Film director

Blake Edwards (born July 26, 1922) is an Academy Award-winning American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Born William Blake Crump in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Edwards was the son of a stage director. He began his career as an actor and script-writer, including seven...

Donn Alan "D. A." Pennebaker (born July 15, 1925 in Evanston, Illinois) is an American documentary film and one of the pioneers of Direct Cinema/Cinéma vérité. Performing arts (especially pop music) and politics are his primary subjects. In the early 1960s Pennebaker...

Zack Snyder (born March 1, 1966) is an American film director. Snyder started out as both director and cinematographer of music videos (for Morrissey) and commercials (Compuware, Audi, Budweiser, Jeep, Magnum). He has also portrayed sports icons such as Michael...

Bernardo Bertolucci (born March 16, 1940) is an Italian writer and Academy Award winning film director. Bernardo Bertolucci was born in the Italian city of Parma, in the region of Emilia Romagna. He was the second son of his father Attilio, who was a poet, a reputed...

Steven Allan Spielberg KBE (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Spielberg is a three-time Academy Award winner and is the highest grossing filmmaker of all time; his films having made nearly $8 billion internationally....

Ernest Thompson (born November 6, 1949 as Richard Ernest Thompson, Bellows Falls, Vermont), is an American writer, actor, and director. He spent his early years in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine, moving to Maryland as a junior high school student. He attended...

Michael Radford (born February 24, 1946 in New Delhi, India to a British father and Austrian mother) is an English film director and screenwriter. Radford was educated at Bedford School before attending Worcester College, Oxford. After teaching for a few years, he...

Wong Kar-wai (; Cantonese Yale: Wòhng Gà Waih; born July 17, 1958) is an award winning Hong Kong film director, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylized film. Born in Shanghai, he moved to Hong Kong with his parents at the age of...

John David Landis (born August 3, 1950) is an American movie actor, director, writer, and producer. Although he is mostly known for his influential comedies and his music videos with Michael Jackson, Landis has also done many horror related projects. Landis was born...

Luis Mandoki (born in 1954 in Mexico City) is a film director of the Cinema of Mexico and Hollywood. Luis Mandoki studied Fine Arts in Mexico and at the San Francisco Art Institute, the London College of Printing, and the London International Film School. While...

Norman Frederick Jewison, CC, BA, LL.D (born July 21, 1926) is an Academy Award-winning Canadian film director, producer, and actor. Norman Jewison was born in Toronto in 1926. He attended Kew Beach School, and while growing up in the 1930s displayed an aptitude for...

Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (born September 24, 1949 in Calzada de Calatrava, Spain) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer. Almodóvar is arguably the most successful and internationally known Spanish filmmaker of his generation. His films, marked by...

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Mark Anatole Osborne (born August 13, 1961 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian ice hockey player, playing in the NHL as a checking winger between 1982 and 1995. Osborne played in 919 games, tallying 212 goals and 531 points. Osborne played his junior career for the...

Robert K. Weiss is an American film and television producer. His productions include films by director John Landis, producer Lorne Michaels, and the “Z. A. Z.” team of Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker. He also co-created the science-fiction TV series...

Harold P. Warren (October 23 1923 – December 26 1985) was a fertilizer salesman who lived in the El Paso, Texas area. He is best remembered for writing, directing, and producing the 1966 movie, "Manos" The Hands of Fate. Manos is remembered as one of the worst films of...

Bharathiraja (born 17 July, 1941 in Alli Nagaram, Theni district, Tamil Nadu), is a critically acclaimed South Indian filmmaker. He displayed a story-teller's potential from an early age. Before Bharathiraja entered the film world, village life on screen was a...

Aparna Sen (née Dasgupta) (Bengali: অপর্ণা সেন Ôporna Shen) (October 25, 1945 - ) is an Indian actress and film director. Aparna Sen was born in Kolkata (then Calcutta) to a Bengali Brahmo family, originally from East Bengal. Her father is the veteran critic and film...

Nathan Hertz Juran (September 1, 1907 - October 23, 2002) was a Romanian-American film art director and film director who is most noted for winning the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for How Green Was My Valley and for directing science fiction and fantasy films...

George Seaton (April 17, 1911 - July 28, 1979) was an American Academy Award-winning playwright, film director and producer. He was born in South Bend, Indiana. He began his career as radio actor 'George Stenius' in Detroit, Michigan and is credited as being the...

John Daniel Singleton (born January 6, 1968 in Los Angeles, California) is an American Academy Award-nominated film director, screenwriter, and producer. His movies depict his native South Los Angeles with its violent side given equal consideration. Singleton...