Nikos Nikolaidis

Nikos Georgiou Nikolaidis
Nikos Nikolaidis being interviewed in 2003
Native name	Νίκος Γεωργίου Νικολαΐδης
Born	(1939-10-25)25 October 1939 Athens, Greece
Died	5 September 2007(2007-09-05) (aged 67) Athens, Greece
Cause of death	Pulmonary edema
Nationality	Greek
Alma mater	Hellenic Cinema and Television School Stavrakos Vakalo College of Art and Design
Occupation	Film director Screenwriter Film producer Writer Theatre director Assistant director Record producer Television director Commercial director
Years active	1960–2007
Known for	Filmmaking
Notable work	Evrydiki BA 2O37 (1975) The Wretches Are Still Singing (1979) Sweet Bunch (1983) Morning Patrol (1987) Singapore Sling (1990) See You in Hell, My Darling (1999) The Loser Takes It All (2002) The Zero Years (2005)
Spouse(s)	Marie-Louise Bartholomew (married 1970–2007; his death)
Children	Two (including Simeon Nikolaidis, born in Athens, Greece on 6 December 1974)
Awards	Best Director Award, Greek National Ministry of Culture Award, Athens Film Critics Association Best Picture Award, Thessaloniki Festival of Greek Cinema, September 1975 (Evrydiki BA 2O37) Best Director Award, Athens Film Critics Association Best Picture Award, Thessaloniki Festival of Greek Cinema, September 1979 (The Wretches Are Still Singing) Athens Film Critics Association Best Picture Award, Thessaloniki Festival of Greek Cinema, October 1983 (Sweet Bunch) Best Director Award, Greek National Ministry of Culture Award, Thessaloniki Festival of Greek Cinema, October 1987 (Morning Patrol) Best Director Award, Best Quality Film Award, Thessaloniki Festival of Greek Cinema, October 1990 (Singapore Sling) Best Director Award, Thessaloniki International Film Festival's Greek State Film Awards, November 2002 (The Loser Takes It All)

Nikos Georgiou Nikolaidis (Greek: Νίκος Γεωργίου Νικολαΐδης) (25 October 1939, Athens, Greece – 5 September 2007, Athens, Greece) was a Greek film director, screenwriter, film producer, writer, theatre director, assistant director, record producer, television director, and commercial director. He is usually considered a representative of European avant-garde and experimental art film.

Nikolaidis was born on 25 October 1939 in Athens, Greece, where he lived and worked all his life. He was also the scriptwriter and producer of the movies which he directed and would occasionally, as in the case of the 1965 Orestis Laskos film Praktores 005 enantion Hrysopodarou, write screenplays for other directors. For much of his life he worked in advertising and he managed to direct two hundred television advertisements within twenty years. He studied filmmaking at the Hellenic Cinema and Television School Stavrakos and acquired scenic design skills at the Vakalo College of Art and Design, a highly regarded specialized private art school, both located in Athens, Greece. In 1960 he began to work as a first assistant director for Vasilis Georgiadis and in 1962 he directed his first short film Lacrimae Rerum. His directorial feature-length debut was Evrydiki BA 2O37 which premiered at the Thessaloniki Festival of Greek Cinema on 29 September 1975 where it won the Best Director Award, the Greek National Ministry of Culture Award, and the Athens Film Critics Association Best Picture Award. Despite a lukewarm reaction by viewers, critics appreciated the innovative perspective on the classic Greek tragedy of Orpheus and Eurydice and noted the originality of Nikolaidis' artistic techniques. Nikolaidis himself believed Evrydiki BA 2O37 to be his best film.