Dome Karukoski
Director

Dome Karukoski Net Worth

It was awarded the Best Short Film at the Tampere Film Festival in 2003. Dome Karukoski is a Finnish director, actor, and producer born in Nicosia, Cyprus on December 29, 1976. He moved to Finland with his mother, a Finnish journalist, and his father, an American actor, when he was 5 years old. He is bilingual in Swedish and Finnish. In 1999, he was selected to the University of Art and Design of Helsinki, and his graduation film, Tyttö, sinä olet tähti, won the Best Short Film award at the Tampere Film Festival in 2003.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Director, Actor, Producer
Birth Day December 29, 1976
Birth Place  Nicosia, Cyprus, Cyprus
Age 47 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign Capricorn
Residence Finland

💰 Net worth: $100K - $1M

Biography/Timeline

1999

In 1999, he was one of 3 students awarded a place at the University of Art and Design Helsinki as a major in directing. He had no former experience in directing or holding a camera.

2006

Karukoski's debut feature Beauty and the Bastard (Tyttö sinä olet tähti) showed at the Berlin International Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival in 2006. The film, which stars Pamela Tola, concerns young people in Finland who are caught between conventional careers and more alternative forms of living. The film's score contains contemporary Finnish pop music, particularly hip-hop and rap music. Beauty and the Bastard won the Norwegian National Film Prize Amanda sponsored by Canal+ & Svensk Filmindustri AB for best Nordic Debut-Film. Beauty and the Bastard was also nominated in eight categories for the Finnish National Film Awards Jussi Award including nominations for Best film and Best Director. It won the Audience Award and the prize for Best Music.

2008

Karukoski's second feature film The Home of Dark Butterflies (Tummien perhosten koti) premiered in Finland January 2008. It is a drama about Juhani, a 13-year-old castaway sent to a home for boys on an island. The Home of Dark Butterflies was nominated in ten categories for the Finnish National Film Awards, and this time Karukoski won the prize for the Best Director. The Home of Dark Butterflies was also chosen as Finland's representative for both The Nordic Council Film Prize and the Academy Awards.

2009

In 2009, Karukoski was invited by the President of Finland Tarja Halonen to attend Finland's Independence Day Ball: Itsenäisyyspäivän vastaanotto at the Presidential Palace. The President invites artists, athletes, academics and public figures who are highly acclaimed in their profession and invitations are regarded as a great honour.

2010

In 2010, Karukoski wrote and directed a fictional short film Burungo together with Actress Pamela Tola. The film handles poverty and the sexuality of young girls in the slums of Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. The word Burungo means both girl and commodity in the street language Sheng which is spoken in the slums of Nairobi.

2011

Karukoski is the only Finnish Director to win the main award in all of the National Finnish Film Awards: Jussi Award for Best Film Lapland Odyssey in 2011, Venla Award for Best TV series with Suojelijat and The Golden Peak Award for the Best TV commercial in 2011 with MTV3 MAX : Man's road.

2013

In 2013, Karukoski married his long-time partner Nadia. Their son, Oliver, was born in 2014.

2014

Karukoski's sixth release Mielensäpahoittaja titled in English The Grump premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2014. The Grump is a tragicomedy with a retired main protagonist based on a book series written by Tuomas Kyrö. It was an enormous hit in Finland, earning gross revenues placing it in the top 3 Finnish films of the past 25 years. The film got the Box office number one spot of the year, bearing blockbuster titles including The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. The Grump was nominated for Best Fim, Best Director and Best Actor in a Leading Role at the Finnish Film Awards and won the award for Best Actor. With his nomination for the Best Director award, Dome Karukoski became the first Finnish film Director ever to be nominated for every one of his first six feature films.

2017

In 2017 it was announced that Karukoski had been chosen to direct a new biopic about the author J. R. R. Tolkien which will depict his formative years as a teenager and as a young man during the First World War. The film will be made by Chernin Entertainment for Fox Searchlight.

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