Let's make this birthday one to remember.

66 years old (Born on January 26, 1959)

Happy Birthday, Nuri Bilge Ceylan! May your day be filled with more drama than a slow-burning Anatolian night and fewer awkward silences than one of your masterful film scenes. Your cinematic brilliance in "Winter Sleep," which earned you the Palme d'Or at Cannes, still leaves us speechless—though thankfully not as silent as some of your characters!

Here's to another year capturing life's subtle absurdities through stunning visuals and profound storytelling. Keep inspiring audiences worldwide; after all, nobody makes existential contemplation look quite so effortlessly cool.

Cheers to many more years behind (and occasionally in front of) the camera!