Marković is one of the few directors from the former Yugoslavia credited with popularizing Yugoslav films,[2] as well as achieving success domestically and internationally.[3]
Marković is the winner of more than 30 Yugoslavian, Serbian, and international film and theatre awards, the most significant of them being two Pula festival "Zlatna arena" awards, an award for the best director at the San Sebastian Film Festival for the film Tito and Me, Grand Prix of Americas at the Montreal World Film Festival for the movie Kordon[4] and Sterija's Award for the best modern drama text for the theatre play "Turneja". The film version of Turneja won both "Best Film" and "Best Scenario" at the 2009 European Film Festival in Kyiv[5] as well as Best Director and the Fipresci awards at the Montreal World Film Festival.[6]
A consistent opponent of the government of Slobodan Milošević, Marković expressed his political stance in three post-1995 documentary films produced or co-produced with Radio B92: Crazy People (1997), Ordinary Heroes (2000) and Serbia, Year Zero (2001).[7]
^Schneider, Steven Jay (2007). 501 Movie Directors. ABC Books. p. 498. ISBN978-0-73332-052-1. ..he is among a select few Serbian directors who have been equally awarded at the festivals and the box office.