Timur Nuruakhitovich Bekmambetov is a Kazakh-Russian filmmaker and tech entrepreneur. He is best known for the fantasy epic Night Watch (2004), the action thriller Wanted (2008), and the historical horror film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012), as well as for the screenlife films Unfriended (2015), Searching (2018), Profile (2018), and War of the Worlds (2025).