Catherine Deneuve. Menshikov played the hero of Mikhalkov's 1998 The Barber of Siberia, with Julia Ormond playing his mistress. He appeared as Erast Fandorin in the 2005 film The Councillor of State. He filled the role of Ostap Bender in the 2006 Russian mini-series based on The Little Golden Calf.

Awards by Oleg Menshikov

Check all the awards nominated and won by Oleg Menshikov.

1996


Nika Award for Best Actor
Honored for : Prisoner of the Mountains
(Tied with 'Sergei Bodrov Jr.' for Prisoner of the Mountains (1996).)

Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nika Award for Best Actor Prisoner of the Mountains
Tied with 'Sergei Bodrov Jr.' for Prisoner of the Mountains (1996)

1992


Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Honored for : When She Danced

Nominations 1992 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nika Award for Best Actor Dyuba-Dyuba
Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role When She Danced