Costa-Gavras is a Greek-French director born in Loutra-Iraias, Greece, celebrated for politically explicit thrillers examining state repression and institutional corruption around the world. Z, a fictionalized account of the assassination of a Greek left-wing politician and the subsequent military junta cover-up, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and became one of the defining political thrillers in film history, establishing his reputation for urgent, fact-based political cinema. Missing, dramatizing an American father's search for his son disappeared during the Chilean coup, won the Palme d'Or and brought his political filmmaking to a wider American audience. Music Box and Amen. extended his focus on historical injustice and institutional complicity into the Holocaust and Cold War eras. Costa-Gavras's sustained commitment to explicitly political, fact-based filmmaking across five decades made him one of the most significant political filmmakers in world cinema. Read more