Robert Lantos
Robert Lantos was born in Budapest, Hungary on April 3rd, 1949 and is the Film Producer. At the age of 75, Robert Lantos biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Robert Lantos, CM, a Canadian film director, was born 3 April 1949.
Life and career
Lantos was born in Budapest on April 3rd, 1949, the son of génés (Bodor) and László Lantos, a mechanic and truck company owner. Lantos spent much of his childhood in Montevideo, Uruguay, where his family immigrated after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. In 1963, he immigrated to Canada.
Lantos studied literature at McGill University in Montreal and earned a BA (1970) and an MA (1972). After graduating from McGill, Vivafilm, which imported and distributed foreign films around Canada, was founded by John McGill. RSL Entertainment, a film company that later developed fifteen films, including George Kaczender's In Praise of Elderly Women and Ted Kotchef's Joshua Then and Now, respectively.
Lantos co-founded Alliance Communications Corporation, which includes partners Victory Loewy, John Kemeny, Stephen J. Roth, and Denis Héroux. He served as chairman and CEO until 1998, when he sold his controlling interest in Alliance. Serendipity Point Films, he's now produces films.
Lantos has produced 40 feature films. His work includes Golden Globe winner and Academy Award nominated Barney's Version, Golden Globe nominated and Academy Award nominated Eastern Promises, Fugitive Pieces, winner of the Rome Film Festival, and Academy Award-nominated Being Julia, where the Truth Lies, Black Robe, Cannes International Critics Prize winner Protest of Older Women, and male Brooms are among the many Golden Globe Laureate Nominees Golden Globe Nominee Ovation, Golden Globe Nominated Another five of his films have been selected for Cannes International Selection: Night Magic (1985), Joshua Then and Now (1985, in competition), Felicia's Journey (1999, Closing Night), Ararat (2002), Where the Truth Lies (2005, in competition).
His television credits include Due South, Power Play, North of 60, Counterstrike, E.N.G, Night Heat, Bordertown, and 25 made-for-television movies.
Lantos is a member of the Order of Canada and is the recipient of an honorary Doctor of Letters from McGill University. He has served on the board of directors of the Toronto International Film Festival, Indigo Books and Music, the Canadian Film Centre, and the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, for which he was a past chairman. In 1991, he received the Academy of Canadian Film and Television for Outstanding Contribution to Canadian Filmmaking, as well as the Award of Entrepreneur of the Year in 1995. He is also a recipient of the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts Award and the Toronto Arts Award. He has been inducted into the Canadian Film and Television Hall of Fame. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the European Film Academy.
Lantos had earned the annual Feature Film Producer's Award at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, according to the Canadian Media Production Association.