Shaken Kenzhetaiuly Aimanov (Kazakh: Шәкен Кенжетайұлы Айманов; born Shakhkarim Kenzhetaiuly Aimanov, Kazakh: Шахкәрім Кенжетайұлы Айманов;[1] 15 October 1914 – 23 December 1970) was a Kazakh Soviet actor and film director. He considered the father of Kazakh cinematography. He directed eleven films between 1954 and 1970.

Kazakh cinema is inconceivable without Shaken Aymanov as far as he was a father of the theater and cinema, a one-man band, an excellent actor improvisator, an elocutionist, theatrical director, the film actor and a founder of a national cinema. Shaken was equally organic in comedy and a farce, whether it was folklore of Aldar Kose, Gogol’s Hlestakov or Shakespearean Petruchio.