For his role in Roman Balayan's "Flights in Dreams and Reality" (1984), Yankovsky was awarded the USSR State Prize. He has been better known abroad for his parts in Tarkovsky's movies "Mirror" (as the father) and "Nostalghia" (in the main role). In the early 1990s, Yankovsky also played quite different roles in Georgiy Daneliya’s tragic comedy "Passport" (1990) and in Karen Shakhnazarov’s historical and psychological drama "The Assassin of the Tsar" (1991). In 1991, he was the President of the Jury at the 17th Moscow International Film Festival. Starting in 1993, Yankovsky ran the Kinotavr Film Festival in Sochi. He continued to receive awards for his work with several Nika Awards from the Russian Film Academy for his directorial debut "Come Look at Me" (2001) and Valery Todorovsky's "Lyubovnik" (2002). He appeared as Count Pahlen in "Poor Poor Paul" (2004) and as Komarovsky in a TV adaptation of "Doctor Zhivago" (2006), directed by Oleg Menshikov. The last film Yankovsky appeared in was "Tsar", which was released in 2009 and demonstrated at the Cannes Film Festival on 17 May 2009, just three days before his death. Yankovsky played the sophisticated role of Metropolitan Philip in his last film. On 20 May 2009, Yankovsky died from pancreatic cancer in Moscow, aged 65. A civil funeral took place at Lenkom theater. His burial was held on 22 May 2009 at Novodevichy Cemetery in the presence of his close relatives only.