Dome Karukoski

Thomas Karukoski (born December 29, 1976 in Cyprus), known as Dome Karukoski, is a preeminent film director in Finland, who has won dozens of awards and directed many Finnish blockbusters such as Beauty and the Bastard, Lapland Odyssey, and Heart of a Lion in his 13-year career. In 2013 he was the first Finnish director to be named by Variety magazine among their "Top Ten Directors to Watch" ranking.

In 2018 - 2019 he directed Tolkien, a biographical film starring Nicholas Hoult about J.R.R. Tolkien, his future wife Edith Bratt, and the forming of the T.C.B.S. during World War One. It is Karukoski's first film in English, filmed in Liverpool, England, and will be released in May 2019 by Fox Searchlight Pictures."May the Star of Eärendil guide us wherever this journey leads."

- Karukoski in a tweet from March 2019, on his Tolkien film