kultainen kirja 1992 The Concrete Jussi (Betoni-Jussi) Lifetime Award 1991 Venla Award for the TV series SF:n tarina I-VI 1986 State Award for Public Information for the book Iskelmän kultainen kirja (with co-author Ilpo Hakasalo) 1984 Venla Award for Suomi Pop – suomalaisen iskelmän historia 1980 State Film Award for Vuosi 1952 1978 Annual Theatre Award of the Theatre Centre (Vuoden teatteriteko) for the book Teatterikirja (co-editor Pekka Milonoff) 1975 State Award for Public Information for the book Elokuvan historia (History of Cinema) Grants Arts Promotion Centre Finland Artist Grant for fifteen years 1984–1999 The Finnish Cultural Foundation (Suomen Kulttuurirahasto) Grant for Eminent Work 2011 Education degrees Undergraduate: Oulun Lyseo Upper Secondary School, 1961 Bachelor of Arts: University of Helsinki, 1970 Doctor of Social Sciences: University of Helsinki, 2002 References Biography at the Cannes Film Festival site External links Finnish film directors 1943 births 2014 deaths Film people from Helsinki Tieto-Finlandia Award winners 20th-century Finnish people Finnish-language writers Finnish screenwriters Film historians Finnish television directors Finnish television writers Academic staff of Aalto University Finnish people of German-Russian descent