Karen Georgievich Shakhnazarov (Russian: Каре́н Гео́ргиевич Шахназа́ров; born 8 July 1952; Krasnodar) is a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, producer and screenwriter. He became the director general of Mosfilm in 1998. Shakhnazarov is the son of a Georgy Shakhnazarov, a politician of Armenian descent, and a Russian housewife, Anna Grigorievna Shakhnazarova. His 1987 film Courier was entered into the 15th Moscow International Film Festival, where it won a Special Prize. In 2002 he was a member of the jury at the 24th Moscow International Film Festival. Since 2005 he has been a member of the Public Chamber of Russia. His 2012 film White Tiger was selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.
Winter Evening in Gagry
(Director)
Vanished Empire
(Director)
The Rider Named Death
(Director)
Day of the Full Moon
(Director)
Courier
(Director)
Ward No. 6
(Director)
We're from Jazz
(Director)
We're from Jazz
(Writer)
Poisons or the World History of Poisoning
(Director)
Zerograd
(Director)
Zerograd
(Writer)
White Tiger
(Writer)
White Tiger
(Director)
Assassin of the Tsar
(Writer)
Assassin of the Tsar
(Director)
Dreams
(Writer)
Dreams
(Director)
Ladies Invite Gentlemen
(Writer)
Vladivostok
(Screenplay)
Vladivostok
(Producer)
Winter Evening in Gagry
(Writer)
Ward No. 6
(Writer)
Poisons or the World History of Poisoning
(Writer)
Courier
(Writer)
Wider Step Maestro!
(Director)
In the Encirclement
(Director)
American Daughter
(Writer)
American Daughter
(Director)
White King, Red Queen
(Producer)
Road to Berlin
(Writer)
The Rider Named Death
(Producer)
Ward No. 6
(Producer)
The Children of Iron Gods
(Producer)
Decision: Liquidation
(Producer)
The Star
(Producer)
Hello from Charlie the Trumpeter
(Producer)
Goodbye Mom
(Co-Producer)
A House for Rent with All the Inconveniences
(Producer)
White Tiger
(Producer)
Road to Berlin
(Producer)
Dreams
(Producer)
Vanished Empire
(Producer)
Day of the Full Moon
(Writer)
Kind Men
(Director)
Anna Karenina. Vronsky's Story
(Director)
Anna Karenina. Vronsky's Story
(Writer)
In the Moscow Slums
(Director)
Love in the USSR
(Director)
Love in the USSR
(Producer)
In the Moscow Slums
(Screenplay)
In the Moscow Slums
(General Manager)
Mot Ne
(Producer)
Anna Karenina. Vronsky's Story
(Producer)
Who, If Not Us
(Producer)
She
(Producer)
Anna Karenina
(Writer)
Anna Karenina
(Director)