Atıf Yılmaz

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Atıf Yılmaz (December 25, 1925 – May 5, 2006) was a renowned Turkish film director, screenwriter and film producer. He was almost a legend in the film industry of Turkey with 119 movies directed. He also wrote 53 screenplays and produced 28 movies since 1951. He was active in almost every period of the Turkish film industry. Despite the numerous movies he directed, majority of those were qualified, and had a message to get through.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Film career 3 Filmography 3.1 Director 3.2 Producer 3.3 Screenwriter 4 Awards 4.1 Prizes 4.2 Honorary doctorate 5 Books 6 External links

[edit] Early life

Atıf Yılmaz was born on December 25, 1925 in Mersin, Turkey. His full name was Atıf Yılmaz Batıbeki. After finishing the high school in Mersin, he attended the Law School of Istanbul University. Because of his interest in arts, he dropped out the Law School and entered the Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul. After graduating from the Academy, he did some painting works in workshops. His education of painting helped him directing his movies as he remarked lately.

In his private life, he got married three times. His first wife was actress Nurhan Nur. After divorcing his second wife, the playwright Ayşe Şasa, he made his last marriage with Deniz Türkali, daughter of Vedat Türkali, a Turkish novelist, film script writer and film director. Atıf Yılmaz has a daughter, Kezban Arca (Batıbeki) from his first marriage.

[edit] Film career

In the beginnings, he worked as a film critic, made some paintings and wrote film scripts to earn a living. After co-directing two movies as an assistant director to Semih Evin in 1950, his directing career began with the film Kanlı Feryat (The Bloody Cry). In 1960, he established his film company "Yerli Film" with the actor Orhan Günşıray.

The most important movies in his filmography were: Hıçkırık (The Sob), Alageyik (The Fallow Deer), Suçlu (The Guilty One), Seni Kaybedersem (If I Loose You), Yaban Gülü (The Wild Rose), Keşanlı Ali Destanı (Kesanli Ali's Epic), Taçsız Kral (The Crownless King), Toprağın Kanı (Blood of the Earth), Ölüm Tarlası (Death Field), Utanç (The Shame), Zavallılar (The Poor People), Selvi Boylum, Al Yazmalım (My Girl with the Red Scarf), Baskin (The Raid), Adak (The Sacrifice), Bir Yudum Sevgi (A Sip of Love), Adı Vasfiye (Her Name is Vasfiye), Berdel, Düş Gezginleri (Walking After Midnight), Eylül Fırtınası (After the Fall) and Mine.

He made movies both fluent and the ones with mainly social messages. Most of the theme of his movies were taboo in the days they have been taken. Particularly "Mine" and "Her Name is Vasfiye" were revolutions that time with their issue on the sexuality and the reaction of the society.

He never gave up making movies throughout his life, and even in the time when the industry stopped filmmaking due to economic reasons.

Atıf Yılmaz played an important role in the professional career of notable Turkish film directors like Halit Refiğ, Yılmaz Güney, Şerif Gören, Zeki Ökten and Ali Özgentürk.

During the Antalya Film Festival in September 2005, he was hospitaized due to gastro-intestinal complaints. He died on May 5, 2006 in İstanbul.

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Director

[edit] Producer

[edit] Screenwriter

[edit] Awards

[edit] Prizes

• Society of Journalists Turkish Film Festival, 1959, This Land's Children, Best Director
• 2nd Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, 1965, Kesanli Ali's Epic, Best Director
• 2nd Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, 1965, Kesanli Ali's Epic, Runner-Up Film
• 9th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, 1972, Zulüm, Best Director
• 13th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, 1976, Deli Yusuf, Best Director
• 15th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, 1978, My Girl with the Red Scarf, Best Director
• 21st Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, 1984, A Sip of Love, Best Director
• Istanbul International Film Festival, 1985, A Sip of Love, Best Turkish Film of the Year
• Istanbul International Film Festival, 1986, Her Name is Vasfiye, Best Turkish Film of the Year
• 23rd Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, 1986, Ah! Belinda, Best Director
• 10th Istanbul International Film Festival, 1991, Honorary Award
• Valencia Film Festival, 1991, Berdel, Best Film Golden Palm
• 6th Adana Altın Koza Film Festival, 1992, Berdel, Runner-Up Film
• 33rd Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, 1996, Honour of Lifetime Award

[edit] Honorary doctorate

• 1991 Hacettepe University

[edit] Books

• Söylemek Güzeldir, Afa Yayınları, May 1995
• Bir Sinemacının Anıları, Doğan Kitapçılık, January 2002

[edit] External links

• Atıf Yılmaz at the Internet Movie Database
• Sabancı University School of Languages Podcasts - Farewell to a filmmaker: Atıf Yılmaz
• Turkish Daily News - Farewell to Master of the Masters

Awards
Preceded by Halit Refiğ	Golden Orange Award for Best Director 1965 for Keşanlı Ali Destanı	Succeeded by Memguh Ün
Preceded by Muzaffer Aslan	Golden Orange Award for Best Director 1972 for Zulüm	Succeeded by Nejat Saydam
Preceded by Şerif Gören	Golden Orange Award for Best Director 1976 for Deli Yusuf	Succeeded by Zeki Ökten
Preceded by Zeki Ökten	Golden Orange Award for Best Director 1978 for Selvi Boylum, Al Yazmalım	Succeeded by not awarded
Preceded by Zeki Ökten	Golden Orange Award for Best Director 1984 for Bir Yudum Sevgi	Succeeded by Sinan Çetin
Preceded by Sinan Çetin	Golden Orange Award for Best Director 1986 for Aaahh Belinda	Succeeded by Ömer Kavur

v • d • e Golden Orange Award for Best Director Halit Refiğ (1964) · Atıf Yılmaz (1965) · Memduh Ün (1966) · Yılmaz Duru (1967) · Yılmaz Duru (1968) · Ertem Eğilmez (1970) · Muzaffer Aslan (1971) · Atıf Yılmaz (1972) · Nejat Saydam (1973) · Ömer Lütfi Akad (1974) · Şerif Gören (1975) · Atıf Yılmaz (1976) · Zeki Ökten (1977) · Atıf Yılmaz (1978) · Erden Kıral (1981) · Ömer Kavur (1982) · Zeki Ökten (1983) · Atıf Yılmaz (1984) · Sinan Çetin (1985) · Atıf Yılmaz (1986) · Ömer Kavur (1987) · Ömer Kavur (1988) · Halit Refiğ (1989) · Halit Refiğ (1990) · Yavuz Özkan (1991) · Tunç Okan (1992) · Erden Kıral (1993) · Yavuz Özkan (1994) · Canan Gerede (1995) · Tunç Başaran (1996) · Ferzan Özpetek (1997) · Ömer Kavur (1998) · Nuri Bilge Ceylan (1999) · Derviş Zaim (2000) · Zeki Demirkubuz (2001) · Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2002) · Ömer Kavur (2003) · Uğur Yücel (2004) · Kutluğ Ataman (2005) · Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2006) · Fatih Akın (2007)

v • d • e Golden Orange Life Achievement Award Atıf Yılmaz-Hülya Koçyiğit-Tarık Akan-Türkan Şoray (1996) · Fikret Hakan-Müjde Ar-Nejat Saydam-Yılmaz Duru (1997) · Fatma Girik-Memduh Ün-Kemal Sunal (1998) · Şerif Gören-Nedim Otyam-Cahit Berkay-Göksel Arsoy-Cüneyt Arkın-Türker İnanoğlu-Osman Şahin-Hayati Hamzaoğlu (1999) · Kadir İnanır, Ekrem Bora-Orhan Günşıray-Sümer Tilmaç-Filiz Akın-Zülfü Livaneli-Orhan Aksoy (2000) · Ediz Hun-Suna Pekuysal-Bülent Oran-Sırrı Gültekin (2001) · Hulki Saner-İzzet Günay-Kartal Tibet-Kenan Kurt-Selda Alkor (2002) · Kadri Yurdatap-Tunç Başaran-Çolpan İlhan-Muhterem Nur-Tanju Gürsu-Süleyman Turan-Rafet Şiriner (2003) · Şener Şen-Hale Soygaz (2004) · Seyfi Havaeri-Efgan Efekan-Nebahat Çehre (2005) · Aytaç Arman-Yusuf Sezgin (2006) · Yavuz Turgul-Halil Ergün (2007)