- Two of his films were submitted for the Best Foreign Langugage Film category of The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008): Ai confini del paradiso (2007) (as director, writer and producer) for Germany and Takva (2006) (as producer) for Turkey (September 2007).
- In 2005 Fatih Akin was a member of the Official Competition Jury at the 'Cannes International Film Festival'.
- His hobbies include boxing and appearing as 'DJ Superdjango' in clubs.
- His father worked in a dry cleaning company, his mother was an elementary school teacher.
- Fatih Akin studied 'Visual Communication' at Hamburg's 'College of Fine Arts (Hochschule der Bildenden Künste)' from 1994 to 2000. He never went to a conventional film school.
- Started writing short stories and scripts in his youth.
- Fatih Akin and his wife Monique, who is of German-Mexican descent, live together with their two children (born 2005 and 2011) in Hamburg-Altona (Germany), where he was born. (agosto 2014)
- In 2001 Fatih Akin was a member of the Official Competition Jury at the 'Berlin International Film Festival'.
- His parents emigrated from Turkey to Germany in the 1960s.
- In 2013 Fatih Akin was a member of the Official Competition Jury at the 13th 'Marrakech International Film Festival'. His fellow members included Park Chan-wook, Marion Cotillard, Paolo Sorrentino, Patricia Clarkson, Anurag Kashyap, Golshifteh Farahani, Amat Escalante, Narjiss Nejjar, François Cluzet and Martin Scorsese, who led the Jury.
- He visited Argentina to promote his film Soul Kitchen (2009) in Buenos Aires. (novembre 2009)
- Brother of Cem Akin.
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