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San SebastiÃ¡n International Film Festival

The San Sebastián International Film Festival (; ) is an annual FIAPF

FIAPF

The FIAPF based in Paris, created in 1933, is an organization composed with 31 member associations from 25 of the leading audiovisual production countries....
A category film festival

Film festival

A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality....
which originated in 1953 and is held in the 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....
city of San Sebastián

San Sebastián

Donostia-San Sebasti?n is the capital city of the Provinces of Spain of Gipuzkoa, in the Basque Country , Spain. Locals call themselves donostiarras, both in Basque and Spanish....
(officially Donostia-San Sebastián).

ough the festival was originally intended to honour Spanish language films, films of other languages became eligible for consideration in the late 1950s.

The majority of awards are determined by a jury, but an audience award is also given for the most popular film.

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The San Sebastián International Film Festival (; ) is an annual FIAPF

FIAPF

The FIAPF based in Paris, created in 1933, is an organization composed with 31 member associations from 25 of the leading audiovisual production countries....
A category film festival

Film festival

Spain

San Sebastián

History

Although the festival was originally intended to honour Spanish language films, films of other languages became eligible for consideration in the late 1950s.

The majority of awards are determined by a jury, but an audience award is also given for the most popular film. The main awards are the Golden Shell
Golden Shell

The Golden Shell is the highest prize given to a competing film at the San Sebastian Film Festival. It was introduced in 1957. In 1953 and 1954, the highest prize had been called the Gran Premio....
and Silver Shell. Every year the festival honours one, two or three actors with the Donostia Award
Donostia Award

The Donostia Award is an honorific award given every year to one, two or three actors in the San Sebastian International Film Festival. It was created in 1986....
.

Results

All the Best Films

See Golden Shell
Golden Shell

The Golden Shell is the highest prize given to a competing film at the San Sebastian Film Festival. It was introduced in 1957. In 1953 and 1954, the highest prize had been called the Gran Premio....

Best Directors

Year	Director	Movie
1953	Rafael Gil Rafael Gil Rafael Gil was a Spain film director and screenwriter....	La guerra de Dios
1954	Pedro Lazaga Pedro Lazaga Pedro Lazaga was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He directed 94 films between 1948 in film and 1979 in film....	La patrulla
1955
1956	Pietro Germi Pietro Germi Pietro Germi was an Italy actor, screenwriter, and Film director. Germi was born in Genoa, Liguria, to a lower-middle class family. He was a messenger and briefly attended nautical school before deciding on a career in acting....	Il ferroviere
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961	Alberto Lattuada Alberto Lattuada Alberto Lattuada was an Italy film director.Lattuada was born in Milan, the son of composer Felice Lattuada. He was initially interested in literature, becoming, while still a student, a member of the editorial staff of antifascism fortnightly "Camminare..." ....	L'imprevisto
1962	Mauro Bolognini Mauro Bolognini Mauro Bolognini was an Italian film director of literate sensibility, known for masterful handling of period subject matter....	Senilità
1963	Robert Enrico Robert Enrico Robert Georgio Enrico was a French film director and scriptwriter.He was born in Li?vin, Pas-de-Calais, in the north of France....	Au coeur de la vie
1964	Miguel Picazo	La Tía Tula La Tía Tula *La T?a Tula* is a 1964in film Spain film directed by Miguel Picazo. The film is based on Miguel de Unamuno novella of the same title. Highly acclaimed, the film is widely considered a classic of Cinema of Spain....
1965	Mario Monicelli Mario Monicelli Mario Monicelli is an Italy director and screenwriter, one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana ....	Casanova 70 Casanova 70 *Casanova 70* is a 1965 in film Italy comedy produced by Carlo Ponti, directed by Mario Monicelli and starring Marcello Mastroianni, Virna Lisi, and Michele Mercier....
1966	Mauro Bolognini Mauro Bolognini Mauro Bolognini was an Italian film director of literate sensibility, known for masterful handling of period subject matter....	Madamigella di Maupin
1967	Janusz Morgenstern	Yowita
1968	Peter Collinson Peter Collinson Peter Collinson may refer to:* Peter Collinson , English scientist and horticulturalist* Peter Collinson , film director...	The Long Day’s Dying
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977	Alf Brustellin Bernhard Sinkel	Der Mädchenkrieg
1978	Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón Manuel Guti?rrez Arag?n is an award-winning Spanish screenwriter and film director....	Sonámbulos
1979	Pál Gábor	Angi Vera
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985	Francisco Lombardi	La ciudad y los perros
1986	Axel Corti Axel Corti Axel Corti was an Austrian writer and director....	Welcome in Vienna
1987	Dominique Deruddere Dominique Deruddere Dominique Deruddere is a Belgium film director.Filmography* Crazy Love * Everybody's Famous! External links...	Crazy Love Crazy Love "Crazy Love" is a love song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and included on his 1970 album, Moondance. The song was released as a single in May 1970 with "Come Running" as the A side, and again in Holland with "Come Running" as the B side....
1988	Gonzalo Suárez Gonzalo Suárez Gonzalo Su?rez Morilla , is a Spanish writer, screenwriter and film director.In 1963 publishes his first novel named De cuerpo presente....	Remando al viento
1989	Miroslaw Bork	Konsul
1990	Joel Coen	Miller's Crossing Miller's Crossing *Miller's Crossing* is a film directed by Coen brothers and starring Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, Marcia Gay Harden, and John Turturro. The plot concerns a power struggle between two rival gangs and how the protagonist plays both sides off each other....
1991	Bruce McDonald Bruce McDonald Bruce McDonald is a Canada film and television director....	Highway 61 Highway 61 (film) *Highway 61* is a 1991 film by Canada director Bruce McDonald....
1992	Goran Markovic Goran Markovic Goran Markovic is a Serbs movie and theatre director. He was born in Belgrade to Rade Markovic and Olivera Markovic , well known Serbian actors....	Tito i ja
1993	Philippe Lioret	Tombés du ciel Tombés du ciel *Tomb?s du ciel* is a 1994 French film directed by Philippe Lioret....
1994	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....	Shallow Grave Shallow Grave *Shallow Grave* is a British films of 1994 Cinema of the United Kingdom crime film thriller feature film that marks the directorial debut of Danny Boyle with an original screenplay by John Hodge ....
1995	Mike Figgis Mike Figgis Michael "Mike" Figgis is an List of English people film director, writer, and composer....	Leaving Las Vegas Leaving Las Vegas *Leaving Las Vegas* is a 1995 in film romantic drama film about a relationship between a suicidal alcoholism and a prostitute from Las Vegas, Nevada, starring Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue....
1996	Francisco Lombardi	Bajo la piel
1997	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....	Rien ne va plus
1998	Fernando León de Aranoa Fernando León de Aranoa Fernando Le?n de Aranoa is an award-winning Spanish screenwriter and film director....	Barrio
1999	Zhang Yang Michel Deville Michel Deville Michel Deville born April 13, 1931, is a French film director.Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors.... (ex aequo)	Shower Shower (film) *Shower* is an award-winning 1999 People's Republic of China drama film / comedy film film directed by Zhang Yang and starring Zhu Xu, Pu Cunxin and Jiang Wu.... La Maladie de Sachs La Maladie de Sachs *La Maladie de Sachs* is a 1999 French film directed by Michel Deville from a novel by Martin Winckler. It won the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Prix M?li?s, and received C?sar nominations for Best Actor, Best Director and Best Writing....
2000	Reza Parsa Reza Parsa Reza Parsa is a Sweden film director. At the age of 22 he was admitted to the 4-year directing program at the legendary National Film School of Denmark and directed the most award winning graduation film, Never , in the history of the school....	Före Stormen (Before the storm)
2001	Jean-Pierre Ameris	C'est la vie C'est la vie C'est la vie may refer to:* "C'est la vie", a French phrase meaning "That's life" or "it's the life"; see List of French phrases used by English speakers#C....
2002	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....	Together
2003	Bong Joon-ho Bong Joon-ho Bong Joon-ho is a South Korean filmmaker and screenwriter. He decided to become a filmmaker while in middle school, perhaps influenced by an artistic family He majored in sociology in Yonsei University in the late 1980s and was a member of the film club there....	Sa-lin-eui chu-eok (Memories of murder) Memories of Murder Memories of Murder is a 2003 South Korean drama film directed by Bong Joon-ho. It is based on the true story of the country's first known serial murders, which took place between 1986 and 1991 in Hwaseong City, Gyeonggi-do....
2004	Xu Jinglei Xu Jinglei Xu Jinglei is an actress and Film director most famous in mainland China. Xu graduated from the Beijing Film Academy's prestigious Performance Institute in 1997....	Letter from an Unknown Woman Letter from an Unknown Woman (2004 film) *Letter from an Unknown Woman* is a 2004 in film Cinema of China film written and directed by Xu Jinglei and is her second feature film as director after 2002's My Father and I.... )
2005	Zhang Yang	Sunflower Sunflower (2005 film) *Sunflower* is a 2006 Cinema of China directed by Zhang Yang . Zhang's fourth film, Sunflower is a joint production of Ming Productions, the Beijing Film Studio and the Hong Kong subsidiary of the Netherlands-based Fortissimo Films....
2006	Tom DiCillo Tom DiCillo Tom DiCillo is an United States film director, screenwriter and cinematographer....	Delirious Delirious (2006 film) *Delirious* is a 2006 film released directed by Tom DiCillo. It stars Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, Elvis Costello, Greg D'Agostino, Joe D'Onofrio and Richard Short ....
2007	Nick Broomfield Nick Broomfield Nicholas Broomfield is an England documentary film filmmaker. He studied Law at Cardiff, Wales, and political science at the University of Essex; subsequently, he studied film at the National Film and Television School....	Battle for Haditha
2008	Michael Winterbottom Michael Winterbottom Michael Winterbottom is a prolific United Kingdom filmmaker who has directed sixteen films in the past thirteen years. He began his career working in British television before moving into features....	Genova Genova (film) *Genova* is an upcoming film directed by Michael Winterbottom and starring Colin Firth, Catherine Keener, and Hope Davis. It was filmed in the titular city of Genoa , Italy during the summer of 2007....

Donostia Award

2008: Meryl Streep
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, Antonio Banderas
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2007: Richard Gere
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, Liv Ullmann
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2006: Max Von Sydow
Max von Sydow

, is a Swedish people actor , known in particular for his collaboration with filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. He has been nominated for the Academy Award, the Emmy, and the Golden Globe, and has won the Pasinetti Award, the European Film Award, and the Honorary Cannes Award....
, Matt Dillon
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2005: Willem Dafoe
Willem Dafoe

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, Ben Gazzara
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2004: Annette Bening
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, Jeff Bridges
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, Woody Allen
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2003: Robert Duvall
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, Sean Penn
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, Isabelle Huppert
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2002: Jessica Lange
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, Bob Hoskins
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, Dennis Hopper
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2001: Julie Andrews
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, Warren Beatty
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, Francisco Rabal
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2000: Michael Caine
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, Robert De Niro
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1999: Anjelica Huston
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, Fernando Fernán Gómez
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, Vanessa Redgrave
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1998: Jeanne Moreau
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, Anthony Hopkins
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, John Malkovich
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1997: Michael Douglas
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, Jeremy Irons
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1996: Al Pacino
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1995: Lana Turner
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, Anthony Quinn
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1994: Susan Sarandon
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, Catherine Deneuve
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1993: Robert Mitchum
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1992: Lauren Bacall
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1991: Anthony Perkins
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1990: Claudette Colbert
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1989: Bette Davis
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1988: Vittorio Gassman
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1987: Glenn Ford
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1986: Gregory Peck
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Anthony Quinn
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- Antonio Banderas
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- Bette Davis
  Bette Davis
  
  Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres; from contemporary crime films to historical film and period piece and occasional comedy, though her greatest successes were h...
- Claudette Colbert
  Claudette Colbert
  
  Claudette Colbert was a French-born American stage and film actress.Born in Saint-Mand?, France and raised in New York City, Colbert began her career in Broadway theater productions during the 1920s, progressing to film with the advent of talking pictures....
- Anthony Perkins
  Anthony Perkins
  
  Anthony Perkins was an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning United States actor, best known for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and its three sequels....
- Lauren Bacall
  Lauren Bacall
  
  Lauren Bacall is an American film and theater actress and Model . Known for her husky voice and sultry looks, she has continued acting to the present day....
- Robert Mitchum
  Robert Mitchum
  
  Robert Charles Durman Mitchum was an Academy Award-nominated United States film actor, author, composer and singer. Mitchum is largely remembered for his starring roles in several major works of the film noir style, and is considered a forerunner of the anti-heroes prevalent in film during the 1950s and 1960s....
- Lana Turner
  Lana Turner
  
  Lana Turner was an Academy Awards-nominated American film and occasionally television actress. On-screen, she was well-known for the glamour and sensuality she brought to almost all her movie roles....
- Susan Sarandon
  Susan Sarandon
  
  Susan Sarandon is an Academy Award-winning American actress. She has worked in films and television since 1970, and won an Oscar for her performance in the 1995 film, Dead Man Walking ....
- Catherine Deneuve
  Catherine Deneuve
  
  Catherine Deneuve is a two-time C?sar Award-winning, BAFTA Award-nominated and Academy Award-nominated French actress. She gained recognition for her portrayal of beautiful ice maidens for various directors, including Luis Bu?uel and Roman Polanski....
- Al Pacino
  Al Pacino
  
  Alfredo James "Al" Pacino is an United States film and theatre actor and Film director, widely considered to be one of the most notable and influential actors of his time....
- Michael Douglas
  Michael Douglas
  
  Michael Kirk Douglas is an United States actor and film producer, primarily in movies and television. Douglas's first television exposure was that of Karl Malden's young college-educated partner, Insp....
- Jeremy Irons
  Jeremy Irons
  
  Jeremy John Irons is an England film, television and stage actor. He has won an Academy Award, a Tony Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, two Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards....
- Jeanne Moreau
  Jeanne Moreau
  
  Jeanne Moreau is a BAFTA Awards and C?sar Awards-winning French people actress, screenwriter and Film director....

- Anthony Hopkins
  Anthony Hopkins
  
  Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, Order of the British Empire is a Welsh People film, theater and television actor. Considered by many to be one of film's greatest living actors, he is best known for his portrayal of cannibalism serial killer Hannibal Lecter in the 1991 in film blockbuster The Silence of the Lambs , its sequel, Hannibal ,...
- John Malkovich
  John Malkovich
  
  'John Gavin Malkovich' is an Emmy Award-winning, two-time Academy Award-nominated United States actor, film producer and film director. Over the last 25 years, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures, including Dangerous Liaisons, In the Line of Fire, Con Air, The Man in the Iron Mask , Rounders , Changelin...
- Fernando Fernán-Gómez
- Vanessa Redgrave
  Vanessa Redgrave
  
  Vanessa Redgrave Order of the British Empire is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Emmy and Tony Award winning England actor. She is the most famous member of the Redgrave family, the world renowned theatrical dynasty....
- Michael Caine
  Michael Caine
  
  Sir Michael Caine Order of the British Empire , is a two-time Academy Award and multiple BAFTA Award and Golden Globe winning England film actor who has appeared in more than one hundred films....
- Robert De Niro
  Robert De Niro
  
  Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. is a two-time Academy Award-winning United States actor, director and producer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors of all time....
- Warren Beatty
  Warren Beatty
  
  Warren Beatty is an United States Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning actor, film producer, screenwriter and film director....
- Jessica Lange
  Jessica Lange
  
  Jessica Phyllis Lange is an United States stage and screen actress who, among many other accolades, has won two Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards....
- Bob Hoskins
  Bob Hoskins
  
  Robert William "Bob" Hoskins, Jr. is an England actor, known for playing Cockney rough diamonds and gangsters, and for his performances in family films such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Hook ....
- Dennis Hopper
  Dennis Hopper
  
  Dennis Lee Hopper is an Academy Award-nominated United Statesn actor and filmmaker, known for playing psychotic and villain characters....
- Isabelle Huppert
  Isabelle Huppert
  
  Isabelle Anne Huppert is a Cesar Award-winning France actor....
- Sean Penn
  Sean Penn
  
  Sean Justin Penn is an United States film actor. He is also a filmmaker and political activist. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama for his role in Mystic River and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role and Academy Awa...
- Robert Duvall
  Robert Duvall
  
  Robert Selden Duvall is an United States film actor and Film director who has won an Academy Award, two Emmys, and four Golden Globes. He has appeared in films such as To Kill a Mockingbird , The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Apocalypse Now, The Natural , Network , THX 1138, MASH , The Great Santini,...
- 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....
- Annette Bening
  Annette Bening
  
  Annette Francine Bening is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-, BAFTA-, and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning United States actor....
- Jeff Bridges
  Jeff Bridges
  
  Jeffrey Leon Bridges is a four-time Academy Award-nominated American actor and musician. His most notable films include The Last Picture Show, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Tron , Starman , The Fisher King , The Big Lebowski, Seabiscuit , and Iron Man ....
- Ben Gazzara
  Ben Gazzara
  
  Biagio Anthony ?Ben? Gazzara is an American actor in television and motion pictures....
- Willem Dafoe
  Willem Dafoe
  
  William J. "Willem" Dafoe is a two-time Academy Award-nominated United States film and theatre actor, and a founding member of the experimental theatre company The Wooster Group....
- Max von Sydow
  Max von Sydow
  
  , is a Swedish people actor , known in particular for his collaboration with filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. He has been nominated for the Academy Award, the Emmy, and the Golden Globe, and has won the Pasinetti Award, the European Film Award, and the Honorary Cannes Award....
- Ben Stiller
  Ben Stiller
  
  Benjamin Edward "Ben" Stiller is an Emmy Award-winning American comedian, actor, film director, and film producer. He is the son of veteran comedians and actors Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara....
- Adam Sandler
  Adam Sandler
  
  Adam Richard Sandler is an United States comedian, actor, musician, screenwriter and film producer. After becoming a Saturday Night Live cast member, he went on to star in several Hollywood feature films that grossed over US$100 million at the box office....
- Charlize Theron
  Charlize Theron
  
  Charlize Theron is an Academy Award-winning South African-American actress, film producer, and former fashion model. She rose to fame in the late 1990s following her roles in 2 Days in the Valley, Mighty Joe Young , The Devil's Advocate , and The Cider House Rules ....
- Mark Wahlberg
  Mark Wahlberg
  
  Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg is an Academy Award-nominated, BAFTA-winning American actor, former rapper and producer of film and television. He was known as Marky Mark in his earlier years and became famous in his 1991 debut as a rap musician with the band Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch....
- Demi Moore
  Demi Moore
  
  Demetria Gene "Demi" Moore Kutcher is an American actress. She became well-known after a string of 1980s teen-oriented movies, and was one of the best known actresses of 1990s Hollywood....
- Viggo Mortensen
  Viggo Mortensen
  
  Viggo Peter Mortensen, Jr. is an Academy Award-nominated United States-Danish people theater and film actor, poet, musician, photographer, and Painting....

Directors

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....
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....
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....
King Vidor
King Vidor

King Wallis Vidor was an acclaimed United States film director whose career spanned nearly seven decades.He was born in Galveston, Texas, Texas, where he survived the great Galveston Hurricane of 1900....
Anthony Mann
Anthony Mann

Anthony Mann was an United States actor and film director....
Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci is an Academy Award-winning Italy film director and screenwriter....
Franco Zeffirelli
Franco Zeffirelli

Franco Zeffirelli, Order of the British Empire , is an Italy film director. He is also an theatre director, designer and producer of opera, theatre, film and television....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
Nikita Mikhalkov
Nikita Mikhalkov

Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov is an Academy Award winning Russian filmmaker and actor....
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....
Sergio Leone
Sergio Leone

Sergio Leone was an Italy film director, Film producer and screenwriter most famous for his spaghetti westerns....
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 ....
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....
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Joseph Leo Mankiewicz was an United States Academy Award-winning film director, screenwriter, and film producer....
Stanley Donen
Stanley Donen

Stanley Donen is an American film director and choreographer hailed by David Quinlan as "the King of the Hollywood musicals". His most famous work is Singin' in the Rain , which he co-directed with Gene Kelly....
Ethan Coen
Bertrand Tavernier
Bertrand Tavernier

Bertrand Tavernier is a France film director, screenwriter, actor, and Film producer....

External links

official website, in English.
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