Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov (Russian: Никита Сергеевич Михалков; born 21 October 1945; Moscow) is a Russian filmmaker, actor, and head of the Russian Cinematographers' Union. Mikhalkov is a three-time laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1993, 1995, 1999) and is a Full Cavalier of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland". Nikita Mikhalkov won the Golden Lion of the Venice Film Festival (1991) and was nominated for the Academy Award (1993) in the category Best International Feature Film for the film Close to Eden. He won an Academy Award (1995) for Best Foreign Language Film and the Grand Prix of the Cannes Film Festival (1994) for the film Burnt by the Sun. Mikhalkov received the "Special Lion" of the Venice Film Festival (2007) for his contribution to the cinematography and nominated for an Academy Award for the film 12 (2007). Mikhalkov was born in Moscow into the noble and distinguished Mikhalkov family. His great-grandfather was the imperial governor of Yaroslavl, whose mother was a princess of the House of Golitsyn. Nikita's father, Sergey Mikhalkov, was best known as writer of children's literature, although he also wrote lyrics to his country's national anthem on three occasions spanning nearly 60 years – two sets of lyrics used for the Soviet national anthem, and the current lyrics of the Russian national anthem. Mikhalkov's mother, poet Natalia Konchalovskaya, was the daughter of the avant-garde artist Pyotr Konchalovsky and granddaughter of another outstanding painter, Vasily Surikov. Nikita's older brother is the filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsky, primarily known for his collaboration with Andrei Tarkovsky and his own Hollywood action films, such as Runaway Train and Tango & Cash.

Filmography

• 2027Queen of France — Producer
• 2026Rise of the Empire — Producer
• 2026The Tale of Fairy Tales — Producer
• 2025Kraken — Producer
• 2025Nikita Mikhalkov. Method
• 2025Not Like Dad 2: Granddad — Narrator (voice)
• 2025The Poet — Producer
• 2025The Wizard of the Emerald City, Part I — Producer
• 2024The Bremen Town Musicians — Producer
• 2023Tzadik — Producer
• 2022The Film That Went Wrong — Self, Screenstory
• 2021Couple From The Future — Producer
• 2021The World Champion — Producer
• 2021White Whale — Producer
• 2020Fire — Producer
• 2020Silver Skates — Producer
• 2020Streltsov — Producer
• 2018Dovlatov — Thanks
• 2018T-34 — Producer
• 2018The Coach — Producer
• 2017Three Seconds — Producer
• 2016Flight Crew — Producer
• 2016Viking — Producer
• 2015The Soul of a Spy — Producer
• 2014Sunstroke — Writer, Director, Producer
• 2014The Iron Ivan — Producer
• Anna Karenina — Producer
• 2013Legend No. 17 — Producer
• 2013Who Is This Kusturica?
• 2012The Spy — Producer
• The Spy — Producer
• После школы — cameo
• Burnt by the Sun 2 — Сергей Петрович Котов - бывший комдив, Director, Screenplay, Producer, Creator
• 2011Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel — Col. Sergei Petrovich Kotov, Director, Writer, Producer
• 2010Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus — Sergei Petrovich Kotov, Writer, Director, Producer
• 2010Roadside House — Producer
• 2009Anna Karenina — Producer
• 2009The Book of Masters — Producer
• Big Difference — Self/Guest
• Projectorparishilton
• 200712 — juror #2, Director, Writer, Producer
• 20071612: Chronicles of the Dark Time — Producer
• 2007Fat Stupid Rabbit — Nikita Sergeyevich
• 2006It Doesn't Hurt Me — Sergei Sergeyevich
• 2006Quiet Flows The Don — narrator (voice)
• The Turkish Gambit — Producer
• 2005Dead Man's Bluff — Сергей Михайлович (Михалыч)
• 2005General Kozhugetych — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2005Persona non grata — Oleg, Producer
• The Fall of the Empire — Producer
• 2005The State Counsellor — Count Pozharsky, Producer
• The State Counsellor — Gleb Georgievich Pozharskiy, General Manager, Production Director, Producer
• 2005The Turkish Gambit — Producer
• 200472 Meters — Producer
• 72 Meters — Producer
• 2003Father — Director, Producer, Screenplay
• 2003Mother — Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 2003Passion for Russia — Producer
• Russians Without Russia — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2002Azazel — Producer
• Azazel — Producer
• The School for Scandal
• The Fifth Corner — Producer
• 2000Belief, Hope and Blood
• Memories of Sherlock Holmes — Sir Henry Baskerville
• 2000Still Waters — Producer
• Stop on Demand — Producer
• 2000Tender Age — Producer
• 2000«The Barber of Siberia». How Did We Raise This — Producer
• 1999Stop — Producer
• 1998The Barber of Siberia — Imperator Aleksandr III, Director, Writer, Producer, Idea
• 1996Revizorro — Anton Antonovich Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky, the mayor
• 1996The Russian Idea — Producer
• 1995A Sentimental Trip to My Homeland. Music of Russian Painting — Writer, Director, Producer
• 1995Requiem of the Great Victory — Director, Producer
• 1994Burnt by the Sun — Sergey, Director, Screenplay, Producer, Idea, Dialogue
• 1993Anna — Himself, Director, Writer, Producer
• 1993Beautiful Stranger — Pułkownik
• 1993The King of Ads, Part 2 — Director
• To Remember — Narrator
• 1992Stalin — Producer
• 1991Auto Stop — Director, Producer, Screenplay
• 1991Close to Eden — cyclist on the street of chinese city (uncredited), Director, Idea, Writer
• 1990Aurora Borealis — Reginyov
• 1990Humiliated and Insulted — Prince Valkovky
• 1990The Russia House — Producer
• 1989The Lonely Hunter — Screenplay
• 1987Dark Eyes — Director, Writer
• 1987My Favorite Clown — Screenplay
• 1984Ruthless Romance — Paratov
• 1983250 Grammes – A Radioactive Testament — Max Sjöman
• 1983Flights in Dreams and in Reality — The Director
• 1983Station for Two — Andrey
• 1983Without Witness — Director, Writer
• 1982Kin — waiter, Director
• 1982Portrait of the Artist's Wife — Boris Petrovich
• 1982Traffic Officer — Valentin Pavlovich Trunov
• 1982Two Voices
• 1981The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles — Sir Henry Baskerville
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles — Sir Henry Baskerville
• 1981The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 1 — Sir Henry Baskerville
• 1981The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 2 — Sir Henry Baskerville
• 1980Oblomov — episode (uncredited), Director, Writer
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson — Sir Henry Baskerville
• 1979Five Evenings — Director, Writer
• 1979Siberiade — Aleksei Ustyuzhanin, Producer
• 1978Hatred — Writer
• 1977An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano — Nikolai Ivanovich Triletsky, Director, Writer
• 1977Trans-Siberian Express — Writer
• 1976A Slave of Love — Ivan, Director
• 1974At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own — Esaul, Director, Writer
• 1972The Station Master
• 1971The Risk — Writer
• 1970A Quiet Day at the End of the War — Director
• 1970Sport, Sport, Sport
• 1969A Nest of Gentry — Prince Nelidov
• 1969The Red Tent — Boris Chukhnovskiy
• 1969The Song of Manshuk — Valeri Yezhov
• 1968…And I'm Going Home — Director, Writer
• 1967A Girl and Things — Director
• 1967Not the Most Lucky Day — Nikita
• 1967Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes — Director
• 1967The Red and the White — White Officer
• 1966A Joke — Nágyenka udvarlója
• 1966Roll Call
• 1965Year as Long as Life — Jules
• 1964Walking the Streets of Moscow — Kolka
• Fuse — Director
• 1961Adventures of Krosh — Vadim
• 1961Clouds Over Borsk
• 1959The Sun Shines to Everyone
• The Snow Queen — Producer

Appearances as themselves (17)

• 2025Brother Forever — self
• 2025Nikita — self
• 2023The Son — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Георгий Данелия. Любовный марафон — Self
• 2021Bondarchuk. Battle — self
• 2021Stanislavski: Lust for Life — Self
• 2021Крым Юлиана Семёнова — Self - Кинорежиссер
• 2020Life is a Thrill — Self
• 2018Putin's Witnesses — Self - Director (archive footage)
• 2017Plankton Salesmen — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life — Self
• Legends of Cinema — Self, Self (archive footage)
• 2016The Artist's Adventures — Self
• The Artist's Adventures — Self
• 2015Георгий Данелия. Великий обманщик — Self
• 2012Sacrifices of Andrei Tarkovsky — Self
• 1985One Day of Mosfilm — Self