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Baltasar Kormákur

Highest Rated: 94% The Deep (2012)

Lowest Rated: 29% White Night Wedding (2008)

Birthday: Feb 27, 1966

Birthplace: Reykjavik, Iceland

Multitalented, multilingual filmmaker and actor Baltasar Kormakur ranks among Iceland's premier talent. After distinguishing himself as an actor in the '90s, Kormakur's directorial debut in 2000 proved a tour de force. An offbeat mother-son drama based on the novel by Hallgrímur Helgason, "101 Reykjavík" won international acclaim on the festival circuit, and took home honors at the Edda Awards in Iceland for its outstanding adapted screenplay. Kormakur's second feature upped the ante for family dysfunction. "The Sea" revolves around the repressed neuroses of several estranged siblings brought together to discuss the future of their abusive father's fishery. The film swept the Edda Awards, winning in eight of its twelve nominated categories, and Kormakur won both Director of the Year and Best Film. In 2005, Kormakur made his first English-language feature. "A Little Trip to Heaven" featured Forest Whitaker and Julia Stiles in a twisty thriller about a million dollar insurance policy. 2010's "Inhale" was the director's next English language endeavor, and stars Dermot Mulroney and Diane Kruger as a couple desperately in search of a doctor to treat their ailing daughter. In 2012, Kormakur tackled his first unabashedly Hollywood film: "Contraband", starring Mark Wahlberg. The high-octane actioner--a remake of the 2008 Icelandic film "Reykjavík-Rotterdam", in which Kormakur played the lead-- debuted at number one at the U.S. box office.

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Highest-Rated Movies

94% 65% The Deep
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94% 73% Jar City
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92% 84% Virgin Mountain
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89% 77% 101 Reykjavik
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75% 61% The Oath
Watchlist 73% 68% Everest Watchlist 69% 66% Adrift Watchlist 69% 77% Beast Watchlist
64% 66% 2 Guns
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Baltasar Kormákur

Baltasar Kormákur Baltasar Kormákur 2 GUNS, (aka TWO GUNS), director Baltasar Kormakur, on set, 2013. ph: Patti Perret/©Universal Pictures ADRIFT, SEATED BOTTOM L-R: SHAILENE WOODLEY, DIRECTOR BALTASAR KORMAKUR ON SET, 2018. PH: KIRSTY GRIFFIN/© STX ENTERTAINMENT ADRIFT, DIRECTOR BALTASAR KORMAKUR ON SET, 2018. PH: KIRSTY GRIFFIN/© STX ENTERTAINMENT ADRIFT, SECOND FROM LEFT: SHAILENE WOODLEY, RIGHT: DIRECTOR BALTASAR KORMAKUR ON SET, 2018. PH: KIRSTY GRIFFIN/© STX ENTERTAINMENT ADRIFT, L-R: CINEMATOGRAPHER ROBERT RICHARDSON, DIRECTOR BALTASAR KORMAKUR ON SET, 2018. PH: MATT KLITSCHER/© STX ENTERTAINMENT THE OATH, (AKA EIDURINN), BALTASAR KORMAKUR, REFLECTION: GISLI ORN GARDARSSON, 2016. © GUNPOWDER & SKY THE OATH, (AKA EIDURINN), BALTASAR KORMAKUR, 2016. © GUNPOWDER & SKY THE OATH, (AKA EIDURINN), BALTASAR KORMAKUR, 2016. © GUNPOWDER & SKY View more photos

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Touch 92% 92% 2024 Director, Screenwriter, Producer Beast 69% 77% 2022 Director, Producer Against the Ice 57% 73% 2022 Producer Adrift 69% 66% 2018 Director, Producer Vultures 2018 Producer The Oath 75% 61% 2016 Finnur Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Producer Everest 73% 68% 2015 Director, Producer Virgin Mountain 92% 84% 2015 Producer 2 Guns 64% 66% 2013 Director The Deep 94% 65% 2012 Director, Screenwriter, Producer Contraband 50% 57% 2012 Director, Producer Inhale 38% 46% 2010 Director Reykjavik-Rotterdam 45% 2008 Kristófer Actor, Producer White Night Wedding 29% 59% 2008 Director, Screenwriter, Producer The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela 44% 48% 2008 Executive Producer Jar City 94% 73% 2006 Director A Little Trip to Heaven 33% 41% 2005 Director, Writer, Producer The Sea 49% 64% 2002 Director, Producer, Writer Regina 2002 Ivan Actor Me and Morrison 15% 2002 Askildsen Actor No Such Thing 33% 59% 2001 Dr. Artaud Actor 101 Reykjavik 89% 77% 2000 Þröstur Actor, Director, Producer, Writer Angels of the Universe 87% 2000 Actor The Split 1999 Fridrik Actor Devil's Island 64% 1997 Baddi Actor
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