Education
Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography.
Actor director playwright screenwriter
Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography.
Order Foreign Merit to the Fatherland, 4th class People"s Artist of the Russian Federation Grand Prize at the I Festival of contemporary cinema in Karlovy Vary (1971) - for the film "Belorussian Station" Foreign his performance as the writer Ivan Bunin in "His Wife"s Diary", Smirnov won several awards: Frieda B. Prize at the VI International Human Rights Film Festival "Stalker" (2000) Best Actor prize - Minsk International Film Festival Listapad (2000) Best Actor prize - National Prize of the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts (Nika Prize) (2000) Best Actor prize - 7th Gatchina Festival "Literature and Cinema" (2001) Prize of the President of the Festival, XIX Festival in Vyborg (August 2011) - for "Window to Europe" Grand Prize at the 22nd Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr (June 2011) Nika Prize (2011) - for the film "Once Upon a Time There Lived a Simple Woman" in the "Best Screenplay" and his film named "Best Feature Film".
Order Foreign Merit to the Fatherland, 4th class.
He was a member of the jury at the 38th Berlin International Film Festival in 1988.
