13 Facts About Nikos Foskolos

Nikos Foskolos was a Greek screenwriter and director.

Nikos Foskolos is one of the most commercially successful screenwriters of Greek cinema.

Nikos Foskolos has been called the "Goldfinger of commercial shows".

Nikos Foskolos has been described as "the maitre of exaggeration" and "the king of TV shows".

Nikos Foskolos studied Political Science at the University of Athens but did not graduate.

Nikos Foskolos wrote screenplays for over 70 Greek films, mostly working for Finos Film.

Nikos Foskolos's TV daily serial Lampsi was a huge success and ran for 14 seasons getting into the Guinness World Records in 1995.

Nikos Foskolos gained another entry into the Guinness World Records for writing two daily TV series, Lampsi and Kalimera Zoi, for ten years.

Nikos Foskolos said than in one scene of his film Koinonia, Ora Miden a corrupt politician offers millions to Nikos Kourkoulos, who was playing the role of the honest hero of the film, to buy his silence for a crime committed by his cohorts.

Nikos Foskolos then remarked that the story he wrote for the film turned out to be prescient in the years that followed.

Nikos Foskolos has received awards for The Asphalt Fever, and The Ruthless.

Nikos Foskolos's film Blood on the Land was an Academy Awards Best Foreign Film nominee in 1965.

Nikos Foskolos received three awards and a state award for Concert for Machine Guns.