Bachelor of Arts | Academy Awards | United States Military Academy | Russian Academy of Sciences | Master of Arts (postgraduate) | National Endowment for the Arts | Master of Arts | National Academy of Sciences | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Electronic Arts | Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film | United States Naval Academy | United States Air Force Academy | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Royal Academy of Music | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | Tisch School of the Arts | mixed martial arts | Brooklyn Academy of Music | Phillips Academy | Institute of Contemporary Arts | École des Beaux-Arts | California Institute of the Arts | Royal Military Academy Sandhurst | Phillips Exeter Academy | Chinese Academy of Sciences | British Academy of Film and Television Arts | National Academy of Engineering | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts | University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna |
Between 1990 and 1992 he studied South-Eastern European History and Ehtnology in Berlin, then he had a scholarship at the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj, and later, between 1994–1998, he studied Movies and Directing at the Academy for Theatre and Film in Bucharest.