Sergei Iosifovich Yutkevich (Russian: Серге́й Ио́сифович Ютке́вич, 28 December 1904[1] – 23 April 1985) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter.

He was a People's Artist of the USSR (1962) and a Hero of Socialist Labour (1974).

[3] Later he helped found the Factory of the Eccentric Actor (FEKS), which was primarily concerned with circus and music hall acts.

[4] He won Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director twice: for Othello in 1956 and for Lenin in Poland in 1966.

In 1959, 1961 and 1967 respectively, he was a member of the jury at the 1st Moscow International Film Festival,[5] the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival and the[6] President of the Jury of the 5th Moscow International Film Festival.