The Nika Award (sometimes styled NIKA Award ) is the main annual national film award in Russia, presented by the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Science , and seen as the national equivalent of the Oscars .
7-720: The award was established in 1987 in Moscow by Yuli Gusman , and ostensibly modelled on the Oscars . The Russian award takes its name from Nike , the goddess of victory. Accordingly, the prize is modelled after the sculpture of the Winged Victory of Samothrace . The oldest professional film award in Russia, the Nika Award was established during the final years of USSR by the influential Russian Union of Filmmakers . At first
14-556: A master's degree in Psychology and Psychiatry. He wrote a research paper to defend a thesis for another medical degree, but chose not to do so after being admitted to the Higher Film Directing Courses at Goskino . Upon graduating in 1976 he worked at Azerbaijanfilm directed such films as Iliq danizda buz parçasi (1983) (An Iceberg in a Warm Sea) and Bir ailalik bag evi (1978) (A Dacha for One Family) and
21-798: Is the founder and CEO of the Nika Award . Yuli Gusman was born in Baku , Azerbaijan to military physician Solomon Gusman and professor Lola Barsuk, who later became a translator and professor at the Azerbaijan University of Languages . His brother Mikhail is the vice-president of the Information Telegraph Agency of Russia . In 1966 Yuli Gusman graduated from the Azerbaijan Medical University , majoring in therapeutics , and in 1970 earned
28-577: The Golden Globe Awards as it honours both film and television production of Russia. The award name is sometimes styled NIKA Awards. The Nika Awards ceremony is broadcast annually and attracts huge publicity across Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States . Yuli Gusman Yuli Solomonovich Gusman (Russian: Юлий Соломонович Гусман ; born 8 August 1943) is a Soviet, Russian and Azerbaijani film director and actor. He
35-461: The awards were judged by all the members of the Union of Filmmakers. In the early 1990s, a special academy, consisting of over 500 academicians, was elected for distributing the awards, which recognise outstanding achievements in cinema (not television) produced in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States . In 2002 Nikita Mikhalkov established the competing Golden Eagle Award , modelled on
42-670: Was elected to the State Duma of the first convocation (1993–1995). In 1988–2002 Gusman was chairman of the Cinematography Centre ( Dom Kino ) in Moscow. In 1996–2000 he hosted the primetime talk-show Tema and the weekly talk-show Vecher s Yuliem Gusmanom ("An Evening with Yuli Gusman") on Channel One (Russia) . In 1996 he founded and became one of the CEOs of the Russian Jewish Congress . In 2004 he
49-700: Was the director of the satirical newsreel Mozalan . In the 1970s and the 1980s he worked as manager and director of the Azerbaijan State Theatre of Musical Comedy and the Song Theatre . He has directed seven films and a number of stage plays, including outside the Soviet Union (in the United States, Japan and China). In 1965–1972 he was head of Baku's KVN team. He introduced the uniform practice for all KVN teams. In 1993 he
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