FILM DIRECTOR

Leonid Osyka

1940 - 2001

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Leonid Mykhailovych Osyka (Ukrainian: Леонід Михайлович Осика) (8 March 1940 in Kyiv – 16 September 2001 in Kyiv) was a Ukrainian movie director, producer, and screen writer. Osyka was awarded the Oleksandr Dovzhenko State Prize of Ukraine, which was established to honor outstanding contributions to the development of Ukrainian cinema. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2024). Leonid Osyka is the 1,200th most popular film director (up from 1,207th in 2024), the 838th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 834th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Ukrainian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Leonid Osyka ranks 1,200 out of 2,041. Before him are Francis Girod, Trey Parker, Joe Ranft, Morten Tyldum, Vadim Abdrashitov, and Georg Jacoby. After him are Denys de La Patellière, Byron Haskin, Arne Skouen, Raymond Depardon, Rafael Azcona, and Fernando Birri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Leonid Osyka ranks 449. Before him are Fríða Á. Sigurðardóttir, Richard Marcinko, Tim Severin, Carl von Essen, Willi Holdorf, and Franco Balmamion. After him are György Sarlós, Robert Blust, S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Sven-Gunnar Larsson, Thue Christiansen, and Phelekezela Mphoko. Among people deceased in 2001, Leonid Osyka ranks 264. Before him are Hilda Cameron, Frans De Mulder, Oldřich Lajsek, Sara Ashurbeyli, Corinne Calvet, and Ibrahim Shams. After him are Sivaji Ganesan, Ahmed Sofa, Kateryna Yushchenko, Kim Stanley, Harry Winter, and Kurt Hoffmann.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Leonid Osyka ranks 837 out of 1,365. Before him are Yan Gamarnik (1894), Elena Yakovleva (1961), Valeriy Pidluzhnyy (1952), Vadim Abdrashitov (1945), and Iryna Vilde (1907). After him are Iryna Bilyk (1970), Zośka Vieras (1892), Viktor Kanevskyi (1936), Edward Abramowski (1868), Oleg Romanishin (1952), Boris Lavrenyov (1891), and Benno Moiseiwitsch (1890).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Ukraine

Among film directors born in Ukraine, Leonid Osyka ranks 26. Before him are Frederic Zelnik (1885), Pyotr Todorovsky (1925), David Cherkassky (1931), Roman Viktyuk (1936), Konstantin Lopushansky (1947), and Vadim Abdrashitov (1945). After him are Vadim Perelman (1963), Volodymyr Dakhno (1932), Aleksandr Alov (1923), Felix Sobolev (1931), Janusz Majewski (1931), and Jerzy Antczak (1929).

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