(2018): Winner, Sundance Film Festival Jury Prize, Outstanding First Feature. Dear White People (TV series, 2017-2021), 2017 AAFCA Award: named one of the ten best television series; 2020 Humanitas Prize: awarded in the 30 minutes category; South by Southwest 2017: audience award in the television series category. Diane (2018), Los Angeles Film Critics Association: award for best actress; National Society of Film Critics: award for best actress; Premiered at Tribeca Film Festival. The Dinner (2017), played in competition at the Berlinale. Dear White People (feature film, 2014), premiered at the Sundance Film Festival where it won the Breakthrough Talent Award. The Geographer Drank His Globe Away (2014), Odesa International Film Festival: Grand Prix "Golden Duke" and Viewers' Choice Award; Nika Award: Best Film, Best Male Actor, Best Female Actor, Best Director, Best film Score; Golden Eagle Award: Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress; 2013 Russian Guild of Film Critics Awards: Best Film, Best Male Actor, Best Female Actor; XXIV Open Russian Film Festival "Kinotavr": Main prize, Best Male Actor, Best Film Score, Film distributors jury prize, Special prize of the magazine The Hollywood Reporter. Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari (2012), Grand Prix at the New Horizons Film Festival (Wrocław). Skipped Parts (in Russian: Detyam do 16…) (2010), Odesa International Film Festival: Best Film and People's Choice Award; Window to Europe: Best Actress; Russian Guild of Film Critics: Best Actress. Hipsters (in Russian: Stilyagi) (2008), Nika Award for the best fiction film (2009); Golden Eagle for the best fiction film (2010); premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. Music for December (in Russian: Muzyka dlya dekabrya) (1995), film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, Nika Award for Best Sound Engineering. Political activities From 2002 to 2015, Lebedev was a member of the Federal Council, the second parliamentary chamber of the Russian Federation, as a representative of the Chuvash Republic. For 13 years he was a deputy and businessman in one person. A media article states that, "unlike other oligarchs, his companies survived the change from the Yeltsin era to the new Russia under Vladimir Putin without major setbacks." In 2015, he resigned his mandate. Personal life Lebedev, who is widowed and has two adult daughters. Together with his daughter Julia, who lives in the USA, he founded the film production company Code Red Productions. His second daughter, Yana, lives in Moscow and is