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Notable Filmmakers and Directors

  • Abrahamson, Lenny, filmmaker
  • Allen, Debbie, actress, director, and acting teacher
  • Allen, Woody, filmmaker
  • Almodóvar, Pedro, film director
  • Altman, Robert, film director
  • Anderson, Wes, screenwriter
  • Annaud, Jean-Jacques, director, screenwriter
  • Antonioni, Michelangelo, film director and scriptwriter
  • Apted, Michael, director, producer
  • Araki, Gregg, director, screenwriter
  • Attenborough, Sir Richard, director, actor
  • Aykroyd, Dan, actor, director
  • Beatty, Warren, actor, filmmaker
  • Beineix, Jean-Jacques, director, producer, screenwriter
  • Benigni, Roberto, actor, filmmaker
  • Benton, Robert, director, screenwriter
  • Beresford, Bruce, film director
  • Berg, Peter, actor, filmmaker
  • Bergman, Ingmar, filmmaker
  • Berkeley, Busby, film director and choreographer
  • Bertolucci, Bernardo, film director and screenwriter
  • Boetticher, Budd, film director
  • Bogdanovich, Peter, filmmaker, actor, writer
  • Braff, Zach, actor, filmmaker
  • Branagh, Kenneth, actor, director, producer
  • Bresson, Robert, film director and scriptwriter
  • Brooks, Albert, actor, director, screenwriter
  • Brooks, James L., director, producer, writer
  • Brooks, Mel, film director, writer, actor, and producer
  • Bruckheimer, Jerry, producer, filmmaker
  • Buñuel, Luis, film director
  • Burns, Ken, documentary filmmaker
  • Burton, Tim, filmmaker
  • Buscemi, Steve, actor, director
  • Cameron, James, filmmaker
  • Campion, Jane, film director
  • Capra, Frank, film director
  • Carpenter, John, director, producer
  • Cassavetes, John, film actor and director
  • Cattaneo, Peter, director
  • Chan, Jackie, actor, filmmaker
  • Chaplin, Sir Charles, filmmaker, actor
  • Chen, Joan, actress, director
  • Cimino, Michael, director, screenwriter, producer
  • Clair, René, film director
  • Clurman, Harold, director
  • Coen Brothers, filmmakers
  • Cohn, Arthur, producer
  • Columbus, Chris, screenwriter, director
  • Coppola, Francis Ford, film director
  • Coppola, Sofia, filmmaker
  • Corman, Roger, filmmaker
  • Costa-Gavras, director
  • Costner, Kevin, actor, filmmaker
  • Coward, Sir Noí«l, playwright, actor, composer, and director
  • Craven, Wes, director, producer, screenwriter
  • Cronyn, Hume, actor, filmmaker, theater director
  • Crowe, Cameron, director, screenwriter
  • Cukor, George, director
  • Davis, Ossie, actor, filmmaker, activist
  • De Mille, Cecil B., movie director and producer
  • De Palma, Brian, film director
  • De Sica, Vittorio, film director and actor
  • Demme, Jonathan, director, producer, screenwriter
  • DeVito, Danny, actor, director, producer
  • Disney, Walt, movie producer, pioneer in animated cartoons
  • Donat, Robert, actor, director
  • Donner, Richard, director, producer
  • Douglas, Michael, actor, movie producer
  • Dovzhenko, Aleksandr, film director
  • Dreyer, Carl Theodor, motion picture director
  • Duvall, Robert, actor, filmmaker
  • Eastwood, Clint, actor, filmmaker
  • Eisenstein, Sergei Mikhailovich, film director
  • Emmerich, Roland, filmmaker
  • Ephron, Nora, screenwriter, director, actress
  • Evans, Robert, movie producer
  • Eyre, Chris, filmmaker
  • Fassbinder, Rainer Werner, filmmaker
  • Fellini, Federico, film director
  • Figgis, Mike, director, screenwriter, composer, actor
  • Fonda, Peter, actor, filmmaker
  • Ford, John, filmmaker
  • Forman, Milos, director, actor
  • Foster, Jodie, actor, filmmaker
  • Frakes, Jonathan, actor, filmmaker
  • Frankenheimer, John, director, producer
  • Frears, Stephen, director
  • Fujimoto, Tak, cinematographer
  • Gibson, Mel, actor, filmmaker
  • Glover, Danny, actor, director
  • Godard, Jean-Luc, film director and scriptwriter
  • Goldwyn, Samuel, film producer
  • Gorris, Marleen, director, screenwriter
  • Griffith, D.W., filmmaker
  • Greengrass, Paul, filmmaker
  • Grodin, Charles, actor, producer
  • Guest, Christopher, actor, writer, director
  • Guitry, Sacha, actor, director, playwright, screenwriter
  • Haggis, Paul, filmmaker
  • Hallström, Lasse, director, screenwriter, producer
  • Hanson, Curtis, filmmaker
  • Harryhausen, Ray, filmmaker
  • Hawks, Howard, film director
  • Hays, Will H., motion-picture executive
  • Helgeland, Brian, screenwriter
  • Henkin, Hilary, screenwriter
  • Herzog, Werner, director, screenwriter, and producer
  • Hitchcock, Sir Alfred, film director
  • Hopper, Dennis, actor, filmmaker
  • Howard, Ron, actor, filmmaker
  • Huston, John, filmmaker, actor
  • Ince, Thomas H., filmmaker
  • Itami, Juzo, director, screenwriter
  • Jackson, Peter, director
  • Jarrico, Paul, screenwriter, producer
  • Jordan, Neil, writer, director, screenwriter, producer
  • Jutra, Claude, filmmaker
  • Kasdan, Lawrence, director, screenwriter, producer
  • Kazan, Elia, director
  • Keaton, Diane, actor, filmmaker
  • Kennedy, Kathleen, producer
  • Kingsley, Dorothy, screenwriter
  • Kramer, Stanley, film director
  • Kubrick, Stanley, film director
  • Kurosawa, Akira, film director
  • Landon, Michael, actor, producer-director, writer
  • Lang, Fritz, film director
  • Laurentiis, Dino De, film producer
  • Lean, Sir David, film director
  • Lee, Ang, filmmaker
  • Lee, Spike, filmmaker, actor
  • Leigh, Mike, director, screenwriter
  • Leone, Sergio, filmmaker
  • Levinson, Barry, filmmaker
  • Lewis, Jerry, actor, comedian, filmmaker
  • Linklater, Richard, filmmaker
  • Lloyd, Harold, actor, filmmaker
  • Locke, Sondra, actress, director
  • Losey, Joseph, film director
  • Lubitsch, Ernst, film director
  • Lucas, George W., Jr., film director, producer, and writer
  • Luhrmann, Baz, director, producer, actor
  • Lumet, Sidney, director
  • Lynch, David, filmmaker
  • Malle, Louis, film director
  • Mankiewicz, Joseph L., director, screenwriter, producer
  • Mann, Michael, director, producer, writer
  • Marshall, Garry, director, screenwriter, producer, actor
  • Marshall, Penny, director, actress
  • Mayer, Louis Burt, movie producer
  • Mazursky, Paul, producer, director, screenwriter, actor
  • McCarthy, Tom, filmmaker, actor
  • McKay, Adam, filmmaker
  • Mendes, Sam, director
  • Merchant, Ismail, producer, director
  • Miller, George, filmmaker
  • Moore, Michael, filmmaker, writer
  • Murch, Walter, filmmaker
  • Murnau, Friedrich W., film director
  • Nair, Mira, director, screenwriter
  • Newman, Paul, actor, director
  • Nichols, Mike, actor and director
  • Nicholson, Jack, actor, director, producer
  • Nimoy, Leonard, actor, filmmaker
  • Olmos, Edward James, actor, producer
  • Ophí¼ls, Max, film director
  • Pakula, Alan J., filmmaker
  • Palma, Brian De, director, screenwriter
  • Parker, Nate, actor
  • Peckinpah, Sam, filmmaker
  • Peebles, Melvin Van, director, actor, writer
  • Penn, Arthur Hiller, director
  • Penn, Sean, actor, filmmaker
  • Polanski, Roman, film director
  • Pollack, Sydney, producer, director, actor
  • Ponti, Carlo, producer
  • Preminger, Otto, director, producer, actor
  • Pudovkin, Vsevolod Ilarionovich, film director
  • Quaid, Dennis, actor, director
  • Raimi, Sam, filmmaker
  • Ramis, Harold, screenwriter, actor, director, producer
  • Ray, Satyajit, film director
  • Redford, Robert, actor and director
  • Reed, Sir Carol, film director
  • Reeve, Christopher, actor, director
  • Reichard, Kelly, Sam, filmmaker
  • Reiner, Carl, actor, writer, director
  • Reiner, Rob, actor, writer, director, producer
  • Reitman, Ivan, director, producer
  • Renoir, Jean, film director and writer
  • Reynolds, William, film editor
  • Richardson, Tony, director
  • Riefenstahl, Leni, filmmaker
  • Ritchie, Guy, filmmaker
  • Robbins, Tim, actor, filmmaker
  • Rohmer, Eric, film director and writer
  • Romero, George, filmmaker
  • Romero, Pilar Miró, director
  • Rossellini, Roberto, film director and producer
  • Roth, Eli, director
  • Saltzman, Harry, producer
  • Sayles, John, director, writer, actor
  • Schaefer, George, director, producer
  • Schell, Maximilian, actor, director, producer, screenwriter
  • Schlesinger, John, director
  • Schrader, Paul, filmmaker
  • Schumacher, Joel, director
  • Scorsese, Martin, filmmaker
  • Scott, Ridley, filmmaker
  • Selznick, David O., film producer
  • Sennett, Mack, movie director and producer
  • Sheridan, Jim, film director
  • Shyamalan, M. Night, filmmaker
  • Sinbad, actor, comedian, producer
  • Sirk, Douglas, film director
  • Smith, Kevin, filmmaker, actor
  • Soderbergh, Steven, filmmaker
  • Sonnenfeld, Barry, director
  • Spielberg, Steven, film director
  • Stevens, George, director
  • Stiller, Ben, filmmaker, actor
  • Stone, Oliver, filmmaker
  • Streisand, Barbra, actress, singer, director
  • Sturges, Preston, film director
  • Tanaka, Tomoyuki, producer
  • Tarantino, Quentin, filmmaker, actor
  • Thompson, Emma, actress, screenwriter
  • Thornton, Billy Bob, actor, filmmaker
  • Troisi, Massimo, actor; director; writer
  • Truffaut, Franí§ois, film director and critic
  • Van Peebles, Melvin, director, actor, writer
  • Van Sant, Gus, filmmaker, writer
  • Varda, Agní¨s, filmmaker
  • Verhoeven, Paul, director
  • Vigo, Jean, movie director
  • Vinton, Will, animator, filmmaker
  • Visconti, Luchino, film director and writer
  • Von Sternberg, Joseph, film director and screenwriter
  • Von Stroheim, Erich, film director
  • Wajda, Andrzej, film director
  • Wanamaker, Sam, actor, director
  • Wang, Wayne, film director
  • Waters, John, filmmaker
  • Wayans, Damon, actor, comedian, writer, producer
  • Wayans, Keenan Ivory, actor, comedian, writer, director
  • Weinstein, Harvey, producer
  • Weir, Peter, film director
  • Welles, Orson, actor, director, and producer
  • Wenders, Wim, filmmaker
  • Wertmuller, Lina, film director
  • Whitaker, Forest, actor, director
  • Wilder, Billy, film director
  • Wilder, Gene, actor, filmmaker
  • Wilson, Owen, actor, screenwriter
  • Wiseman, Frederick, documentary filmmaker
  • Woo, John, filmmaker
  • Wyler, William, director
  • Zanuck, Darryl Francis, movie producer
  • Zucker, David, producer, writer, director, actor
  • Zucker, Jerry, producer, writer, director, actor

 

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  • Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?
  • The Twelve Dancing Princesses
  • Current Events This Week: January 2023
  • African Americans by the Numbers
  • Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents
  • The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales