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The term auteur (French
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
 for author) is used to describe film director
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
s (or, more rarely, producers, or writers) who are considered to have a distinctive, recognizable style, because they (a) repeatedly return to the same subject matter, (b) habitually address a particular psychological or moral theme, (c) employ a recurring visual and aesthetic style, or (d) demonstrate any combination of the above.






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The term auteur (French
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
 for author) is used to describe film director
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
s (or, more rarely, producers, or writers) who are considered to have a distinctive, recognizable style, because they (a) repeatedly return to the same subject matter, (b) habitually address a particular psychological or moral theme, (c) employ a recurring visual and aesthetic style, or (d) demonstrate any combination of the above. In theory, an auteur's films are identifiable regardless of their genre
Genre

A genre is a loose set of criteria for a category of composition; the term is often used to categorize literature and speech, but is also used for any other Art#Art forms or utterance....
. The term was first applied in its cinematic sense in François Truffaut
François Truffaut

Fran?ois Roland Truffaut was an influential filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave; and remains an icon of the Cinema of France industry....
's 1954 essay "A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema" (see Auteur theory
Auteur theory

In film criticism, the 1950s-era Auteur theory holds that a film director's films reflect that director's personal creative vision, as if he were the primary "Auteur" ....
).

List of auteurs

The following is a list of directors whose status as an auteur is supported by published studies of their body of work.

A

  • Chantal Akerman
    Chantal Akerman

    Chantal Akerman is a Belgium film director and artist. Renowned for a "hyperrealist" style, Akerman's work seeks to inscribe the "images between the images." Akerman's most famous film Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles exemplifies a dedication to the "ellipses of conventional narrative cinema."...
     (1950–). Belgian
    Belgium

    * A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
    , makes films in France
    France

    France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
    .
  • Fatih Akin
    Fatih Akin

    Fatih Akin is a European Film Awards winning Germany film director of Turkish people descent....
     (1973-). Turkish-German director.
  • Robert Aldrich
    Robert Aldrich

    Robert Aldrich was an American film director, writer and Film producer, notable for such films as Kiss Me Deadly, The Big Knife, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? , The Flight of the Phoenix, Hush? Hush, Sweet Charlotte and The Dirty Dozen....
     (1918–1983). American
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
     Hollywood director.
  • Woody Allen
    Woody Allen

    Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....
     (1935–). American independent film
    Independent film

    An independent film, or indie film, is a film that is produced outside of the Hollywood studio system, a series of oligopolistic practices by several major film studios which controlled the production, distribution, and exhibition of films in the United States from the early 1920s through 1950s....
    maker.
  • Pedro Almodóvar
    Pedro Almodóvar

    Pedro Almod?var Caballero is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and Film producer.Almod?var is arguably the most successful and internationally known Spanish filmmaker of his generation....
     (1949–). Spanish
    Spain

    Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
    .
  • Robert Altman
    Robert Altman

    Robert Bernard Altman was an United Statesn film director known for making Cinema of the United States that are highly Naturalism , but with a stylized perspective....
     (1925-2006). American.
  • Alejandro Amenábar
    Alejandro Amenábar

    Alejandro Fernando Amen?bar Cantos is a Spain-Chile film film director. Amen?bar was born in Santiago de Chile, Chile in 1972, to a Spanish mother and Chilean father, but the family moved to Spain just one year after his birth....
    . Spanish.
  • Paul Thomas Anderson
    Paul Thomas Anderson

    Paul Thomas Anderson is a five-time Academy Award-nominated United States filmmaker....
     (1970) American.
  • Wes Anderson
    Wes Anderson

    Wesley Wales Anderson is an United States Film director, scriptwriter, actor, and film producer of film, short subjects and Television commercial....
     (1969–). American.
  • Theo Angelopoulos
    Theo Angelopoulos

    Theodoros Angelopoulos is a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer. One of the great film director of our time, he remains nonetheless relatively unknown among the large public....
     (1936–). Greek
    Greece

    Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
    .
  • Hideaki Anno
    Hideaki Anno

    , born 22 May 1960 in Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan, is a Japanese animation and film film director. Anno is best known for his work on the popular anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion....
     (1960–). Japanese
    Japanese people

    The are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan....
    , anime
    Anime

    is animation in Japan and considered to be "Japanese animation" in the rest of the world. Anime dates from about 1917.Anime, in addition to manga , is extremely popular in Japan and well known throughout the world....
     and live action director.
  • Michelangelo Antonioni
    Michelangelo Antonioni

    Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian orders of merit was an Italian people modernist film director....
     (1912–2007). Italian
    Italy

    Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
    , made film in Europe
    Europe

    Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
     and the United States.
  • Vicente Aranda
    Vicente Aranda

    Vicente Aranda , is a Spain film director, screenwriter and Film producer.Due to his refined and personal style, he is one of the most renowned Spanish filmmakers....
     (1926–). Spanish
    Spain

    Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
    .
  • G Aravindan (1935–1991). Indian.
  • Dario Argento
    Dario Argento

    Dario Argento is an Italy film director, film producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his work in the horror film genre, particularly in the subgenre known as giallo, and for his influence on modern horror film and slasher film....
     (Italy)
  • Darren Aronofsky
    Darren Aronofsky

    Darren Aronofsky is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer....
     (1969)
  • Fernando Arrabal
    Fernando Arrabal

    File:Fernando Arrabal.jpgFernando Arrabal Ter?n is a Spanish authors Spanish playwright, Spanish cinema, film director, Spanish novelist and Spanish poet of Spanish people origin....
     (1932). Spanish.
  • Dorothy Arzner
    Dorothy Arzner

    Dorothy Arzner was an United States film director. Her directorial career in feature films spanned from the late 1920s into the early 1940s, a time period in which there were very few?if any?other women working in the field....
     (1897–1979). American, Hollywood 1920s-30s.
  • Hal Ashby
    Hal Ashby

    Hal Ashby was an United States film director and Academy Awards-winning film editor....
     (1929–1988). American, worked in Hollywood.


B

  • Mario Bava
    Mario Bava

    Mario Bava was an Italy film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer remembered as one of the greatest names from the "golden age" of Italian horror films....
     (Italy)
  • Madhur Bhandarkar
    Madhur Bhandarkar

    Madhur Bhandarkar, , is an Indian filmmaker and script writer. He is best known for the films: Chandni Bar , Page 3 and Traffic Signal ....
     (1960–). India
    India

    India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
    n
  • Jean-Jacques Beineix
    Jean-Jacques Beineix

    Jean-Jacques Beineix is a France film director....
    . French
    France

    France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
     
  • Luc Besson
    Luc Besson

    Luc Besson is a French film director, writer and film producer. He is the creator of EuropaCorp film company....
     (1959–). French
    France

    France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
    .
  • Shyam Benegal
    Shyam Benegal

    Shyam Benegal is a prolific Indian director and screenwriter. With his first four feature films Ankur , Nishant Manthan and Bhumika he created a new genre, which has now come to be called the "middle cinema" in India....
     (1934–). India
    India

    India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
    n.
  • Ingmar Bergman
    Ingmar Bergman

    Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Sweden director, writer and Film producer for film, stage and television. He depicted bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his explorations of the human condition....
     (1918–2007). Swedish
    Sweden

    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
    .
  • Bernardo Bertolucci
    Bernardo Bertolucci

    Bernardo Bertolucci is an Academy Award-winning Italy film director and screenwriter....
     (1941–) Italian, makes films in Europe and the USA.
  • Susanne Bier
    Susanne Bier

    Susanne Bier is a Danish Film producer, Film director and writer....
     (Denmark)
  • Robert Bresson
    Robert Bresson

    Robert Bresson was a French film director known for his spiritual, ascetic style....
     (1901–1999). French.
  • John Boorman
    John Boorman

    John Boorman is an England filmmaker, currently based in Ireland, best known for his feature films such as Point Blank , Deliverance, Excalibur , Hope and Glory , The General and Zardoz....
    . (1933–). British
    United Kingdom

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
    .
  • Danny Boyle
    Danny Boyle

    Danny Boyle is an Academy Award-winning British people filmmaker and film producer. He is best known for his work on films such as Trainspotting , 28 Days Later, Sunshine , and Slumdog Millionaire, for which Boyle won numerous awards in 2009, including the Academy Award for Best Director....
     (UK)
  • Jan Bucquoy
    Jan Bucquoy

    Jan Bucquoy is an anarchist and author-filmmaker born in Harelbeke, Belgium who started as a theatre practitioner and who worked as a cartoon-scriptwriter....
     (1945-). Belgian, maker of cult movies.
  • Luis Buñuel
    Luis Buñuel

    Luis Bu?uel Portol?s was a Spanish people-born filmmaker who worked mainly in France and Mexico, but also in his native Spain and in the United States....
     (1900–1983). Spanish, made films in Europe and Mexico
    Mexico

    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
    .
  • Tim Burton
    Tim Burton

    Tim Burton is an award-winning Film Director and Film Producer. Burton was born in Burbank, California, the first of two sons to Bill Burton and Jean Erickson....
     (1958–). American, Hollywood filmmaker.
  • Leonid Berdichevsky
    Leonid Berdichevsky

    Leonid Berdichevsky is a world renowned artist, writer and film-maker, who was born in Riga, Latvia in 1945. He graduated from the State Academy of Cinematography Since 1988 Leonid Berdichevsky has been living and working in Toronto, Canada....
     (1945-).


C


  • Silvio Caiozzi (1944–). Chilean.
  • Jane Campion
    Jane Campion

    Jane Campion is an Academy Awards-winning film maker and screenplay writer. She is one of the most internationally successful New Zealand directors, although most of her work has been made in or financed by other countries, principally Australia ? where she now lives ? and the U.S....
     (1954–). New Zealander.
  • Frank Capra
    Frank Capra

    'Frank Russell Capra' was an Italian-American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It's a Wonderful Life and Mr....
     (1897–1991). American.
  • Laurent Cantet
    Laurent Cantet

    Laurent Cantet is a French director, born on June 15, 1961 at Melle, Deux-S?vres. His parents were schoolteachers in Ardilleux.On 25 May 2008, he received the Palme d'Or at the Festival de Cannes 2008, for the movie Entre les murs....
     (France)
  • Marcel Carné
    Marcel Carné

    Marcel Carn? was a French film director.Born in Paris, France, he began his career in silent film as a trainee with director Jacques Feyder. By age 25, Carn? had already directed his first film, one that marked the beginning of a successful collaboration with surrealist poet and screenwriter Jacques Pr?vert....
     (1906–1996). French.
  • John Carpenter
    John Carpenter

    John Howard Carpenter is an United States film director, screenwriter, Film producer, composer and occasional actor. Although Carpenter has worked in numerous film genres, his name is most commonly associated with horror film and science fiction film....
     (USA)
  • John Cassavetes
    John Cassavetes

    John Nicholas Cassavetes was an United Statesn actor, screenwriter and film director. He appeared in many Hollywood films, and is considered a pioneer of independent film....
     (1929–1989). American, independent filmmaker.
  • Nuri Bilge Ceylan
    Nuri Bilge Ceylan

    Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a Turkey photographer and film director. He is married to the filmmaker, photographer, and actress Ebru Ceylan, his co-star in Iklimler....
     (1959–). Turkish.
  • Youssef Chahine
    Youssef Chahine

    Youssef Chahine was an Egyptians film director active in the Cinema of Egypt since 1950. He was credited with launching the career of actor Omar Sharif ....
     (1926–). Egyptian.
  • Claude Chabrol
    Claude Chabrol

    Claude Chabrol is a French Cinema of France director and one of the core members of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence in the late 1950s and early 1960s....
     (1930–). French.
  • Charlie Chaplin
    Charlie Chaplin

    Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. Order of the British Empire , better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an Academy Award-winning England comedy film actor and filmmaker....
     (1889–1977). British, made films in Hollywood.
  • Chen Kaige
    Chen Kaige

    Chen Kaige is a Chinese people film director and a leading figure of the fifth generation of Cinema of China. His films are known for their visual flair and epic storytelling....
     (1952–). Chinese.
  • Stephen Chow
    Stephen Chow

    Stephen Chow Sing-Chi???, born 22 June 1962 , is a Hong Kong actor, comedian, scriptwriter, film director and film producer.Chow is a well-known, top-tier comedian and superstar of Cinema of Hong Kong....
     (1962-). Hong Kong Chinese.
  • René Clair
    René Clair

    Ren? Clair born Ren?-Lucien Chomette, was a France filmmaker....
     (1898–1981). French.
  • Larry Clark
    Larry Clark

    Lawrence Donald Clark is an United States film director, photographer, writer and film producer who is best known for the movie Kids . His most common subject is youth that casually engage in illegal drug use, underage sex, and violence, and who are part of a subculture ....
     * Henri-Georges Clouzot
    Henri-Georges Clouzot

    Henri-Georges Clouzot was a France film director, screenwriter and film producer....
     (1904–1977). French.
  • Jean Cocteau
    Jean Cocteau

    Jean Maurice Eug?ne Cl?ment Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright and filmmaker. Along with other Surrealists of his generation Cocteau grappled with the "algebra" of verbal codes old and new, mise en sc?ne language and technologies of modernism to create a paradox: a classical avant-garde....
     (1889–1963). French.
  • Joel and Ethan Coen
    Coen Brothers

    Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, known together professionally as the Coen brothers, are American filmmakers. For more than twenty years, the pair have written and directed numerous successful films, ranging from Screwball comedy film to hardboiled , to movies where genres blur together ....
     (1954–, 1957–). American, independent filmmakers.
  • Francis Ford Coppola
    Francis Ford Coppola

    Francis Ford "Frank" Coppola is a five-time Academy Award-winning United States film director, Film producer and screenwriter. Away from showbusiness, Coppola is also a vintner, publisher and Hotel manager....
     (1939-). American, mostly Hollywood
  • Sofia Coppola
    Sofia Coppola

    Sofia Carmina Coppola is an American film director, actor, film producer and Academy Awards-winning screenwriter. She is the third female director, and only American woman, to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing, the other two being Lina Wertm?ller and Jane Campion....
     (USA)
Sofia Coppola
Sofia Coppola

Sofia Carmina Coppola is an American film director, actor, film producer and Academy Awards-winning screenwriter. She is the third female director, and only American woman, to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing, the other two being Lina Wertm?ller and Jane Campion....
 (USA)
  • Pedro Costa
    Pedro Costa

    Pedro Costa is a Portugal film director.He is acclaimed for using his ascetic style to depict the marginalised people in desperate living situations....
     (1959–). Portuguese
    Portugal

    Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
  • Cameron Crowe
    Cameron Crowe

    Cameron Bruce Crowe is an Academy Award-winning United States screenwriter and film director. Before moving into the film industry, Crowe was a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine, for which he still frequently writes....
     (USA)
  • Alfonso Cuarón
    Alfonso Cuarón

    Alfonso Cuar?n Orozco is an Academy Award-nominated Mexico filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer. Some of his works include Y tu mam? tambi?n, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban , A_Little_Princess_ and Children of Men....
     (1961–). Mexican.
  • George Cukor
    George Cukor

    'George Cukor' was an Academy Award-winning United States film director. His career flourished at RKO and later MGM, where he directed a string of impressive films including What Price Hollywood? , A Bill of Divorcement , Dinner at Eight , Little Women , Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copp...
     (USA)
  • Michael Curtiz
    Michael Curtiz

    Michael Curtiz was an Academy Award-winning Hungarian-American film director. He directed at least 50 films in Europe and a further hundred in the United States, among the best-known being The Adventures of Robin Hood , Angels with Dirty Faces, Casablanca , Yankee Doodle Dandy, and White Christmas ....
     (USA)


D

  • Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
    Dardenne brothers

    Jean-Pierre Dardenne and his younger brother Luc Dardenne are a critically acclaimed Belgian cinema filmmaking duo. They screenplay, film producer and film director their films together....
     (1951–, 1951–). Belgian
    Belgium

    * A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
    .
  • Jules Dassin
    Jules Dassin

    Jules Dassin, born Julius Dassin , was an United States film director. He was a subject of the Hollywood blacklist, and subsequently moved to France where he revived his career....
     (1911–). American, made films in France after being blacklisted
    Hollywood blacklist

    The Hollywood blacklist?more precisely the entertainment industry blacklist, into which it expanded?was the mid-twentieth-century list of screenwriters, actors, directors, musicians, and other U.S....
    .
  • Terence Davies
    Terence Davies

    Terence Davies is an England screenwriter - film director, sometime novelist and actor. As a filmmaker, Davies is noted for his recurring themes of emotional endurance, the influence of memory on everyday life and the potentially crippling effects of dogmatic religiosity on the emotional life of individuals and societies....
     (1945-). British.
  • Jonathan Demme
    Jonathan Demme

    Robert Jonathan Demme is an Academy Award for Directing-winning United States film director, film producer and writer....
     (USA)
  • Jacques Demy
    Jacques Demy

    Jacques Demy was one of the most approachable filmmakers to appear in the wake of the French New Wave. Uninterested in the formal experimentation of Alain Resnais, or the political agitation of Jean-Luc Godard, Demy instead created a self-contained fantasy world closer to that of Fran?ois Truffaut, drawing on musicals, fairytales and the gol...
     (1931–1990). French, key New Wave
    French New Wave

    The New Wave was a blanket term coined by critics for a group of Cinema of France of the late 1950s and 1960s, influenced by Italian Neorealism and classical Hollywood cinema....
     filmmaker.
  • Vittorio De Sica
    Vittorio de Sica

    Vittorio De Sica was a critically acclaimed Italy Italian neorealism film director and actor....
     (1901–1974). Italian, key neorealist
    Italian neorealism

    Italian neorealism is a style of film characterized by stories set amongst the poor and working class, filmed on location, frequently using nonprofessional actors....
     filmmaker.
  • Alexander Dovzhenko (1894–1956). Soviet
    Soviet Union

    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
    .
  • Carl Theodor Dreyer
    Carl Theodor Dreyer

    Carl Theodor Dreyer, Jr. was a Denmark born film director of Sweden descent. He is regarded by many critics and filmmakers as one of the greatest directors in cinema....
     (1889–1968). Danish
    Denmark

    Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
    .
  • Bruno Dumont
    Bruno Dumont

    Bruno Dumont is a France film director. To date, he has directed five feature films, all of which border somewhere between realistic drama and the avant-garde....
     (1958–). French.
  • Guru Dutt
    Guru Dutt

    Guru Dutt or Vasanth Kumar Shivashankar Padukone was a Hindi film director, producer, and actor. He is often credited with ushering in the golden era of Indian cinema....
     (1925–1964). Indian.


E

  • Jessica Earley (1981-). Great American.
  • Blake Edwards
    Blake Edwards

    Blake Edwards is an Academy Award-winning United States film director, screenwriter, and film producer.Born William Blake Crump in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Edwards was the son of a stage director....
     (1922–). American.
  • Atom Egoyan
    Atom Egoyan

    Atom Egoyan, Order of Canada is a critically acclaimed Canadians of Armenian descent film maker, known as one of the most remarkable figures of contemporary independent filmmaking....
     (1960–). Canadian.
  • Sergei Eisenstein
    Sergei Eisenstein

    Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a revolutionary Soviet Union Russian people film director and Film theory noted in particular for his silent films Strike , The Battleship Potemkin and October: Ten Days That Shook the World, as well as Historical movie Epic film Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible ....
     (1898–1948). Soviet.
  • Victor Erice
    Víctor Erice

    V?ctor Erice Aras is a Spanish film director.He studied law, political science, and economics at the University of Madrid also attended the Escuela Oficial de Cinematografia in 1963 to study film direction....
     (1940-). Spanish.


F

  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder
    Rainer Werner Fassbinder

    Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a Germany film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor. A premier representative of the New German Cinema. He maintained a frenetic pace in film-making, in a professional career that lasted less than fifteen years Fassbinder completed 35 Feature film films; two television series shot on film; three Short sub...
     (1945–1982). German, key New Wave
    New German Cinema

    New German cinema is a period in Cinema of Germany which lasted from the late 1960s into the 1980s. It saw the emergence of a new generation of directors....
     filmmaker.
  • Federico Fellini
    Federico Fellini

    Federico Fellini, Italian orders of merit was an Italy film director. Known for a distinct style which meshes fantasy and baroque images, he is considered as one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century....
     (1920–1993). Italian.
  • Abel Ferrara
    Abel Ferrara

    'Abel Ferrara' is an United States film screenwriter and film director. He is best known as an independent filmmaker of such films as The Driller Killer , Ms....
     (USA)
  • David Fincher
    David Fincher

    David Leo Fincher is an American, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and music video director known for his dark and stylish movies such as Seven , Fight Club , Zodiac and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button....
     (1962–). American.
  • Victor Fleming
    Victor Fleming

    Victor Fleming was an Academy Award-winning United States film director....
     (USA)
  • Miloš Forman
    Miloš Forman

    Jan Tom? Forman , better known as Milo? Forman , is a Czech-American film director, screenwriter, actor and professor. Two of his films, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus are among the most celebrated in the History of Motion Picture....
     (1932–). Czech
    Czechoslovakia

    Czechoslovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918 until 1992 . On January 1, 1993, Czechoslovakia dissolution of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia....
    , makes films in Hollywood.
  • John Ford
    John Ford

    John Ford was an United States film director of Ireland heritage famous for both his western such as Stagecoach and The Searchers and adaptations of such 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath ....
     (1894–1973). American.
  • Stephen Frears
    Stephen Frears

    Stephen Arthur Frears is a two-time Academy Award-nominated England film director....
     (1941-). British
  • Lucio Fulci
    Lucio Fulci

    Lucio Fulci was an Italy film Film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is perhaps best known for his directorial work on Gore film films, including Zombi 2 and The Beyond , although he made films in genres as diverse as giallo, western , and comedy film....
     (1927–1996). Italian.
  • Samuel Fuller
    Samuel Fuller

    Samuel Fuller was an United States screenwriter and film director known for low-budget genre movies with controversial themes....
     (1912–1997). American.


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  • Abel Gance
    Abel Gance

    Abel Gance was a France film director, film producer, writer, actor and film editor best remembered for his work in silent film.Napol?on is among his most innovative works....
     (1889–1981). French.
  • Costa Gavras
    Costa Gavras

    Constantinos Gavras , better known as Costa-Gavras , is a Greek filmmaker, best known for films with overt political themes, most famously the dark, fast-paced thriller, Z ....
     (1933–) Greek
    Greece

    Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
    , makes films in France and the United States.
  • Ritwik Ghatak
    Ritwik Ghatak

    Ritwik Ghatak was a Bengali people Indian script writer and filmmaker. Ghatak's stature among Bengali cinema directors is comparable to that of Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen....
     (1925–1976). Indian, independent Bengali
    Bengali language

    Bengali or Bangla is an Indo-European languages language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit and Sanskrit languages....
     filmmaker.
  • Terry Gilliam
    Terry Gilliam

    Terrence Vance Gilliam is an American-born British writer, filmmaker, animator and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam is also known for directing several well-regarded films including Brazil , Twelve Monkeys , and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ....
     (1940–). American born British, makes films in the UK and US.
  • Amos Gitai
    Amos Gitai

    Amos Gitai is an Israeli film director....
     (1950–). Israeli
  • Jean-Luc Godard
    Jean-Luc Godard

    Jean-Luc Godard is a French and Swiss filmmaker and one of the founding members of the Nouvelle Vague, or "French New Wave".Godard was born to French people-Swiss parents in Paris....
     (1930–). French, key New Wave
    French New Wave

    The New Wave was a blanket term coined by critics for a group of Cinema of France of the late 1950s and 1960s, influenced by Italian Neorealism and classical Hollywood cinema....
     filmmaker.
  • Noël Godin
    Noël Godin

    No?l Godin is a Belgium writer, critic, actor and notorious cream pie flinger or ?Pieing?. Godin gained global attention in 1998 when his group ambushed Microsoft CEO Bill Gates in Brussels, pelting the software Business magnate with cream pies ....
     (1945-). Belgian, independent filmmaker and writer.
  • Michel Gondry
    Michel Gondry

    Michel Gondry, born May 8, 1963, is a French Academy Awards-winning screenwriter, film, Television commercial and music video film director. He is noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en sc?ne....
     (1963–). French.
  • Alejandro González Iñárritu
    Alejandro González Iñárritu

    Alejandro Gonz?lez I??rritu , born August 15, 1963, to Hector Gonz?lez Gama and Luz Mar?a I??rritu in Mexico City, is an Academy Award, Palme d'Or, Golden Lion, European Film Award, DGA Award, PGA Award, three-time C?sar Award, Silver Ribbon, -nominated and Prix de la mise en sc?ne, BAFTA, three-time Ariel Award, Golden Globe, David di Donate...
     (1963–). Mexican
    Mexico

    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
    .
  • Adoor Gopalakrishnan
    Adoor Gopalakrishnan

    Adoor Moutatthu Gopalakrishnan Unnithan is a six-time Indian National Film Award winning Malyali Indian filmmaker, script writer, and film producer....
     (1941–). Indian, independent filmmaker.
  • David Gow
    David Gow

    David Gow is a playwright, screenwriter and character actor. He is Canadian and currently resides in Quebec. He is married to writer L. Kalo Gow....
    , writer/director/producer "Steel Toes
    Steel Toes

    Steel Toes is a 2006 in film film directed by David Gow and Mark Adam, and starring Academy Award-nominee David Strathairn. It was filmed in Montr?al, Canada, and was produced by Galafilm....
    ", also a playwright and theatre director
  • David Gordon Green
    David Gordon Green

    Gordon Green is an United States filmmaker. He grew up in Richardson, Texas, and attended Richardson High School and the North Carolina School of the Arts, where he studied film directing....
     (USA)
  • Paul Greengrass
    Paul Greengrass

    Paul Greengrass is an English writer and Academy Award nominated film director. He specialises in dramatisations of real-life events and is known for his signature use of hand-held cameras....
     (UK, makes films in America as well)
  • Peter Greenaway
    Peter Greenaway

    Peter Greenaway, Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom film director born in Wales. He is currently professor of cinema studies at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland....
     (1942–). British, independent, avant-garde filmmaker.
  • D.W. Griffith (1875–1948). American.
  • Ruy Guerra
    Ruy Guerra

    Ruy Alexandre Guerra Coelho Pereira is a film director, screenwriter, film editor, and actor in Brazil. Guerra was born a Portugal citizen in Louren?o Marques in Mo?ambique, when it was still a colony of Portugal....
     (1931–). Mozambican
    Mozambique

    Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest....
    , makes films in Brazil.
  • Yilmaz Güney
    Yilmaz Güney

    Yilmaz G?ney, was a Alevi Zaza-Kurdish film director, Screenwriter, novelist and actor of Zaza people and Kurdish people origin. Many of his works are devoted to the plight of ordinary, middle class- to low class people in Turkey....
     (1937–1984). Turkish
    Turkey

    Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
    .
  • Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
    Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

    Tom?s Guti?rrez Alea was an influential Cuban filmmaker. He wrote and directed more than 20 features, documentaries, and short films, known for his sharp insight into post-Revolutionary Cuba, and a delicate balance between dedication to the revolution and criticism of the social, economic, and political conditions of the country....
     (1928–1996). Cuban
    Cubans

    Cubans are people inhabiting or originating from Cuba. Most Cubans live in Cuba, although there is also a large Cuban diaspora, especially in the United States....
    .


H

  • Michael Haneke
    Michael Haneke

    Michael Haneke is an Austrian film director and screenwriter best known for his bleak and disturbing style. His films often document problems and failures in modern society....
     (1942–). Austria
    Austria

    Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
    n,
  • Howard Hawks
    Howard Hawks

    Howard Winchester Hawks was an American film director, Film producer and writer of the Classical Hollywood cinema. He died in Palm Springs, California, California, after a fall....
     (1896–1977). American.
  • Todd Haynes
    Todd Haynes

    Todd Haynes is an award-winning United States film director best known for the films Poison , Academy Award-nominated Far From Heaven, and I'm Not There....
     (USA)
  • Werner Herzog
    Werner Herzog

    Werner Herzog is an Academy Award-nominated German film director, screenwriter, actor, and opera director.He is often associated with the German New Wave movement , along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schl?ndorff, Hans-J?rgen Syberberg, Wim Wenders and others....
     (1942–). German, key independent New Wave
    New German Cinema

    New German cinema is a period in Cinema of Germany which lasted from the late 1960s into the 1980s. It saw the emergence of a new generation of directors....
     filmmaker.
  • Walter Hill
    Walter Hill

    Walter Hill may refer to:*Walter Hill , American film director*Walter Barnard Hill , chancellor of the University of Georgia *Walterhill, Tennessee...
     (USA)
  • Alfred Hitchcock
    Alfred Hitchcock

    Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Order of the British Empire was a British filmmaker and film producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres....
     (1899–1980). British, made films in Hollywood.
  • Agnieszka Holland
    Agnieszka Holland

    Agnieszka Holland is an award-winning Polish film and TV director and screenwriter. Best recognized for her highly political contributions to Polish New Wave cinema, Holland ranks as one of Poland's most prominent filmmakers....
     (1948–). Polish.
  • Ishiro Honda
    Ishiro Honda

    Ishiro Honda , sometimes miscredited in foreign releases as "Inoshiro Honda", was a Japanese people film director. His early film career included working as an assistant under the famed director, Akira Kurosawa....
     (1911–1993). Japan.
  • Hou Hsiao-Hsien
    Hou Hsiao-Hsien

    Hou Hsiao-Hsien is an award-winning film director and a leading figure of Taiwan's Cinema of Taiwan#New Wave Cinema, 1982 ? 1990....
     (1947–). Taiwan
    Taiwan

    Taiwan is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the country governed by the Republic of China and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island, Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands...
    ese, key New Wave filmmaker.
  • King Hu
    King Hu

    King Hu was a Hong Kong and Taiwan-based China film director whose Wuxia films brought cinema of China to new technical and artistic heights....
     (1931–1997). Chinese, made films in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
  • Danièle Huillet (1936–2006). French, collaborated with husband Jean-Marie Straub.
  • John Huston
    John Huston

    John Marcellus Huston was an United States film director and actor. He was known for directing the films, The Maltese Falcon , The Asphalt Jungle , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The African Queen , The Misfits , and The Man Who Would Be King ....
     (USA)


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  • Kon Ichikawa
    Kon Ichikawa

    was a prominent Japanese film director....
     (1915–2008). Japanese, postwar New Wave filmmaker.
  • Shohei Imamura
    Shohei Imamura

    was a Japanese film director. Imamura was the first Japanese director to win two Palme d'Or awards, and is regarded as one of the most important and idiosyncratic filmmakers in the history of cinema....
     (1926–2006). Japanese, key New Wave filmmaker.
  • James Ivory
    James Ivory (director)

    James Francis Ivory is an award-winning United States film director, best known for the results of his long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, which included both India Film producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala....
     (1928–). American, made films in the UK.


J

  • Peter Jackson
    Peter Jackson

    Peter Robert Jackson, New Zealand Order of Merit is a three-time Academy Award-winning New Zealand filmmaker, film producer and screenwriter, best known for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy trilogy adapted from the The Lord of the Rings by J....
     (1961–). New Zealand
    New Zealand

    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
     film maker.
  • Derek Jarman
    Derek Jarman

    Derek Jarman was an England film director, stage designer, artist, and writer....
     (1942– 1994). English, independent filmmaker, stage designer, artist and writer .
  • Jim Jarmusch
    Jim Jarmusch

    Jim Jarmusch is an United States independent filmmaker and script writer....
     (1953–). American, independent filmmaker.
  • Jean-Pierre Jeunet
    Jean-Pierre Jeunet

    Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a France film director....
     (1953–). French.
  • Jia Zhangke
    Jia Zhangke

    Jia Zhangke is a Chinese film director. He is generally regarded as a leading figure of the "Cinema of China#The Sixth Generation and beyond, 1990s - present" movement of Chinese cinema, a group that also includes such figures as Wang Xiaoshuai and Zhang Yuan....
     (1970–). Chinese.
  • Alejandro Jodorowsky
    Alejandro Jodorowsky

    Alejandro Jodorowsky is a Chilean amateur scholar in comparative religion, playwright, Film director, Film producer, composer, actor, mime artist, comic book writer, tarot reading, historian and psychotherapist....
     (1929–). Bolivian, surrealist, makes films in Mexico and France.


K

  • Aki Kaurismäki
    Aki Kaurismäki

    Aki Olavi Kaurism?ki is a Finnish script writer and film director....
     (Finland)
  • Elia Kazan
    Elia Kazan

    Elia Kazan, September 7 1909 – September 28 2003, was an United States award-winning film director and Theatre direction, film producer and theatrical producer, screenwriter, novelist and co-founder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947....
     (Turkey, made films in the USA)
  • Buster Keaton
    Buster Keaton

    Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an Academy Award-winning United States comic actor and filmmaker. Best known for his silent films, his trademark was physical comedy with a stoicism, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face" ....
     (USA)
  • Abbas Kiarostami
    Abbas Kiarostami

    Abbas Kiarostami is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film producer. An active filmmaker since 1970, Kiarostami has been involved in over forty films, including short films and Documentary film....
     (1940- ) (Iran) Iranian filmmaker.
  • Krzysztof Kieslowski
    Krzysztof Kieslowski

    Krzysztof Kieslowski , was an influential Academy Awards-nominated Poland film film director and screenwriter, known internationally for his film cycles The Decalogue and Three Colors....
     (1941- 1996) (Poland)
  • Takeshi Kitano
    Takeshi Kitano

    is a Japanese filmmaker, comedian, actor, film editor, presenter, screenwriter, author, poet, Painting, and one-time video game designer who has received critical acclaim, both in his native Japan and abroad, for his highly idiosyncratic film work....
     (Japan)
  • Masaki Kobayashi
    Masaki Kobayashi

    was a Japanese people film director.Among his films is Kwaidan , a collection of four kwaidan drawn from Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn, each of which has a surprise ending....
     (Japan)
  • Andrei Konchalovsky
    Andrei Konchalovsky

    Andrey Sergeyevich Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky is a Russian filmmaker....
     (Soviet Union)
  • Stanley Kubrick
    Stanley Kubrick

    Stanley Kubrick was an influential American-British filmmaker, screenwriter, Film producer and photographer. He directed a number of highly acclaimed and often controversial films....
     (1928 – 1999) (USA)
  • Tucker Kujala (USA) Youth director. Creates disjointed films lacking any real meaning, all of which star the same cast of actors. Notable works include "URBAN LEGEND", "Static Affair", and various other short subjects.
  • Akira Kurosawa
    Akira Kurosawa

    was a prominent Japanese people filmmaker, film producer, screenwriter and film editing. His first credited film as director, , was released in 1943, his last as director, , in 1993....
     (1910-1998) (Japan) Post-war Japanese filmmaker.
  • Emir Kusturica
    Emir Kusturica

    Emir Kusturica, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres is a filmmaker, actor and musician of Bosnian ancestry living in Serbia. He has converted to the Serbian Orthodox Church faith and considers himself to be Serb....
     (Serbia)
  • Stanley Kwan
    Stanley Kwan

    Stanley Kwan is a Hong Kong film director and film producer.Kwan was born in Hong Kong, and he landed a job at the TVB after receiving a mass communications degree at Hong Kong Baptist University....
     (Hong Kong)
  • Im Kwon-Taek
    Im Kwon-taek

    Im Kwon-taek is one of South Korea's most renowned film directors. In an active and prolific career, his films have won many domestic and international film festival awards as well as considerable box-office success, and helped bring international attention to the Korean film industry....
     (South Korea)


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  • Fritz Lang
    Fritz Lang

    Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang was an Austrian-Germany-United States filmmaker, screenwriter and occasional film producer. One of the best known ?migr?s from Germany's school of German Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute....
     (Germany) German and American (Hollywood) filmmaker.
  • David Lean
    David Lean

    Sir David Lean, CBE, was an England filmmaker, film producer, screenwriter and Film editing, best remembered for big-screen epics such as Lawrence of Arabia , The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago , Ryan's Daughter, and A Passage to India ....
     (UK)
  • Patrice Leconte
    Patrice Leconte

    Patrice Leconte is a France film director and screenwriter....
     (France)
  • Ang Lee
    Ang Lee

    Ang Lee is an Academy Award-winning Taiwanese American film director....
     (Taiwan/USA)
  • Spike Lee
    Spike Lee

    Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee is an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated United States film director, Film producer, screenwriter, and actor, noted for his films dealing with controversial Society and Politics issues....
     (USA)
  • Mike Leigh
    Mike Leigh

    Mike Leigh, Order of the British Empire is an England writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and did his early acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company ....
     (United Kingdom)
  • Sergio Leone
    Sergio Leone

    Sergio Leone was an Italy film director, Film producer and screenwriter most famous for his spaghetti westerns....
     (Italy)
  • Jerry Lewis
    Jerry Lewis

    Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
     (US)
  • Richard Linklater
    Richard Linklater

    Richard Stuart Linklater is an Academy Award-nominated United States film director and screenwriter....
     (US)
  • Ken Loach
    Ken Loach

    Kenneth Loach , commonly known as Ken Loach, is an English film director and television director director. He is known for his naturalistic, social realism directing style and for his socialist beliefs, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as homelessness and Labor rights ....
     (UK)
  • Joseph Losey
    Joseph Losey

    Joseph Losey was an United States theater and film director. After studying in Germany with Bertolt Brecht, Losey returned to the United States, eventually making his way to Hollywood....
     (USA, made films in the USA and UK)
  • Ernst Lubitsch
    Ernst Lubitsch

    Ernst Lubitsch , was a German-born Jewish film director. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch"....
     (USA)
  • George Lucas
    George Lucas

    George Walton Lucas, Jr. is an Academy Award-nominated United States film director, film producer, screenwriter and chairman of Lucasfilm Ltd. He is best known for being the creator of the Epic film Sci-Fi franchise Star Wars and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones....
     (USA)
  • Sidney Lumet
    Sidney Lumet

    Sidney Lumet is an Academy Award winning United States film director, with over 50 films to his name, including the critically acclaimed 12 Angry Men , Serpico , Dog Day Afternoon , Network and The Verdict , all of which, except for Serpico , earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director....
     (USA)
  • Bigas Luna
    Bigas Luna

    Juan Jos? Bigas Luna is a Catalan people film director. He began his professional career in the design world, creating the Estudio Gris with Carlos Riart in 1969....
     (Spain)
  • Ida Lupino
    Ida Lupino

    Ida Lupino was an Anglo-American film actor, film director, and a pioneer among women filmmakers. In her forty-eight year career, she appeared in fifty-nine films, and directed nine others....
     (USA)
  • David Lynch
    David Lynch

    David Keith Lynch is an United States film director, screenwriter, Film producer, Painting, cartoonist, composer, video artist and performance artist....
     (1946- )(USA)


M

  • Guy Maddin
    Guy Maddin

    Guy Maddin is a Canada screenwriter and film director of both film and short films from Winnipeg, Manitoba. His most distinctive quality is his penchant for recreating the look and style of silent film or talkies films which has solidified his popularity and acclaim in alternative film circles....
     (Canada)
  • Mohsen Makhmalbaf
    Mohsen Makhmalbaf

    Mohsen Makhmalbaf is an Iranian film director, writer, film editor, and film producer. He is currently the president of the Asian Film Academy....
     (Iran)
  • Terrence Malick
    Terrence Malick

    Terrence "Terry" Malick is an Academy Award nominated American filmmaker and script writer. In a career spanning decades, Malick has directed one short film and four feature-length films....
     (USA)
  • Louis Malle
    Louis Malle

    Louis Malle was a French film director, working in both French and English....
     (France)
  • David Mamet
    David Mamet

    David Alan Mamet is an United Statesn author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and film director. His works are known for their clever, terse, sometimes vulgar dialogue and arcane stylized phrasing, as well as for his exploration of masculinity....
     (USA)
  • Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    Joseph L. Mankiewicz

    Joseph Leo Mankiewicz was an United States Academy Award-winning film director, screenwriter, and film producer....
     (USA)
  • Michael Mann
    Michael Mann (film director)

    Michael Kenneth Mann is an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. For his work, he has received nominations from international organizations and juries, including those at British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Cannes Film Festival and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts a...
     (USA)
  • Chris Marker
    Chris Marker

    Chris Marker is a French writer, photographer, film director, multimedia artist and Documentary film maker.He is best known for directing La Jet?e , as well as Sans Soleil and AK , a documentary about Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa....
     (France)
  • Shane Meadows
    Shane Meadows

    Shane Meadows is an England film director, screenwriter and occasional actor, from Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, England. He is regarded as one of the rising stars of Cinema of the United Kingdom....
     (UK)
  • Julio Medem
    Julio Medem

    Julio M?dem is a Spain Basque people writer and film director.Medem was born in San Sebasti?n, Basque Country and showed an interest in movies since childhood, when he would take his father's Super 8mm film camera and shoot at night, while nobody was paying attention....
     (Spain)
  • Deepa Mehta
    Deepa Mehta

    Deepa Mehta is a Genie Award winning and Academy Award nominated Indian-born Canada film director and screenwriter. Deepa Mehta's films focus around the Indian community, in India and in the diaspora....
     (Indian born Canadian)
  • Fernando Meirelles
    Fernando Meirelles

    Fernando Meirelles is an Academy Award-nominated Brazilian people filmmaker.He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director in 2004 for his work in the Brazilian film City of God , released in 2002 in Brazil and in 2003 in the United States of America by Miramax Films....
     (Brazil, makes American films as well)
  • Georges Méliès
    Georges Méliès

    Georges M?li?s , full name Marie-Georges-Jean M?li?s, was a France filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest film....
     (France)
  • Jean-Pierre Melville
    Jean-Pierre Melville

    Jean-Pierre Melville was a France filmmaker. He later adopted the pseudonym Melville as a tribute to his favorite American author, Herman Melville....
     (France)
  • Takashi Miike
    Takashi Miike

    is a highly prolific and controversial Japanese filmmaker. He has directed over seventy theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991....
     (Japan)
  • Vincente Minnelli
    Vincente Minnelli

    Vincente Minnelli was a Hollywood film director and Theatre director. His skilled integration of story, music, lighting, and design elements in a film made him the most critically respected crafter of musical film....
     (1903-1986) (USA)
  • Hayao Miyazaki
    Hayao Miyazaki

    is a prominent filmmaker of many popular animated feature films. He is also the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, an animation studio and production company....
     (Japan)
  • Kenji Mizoguchi
    Kenji Mizoguchi

    Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese people filmmaker and screenwriter. He is most famous for his film Ugetsu which won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and for his mastery of long take and mis-en-scene....
     (1898-1956) (Japan) Key Japanese filmmaker.
  • Michael Moore
    Michael Moore

    Michael Francis Moore is an Academy Award-winning United States filmmaker, author and Modern liberalism in the United States political commentator....
     (1954-) (USA) Director, producer, author, & activist.
  • Nanni Moretti
    Nanni Moretti

    Giovanni Moretti is an Italy film director, film producer and actor....
     (Italy)
  • Kira Muratova
    Kira Muratova

    Kira Muratova is a Russia film director working in Ukraine, screenwriter and actress. She was born in 1934 in Bessarabia . She is known for her unusual and original directorial style....
     - Russian film director
  • F.W. Murnau (Germany)
  • Fei Mu
    Fei Mu

    Fei Mu was a major Cinema of China film director from the pre-Communist era....
     (1906-1951) (China) Pre-revolutionary Chinese filmmaker.
  • Carl Mygind (1900-2000) (Norway) (Norwegian pre-modern).>


N

  • Mikio Naruse
    Mikio Naruse

    was a Japanese people film director, writer and Film producer who directed some 89 films spanning from the end of the silent era through the sixties ....
     (1905-1969) (Japan) Key Japanese filmmaker.


  • Christopher Nolan
    Christopher Nolan

    Christopher Allen James Nolan is a British-American filmmaker, screenwriter and Film producer. The son of an English people father and American mother, Nolan is a multiple citizenship of the United Kingdom and the United States....
     (1970-) (UK)
  • Raphael Nadjari
    Raphael Nadjari

    Raphael Nadjari is a French born writer and director for film and television.In 1993, Nadjari started working for France television as a writer and director....
     (1971-) (FR/IL)


O

  • Manoel de Oliveira
    Manoel de Oliveira

    Manoel C?ndido Pinto de Oliveira, Order of St. James of the Sword is a Portugal film director born in Cedofeita, Porto. He is currently the oldest active film director in the world....
     (Portugal)
  • Max Ophüls
    Max Ophüls

    Max Oph?ls was an influential German-born film director who worked in Germany, the United States, and France....
     (Germany)
  • Mamoru Oshii
    Mamoru Oshii

    Mamoru Oshii is a Japanese filmmaker and screenwriter famous for his philosophy-oriented storytelling. Presently, Oshii lives in Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan with his dogs – a basset hound named Gabriel and a Mixed-breed dog named Daniel ....
     (Japan)
  • Nagisa Oshima
    Nagisa Oshima

    , born March 31, 1932 in Kyoto, is a famous Japanese people film director. After graduating from Kyoto University he was hired by Shochiku and quickly progressed to directing his own movies, making his debut feature A Town of Love and Hope in 1959 in film....
     (1932-) Japan
    Japan

    Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
    ese, New Wave filmmaker, critic & theorist.
  • Idrissa Ouedraogo
    Idrissa Ouedraogo

    Idrissa Ouedraogo is a film director from Burkina Faso. He is best known for his films Yaaba and Tila?....
     (Burkina Faso)
  • Francois Ozon
    François Ozon

    Fran?ois Ozon is a France film director and screenwriter and whose films are usually characterized by sharp satirical wit and a freewheeling view on human sexuality....
     (France)
  • Yasujiro Ozu
    Yasujiro Ozu

    was an influential Japanese people filmmaker. Known for his distinctive technical style, developed since the silent films, marriage and family were among the most persistent themes in his body of work....
     (1903-1963) (Japan) Key Japanese filmmaker.


P

  • Georg Wilhelm Pabst
    Georg Wilhelm Pabst

    Georg Wilhelm Pabst was an Austrian film director. Pabst was born in Raudnitz, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary , the son of a railroad employee.Returning from the United States, he was in France when World War I began....
     (Germany)
  • Padmarajan
    Padmarajan

    P. Padmarajan was a Malayali Indian author, script writer, and filmmaker acclaimed for his fine and detailed screenwriting and expressive direction with rich music....
     (India)
  • Jafar Panahi
    Jafar Panahi

    Jafar Panahi is an internationally acclaimed Iranian people filmmaker and is one of the most influential filmmakers in the Iranian New Wave movement....
     (Iran)
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini
    Pier Paolo Pasolini

    Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italy poet, intellectual, film director, and writer. Pasolini distinguished himself as a journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, Painting and political figure....
     (Italy)
  • Sergei Parajanov
    Sergei Parajanov

    Sergei Parajanov was a Soviet Armenian film director and artist, widely regarded as one of the 20th century's greatest masters of cinema.He invented his own unparalleled cinematic style....
     (USSR)
  • Park Chan-wook
    Park Chan-wook

    'Park Chan-wook' is a South Korean filmmaker and screenwriter. One of the most acclaimed and popular filmmakers in his native country, Park is internationally renowned for what has become known as The Vengeance Trilogy, consisting of 2002's Sympathy for Mr....
     (South Korea)
  • Alexander Payne
    Alexander Payne

    Constantine Alexander Payne is an United States film director and screenwriter. His films are noted for their dark humour and satire depictions of contemporary American society....
     (USA)
  • Sam Peckinpah
    Sam Peckinpah

    David Samuel "Sam" Peckinpah was an United States film director who achieved iconic status following the release of his 1969 Western epic The Wild Bunch....
     (USA)
  • Nelson Pereira dos Santos
    Nelson Pereira dos Santos

    Nelson Pereira dos Santos is a Brazilian movie director. He directed movies such as Barren Lives , based on the Vidas Secas by Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos....
     (Brazil)
  • Roman Polanski
    Roman Polanski

    Roman Raymond Polanski is an Academy Award-winning and four-time nominated Poland-France film director, writer, actor and film producer.Polanski began his career in Poland, and later became a celebrated director of both art house and commercial films, making such films as Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown ....
     (Poland)
  • Sally Potter
    Sally Potter

    Sally Potter is an England film director and screenwriter. Her films include Orlando , The Man Who Cried, The Tango Lesson, and more recently, Yes ....
     (UK)
  • Otto Preminger
    Otto Preminger

    Otto Ludwig Preminger was an Austrian-born Jewish film director who moved from the theatre to Hollywood, directing over 35 feature films in a five-decade career....
     (USA)
  • P.Ramlee (MAS)


R

  • Sam Raimi
    Sam Raimi

    Samuel Marshall "Sam" Raimi is an American film director, film producer, actor and screenwriter.He is best known for directing the cult classic horror film The Evil Dead and the Blockbuster Spider-Man film series....
     (USA)
  • Pen-ek Ratanaruang
    Pen-Ek Ratanaruang

    Pen-Ek Ratanaruang is a Thai people film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his art film work, Last Life in the Universe, and is considered to be one of Cinema of Thailand leading "new wave" auteurs, alongside Wisit Sasanatieng and Apichatpong Weerasethakul....
     (Thailand)
  • Mani Ratnam
    Mani Ratnam

    Mani Ratnam is a Tamil people Indian Film director, screenwriter and Film producer. He is known for directing critically acclaimed films such as Mouna Raagam , Nayagan , Anjali , Iruvar , Kannathil Muthamittal , Yuva , and his "political trilogy" consisting of Roja , Bombay and Dil Se ....
     (India)
  • Nicholas Ray
    Nicholas Ray

    Nicholas Ray was an United States film director....
     (USA)
  • Satyajit Ray
    Satyajit Ray

    Satyajit Ray was an Indian Bengali people filmmaker. Ray is regarded as one of the greatest Auteur theory of 20th century Film. Born in the city of Kolkata into a Bengali people family prominent in the world of arts and letters, Ray studied at Presidency College, Calcutta and at the Visva-Bharati University....
     (1921-1992) (India) Indian (Bengali) filmmaker & writer.
  • Jean Renoir
    Jean Renoir

    Jean Renoir , born in the Montmartre district of Paris, France, was a film director, actor and author. He was the second son of Aline Charigot and the French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir....
     (France)
  • Alain Resnais
    Alain Resnais

    'Alain Resnais' is a French film director whose early works are often grouped within the French New Wave or nouvelle vague film movement. Although he has had a long and fruitful career, Resnais is best known for three early works that deal with themes of memory and trauma: Night and Fog , Hiroshima Mon Amour , and Last Year at M...
     (France)
  • Carlos Reygadas
    Carlos Reygadas

    Carlos Reygadas Castillo is a Mexican filmmaker known for his three films Batalla en el Cielo, Jap?n and Silent Light . After Batalla en el Cielo, he was known for his raw depiction of sex on his films and the use of old or ugly characters....
     (Mexico)
  • Arturo Ripstein
    Arturo Ripstein

    Arturo Ripstein is a Mexican film director.Ripstein got his break into movies working as an uncredited assistant director for Luis Bu?uel. In 1965, he directed his first feature, Tiempo de Morir....
     (Mexico)
  • Jacques Rivette
    Jacques Rivette

    Jacques Rivette is a French film director.With Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette is considered to be the most experimental of the French New Wave directors....
     (France)
  • Ram Gopal Varma
    Ram Gopal Varma

    Ram Gopal Varma , born April 7, 1962, is an Cinema of India Film director, writer and film producer. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres—psychological thrillers, Indian mafia, politician-criminal nexus, and Musical film—and in multiple languages—Telugu language and Hindi....
     (India)
  • Nicholas Roeg (UK)
  • Éric Rohmer
    Éric Rohmer

    ?ric Rohmer is a French film director and screenwriter. He is regarded as a key figure in the post-war French New Wave and is a former editor of influential French film journal Cahiers du cin?ma....
    (France)
  • George Romero(USA)
  • Roberto Rossellini
    Roberto Rossellini

    Roberto Rossellini was an Italian film director. Rossellini was one of the most important directors of Italian neorealism film, contributing films such as Roma citt? aperta to the movement....
     (Italy)
  • David O. Russell
    David O. Russell

    David Owen Russell is an United States film director and screenwriter. He directed and wrote Three Kings and the existential comedy I ? Huckabees....
     (USA)
  • Ken Russell
    Ken Russell

    Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell, known as Ken Russell , is an England film director. He is known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his controversial style....
     (GB)


S

  • Gus van Sant
    Gus Van Sant

    Gus Green Van Sant, Jr. is an United States film director, screenwriter, photographer, musician, and author. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Director for his 1997 film Good Will Hunting and his 2008 film Milk , and won the Palme d'Or at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival for his film Elephant ....
     (USA)
  • Carlos Saura
    Carlos Saura

    Carlos Saura is a Spanish people film director....
     (Spain)
  • John Sayles
    John Sayles

    John Thomas Sayles is an United States independent film film director and screenwriter who frequently plays small roles in his own and other indie films....
     (USA)
  • Volker Schlondorff (Germany)
  • Martin Scorsese
    Martin Scorsese

    Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese is an Academy Award-winning American filmmaker, screenwriter, film producer, and film historian. Also affectionately known as "Marty", he is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Gol...
     (USA)
  • Ridley Scott
    Ridley Scott

    Sir Ridley Scott is a United Kingdom Academy Award nominated and Golden Globe Award, Emmy Award and British Academy of Film and Television Arts winning film director and film producer known for his stylish visuals and an obsession for detail....
     (GB)
  • Ousmane Sembene
    Ousmane Sembène

    Ousmane Semb?ne , often credited in the French style as Semb?ne Ousmane in articles and reference works, was a Senegalese film director, producer and writer....
     (Senegal)
  • Mrinal Sen
    Mrinal Sen

    Mrinal Sen is a famous Bengali Indian filmmaker. He was born on , in the town of Faridpur District, now in Bangladesh. After finishing his high school there, he left home to come to Calcutta as a student and studied physics at the well-known Scottish Church College and at the University of Calcutta....
     (1923- ) (India)
  • Kirill Serebrennikov - Russian film director
  • Jim Sheridan
    Jim Sheridan

    Jim Sheridan is an Republic of Ireland film director. A six-time Academy Award nominee, Sheridan is perhaps best known for My Left Foot , In the Name of the Father , and In America....
     (Ireland)
  • Douglas Sirk
    Douglas Sirk

    Douglas Sirk was a Germany film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas in the 1950s....
     (USA)
  • Victor Sjöström
    Victor Sjöström

    was a Sweden actor, screenwriter, and film director....
     (Swedish)
  • Steven Soderbergh
    Steven Soderbergh

    Steven Andrew Soderbergh is an American film film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, film editing, and an Academy Award-winning film director....
     (USA)
  • Alexander Sokurov
    Alexander Sokurov

    Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov is a Russian filmmaker from St Petersburg who has been hailed as successor to renowned director Andrei Tarkovsky....
     (Russia)
  • Todd Solondz
    Todd Solondz

    Todd Solondz is an United States screenwriter and independent film film director known for his style of dark, thought-provoking socially conscious satire....
     (USA) (1959)
  • Steven Spielberg
    Steven Spielberg

    Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. Forbes magazine places Spielberg's net worth at $3.1 billion....
     (USA) (1946)
  • Josef von Sternberg
    Josef von Sternberg

    Josef von Sternberg aka Jonas Sternberg was an Austrian-United States film Film director. He is one of the earliest examples of 'auteur' filmmakers, and practised many other skills while making his films including cinematography, writer, and film editor....
     (USA)
  • George Stevens
    George Stevens

    George Stevens was an United States film director, film producer, screenwriter and cinematographer....
     (USA)
  • Oliver Stone
    Oliver Stone

    William Oliver Stone is an United Statesn film director and screenwriter. Stone came to prominence as a director with a series of films about the Vietnam War, in which he had participated as an American infantry soldier, and his work continues to focus frequently on contemporary political and cultural issues, often controversially....
     (USA)
  • Jean-Marie Straub
    Jean-Marie Straub

    Jean-Marie Straub and Dani?le Huillet were a duo of filmmakers who made two dozen films between 1963 and 2006. Their films are noted for their rigorous, intellectually stimulating style....
     (France)
  • I. V. Sasi
    I. V. Sasi

    Irruppam Veedu Sasidaran, better known as I. V. Sasi is a famous Malayali Indian film director who is known for his commercial melodramatic films of the 70s, 80s and early 90s....
     (1948-). Indian.
  • Erich von Stroheim
    Erich von Stroheim

    Erich von Stroheim was an Austria star of the silent film age, lauded for his directorial work in which he was a proto-auteur. As an actor, he is noted for his arrogant Teutonic character parts which led him to be described as "not a character actor, but what a character!"....
     (USA)
  • Preston Sturges
    Preston Sturges

    Preston Sturges , originally Edmund Preston Biden, was a celebrated screenwriter and film director born in Chicago.Sturges took the screwball comedy format of the 1930s to another level, writing dialogue that, heard today, is often surprisingly naturalistic, mature, and ahead of its time, despite the farcical situations....
     (USA)
  • Seijun Suzuki
    Seijun Suzuki

    , born Seitaro Suzuki on May 24, 1923, is a Japanese film director. His films are renowned by film enthusiasts worldwide for their jarring visual style, irreverent humour, nihilistic cool and entertainment-over-logic sensibility....
     (1923–). Japan
    Japan

    Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
    ese, B-movie
    B-movie

    A B movie is a low-budget commercial film conceived neither as an art film nor as pornography. In its original usage, during the so-called Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature....
     and independent
    Independent film

    An independent film, or indie film, is a film that is produced outside of the Hollywood studio system, a series of oligopolistic practices by several major film studios which controlled the production, distribution, and exhibition of films in the United States from the early 1920s through 1950s....
     New Wave filmmaker.
  • Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
    Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

    Hans-J?rgen Syberberg is a German film director, whose best known film is his lengthy feature, Hitler: A Film from Germany....
     (Germany)
  • István Szabó
    István Szabó

    Istv?n Szab? is both the best-known and one of the most critically acclaimed Hungarian film directors of the 20th and 21st centuries....
     (Hungarian)


T

  • Patrick Tam
    Patrick Tam

    Patrick Tam Kar Ming is a Hong Kong film director. He directed the 1987 film Final Victory, scripted by Wong Kar-wai.He is also one of the best film editors in Hong Kong....
     (Hong Kong)
  • Quentin Tarantino
    Quentin Tarantino

    Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, Film producer, cinematographer and actor. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an independent film filmmaker whose films used nonlinear and aestheticization of violence....
     (USA)
  • Andrei Tarkovsky
    Andrei Tarkovsky

    Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Soviet Russians filmmaker, writer and opera director.Tarkovksy is listed among the 100 most critically acclaimed film directors; director Ingmar Bergman was quoted as saying "Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life...
     (USSR)
  • Bela Tarr
    Béla Tarr

    B?la Tarr is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, and two time actor....
     (Hungary)
  • Jacques Tati
    Jacques Tati

    Jacques Tati was a noted France comedic filmmaker. He was born Jacques Tatischeff, the son of Russians father Georges-Emmanuel Tatischeff and Dutch people mother Marcelle Claire Van Hoof, in Le Pecq, Yvelines, and died in Paris, France....
     (France)
  • Julie Taymor
    Julie Taymor

    Julie Taymor is an United States stage director of theater, opera and film. Taymor's work has received many accolades from critics, and she has earned two Tony Awards out of four nominations, an Emmy Award, and an Academy Award nomination for her work....
     (USA)
  • Hiroshi Teshigahara
    Hiroshi Teshigahara

    was an avant-garde Japanese people Filmmaking.He was born in Tokyo, son to the famous Sofu Teshigahara, founder and grand master of the Sogetsu School of ikebana....
     (Japan)
  • Tian Zhuangzhuang
    Tian Zhuangzhuang

    Tian Zhuangzhuang is a Cinema of China film director and Film producer.Tian is the son of Tian Fang, a famous actor in the 1930s who became head of the Beijing Film Studio after 1949, and Yu Lan, an actress who later ran the Beijing Children's Film Studio....
     (China)
  • Johnnie To
    Johnnie To

    Johnnie To Kei-Fung, born April 22, 1955 is a Cantonese film director and Film producer. Popular in his native Hong Kong, To has also found acclaim overseas....
     (Hong Kong)
  • Giuseppe Tornatore
    Giuseppe Tornatore

    Giuseppe Tornatore is an Italy film director....
     (Italy)
  • Guillermo del Toro
    Guillermo del Toro

    Guillermo del Toro G?mez is an Academy Award-nominated Mexican filmmaker. He is one of the film directors known as the Three Amigos that include Alfonso Cuar?n and Alejandro Gonz?lez I??rritu....
     (Mexican, makes films in Mexico, Spain and America)
  • Lars von Trier
    Lars von Trier

    Lars von Trier is an Academy Award-nominated Denmark film director and screenwriter. He is closely associated with the Dogme 95 collective, although his own films have taken a variety of different approaches....
     (Denmark)
  • Jan Troell
    Jan Troell

    Jan Troell is an Academy Award-nomiated Sweden film director. Usually, Troell writes his own scripts and serves as his own director of photography....
     (Sweden)
  • Margarethe von Trotta
    Margarethe von Trotta

    Margarethe von Trotta is a German film director and a member of the New German Cinema movement.The illegitimate child of Elisabeth von Trotta and painter Alfred Roloff, she relocated to Paris in the 1960s, where she worked for film collectives, collaborating on scripts and co-directing short films....
     (Germany)
  • François Truffaut
    François Truffaut

    Fran?ois Roland Truffaut was an influential filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave; and remains an icon of the Cinema of France industry....
     (France)
  • Ming-liang Tsai
    Tsai Ming-liang

    Tsai Ming-liang is one of the most celebrated "Second New Wave" film directors of Cinema of Taiwan, along with earlier contemporaries as Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang....
     (Taiwan)
  • Shinya Tsukamoto
    Shinya Tsukamoto

    is a Japanese film director and actor with a considerable cult following both domestically and abroad....
     (Japan)
  • Tsui Hark
    Tsui Hark

    Tsui Hark, born Tsui Man-Kong on 15 February 1950, is a Hong Kong New Wave film director in Hong Kong and a highly influential film producer....
     (Hong Kong)


V

  • Vamsi (India)
  • Agnès Varda
    Agnès Varda

    Agn?s Varda is a French people film director. Her movies, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary ? with a distinct experimental style....
     (France)
  • Paul Verhoeven
    Paul Verhoeven

    Paul Verhoeven is a Netherlands BAFTA Award-nominated film director, screenwriter, and film producer who has made movies in both the Netherlands and the United States....
     (Holland)
  • Dziga Vertov
    Dziga Vertov

    Dziga Vertov January 15 , 1896–February 12, 1954) was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director. His brothers Boris Kaufman and Mikhail Kaufman were also notable filmmakers....
     (USSR)
  • Jean Vigo
    Jean Vigo

    Jean Vigo was a France film director, who helped establish poetic realism in film in the 1930s in film and was a posthumous influence on the French New Wave of the late 1950s in film and early 1960s in film....
     (France)
  • Thomas Vinterberg
    Thomas Vinterberg

    Thomas Vinterberg is a Danish film director who, along with Lars von Trier, co-founded the Dogme 95 movement in filmmaking, which established rules for simplifying movie production....
     (Denmark)
  • Luchino Visconti
    Luchino Visconti

    Luchino House of Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo was an Italian theatre director and film director and writer, best known for films such as The Leopard and Death in Venice ....
     (Italy)


W

  • Wong Kar-wai
    Wong Kar-wai

    Wong Kar-wai Bronze Bauhinia Star is an award winning Hong Kong filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylized films....
     (Hong Kong)
  • Andrzej Wajda
    Andrzej Wajda

    Andrzej Wajda is a Poland film director. Recipient of an honorary Academy Awards, he is one of the most prominent members of the Polish Film School....
     (Poland)
  • John Waters
    John Waters (filmmaker)

    John Samuel Waters, Jr. is an United States Film director, actor, writer, celebrity, visual artist and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive art cult films....
     (USA)
  • Apichatpong Weerasethakul
    Apichatpong Weerasethakul

    'Apichatpong Weerasethakul' is a Thai independent film film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His feature films include Tropical Malady, which won a Jury Prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, Blissfully Yours, which won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard program at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, and Syndromes and a C...
     (Thailand)
  • Orson Welles
    Orson Welles

    George Orson Welles , better known as Orson Welles, was an Academy Award-winning United States actor, director, writer and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio....
     (USA)
  • Wim Wenders
    Wim Wenders

    Ernst Wilhelm Wenders is a Germany film director, playwright, author, photographer and film producer....
     (Germany)
  • Bo Widerberg
    Bo Widerberg

    Bo Widerberg, was a Sweden film director, screenwriter, film editing and actor.Bo was born Bo Gunnar Widerberg in Malm?, Sk?ne County, Sweden....
     (Sweden)
  • Billy Wilder
    Billy Wilder

    Billy Wilder was an Austrian-United States journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter, and film producer, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films....
     (USA)
  • John Woo
    John Woo

    John Woo Yu-Sen is a critically acclaimed international China film director and film producer. Recognized for his stylized films of highly choreographed action sequences, Mexican standoffs, and use of slow-motion, Mr....
     (Hong Kong)
  • William Wyler
    William Wyler

    William Wyler was a three-time Academy Award-winning film film director....
     (USA)


Y

  • Edward Yang
    Edward Yang

    Edward Yang , along with Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Tsai Ming Liang, was one of the leading filmmakers of the Taiwanese New Wave and Cinema of Taiwan. He won the Best Director Award at Cannes Film Festival for his 2000 film Yi Yi , and was honored with many other accolades from other prominent international film festivals....
     (Taiwan)
  • Yuen Woo-ping
    Yuen Woo-ping

    Yuen Woo Ping is a Chinese people stage combat and film director, renowned as one of the most successful and influential figures in the world of Hong Kong action cinema....
     (Hong Kong)


Z

  • Zhang Yimou
    Zhang Yimou

    Zhang Yimou is an internationally acclaimed China filmmaker and former cinematographer, and one of the best known of the Fifth Generation of Chinese film directors....
     (China)
  • Fred Zinnemann
    Fred Zinnemann

    Fred Zinnemann was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States film director. He won four Academy Awards and directed classic movies like From Here to Eternity, High Noon and A Man for All Seasons ....
     (American)
  • Andrzej Zulawski
    Andrzej Zulawski

    Andrzej Zulawski is a Poles film director. He was born in Lviv, USSR .Zulawski was an assistant of Andrzej Wajda. When his second film Diabel was banned in Poland he decided to move to France, where he made L'Important c'est d'aimer with Romy Schneider....
     (1940-) (Poland)
  • Andrey Zvyagintsev
    Andrey Zvyagintsev

    Andrey Petrovich Zvyagintsev is a Russians film director and actor. He is mostly known for his 2003 film The Return , which won him a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival....
     - Russian film director
  • Terry Zwigoff
    Terry Zwigoff

    Terry Zwigoff is an American filmmaker based in San Francisco. He became well-known for two popular small budget films, both arising out of the world of underground comics or alternative comics: the documentary Crumb , about underground comics figure Robert Crumb, and the feature Ghost World , adapted from a story in Dan Clowes co...
     (USA)