| Cinematographer: Santosh Sivan |
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Santosh Sivan (Malayalam: സന്തോഷ് ശിവന്) (born in Trivandrum, Kerala) is a critically acclaimed Indian film director and cinematographer.[1] He has won five National Film Awards, three Filmfare Awards, and ten international film festival awards.
Sivan is the older brother of film director Sanjiv Sivan and younger brother of director Sangeeth Sivan. Their father, Sivan, is a renowned director and cinematographer of Malayalam documentary films, and runs the Trivandrum-based Sivan Studio.
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Santosh grew up in the city of Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, India, where he attended Loyola School and Mar Ivanios College. He graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India in 1984. In December 1995 he became a founding member of the Indian Society of Cinematographers. As a cinematographer, he has won three Kerala State Film Awards and four National Film Awards for Best Cinematography.
As a director, his debut film Halo (1996) won him a Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie and National Film Award for Best Children's Film. His second film Malli (1998) won him the Best Director and Golden Pyramid awards at the Cairo International Film Festival and the Feature Film (second place) award at the Chicago International Film Festival. His third film, The Terrorist, won him four international film festival awards and a nomination for the Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Foreign Language Film. After viewing The Terrorist, the actor John Malkovich adopted the film as an executive producer, while the critic Roger Ebert included it in his list of Great Movies.[1] The production of his fourth film Asoka, based on the life of Ashoka the Great, was documented in the book The Making of Asoka - A Santosh Sivan Picture by Mushtaq Shiekh.
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