# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lutfi-omer-akad
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:05:32.795Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lutfi-omer-akad"
name: "Lütfi Ömer Akad"
slug: "lutfi-omer-akad"
description: "Lütfi Ömer Akad was a Turkish film director, screenwriter, and academic, who directed movies from 1948 to 1990. In 1949, he debuted as a film director with Vurun Kahpeye an adaptation of Halide Edib Adıvar's book of the same title. He became one of the pioneers of the period in the \"Director Generation\". His 1970s trilogy comprising The Bride, The Wedding and The Sacrifice, is considered his masterpiece. Afterwards, he withdrew from movie making instead directing adaptations for TV."
tagline: "Turkish film director (1916–2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LutfiAkad-LeventEv.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1916-09-02"
deathDate: "2011-11-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.38
  momentum:             0.9740259740259737
  historical:           12.74579466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0015037/"
    handle:    "nm0015037"
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BCtfi_%C3%96mer_Akad"
    title: "Lütfi Ömer Akad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%81%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AF"
    title: "اومير لوتفى اكاد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96mer_L%C3%BCtfi_Akad"
    title: "Ömer Lütfi Akad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BCtfi_%C3%96mer_Akad"
    title: "Lütfi Ömer Akad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96mer_L%C3%BCtfi_Akad"
    title: "Ömer Lütfi Akad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96mer_L%C3%BCtfi_Akad"
    title: "Ömer Lütfi Akad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96mer_L%C3%BCtfi_Akad"
    title: "Ömer Lütfi Akad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%B1_%D9%84%D8%B7%D9%81%DB%8C_%D8%A2%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%AF"
    title: "عمر لطفی آکاد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96mer_L%C3%BCtfi_Akad"
    title: "Ömer Lütfi Akad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96mer_L%C3%BCtfi_Akad"
    title: "Ömer Lütfi Akad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BCtfi_Akad"
    title: "Lütfi Akad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96mer_Lutfi_Akad"
    title: "Ömer Lutfi Akad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omer_Lutfi_Akad"
    title: "Omer Lutfi Akad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B4%2C_%D0%9E%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%9B%D1%8E%D1%82%D1%84%D0%B8"
    title: "Акад, Омер Лютфи"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3176600"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1007638"
    title: "Lütfi Akad"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump