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Dodo Abashidze David "Dodo" Abashidze ( ka, დავით ოდოაბაშიძე; russian: Дави́д Ива́нович Абаши́дзе; 1 May 1924 – 26 January 1990) was a Soviet Georgian film actor and director. Abashidze, who joined ...
* George Abbott *
Norman Abbott Norman Abbott (July 11, 1922 – July 9, 2016) was an American vaudevillian, actor, producer and television director. Abbott was born in New York City, where his uncle, comedian Bud Abbott, and his mother raised him. His early experience in ...
* Phil Abraham * Jim Abrahams *
Abiola Abrams Abiola Abrams is an American author, podcaster, motivational speaker and spiritual life coach. Abrams has penned three books, including ''African Goddess Initiation: Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy'', her first book from self- ...
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J. J. Abrams Jeffrey Jacob Abrams (born June 27, 1966) is an American filmmaker and composer. He is best known for his works in the genres of action, drama, and science fiction. Abrams wrote and produced such films as ''Regarding Henry'' (1991), '' For ...
* Ivan Abramson * Lenny Abrahamson *
Hany Abu-Assad Hany Abu-Assad ( ar, هاني أبو أسعد; born 11 October 1961) is a Palestinian-Dutch film director. He has received two Academy Award nominations: in 2006 for his film ''Paradise Now'', and again in 2013 for his film ''Omar''. Early life ...
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Tengiz Abuladze Tengiz Abuladze ( ka, თენგიზ აბულაძე; 31 January 1924 – 6 March 1994) was a Georgian film director, screenwriter, theatre teacher and People's Artist of the USSR. He is regarded as one of the best Soviet directors. ...
* Herbert Achternbusch * Andy Ackerman * Andrew Adamson *
Anita W. Addison Anita Laraine Wharton Addison (September 6, 1952 – January 24, 2004) was an American television and film director and producer. She was one of the first African American women to be a senior producer for a major television network. Biography ...
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Maren Ade Maren Ade (; born 12 December 1976) is a German film director, screenwriter and producer. Ade lives in Berlin, teaching screenwriting at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg. Together with Janine Jackowski and Jonas Dornbach, she r ...
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Carine Adler Carine Adler, Baroness Reid of Cardowan (born 1948) is a Brazilian screenwriter and film director. Career Adler's break came when the British Film Institute asked her to develop her short film ''Touch and Go'' into a full-length feature. Th ...
* Percy Adlon *
John G. Adolfi John Gustav Adolfi (February 19, 1888 – May 11, 1933) was an American silent film director, actor, and screenwriter who was involved in more than 100 productions throughout his career. An early acting credit was in the recently restored 1912 fi ...
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Franklin Adreon Franklin "Pete" Adreon (November 18, 1902 – September 10, 1979) was an American film and television director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. Early life and career Born in Gambrills, Maryland, Adreon was a Marine Reservist during the 30s ...
* Ben Affleck * Casey Affleck *
Neil Affleck Neil Affleck is a Canadian animator, director, and actor. He has worked as an animator on ''The Simpsons'' and ''Family Guy''. As an actor, he appeared in the 1981 film ''Scanners'' and had a leading role in the 1981 film '' My Bloody Valentine' ...
* Andrew Agnew * Alejandro Agresti * Joe Ahearne * Caroline Aherne *
Abdel Rahim Ahmed Abdel Rahim Ahmed ( ar, عبدالرحـيم أحمد) is an Egyptian director and author, born in Egypt, graduated from the 6 October University, Faculty of Applied Arts, Department of Photography, Film and Television, and then studied film dir ...
* Aqeel Ahmed *
Alexandre Aja Alexandre Jouan-Arcady, known professionally as Alexandre Aja, (; born 7 August 1978) is a French filmmaker best known for his work in the horror film, horror genre. He rose to international stardom for his 2003 horror film ''High Tension, Haute ...
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Chantal Akerman Chantal Anne Akerman (; 6 June 19505 October 2015) was a Belgian film director, screenwriter, artist, and Film studies, film professor at the City College of New York. She is best known for films such as ''Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 108 ...
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Desiree Akhavan Desiree Akhavan (born December 27, 1984) is an American filmmaker, writer and actress. She is best known for her 2014 feature film debut '' Appropriate Behavior'',Fatih Akın * Moustapha Akkad *
R. Kan Albay R. Kan Albay (born 1 September 1975) is a Flemish film director and actor of Turkish descent. Filmography Directing * ''Son Care'' (1996) * ''Toothpick'', crime (2002) * ''The Flemish Vampire'', horror (2006) * ''Gangsta's hell'', horror (2007 ...
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Barbara Albert Barbara Albert (born 1970 in Vienna) is an Austrian writer, film-producer and film-director. She studied filmmaking at the Wiener Filmakademie. Her first film to become known to a larger audience was '' Nordrand'', which describes the reality ...
* Félix Enríquez Alcalá * Alan Alda *
Robert Aldrich Robert Burgess Aldrich (August 9, 1918 – December 5, 1983) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. His notable credits include '' Vera Cruz'' (1954), ''Kiss Me Deadly'' (1955), ''The Big Knife'' (1955), '' Autumn L ...
* Tomás Gutiérrez Alea * Grigori Aleksandrov *
Victoria Aleksanyan Victoria Aleksanyan (born 1987 in Yerevan, Armenia) is an Armenian film director and a co-founder of IFCA Independent Filmmakers Community of Armenia. Aleksanyan has written, directed and produced a number of short films. Education Aleksanyan hol ...
* Chris Alexander * David Alexander *
Jason Alexander Jay Scott Greenspan (born September 23, 1959), known professionally as Jason Alexander, is an American actor, comedian, host and director. An Emmy and Tony winner, he is best known for his role as George Costanza in the television series '' Se ...
* John Alexander *
Sherman Alexie Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a Spokane- Coeur d'Alene-Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker. His writings draw on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from se ...
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Ozzie Alfonso Ozzie Alfonso (born August 14, 1945) was the director and one of three Senior Producers of ''3-2-1 Contact'' from season 2 to 8 when the series stopped production. He was also one of the writers for the series from season 3 through 8. Following ...
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Khalik Allah Khalik Allah (born 1985) is an American filmmaker and photographer. His 2015 documentary film ''Field Niggas'' and his 2017 book ''Souls Against the Concrete'' depict people who inhabit the notorious Harlem corner of 125th Street (Manhattan), 125th ...
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Marc Allégret Marc Allégret (22 December 1900 – 3 November 1973) was a French screenwriter, photographer and film director. Biography Born in Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland, he was the elder brother of Yves Allégret. Marc was educated to be a lawyer in ...
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Yves Allégret Yves Allégret (13 October 1905 – 31 January 1987) was a French film director, often working in the film noir genre. He was born in Asnières-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine and died in Paris. He was an assistant to film directors such as his brothe ...
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Syed Ali Raza Usama Syed Ali Raza Usama ( ur, ) is a Pakistani TV, drama (serial) director at Geo Tv and former creative director at AAJ TV. As a film director, he directed acclaimed drama serials such as ''Bashar Momin'' and '' Khuda Aur Muhabbat (season 1)''. He ...
* Mairzee Almas * Pedro Almodóvar * Paul Almond *
Robert Altman Robert Bernard Altman ( ; February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was a five-time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director and is considered an enduring figure from the New H ...
* Fede Álvarez * Silvio Amadio * Mathieu Amalric * Rod Amateau *
Ned Ambler Ned Ambler (born 1968 or 1969) is an American fine artist, actor and a talent scout who has found models for advertising campaigns for Calvin Klein and Gap. Ambler attended a boarding school in Connecticut. From 1987 he attended New York Univer ...
* Gianni Amelio * Alejandro Amenábar * Jon Amiel *
Ana Lily Amirpour Ana Lily Amirpour ( fa, آنا لیلی امیرپور) is a British-born American film director, screenwriter, producer and actress. She is best known for her Directorial debut, feature film debut ''A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night'', self-descr ...
* Dev Anand *
Sean Anders Sean Anders (born June 19, 1969) is an American film director and screenwriter. Career He co-wrote and directed the 2005 film '' Never Been Thawed'', the 2008 film ''Sex Drive'', the 2014 film ''Horrible Bosses 2'', the 2015 film '' Daddy's Ho ...
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Thom Andersen Thom Andersen (born 1943 in Chicago) is an American filmmaker, film critic, and teacher best known for his works of experimental film, including his 1975 film ''Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer'' and the 2003 essay film ''Los Angeles Plays Itse ...
* Bob Anderson * Brad Anderson * Broncho Billy Anderson * Deborah Anderson *
Gordon Anderson Gordon Anderson may refer to: * Gordon Anderson (author) (born 1947), author and Secretary-General of the Professors World Peace Academy * Gordon Anderson (cricketer) (1922–2013), New Zealand cricketer * Gordon Anderson (politician) (1897–1958) ...
* Justin Anderson * Lindsay Anderson * Michael Anderson * Mitch Anderson * Paul Thomas Anderson * Paul W. S. Anderson * Wes Anderson *
Roy Andersson Roy Arne Lennart Andersson (born 31 March 1943) is a Swedish film director, best known for ''A Swedish Love Story'' (1970), '' About Endlessness'' (2019) and his "Living trilogy," which includes '' Songs from the Second Floor'' (2000), '' You, ...
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Metodi Andonov Metodi Andonov ( bg, Методи Андонов) (16 March 1932 – 12 April 1974) was a Bulgarian film director. Selected filmography * '' Byalata staya'' (1968) * ' (1971) * ''The Goat Horn ''The Goat Horn'' ( bg, Козият рог ...
* Raoul André * Bryan Andrews *
Kostas Andritsos Kostas Andritsos, also known as George Andrews ( el, Κώστας Ανδρίτσος; 1 May 1916, Athens – 10 October 1993) was a Greek film director and writer. Selected filmography *Oneira koritsion 1953 *Bouboulina 1959 *Exo oi klefte ...
* Theo Angelopoulos * Kenneth Anger *
Threes Anna Threes Anna (pseudonym of Threes Schreurs, born in Vlaardingen, The Netherlands, 1959) is a novelist, theatre and film maker. Biography Threes Anna is trained as a visual artist. In 1985, Anna was engaged in theatre company Dogtroep, specialize ...
* Graham Annable * Ken Annakin *
Jean-Jacques Annaud Jean-Jacques Annaud (; born 1 October 1943) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for directing ''Quest for Fire'' (1981), ''The Name of the Rose'' (1986), '' The Bear'' (1988), '' The Lover'' (1992), '' Seven Years in ...
* Hideaki Anno *
Arnold Antonin Arnold Antonin (born 1942 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is a Haitian film director. A man of diverse careers, Arnold Antonin is known both inside and outside Haiti for his social, political and cultural commitment. He was honored for lifetime a ...
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Michelangelo Antonioni Michelangelo Antonioni (, ; 29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian filmmaker. He is best known for directing his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents"—''L'Avventura'' (1960), ''La Notte'' (1961), and ''L'Eclisse'' (1962 ...
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Pan Anzi Pan Anzi (born 1977 in Nanjing, Jiangsu) is a Chinese film director. Filmography *''Scheme with Me'' (2012) *''The Palace (2013 film), The Palace'' (2013) *''Crazy New Year's Eve'' (2015) *''For a Few Bullets'' (2016) References External link ...
* Judd Apatow *
Emmanuel Apea Emmanuel Apea, Jr. is a Ghanaian TV and film director, 2008 winner of the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Director. Early life Emmanuel Apea is the son of Reverend Emmanuel Apea Snr, a former United Nations Ambassador and Co-ordinator to Wes ...
* Oscar Apfel * Norman Apstein * Michael Apted * Gregg Araki *
Alfonso Aráu Alfonso Arau Incháustegui (born 11 January 1932) is a Mexican filmmaker, actor, and singer. He worked as an actor and director in both Mexican and Hollywood productions for over 40 years, before his international breakthrough with the 1992 f ...
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Roscoe Arbuckle Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle (; March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933) was an American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. He started at the Selig Polyscope Company and eventually moved to Keystone Studios, where he worked ...
* Denys Arcand * George Archainbaud * Wes Archer * Jane Arden * Emile Ardolino * Asia Argento *
Dario Argento Dario Argento (; born 7 September 1940) is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and film critic, critic. His influential work in the horror film, horror genre during the 1970s and 1980s, particularly in the subgenre known as ...
* Adam Arkin * Allan Arkush *
Serena Armitage Serena Armitage is a director and producer from North Yorkshire, UK. She is best known for producing the short film '' Stutterer'' that earned her an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 88th Academy Awards with director Benjamin C ...
* Dionciel Armstrong *
Gillian Armstrong Gillian May Armstrong (born 18 December 1950) is an Australian feature film and documentary director, who specializes in period drama. Her films often feature female perspectives and protagonists. Many of her movies are historical dramas. Ea ...
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Andrea Arnold Andrea Arnold, OBE (born 5 April 1961) is an English filmmaker and former actor. She won an Academy Award for her short film ''Wasp'' in 2005. Her feature films include ''Red Road'' (2006), ''Fish Tank'' (2009), and ''American Honey'' (2016), ...
* Jack Arnold * Darren Aronofsky * Fernando Arrabal *
Miguel Arteta Miguel Arteta (born 1965) is a Puerto Rican director of film and television, known for his independent film ''Chuck & Buck'' (2000), for which he received the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award, and for the films ''The Good Girl'' (2002) ...
* Larysa Artiugina * Dorothy Arzner *
Dinara Asanova Dinara Kuldashevna Asanova (russian: Динара Кулдашевна Асанова) was born in Bishkek (formally Frunze) Kyrgyzstan on 24 October 1942. She was a Kyrgyzstani-Soviet film director and one of the most notable and acclaimed fem ...
* Hal Ashby * John Mallory Asher * Anthony Asquith *
Olivier Assayas Olivier Assayas (born 25 January 1955) is a French film director, screenwriter and film critic. Assayas is known for his slow-burning period pieces, psychological thrillers, neo-noirs and French comedies. His work has become synonymous with the ...
* Ari Aster * Carlos Atanes *
Richard Attenborough Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, (; 29 August 192324 August 2014) was an English actor, filmmaker, and entrepreneur. He was the president of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and the British Academy of Film and Televisio ...
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Dan Attias Daniel Attias (born December 4, 1951) is an American television director and producer. He is also director of his only feature film ''Silver Bullet'' from 1985, based on the novella by Stephen King. Attias' career has spanned four decades, dur ...
* David Attwood * Jacques Audiard *
Jacqueline Audry Jacqueline Audry (25 September 1908 – 22 June 1977) was a French film director who began making films in post-World War II France and specialised in literary adaptations. She was the first commercially successful female director of post-war ...
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John H. Auer John H. Auer (August 3, 1906 in Budapest, Hungary – March 15, 1975 in North Hollywood, Los Angeles) was a Hungarian-born child actor who, on coming to the Americas in 1928, became a movie director and producer, initially in Mexico but, from th ...
* Bille August * Claude Autant-Lara * Aram Avakian * Roger Avary *
Pupi Avati Giuseppe Avati, better known as Pupi Avati (born 3 November 1938), is an Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is known to horror film fans for his two giallo masterpieces, ''The House with Laughing Windows'' (1976) and '' Zeder ...
* Hy Averback *
Ilya Averbakh Ilya Aleksandrovich Averbakh (russian: Илья Александрович Авербах) (July 28, 1934, Leningrad – January 11, 1986, Moscow) was a Soviet film director. His 1972 film, ''Monologue'', was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Fes ...
* Tex Avery *
John G. Avildsen John Guilbert Avildsen (December 21, 1935 – June 16, 2017) was an American film director. He is perhaps best known for directing ''Rocky'' (1976), which earned him the Academy Award for Best Director, and the first three ''The Karate Kid'' fil ...
* Jon Avnet * David Ayer *
Dan Aykroyd Daniel Edward Aykroyd ( ; born July 1, 1952) is a Canadian actor, comedian, producer, musician and writer. He was an original member of the "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" on ''Saturday Night Live'' (1975–1979). During his tenure on ''SNL'' ...
* Richard Ayoade *
Nabil Ayouch Nabil Ayouch (born 1 April 1969) is a Franco-Moroccan television and film director, producer, and writer. His films have screened at international film festivals including the Cannes Film Festival and Montreal World Film Festival. Early life H ...
* Mary Ayubi *
Aclan Bates Aclan Bates is an American film and theatre director who divides his time between Los Angeles and Ankara. He is a working actor/director in the Turkish State Theatres. Stage and Film work Director/Actor *2019 Directed Sarah Ruhl's ''The Clean H ...
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Lloyd Bacon Lloyd Francis Bacon (December 4, 1889 – November 15, 1955) was an American screen, stage and vaudeville actor and film director. As a director he made films in virtually all genres, including westerns, musicals, comedies, gangster films, an ...
* Clarence G. Badger * John Badham * Bae Yong-Kyun *
Cindy Baer Cindy Baer is an American actress, director, producer, and entrepreneur. She helms the production company Free Dream Pictures, located in Burbank, California. She directed and produced the independent feature films '' Purgatory House'' and '' ...
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Prince Bagdasarian Prince Bagdasarian is an American film director, screenwriter, and editor. His directorial debut feature film "Abstraction", garnered various awards at festivals and was released in the United States by Breaking Glass Pictures in 2015. Educatio ...
* King Baggot * Nadeem Baig *
Prano Bailey-Bond Prano Bailey-Bond is a Welsh film director and writer. Her debut feature film, '' Censor'', premiered in 2021. Career Bailey-Bond studied at London College of Printing The London College of Communication is a constituent college of the Univ ...
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Stuart Baird Stuart Baird (born 14 January 1947) is an English film editor, producer, and director who is mainly associated with action films. He has edited over thirty major motion pictures. Life and career Baird has had an extended collaboration with di ...
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Mohammad Bakri Mohammad Bakri (born 1953; ar, محمد بكري, he, מוחמד בכרי) is a Palestinian actor and film director.Ralph Bakshi * Bob Balaban * Aleksei Balabanov *
Kailasam Balachander Kailasam Balachander (9 July 1930 – 23 December 2014) was an Indian film maker and playwright who worked mainly in the Tamil cinema. He was well known for his distinct film-making style, and the Indian film industry knew him as a master of un ...
* Jan Balej * Peter Baldwin *
Carroll Ballard Carroll Ballard (born October 14, 1937) is a retired American film director. He has directed six feature films, including ''The Black Stallion (film), The Black Stallion'' (1979), ''Never Cry Wolf (film), Never Cry Wolf'' (1983), and ''Fly Away ...
* Anne Bancroft * Albert Band * Charles Band * Elizabeth Banks * Monty Banks *
Joseph Barbera Joseph Roland Barbera ( ; ; March 24, 1911 – December 18, 2006) was an American animator, director, producer, storyboard artist, and cartoon artist who co-founded the animation studio and production company Hanna-Barbera. Born to Italian im ...
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Juan Antonio Bardem Juan Antonio Bardem Muñoz (2 June 1922 – 30 October 2002) was a Spanish film director and screen writer, born in Madrid. He was a member of the Communist Party. Bardem was best known for ''Muerte de un ciclista'' (1955) which won the FIPRES ...
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Richard L. Bare Richard Leland Bare (August 12, 1913 – March 28, 2015) was an American director, producer, and screenwriter of Hollywood movies, television shows and short films. Career Born in Turlock, California, he attended USC School of Cinematic Arts ...
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Chris Barfoot Chris Barfoot (born Christopher John Barfoot, 7 September 1966) is a British actor, writer/director and producer of film productions. Biography Barfoot and Clother received an ‘Honorable mention’ at the Dragon Con film festival for ''The Re ...
* Francesco Barilli *
Sooraj R. Barjatya Sooraj R. Barjatya (born 22 February 1964) is an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter and distributor, predominantly working in Hindi cinema. Barjatya has directed and produced some of the most commercially successful Indian films in I ...
* Clive Barker *
Reginald Barker Reginald C. Barker (April 2, 1886 – February 23, 1945) was a pioneer film director. Biography Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Barker's family moved to Scotland when he was an infant and then to the United States. Living in California, ...
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Tom Barman Thomas Andrew Barman (born 1 January 1972), is a Belgian musician and film director. Barman studied at the film school of St.-Lucas in Brussels, but did not finish his studies because he wished to pursue a career in music. In 1989, he began by ...
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Boris Barnet Boris Vasilyevich Barnet (russian: Бори́с Васи́льевич Ба́рнет; 18 June 1902 – 8 January 1965) was a Soviet film director, actor and screenwriter of British heritage. He directed 27 films between 1927 and 1963. Barne ...
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Matthew Barney Matthew Barney (born March 25, 1967) is an American contemporary artist and film director who works in the fields of sculpture, film, photography and drawing. His works explore connections among geography, biology, geology and mythology as well ...
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David Barrett David Barrett may refer to: * Dave Barrett (1930−2018), former Premier of British Columbia, Canada * Dave Barrett (journalist) (1955−2018), American radio journalist at CBS Radio News * David Barrett (American football) (born 1977), American ...
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Chuck Barris Charles Hirsch Barris (June 3, 1929 – March 21, 2017) was an American game show creator, producer, and host. Barris was known for hosting ''The Gong Show'' and creating ''The Dating Game'' and ''The Newlywed Game''. He was also a songwrite ...
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Robert V. Barron Robert V. Barron (December 26, 1932 – December 1, 2000) was an American TV and film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. He was best known for his role as the voice of Admiral Donald Hayes in 1980s animated TV series ''Robotech'', of ...
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Christopher Barry Christopher Chisholm Barry (20 September 1925 – 7 February 2014) was a British television director. He worked extensively in BBC television drama and became best known for his work on the science fiction series ''Doctor Who''. He also directe ...
* Drew Barrymore * Morris Barry *
Lionel Barrymore Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in ''A Free Soul'' (1931) ...
* Andrzej Bartkowiak *
Jules Bass Julius Bass (September 16, 1935 – October 25, 2022) was an American director, producer, lyricist, composer, and author. Until 1960, he worked at a New York advertising agency, and then co-founded the film production company Videocraft Interna ...
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M. J. Bassett M. J. Bassett (born Michael J. Bassett) is a British film and television writer, director, and producer. She began her career directing the cult film, cult horror films ''Deathwatch (2002 film), Deathwatch'' (2002) and ''Wilderness (2006 film), ...
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Joy Batchelor Joy Ethel Batchelor (12 May 1914 – 14 May 1991) was an English animator, director, screenwriter, and producer. She married John Halas in 1940 and subsequently co-established Halas and Batchelor cartoons, whose best known production is the anim ...
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Jason Bateman Jason Kent Bateman (born January 14, 1969) is an American actor, director and producer known for his roles of Michael Bluth in the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox/Netflix sitcom ''Arrested Development (TV series), Arrested Development'' and of Mart ...
* Otto Bathurst * Paul Bartel *
Hall Bartlett Hall Bartlett (November 27, 1922 – September 7, 1993) was an American film producer, director, and screenwriter. Early life Hall Bartlett was born in Kansas City, Missouri, he graduated from Yale University Phi Beta Kappa, and was a Rhodes Sc ...
* Charles Barton *
Felix Basch Felix Basch (1885–1944) was an American-Austrian actor, screenwriter and film director. He first acted in Vienna, and he was a producer and director for the German film production company UFA GmbH, U. F. A. Following the Nazi takeover of powe ...
* Jay Bauman * Barry Letts * Noah Baumbach *
Lamberto Bava Lamberto Bava (born 3 April 1944) is an Italian film director. Born in Rome, Bava began working as an assistant director for his director father Mario Bava. Lamberto co-directed the 1979 television film ''La Venere d'Ille'' with his father and in ...
* Mario Bava *
Michael Bay Michael Benjamin Bay (born February 17, 1965) is an American film director and producer. He is best known for making big-budget, high-concept action films characterized by fast cutting, stylistic cinematography and visuals, and extensive use of ...
* Samuel Bayer *
Juan Antonio Bayona Juan Antonio García Bayona (born 9 May 1975) is a Spanish film director. He directed the 2007 horror film '' The Orphanage'', the 2012 drama film '' The Impossible'', and the 2016 fantasy drama film ''A Monster Calls''. Bayona's latest film i ...
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Edward Bazalgette Edward Bazalgette is a British television director and former musician. Biography Bazalgette was the lead guitarist in the 1980s rock group The Vapors, whose hit "Turning Japanese" remains a popular one-hit wonder. He later became a film edit ...
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Luigi Bazzoni Luigi Bazzoni (25 June 1929 - 1 March 2012) was an Italian director and screenwriter. Born in Salsomaggiore Terme, Italy, Bazzoni was the elder brother of the film director and cinematographer Camillo Bazzoni and a cousin of the Academy Award w ...
* Warren Beatty * William Beaudine * Harry Beaumont * Harold Becker *
Jacques Becker Jacques Becker (; 15 September 1906 – 21 February 1960) was a French film director and screenwriter. His films, made during the 1940s and 1950s, encompassed a wide variety of genres, and they were admired by some of the filmmakers who led th ...
* Josh Becker *
Terry Becker Terry is a unisex given name, derived from French Thierry and Theodoric. It can also be used as a diminutive nickname for the names Teresa or Theresa (feminine) or Terence or Terrier (masculine). People Male * Terry Albritton (1955–2005), A ...
* Wolfgang Becker * Guy Norman Bee * Ford Beebe * Greg Beeman *
Morgan Beggs Morgan Beggs is a Canadian television director. He is well known for his work on The WB/The CW's ''Smallville (TV series), Smallville'' and on the American Broadcasting Company, ABC fairytale series ''Once Upon a Time (TV series), Once Upon a Ti ...
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Hans Behrendt Hans Behrendt (28 September 1889 – 1942) was a German-Jewish actor, screenwriter and film director. He was murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942. Selected filmography Screenwriter * '' Catherine the Great'' (1920) ...
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Jean-Jacques Beineix Jean-Jacques Beineix (; 8 October 1946 – 13 January 2022) was a French film director best known for the films ''Diva'' and ''Betty Blue''. His work is regarded as a prime example of the '' cinéma du look'' film movement in France. Early life ...
* Timur Bekmambetov *
Susan Belbin Susan Jane Belbin (born 20 October 1948) is a retired Scottish television director and producer whose work includes '' Bread'', ''Are You Being Served?'', ''Hi-de-Hi'', ''One Foot in the Grave'', Allo 'Allo'', ''It Ain't Half Hot Mum'', ''Only ...
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Monta Bell Louis Monta Bell (February 5, 1891 – February 4, 1958) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Biography Monta Bell first appeared in theatrical venues with Washington D.C. stock companies and then took up journalism an ...
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Earl Bellamy Earl Arthur Bellamy (March 11, 1917 – November 30, 2003) was an American television and film director. Biography Bellamy was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was also known as Earl J. Bellamy, or Earl J. Bellamy, Jr. "Earl Bellamy." Contem ...
* Troian Bellisario * Marco Bellocchio * Jerry Belson *
Maria Luisa Bemberg Maria may refer to: People * Mary, mother of Jesus * Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages Place names Extraterrestrial *170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877 *Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, da ...
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Steve Bendelack Steve Bendelack is an English filmmaker and television director who has worked primarily on comedy programmes. Originally an assistant to Peter Fluck and Roger Law on satirical TV puppet show ''Spitting Image'', Bendelack went on to direct the s ...
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Jack Bender Jack Bender (born September 25, 1949) is an American television and film director, television producer and former actor best known for his work as a director on ''Lost'', ''The Sopranos'' and '' Game of Thrones''. Biography Bender grew up in ...
* László Benedek *
Shyam Benegal Shyam Benegal (born 14 December 1934) is an Indian film director, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker. Often regarded as the pioneer of parallel cinema, he is widely considered as one of the greatest filmmakers post 1970s. He has received ...
* Lubomír Beneš * Roberto Benigni * David Benioff * Richard Benjamin *
Rodney Bennett Rodney Bennett (24 March 1935 – 3 January 2017) was a British television director. He worked for BBC Radio and directed television programmes for the BBC and ITV. Early life and education Bennett was born in Chagford, Devon, and raised in T ...
* Spencer Gordon Bennet * Robert Benton * Luca Bercovici * Bruce Beresford * Alec Berg * Peter Berg *
Andrew Bergman Andrew Bergman (born February 20, 1945) is an American screenwriter, film director, and novelist. His best-known films include '' Blazing Saddles'', '' The In-Laws'', '' The Freshman'' and ''Striptease''. Early life Born to a Jewish family, Ber ...
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Ingmar Bergman Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish film director, screenwriter, Film producer, producer and playwright. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time, his films are known ...
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Abby Berlin Abby Berlin (August 7, 1907 — August 16, 1965) was best known as a director of feature films and television productions. He began on Broadway and Vaudeville as part of a comedy team with Ken Brown in the 1920s. By 1939, he had moved to Hollywoo ...
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Robert Berlinger Robert Berlinger (sometimes credited as Bob Berlinger) (born May 31, 1958) is an American television director and producer. Career Berlinger was born in New York City. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree at Dartmouth College. He also grad ...
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Andrea Berloff Andrea Berloff (born 1974) is an American screenwriter, actress, director, and producer. Berloff is best known for writing the 2006 Disaster film, disaster Drama (film and television), drama film ''World Trade Center (film), World Trade Center'' ...
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Paul Bern Paul Bern (born Paul Levy; December 3, 1889September 5, 1932) was a German-born American film director, screenwriter, and producer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he became the assistant to Irving Thalberg. He helped launch the career of Jean Harlo ...
* Ishmael Bernal * Paul Bernard * Curtis Bernhardt * Adam Bernstein *
Claude Berri Claude Berri (; 1 July 1934 – 12 January 2009) was a French film director, writer, producer, actor and distributor. Early life Born Claude Beri Langmann in Paris, Berri was the son of Jewish immigrant parents. His mother, Beila (née Bercu), w ...
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Halle Berry Halle Maria Berry (; born Maria Halle Berry; August 14, 1966) is an American actress. She began her career as a model and entered several beauty contests, finishing as the first runner-up in the Miss USA pageant and coming in sixth in the Mis ...
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André Berthomieu André Berthomieu (16 February 1903 – 10 April 1960) was a French screenwriter and film director. He was married to the actress Line Noro. Selected filmography Director * '' Not So Stupid'' (1928) * '' The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard'' (1929) * ...
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Bryan Bertino Bryan Michael Bertino (born October 17, 1977) is an American filmmaker. He is best known as the writer/director of '' The Strangers'' (2008), as well as writing its sequel, '' The Strangers: Prey at Night'' (2018), with Ben Ketai. Early life a ...
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Frank Beyer Frank Paul Beyer (; 26 May 1932 – 1 October 2006) was a German film director. In East Germany he was one of the most important film directors, working for the state film monopoly DEFA and directed films that dealt mostly with the Nazi era ...
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Dominic Bianchi Dominic E. Bianchi (born February 22, 1979) is an American animation director and storyboard artist. Bianchi is known for directing multiple episodes of the animated series '' Family Guy'', most notably the show's celebrated 150th episode, " Bria ...
* Ed Bianchi * John Biddle * Fabián Bielinsky * Kathryn Bigelow *
Tony Bill Gerard Anthony Bill (born August 23, 1940) is an American actor, producer, and director. He produced the 1973 movie ''The Sting'', for which he shared the Academy Award for Best Picture with Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips. As an actor, Bi ...
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Bruce Bilson Bruce Bilson (born May 19, 1928) is an American film director and television director. He is most notable for his work as a regular director on the spy spoof ''Get Smart''. He won the 1967–1968 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing f ...
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Bill Bixby Wilfred Bailey Everett Bixby III (January 22, 1934 – November 21, 1993) professionally known as Bill Bixby, was an American actor, director, producer, and frequent game-show panellist. Bixby's career spanned more than three decades, includi ...
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Herbert Blaché Herbert Blaché (5 October 1882 – 23 October 1953), born Herbert Reginald Gaston Blaché-Bolton was a British-born American film director, producer and screenwriter, born of a French father. He directed more than 50 films between 1912 and ...
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Nicola Black Nicola Jane Black (born in Glasgow) is a Scottish film and television producer and director. Her work includes the documentaries ''Designer Vaginas'', ''Bone Breakers'', ''When Freddie Mercury Met Kenny Everett'', ''Tribal Cop'', ''White Jazz'', ...
* Shane Black *
Farren Blackburn Farren Blackburn is a British film and television director and screenwriter. His work includes Netflix's young adult love story, ''The Innocents'', the French English-language psychological thriller ''Shut In'' starring Naomi Watts, Netflix/Marvel' ...
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Alessandro Blasetti Alessandro Blasetti (3 July 1900 – 1 February 1987) was an Italian film director and screenwriter who influenced Italian neorealism with the film ''Quattro passi fra le nuvole''. Blasetti was one of the leading figures in Italian cinema during ...
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Jeffrey Blitz Jeffrey Blitz is an American film director, screenwriter and producer best known for the documentary '' Spellbound'' (2003), ''The Office'' (2007 - 2010), the fiction film '' Rocket Science'' (2007) and ''Comedy Central’s'' ''Review'' (2014 ...
* Neill Blomkamp * Matt Bloom * Don Bluth *
John G. Blystone John G. Blystone (December 2, 1892 – August 6, 1938) was an American film director. He directed 100 films between 1915 and 1938. He was born in Rice Lake, Wisconsin and died in Los Angeles, California from a heart attack. His grave is lo ...
* Keith Boak * James Bobin * Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck *
Richard Boden Richard Boden (born 4 January 1953, Birmingham) is a British television director and producer best known for his work on situation comedies including Allo 'Allo'', ''Blackadder Goes Forth'', ''2point4 Children ''2point4 Children'' is a BBC ...
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Budd Boetticher Oscar "Budd" Boetticher Jr. ( ; July 29, 1916 – November 29, 2001) was an American film director. He is best remembered for a series of low-budget Westerns he made in the late 1950s starring Randolph Scott. Early life Boetticher was born in ...
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Paul Bogart Paul Bogart (né Bogoff; November 13, 1919 – April 15, 2012) was an American television director and producer. Bogart directed episodes of the television series Way Out'' in 1961, ''Coronet Blue'' in 1967, ''Get Smart'', '' The Dumplings'' ...
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José Bohr José Bohr (3 September 1901 – 29 May 1994) was a German-born Chilean film director, producer, actor and screenwriter. He directed 35 films between 1919 and 1969. Selected filmography Actor * '' Así es la vida'' (1930) * ''Rogue of the ...
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Michel Boisrond Michel Jacques Boisrond (9 October 1921, Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais – 10 November 2002, La Celle-Saint-Cloud) was a French film director and screenwriter. His work spanned five decades, from the 1950s to the 1990s. Career A former apprentice ...
* Patrick Bokanowski * Richard Boleslawski * Uwe Boll * Mauro Bolognini *
Fyodor Bondarchuk Fyodor Sergeyevich Bondarchuk (russian: link=no, Фёдор Сергеевич Бондарчук ; born 9 May 1967) is a Russian film director, actor, TV and film producer, clipmaker, TV host, founder of production company Art Pictures Studio. ...
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Sergei Bondarchuk Sergei Fyodorovich Bondarchuk (russian: Сергей Фёдорович Бондарчук, ; uk, Сергі́й Федорович Бондарчук, Serhíj Fédorovych Bondarchúk; 25 September 192020 October 1994) was a Soviet and Russian ...
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Bong Joon-ho Bong Joon-ho (, ; Hanja: 奉俊昊; born September 14, 1969) is a South Korean film director, producer and screenwriter. The recipient of four Academy Awards, his filmography is characterised by emphasis on social themes, genre-mixing, black h ...
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John Boorman Sir John Boorman (; born 18 January 1933) is a British film director, best known for feature films such as ''Point Blank'' (1967), ''Hell in the Pacific'' (1968), ''Deliverance'' (1972), ''Zardoz'' (1974), '' Exorcist II: The Heretic'' (1977), ...
* Walerian Borowczyk *
Frank Borzage Frank Borzage (; April 23, 1894 – June 19, 1962) was an Academy Award-winning American film director and actor, known for directing '' 7th Heaven'' (1927), '' Street Angel'' (1928), '' Bad Girl'' (1931), '' A Farewell to Arms'' (1932), ''Man's ...
* John and Roy Boulting *
Lucien Bourjeily Lucien Bourjeily is an Emmy nominated writer and director of both theater and film. His work has traveled the worldwide festival circuits and won him many awards of which the 2017 Dubai International Film Festival Jury Prize. He brought his prog ...
* David Bowers *
Pearl Bowser Pearl Bowser (born 1931) is an author, collector, television director, film scholar, film director, producer, filmmaker, independent distributor and film archivist. Along with her peers Mel Roman and Charles Hobson, Bowser researched and curated “ ...
* Muriel Box *
David Boyd David Boyd may refer to: Entertainment * David Boyd (artist) (1924–2011), Australian artist * David Boyd (author) (born 1951), Canadian children's author * David Boyd (cinematographer), American cinematographer * David Boyd (singer) (born 1988) ...
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Robert N. Bradbury Robert North Bradbury (March 23, 1886 – November 24, 1949) (born Ronald E. Bradbury) was an American film actor, director, and screenwriter. He directed 125 movies between 1918 and 1941, and is best known for directing early "Poverty Row"-produc ...
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John Brahm John Brahm (August 17, 1893 – October 12, 1982) was a German film and television director. His films include ''The Undying Monster'' (1942), '' The Lodger'' (1944), ''Hangover Square'' (1945), ''The Locket'' (1946), ''The Brasher Doubloon'' (19 ...
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Matt Braly Matthew Benjakarn Braly ( ; born November 8, 1988) is an American animator, storyboard artist, director, writer, and producer. He is best known as the creator and executive producer of the Disney Channel animated series ''Amphibia (TV series)''. ...
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A.V. Bramble Albert Victor Bramble (1884–1963) was an English actor and film director. He began his acting career on the stage. He started acting in films in 1913 and subsequently turned to directing and producing films. He died on 17 May 1963. Filmogr ...
* Kenneth Branagh * Spike Brandt *
Fred C. Brannon Fred C. Brannon (April 26, 1901 – April 6, 1953) was an American film director of the 1940s and 1950s. He directed over 40 films between 1945 and his death. His first film ''The Purple Monster Strikes'' in 1945 was co-directed with Spencer G ...
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Charles Braverman Charles "Chuck" Dell Braverman (born March 3, 1944, in Los Angeles, California) is an American film director, collage animator, documentary filmmaker and producer. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject for his 2 ...
* Kevin Bray * Neil Breen * Catherine Breillat * Herbert Brenon * Will Brenton * Robert Bresson * Martin Brest *
Vinko Brešan Vinko Brešan (; born 3 February 1964) is a Croatian film director who emerged into international renown with three critically acclaimed and award-winning films that, each in its own way, broke some of the perceived taboos of Croatian cinema in t ...
* Howard Bretherton * Eric Brevig * Craig Brewer *
Frank Braxton Frank Cavalier Braxton Jr. (March 31, 1929 – June 1, 1969) was an African-American animator and director active in the early 1950s to the late 1960s. He was one of the first black animators hired by both Disney and Warner Bros. Life Career F ...
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Michael E. Briant Michael Edwin Briant (born 14 February 1942) is a retired English television director and author, best known for his work as a director for BBC television drama in the 1970s and 1980s. Career At the age of 21 Briant joined the BBC as an assistan ...
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Patrick Brice Donat Patrick Kack-Brice (born April 23, 1983), known professionally as Patrick Brice, is an American film director, actor, screenwriter and cinematographer. He is known for directing ''Creep'' (2014), ''The Overnight'' (2015), '' Creep 2'' (201 ...
* Sean Bridgers *
James Bridges James Bridges (February 3, 1936June 6, 1993) was an American screenwriter, film director, producer, and actor. He is a two-time Oscar nominee: once for Best Original Screenplay for ''The China Syndrome'' and once for Best Adapted Screenplay for ...
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Nicholas Briggs Nicholas Briggs (born 29 September 1961) is an English actor, writer, director, sound designer and composer. He is associated with the BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' and its spin-offs, particularly as the voice of the Dale ...
* Guido Brignone * Steven Brill *
Philippe de Broca Philippe de Broca (; 15 March 1933 – 26 November 2004) was a French movie director. He directed 30 full-length feature films, including the highly successful ''That Man from Rio, That Man from Rio (''L'Homme de Rio'')'', ''Le Magnifique, The M ...
* Tricia Brock * Lino Brocka * Henry Bronchtein * Peter Brook *
Albert Brooks Albert Brooks (born Albert Lawrence Einstein ; July 22, 1947) is an American actor and filmmaker. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for 1987's '' Broadcast News'' and was widely praised for his performance as a ...
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James L. Brooks James Lawrence Brooks (born May 9, 1940) is an American director, producer, screenwriter and co-founder of Gracie Films. His television and film work includes ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'', ''Taxi'', ''The Simpsons'', '' Broadcast News'', ''As G ...
* Mel Brooks * Richard Brooks * Nick Broomfield * Simon Bross *
James Broughton James Broughton (November 10, 1913 – May 17, 1999) was an American poet and poetic filmmaker. He was part of the San Francisco Renaissance, a precursor to the Beat poets. He was an early bard of the Radical Faeries, as well as a member of ...
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Otto Brower Otto Brower (December 2, 1890 – January 25, 1946) was an American film director. He directed more than 40 films between 1928 and 1946. He was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and died in Hollywood, California, from a myocardial infarction, ...
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Martin Bruestle Martin Bruestle is an American television producer best known for his work on '' Northern Exposure'' and ''The Sopranos''. After graduating from the University of Minnesota in 1987, Martin Bruestle was selected to participate in the Academy of T ...
* Adrian Brunel * Nick Bruno * Chris Buck * Detlev Buck *
Tom Buckingham Tom Buckingham (February 25, 1895 – September 7, 1934) was an American film director and screenwriter. He directed 48 films between 1920 and 1932. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, and died from surgical complications. His film '' Cock ...
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Steve Buscemi Steven Vincent Buscemi ( ,As stated in interviews by Buscemi himself, some may insist that his pronunciation of his own name is "wrong" because it does not match the original Italian pronunciation as well. It is not uncommon for people to pronou ...
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Harold S. Bucquet Harold S. Bucquet (10 April 1891 – 13 February 1946) was an English film director. He directed 26 films between 1936 and 1945. His 1937 film ''Torture Money'' won an Academy Award for the Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). His 1943 short ''T ...
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Jan Bucquoy Jan Bucquoy (; Harelbeke, 16 November 1945) is a Belgian anarchist who has worked in various media (film, comics writing, painting, sculptures, museums). He gained fame for his controversial anti-establishment works and media stunts, which caus ...
* Danny Buday * John Carl Buechler * Bradley Buecker * Luis Buñuel * Pete Burness * Charles Burnett *
Bo Burnham Robert Pickering "Bo" Burnham (born 1990) is an American comedian, musician, songwriter, actor, and filmmaker. His comedy work often combines musical, sketch, and stand-up elements with filmmaking. Following his success as one of the earliest ...
* Edward Burns *
James Burrows James Edward Burrows (born December 30, 1940), sometimes known as Jim "Jimmy" Burrows, is an American television director who has been working in television since the 1970s.Stated in interview on ''Inside the Actors Studio'' Burrows has direct ...
* Tim Burstall * Tim Burton * Alexander Butler * Brian Patrick Butler * Chris Butler * David Butler * John Butler * Robert Butler * Ray Butt *
Jörg Buttgereit Jörg Buttgereit (born 20 December 1963) is a German writer/director known for his controversial films. He was born in Berlin, Germany, and has lived there his entire life. He is best known for his horror films ''Nekromantik'' (1987), ''Der To ...
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Zane Buzby Zane Buzby is an American director, actress, and philanthropist. Life and career Zane Buzby grew up in East Meadow, New York, and graduated with honors from Hofstra University with degrees in performance and dramatic literature. She began her ...
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Ed Bye Edward Richard Morrison Bye (born 12 June 1955) is a British film and TV producer and director. He directed the episodes of the Science fiction, science-fiction British sitcom, sitcom ''Red Dwarf'' from List of Red Dwarf episodes, Series I-IV and V ...
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James Ward Byrkit James Ward Byrkit (also known as James Byrkit or Jim Byrkit) is an American film director, writer, and actor. He is best known for directing the science fiction thriller Coherence (film), ''Coherence'' and co-writing the script for ''Rango (2011 f ...
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Christy Cabanne William Christy Cabanne (April 16, 1888 – October 15, 1950) was an American film director, screenwriter, and silent film actor. Biography Born in 1888, Cabanne (pronounced CAB-a-nay) started his career on stage as an actor and director. He a ...
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Michael Cacoyannis Michael Cacoyannis ( el, Μιχάλης Κακογιάννης, ''Michalis Kakogiannis''; 11 June 1922 – 25 July 2011), sometimes credited as Michael Yannis, was a Greek Cypriots, Greek Cypriot theatre and film director, writer, produce ...
* Margarita Cadenas * Israel Adrián Caetano * David Caffrey * Nicolas Cage *
James Cagney James Francis Cagney Jr. (; July 17, 1899March 30, 1986) was an American actor, dancer and film director. On stage and in film, Cagney was known for his consistently energetic performances, distinctive vocal style, and deadpan comic timing. He ...
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Edward L. Cahn Edward L. Cahn (February 12, 1899 – August 25, 1963) was an American film director. Early life and education Cahn was born in Brooklyn, New York. He went to work at Universal Pictures in 1917 while still a student at UCLA. Career ...
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James Cameron James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian filmmaker. A major figure in the post-New Hollywood era, he is considered one of the industry's most innovative filmmakers, regularly pushing the boundaries of cinematic capability w ...
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Augusto Caminito Augusto Caminito (1 July 1939 – 23 August 2020) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and producer. Filmography Screenwriter *''Halleluja for Django'' (1967) *''The Ruthless Four'' (1968) *''The Vatican Affair'' (1968) *''Trop jolies pour ...
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Donald Cammell Donald Seton Cammell (17 January 1934 – 24 April 1996) was a Scottish painter, screenwriter, and film director. He has a cult reputation largely due to his debut film ''Performance'', which he wrote the screenplay for and co-directed wi ...
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Joe Camp Joseph S. Camp Jr. (born April 20, 1939) is a motion picture director and writer who is best known as the creator and director of the ''Benji'' films, as well as ''Hawmps!'' and ''The Double McGuffin''. Camp resides in Bell Buckle, Tennessee wit ...
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Colin Campbell Colin may refer to: * Colin (given name) * Colin (surname) * ''Colin'' (film), a 2008 Cannes film festival zombie movie * Colin (horse) (1905–1932), thoroughbred racehorse * Colin (humpback whale), a humpback whale calf abandoned north of Sydney ...
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Dyan Cannon Dyan Cannon (born Samille Diane Friesen; January 4, 1937) is an American actress, director, screenwriter, producer, and editor. Her accolades include a Saturn Award, a Golden Globe Award, three Academy Award nominations, and a star on the Ho ...
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Kay Cannon Kay Cannon (born August 22, 1974) is an American screenwriter, producer, director, and actress. She is best known for writing and producing the ''Pitch Perfect'' film series (2012–2017). She made her directorial debut with the comedy film '' ...
* Colin Cant * Graham Cantwell * Peter Capaldi * Albert Capellani *
Frank Capra Frank Russell Capra (born Francesco Rosario Capra; May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was an Italian-born American film director, producer and writer who became the creative force behind some of the major award-winning films of the 1930s ...
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Luigi Capuano Luigi Capuano (13 July 1904 – 20 October 1979) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Born in Naples, he directed 43 films between 1947 and 1971. Selected filmography * ''Vertigine d'amore'' (1949) * ''Flying Squadron (film), Flyin ...
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Christian Carion Christian Carion (born 4 January 1963) is a French film director, dialogue writer and screenwriter, gaining international attention for ''Joyeux Noël (Merry Christmas)'', which was nominated for several awards, including the 2005 Academy Awa ...
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Marcel Carné Marcel Albert Carné (; 18 August 1906 – 31 October 1996) was a French film director. A key figure in the poetic realism movement, Carné's best known films include '' Port of Shadows'' (1938), ''Le Jour Se Lève'' (1939), '' The Devil's Envoys ...
* John Carney * Giuliano Carnimeo * Marc Caro * Niki Caro * Benjamin Caron * John Carpenter * Thomas Carr *
Enrique Carreras Enrique Carreras (6 January 1925 – 29 August 1995) was a Peruvian-born Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer, and was one of the most prolific film directors in the history of the Cinema of Argentina. Born in Lima, Peru, Carr ...
* John Paddy Carstairs * Chris Carter * D. J. Caruso * Enrico Casarosa * John Cassavetes * Nick Cassavetes *
P. J. Castellaneta Paul Joseph (P. J.) Castellaneta (born 1960) is an American film director,"In the Write Place ...
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Michael Caton-Jones Michael Caton-Jones (born Michael Jones; 15 October 1957) is a Scottish Film director, director and Film producer, producer of film and television. His credits include the World War II film ''Memphis Belle (film), Memphis Belle'' (1990), the r ...
* Peter Cattaneo * Alberto Cavalcanti * Liliana Cavani * Paolo Cavara * André Cayatte * Ralph Ceder * Jeff Celentano * Simon Cellan Jones * Mark Cendrowski * Tony Cervone *
Pablo César Pablo César (; born 26 February 1962) is an Argentine film director, film producer, screenwriter and film professor. He began his filmmaking career in the Buenos Aires independent short film scene shot in the Super 8 film, Super 8 format, making ...
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Nuri Bilge Ceylan Nuri Bilge Ceylan (, born 26 January 1959) is a Turkish photographer, filmmaker and actor best known for the Palme d'Or winning ''Winter Sleep (film), Winter Sleep'' (2014). Early life Ceylan was born in Istanbul on 26 January 1959. His interes ...
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Claude Chabrol Claude Henri Jean Chabrol (; 24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave (''nouvelle vague'') group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues an ...
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Aneesh Chaganty Aneesh Chaganty (; born January 30, 1991) is an American film director and screenwriter. He made his feature film directorial debut with the 2018 thriller ''Searching'', for which he won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at the 2018 Sundance ...
* Youssef Chahine * Fruit Chan * Jackie Chan * Peter Chan *
Charlie Chaplin Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. (16 April 188925 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is consider ...
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Larry Charles Larry Charles (born ) is an American comedian, screenwriter, director, actor, and producer. He was a staff writer for the sitcom ''Seinfeld'' for its first five seasons. He has also directed the documentary film ''Religulous'' and the mockument ...
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Émile Chautard Émile Chautard (7 September 1864 – 24 April 1934) was a French-American film director, actor, and screenwriter, most active in the silent era. He directed more than 100 films between 1910 and 1924. He also appeared in more than 60 films ...
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Damien Chazelle Damien Sayre Chazelle (; born January 19, 1985) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He is known for his films ''Whiplash'' (2014), ''La La Land'' (2016), and '' First Man'' (2018). For ''Whiplash'', he was nominated for the ...
* Stephen Chbosky *
Jeremiah S. Chechik Jeremiah S. Chechik (born 1955 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is the film director, director of such films as ''National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation'', ''Benny & Joon'', ''Diabolique (1996 film), Diabolique'' and ''The Avengers (1998 film), The Av ...
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Kate Cheeseman Kate Cheeseman, is a BAFTA award-winning film director, known primarily for TV shows such as ''Pig Heart Boy'', ''Casualty'' She won the BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Children's Drama award 2000 for ''Pig Heart Boy ''P ...
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David Cherkassky David Yanovich Cherkassky ( uk, Давид Янович Черкаський, translit=Davyd Yanovych Cherkas'kyi; 23 August 1932 – 30 October 2018) was a Soviet and Ukrainian animated film director and screenwriter. He made several animation pict ...
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Pierre Chevalier Pierre Chevalier may refer to: *Pierre Chevalier (caver) (1905–2001), French caver, mountaineer and explorer *Pierre Chevalier (director) (1915–2005), French film director *Pierre Chevalier (politician) (born 1952), Belgian politician *Pierre M ...
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Abigail Child Abigail Child is a filmmaker, poet, and writer who has been active in experimental writing and media since the 1970s. She has completed more than thirty film and video works and installations, and six books. Child's early film work addressed the in ...
* Ching Siu-Tung *
Stephen Chiodo The Chiodo Brothers (Stephen, Charles & Edward Chiodo; ; born in Bronx, New York (state), New York) are an American trio of sibling special effects artists, specializing in clay modeling, creature creation, stop motion and animatronics. Known f ...
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Samson Chiu Samson Chiu Leung-chun () is a Hong Kong-based film director, film writer and newspaper columnist. He is a member of the Hong Kong Directors' Guild. Filmography * ''News Attack'' (1989) - director/writer, starring Andy Lau as a news photographe ...
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Tadeusz Chmielewski Tadeusz Chmielewski (; 7 June 1927 – 4 December 2016) was a Polish film director, screenwriter and film producer, most notable for being one of the pioneers of popular Polish comedy. During World War II and until 1948, he was a soldier for the N ...
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Joyce Chopra Joyce Chopra (; born October 27, 1936) is an American director. She was married to American stage and screenwriter Tom Cole until his death on February 23, 2009. Life and career Chopra was one of three siblings born in New York City to Abraha ...
* Yash Chopra * Chor Yuen * Deborah Chow *
Stephen Chow Stephen Chow Sing-chi (, born 22 June 1962), known professionally as Stephen Chow, is a Hong Kong filmmaker, former actor and comedian, known for ''Shaolin Soccer'' and ''Kung Fu Hustle''. Early life and education Stephen Chow was born in British ...
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Christian-Jaque Christian-Jaque (byname of Christian Maudet; 4 September 1904 – 8 July 1994) was a French filmmaker. From 1954 to 1959, he was married to actress Martine Carol, who starred in several of his films, including ''Lucrèce Borgia'' (1953), '' ...
* Rich Christiano *
Roger Christiansen Roger S. Christiansen (born October 2, 1952) is an American television director. Christiansen has worked as a director, associate director and technical coordinator for number of notable television series. His credits include '' Friends'', ''Joe ...
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Jon M. Chu Jonathan Murray Chu (born November 2, 1979) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known as the director of 2018's ''Crazy Rich Asians'', the first film by a major Hollywood studio to feature a majority cast of Asi ...
* Grigori Chukhrai * Lee Isaac Chung * Peter Chung * Věra Chytilová * Michael Cimino * Claudio Cipelletti * Souleymane Cissé *
Louis C.K. Louis Alfred Székely (; born September 12, 1967), known professionally as Louis C.K. (), is an American stand-up comedian, screenwriter, actor, and filmmaker. C.K. won three Peabody Awards, three Grammy Awards, six Primetime Emmy Awards, and a ...
* René Clair *
Bob Clampett Robert Emerson Clampett Sr. (May 8, 1913 – May 2, 1984) was an American animator, director, producer and puppeteer. He was best known for his work on the '' Looney Tunes'' animated series from Warner Bros. as well as the television shows '' ...
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Bob Clark Benjamin Robert Clark (August 5, 1939 – April 4, 2007) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. He is best known for his work in the Canadian film industry throughout the 1970s and 1980s, where he was responsible ...
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Larry Clark Lawrence Donald Clark (born January 19, 1943) is an American film director, photographer, writer and film producer who is best known for his controversial teen film ''Kids'' (1995) and his photography book ''Tulsa'' (1971). His work focuses prim ...
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Richard Clark Richard Clark may refer to: * Richard Clark (dermatologist), American dermatologist * Richard Clark (business executive) (born 1946), president of Merck * Richard Clark (director), British television director * Richard Auldon Clark, American condu ...
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Alan Clarke Alan John Clarke (28 October 1935 – 24 July 1990) was an English television and film director, producer and writer. Life and career Clarke was born in Wallasey, Wirral, England. Most of Clarke's output was for television rather than cinema, ...
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S. J. Clarkson S. J. Clarkson is a British television and film director. Career Clarkson's credits include the series '' Doctors'', ''Casualty'', '' EastEnders'', ''Footballers' Wives'', and ''Life on Mars'', as well as the American series ''Heroes'', '' House' ...
* Jack Clayton * Tom Clegg * William Clemens * Jemaine Clement *
René Clément René Clément (; 18 March 1913 – 17 March 1996) was a French film director and screenwriter. Life and career Clément studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts where he developed an interest in filmmaking. In 1936, he directed hi ...
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Edward F. Cline Edward Francis Cline (November 4, 1891 – May 22, 1961) was an American screenwriter, actor, writer and director best known for his work with comedians W.C. Fields and Buster Keaton. He was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin and died in Hollywood, Cal ...
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George Clooney George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is the recipient of List of awards and nominations received by George Clooney, numerous accolades, including a British Academy Film Awards, British Academy Film A ...
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Chris Clough Chris Clough (born 9 March 1951 in Harrogate, Yorkshire, England) is an English television producer and director. Clough studied English literature at Leeds University. He went there because they had a television studio available for the studen ...
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Henri-Georges Clouzot Henri-Georges Clouzot (; 20 November 1907 – 12 January 1977) was a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best remembered for his work in the thriller film genre, having directed ''The Wages of Fear'' and '' Les Diaboliques'', ...
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Enrico Cocozza Enrico Cocozza (6 November 1921 – 27 December 1997), was a Scottish filmmaker who won many film awards during the 1940s and 1950s. His often surreal films were mainly filmed in and around the town of Wishaw in Scotland, where his family ...
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Keri Collins Keri Collins (born 1978) is a BAFTA winning director and writer for film and television. He has written and directed for the BBC, Sky TV, Netflix, ''The Sunday Times'' and PBS. Collins was born in Pontypool, Wales. He was selected for the prest ...
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Lewis D. Collins Lewis D. Collins (January 12, 1899 – August 24, 1954) was an American film director and occasional screenwriter. In his career spanning over 30 years, he churned out dozens of Westerns. Career Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Collins' film caree ...
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Chris Columbus Christopher Columbus was an explorer born in Genoa, Italy. Christopher Columbus or Chris Columbus may also refer to: People * Chris Columbus (musician) (1902–2002), American jazz drummer * Chris Columbus (filmmaker) (born 1958), American dire ...
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Timothy Combe Timothy Combe (born 17 October 1936) is a retired British television director and actor's agent. As a director of BBC television drama from the late 1960s to the late 1970s, he worked on series such as ''Doctor Who'', ''Z-Cars'' and '' The Brothers' ...
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Bill Condon William Condon (born October 22, 1955) is an American director and screenwriter. Condon is known for writing and/or directing numerous successful and acclaimed films including '' Gods and Monsters'', ''Chicago'', '' Kinsey'', ''Dreamgirls'', ' ...
* Bruce Conner * Jack Conway * Ryan Coogler * Barry Cook * Fielder Cook *
Victor Cook Victor A. Cook (born c. 1960/1961) is an American television producer and director best known for his work on the animated series ''The Spectacular Spider-Man'' (2008–2009), ''Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated'' (2010–2013) and ''Stretch Arms ...
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Merian C. Cooper Merian Caldwell Cooper (October 24, 1893 – April 21, 1973) was an American filmmaker and Academy Award winner, as well as a former aviator who served as an officer in the United States Air Force and Polish Air Force. In film, he is credited a ...
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Francis Ford Coppola Francis Ford Coppola (; ; born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the major figures of the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Coppola is the recipient of five A ...
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Joe Cornish Joseph Murray Cornish (born 20 December 1968) is an English comedian and filmmaker. With his long-time comedy partner, Adam Buxton, he forms the comedy duo Adam and Joe. In 2011, Cornish released his directorial debut ''Attack the Block''. He ...
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Orlando Corradi Orlando Corradi (1940, Busto Arsizio – 7 November 2018, Switzerland) was an Italian film director, animator, and film distributor. He was the co-founder, president, CEO and CFO of Mondo TV. Career Born in Busto Arsizio in 1940, Corradi (along w ...
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Rich Correll Richard Thomas Correll (born May 14, 1948) is an American television actor, director, producer and writer. Life and career Born in Los Angeles County, California, Correll is the son of Charles Correll, who starred as Andy Brown on the radio ...
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Manny Coto Manuel Hector "Manny" Coto (born June 10, 1961) is an American writer, director and producer of films and television programs. Coto was the executive producer and showrunner of ''Star Trek: Enterprise'' in its final season, and executive produc ...
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T. Arthur Cottam T. Arthur Cottam is a screenwriter, actor, producer and film director. A graduate of the Film and Television Production program at the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University, Cottam resides in Los Angeles, California. He acted in ...
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Stephen Cragg Stephen Cragg is an American television producer and director. Cragg has directed several network television series. Cragg also directed episodes of '' ER'', ''Boston Legal'', ''Detroit 1-8-7'', ''Southland'', ''Harry's Law'', ''Northern Exposure ...
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Kelly Fremon Craig Kelly Fremon Craig (born January 1, 1981) is an American screenwriter, producer, and film director. She is known for directing, writing, and co-producing the 2016 coming-of-age dramedy ''The Edge of Seventeen.'' Early life Fremon Craig was bo ...
* William Crain * Bryan Cranston * Wes Craven * Joel Crawford * Peter Cregeen * Destin Daniel Cretton * Charles Crichton *
Michael Crichton John Michael Crichton (; October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an American author and filmmaker. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films. His literary works heavily feature tech ...
* Jon Cring * Donald Crisp * Armando Crispino * John Crockett * David Croft * Donald Crombie * John Cromwell *
David Cronenberg David Paul Cronenberg (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror genre, with his films exploring visceral bodily transformation ...
* Mackenzie Crook * Alan Crosland *
Matthew Crouch Matthew W. "Matt" Crouch /kraʊtʃ/ (born October 26, 1961) is an American broadcaster, on-air personality, and filmmaker. A second-generation television producer and executive, he is currently president of Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), ...
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Arzén von Cserépy Arzén von Cserépy (1881–1958) was a Hungary, Hungarian screenwriter, film producer and film director, director who was based in Germany. He ran his own production company Cserépy-Film until it was merged into the larger UFA GmbH, UFA empire. ...
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Alfonso Cuarón Alfonso Cuarón Orozco ( , ; born 28 November 1961) is a Mexican filmmaker. He is known for directing films in a variety of genres including the family drama ''A Little Princess (1995 film), A Little Princess'' (1995), the romantic drama ''Gre ...
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Chris Cuddington Chris Cuddington is an Australian animation director who worked at Hanna-Barbera Australia studios in Sydney during the 1970s and 1980s. At Hanna-Barbera (Australia), he was Animation Director for the following TV series: *''Clue Club'' (197 ...
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Jeremy Culver ''Jeremy Culver'' (born January 6, 1976) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He wrote, directed, and produced the indie film '' No Postage Necessary'' (2018) and the holiday film ''An Evergreen Christmas'' (2014). ''No Postag ...
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Fiona Cumming Fiona Cumming (9 October 1937 – 1 January 2015) was a Scottish television director, noted for her work on the BBC television series, '' Doctor Who'', during the show's Fifth Doctor era. Her credits included the 1982 episode, '' Castrovalva'' ...
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Michael Cumming Michael Cumming is a British director and filmmaker. He is best known for directing comedy shows such as: ''Brass Eye'', '' Toast Of London'', '' Toast Of Tinseltown'', ''The Mark Thomas Product'', ''Snuff Box,'' '' The Mark Steel Lectures'' and ...
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Sean S. Cunningham Sean Sexton Cunningham (born December 1941) is an American filmmaker, director, producer, and writer. He is best known for directing and producing several horror films, beginning in the early 1970s. Raised in Connecticut, Cunningham graduated fr ...
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Dan Curtis Dan Curtis (born Daniel Mayer Cherkoss; August 12, 1927 – March 27, 2006) was an American director, writer, and producer of television and film, known among fans of horror films for his afternoon TV series ''Dark Shadows'' (1966–1971) and ...
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Paul Czinner Paul Czinner (30 May 1890 – 22 June 1972) was a Hungarian-born British writer, film director, and producer. Biography Czinner was born to a Jewish family in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. After studying literature and philosophy at the Universi ...
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Alan Dale Alan Hugh Dale (born 6 May 1947) is a New Zealand actor. As a child, Dale enjoyed theatre and rugby. After retiring from the sport, he took on a number of occupations, before deciding to become a professional actor at age 27. Dale subsequentl ...
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Georgi Daneliya Georgiy Nikolayevich Daneliya ( ka, გიორგი ნიკოლოზის ძე დანელია; russian: Георгий Николаевич Данелия; 25 August 1930 – 4 April 2019), also known as Giya Daneliya ( ka, გ ...
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Frank Daniel František "Frank" Daniel (April 14, 1926 – March 29, 1996) was a Czech-American screenwriter, film director and teacher. He is known for developing the sequence paradigm of screenwriting, in which a classically constructed movie can be br ...
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Joe Dante Joseph James Dante Jr. (; born November 28, 1946) is an American film director, producer, editor and actor. His films—notably ''Gremlins'' (1984) alongside its sequel, '' Gremlins 2: The New Batch'' (1990)—often mix 1950s-style B movies wit ...
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Eric Darnell Eric Darnell (born August 21, 1961) is an American animator, storyboard artist, director, screenwriter, songwriter and occasional voice actor best known for co-directing ''Antz'' with Tim Johnson, as well as co-directing and co-writing ''Madagas ...
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Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast (6 May 1897 – 17 March 1968) was an Argentinean born, French screenwriter and director. Life d'Abbadie d'Arrast was born in Argentina in 1893 to a family of French aristocratic origins. He moved to the United States i ...
* Jules Dassin * Hayato Date * Gary Dauberman * Herschel Daugherty *
Byambasuren Davaa Byambasuren Davaa, also known as Davaagiin Byambasüren ( mn, Даваагийн Бямбасүрэн; born 1971 in Ulaanbaatar), is a Mongolian filmmaker currently residing in Germany. Between 1995 and 1998 she studied at the Movie Academy in Ula ...
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John Howard Davies John Howard Davies (9 March 193922 August 2011)
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J. Searle Dawley James Searle Dawley (October 4, 1877 – March 30, 1949) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, stage actor, and playwright. Between 1907 and the mid-1920s, while working for Edison, Rex Motion Picture Company, Famous Player ...
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Roxann Dawson Roxann Dawson (née Caballero, born September 11, 1958), also credited as Roxann Biggs and Roxann Biggs-Dawson, is an American actress and director. She is best known for her role as B'Elanna Torres on the television series '' Star Trek: Voyager' ...
* Shane Dawson * Robert Day (director) * Jonathan Dayton * Drew Daywalt * Basil Dean *
Basil Dearden Basil Dearden (born Basil Clive Dear; 1 January 1911 – 23 March 1971) was an English film director. Early life and career Dearden was born at 5, Woodfield Road, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex to Charles James Dear, a steel manufacturer, and his wife, Fl ...
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Tiffanie DeBartolo Tiffanie DeBartolo (born November 27, 1970) is an American novelist, filmmaker, co-founder of the independent record label Bright Antenna, and co-founder of The ShineMaker Foundation. Tiffanie has written three novels: ''God-Shaped Hole,'' ''Ho ...
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Philippe de Broca Philippe de Broca (; 15 March 1933 – 26 November 2004) was a French movie director. He directed 30 full-length feature films, including the highly successful ''That Man from Rio, That Man from Rio (''L'Homme de Rio'')'', ''Le Magnifique, The M ...
* Fred de Cordova * Allen Coulter * Albert de Courville * Russell DeGrazier *
Rolf de Heer Rolf de Heer (born 4 May 1951) is a Dutch Australian film director. De Heer was born in Heemskerk in the Netherlands but migrated to Sydney when he was eight years old.
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Fred Dekker Fred Dekker (born April 9, 1959) is an American screenwriter and film director best known for his cult classic horror comedy films ''Night of the Creeps'' and ''The Monster Squad'' (written with Shane Black). He contributed the story ideas for ...
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Jean Delannoy Jean Delannoy (12 January 1908 – 18 June 2008) was a French actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director. Biography Although Delannoy was born in a Paris suburb, his family was from Haute-Normandie in the north of France. He was a P ...
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Bruce Dellis Bruce Dellis is an American film director and screenwriter based in Tempe, AZ. He has written and directed several award-winning short films and features. Career In 2006, Dellis won two Rocky Mountain Emmy Awards for ''The Intervention of B ...
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Roy Del Ruth Roy Del Ruth (October 18, 1893, Delaware – April 27, 1961) was an American filmmaker. Early career Beginning his Hollywood career as a writer for Mack Sennett in 1915, Del Ruth later directed his first short film ''Hungry Lions'' (1919) ...
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Guillermo del Toro Guillermo del Toro Gómez (; born October 9, 1964) is a Mexican filmmaker, author, and actor. He directed the Academy Award–winning fantasy films ''Pan's Labyrinth'' (2006) and ''The Shape of Water'' (2017), winning the Academy Awards for Be ...
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William C. deMille William Churchill deMille (July 25, 1878 – March 5, 1955), also spelled de Mille or De Mille, was an American screenwriter and film director from the silent film era through the early 1930s. He was also a noted playwright prior to moving into ...
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Jonathan Demme Robert Jonathan Demme ( ; February 22, 1944 – April 26, 2017) was an American filmmaker. Beginning his career under B-movie producer Roger Corman, Demme made his directorial debut with the 1974 women-in-prison film ''Caged Heat'', before ...
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Jacques Demy Jacques Demy (; 5 June 1931 – 27 October 1990) was a French director, lyricist, and screenwriter. He appeared at the height of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. Demy's films are celebrat ...
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Robert De Niro Robert Anthony De Niro Jr. ( , ; born August 17, 1943) is an American actor. Known for his collaborations with Martin Scorsese, he is considered to be one of the best actors of his generation. De Niro is the recipient of various accolades ...
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Martin Dennis Martin Dennis is a Canadian-born British television director. He won the BAFTA for situation comedy in 2005, having been nominated in 1989, 1996, and 1998. Early life and education Dennis was born in Toronto and lived there briefly until hi ...
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Manoel de Oliveira Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira (; 11 December 1908 – 2 April 2015) was a Portuguese film director and screenwriter born in Cedofeita, Porto. He first began making films in 1927, when he and some friends attempted to make a film about Wo ...
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Jake Paltrow Jake Paltrow is an American film director, screenwriter and actor. Coming from a family of actors, he is the younger brother of Gwyneth Paltrow and the son of Bruce Paltrow and Blythe Danner. Personal life Paltrow is the son of producer-dire ...
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Serge de Poligny Serge de Poligny (1903–1983) was a French screenwriter and film director. Career Serge de Poligny was born in Paris in 1903. He studied art at the École des Beaux-Arts in the class of the painter Maurice Denis. In 1925 he joined the French ...
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Johnny Depp John Christopher Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor and musician. He is the recipient of multiple accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Award ...
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John Derek John Derek (born Derek Delevan Harris; August 12, 1926 – May 22, 1998) was an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer and photographer.Maya Deren *
Scott Derrickson Scott Derrickson (born July 16, 1966) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for directing the films '' The Exorcism of Emily Rose'' (2005), ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'' (2008), ''Sinister'' (2012), '' Deliver Us from Evil'' (2014), '' ...
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Bernard Derriman Bernard Derriman is an Australian animator, director, and producer. He is known for working on the animated sitcom ''Bob's Burgers'' and co-directing its animated feature film. He began his career in animation at Walt Disney Studios in Sydn ...
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Giuseppe de Santis Giuseppe De Santis (11 February 1917 – 16 May 1997) was an Italian film director. One of the most idealistic neorealist filmmakers of the 1940s and 1950s, he wrote and directed films punctuated by ardent cries for social reform. He was ...
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Howard Deutch Howard Deutch (born September 14, 1950) is an American film and television director who worked in collaboration with filmmaker John Hughes, directing two of Hughes's best-known screenplays, ''Pretty in Pink'' and '' Some Kind of Wonderful''. Sinc ...
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Vivienne Dick Vivienne Dick (born 1950) is an Irish feminist experimental and documentary filmmaker. Her early films helped define the No Wave scene. According to ''The Irish Times'', Dick is "one of the most important film-makers Ireland has produced". ...
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*Béla Gaál *Leonid Gaidai *Ray Gallardo *Florian Gallenberger *Alex Galvin *Harry Gamboa Jr. *Abel Gance *Christophe Gans *Dennis Gansel *Arline Burks Gant, Arline Gant *Carla Garapedian *Rodrigo García (director), Rodrigo García *Jeremy Garelick *Jeff Garlin *Tay Garnett *Philippe Garrel *Mick Garris *Matteo Garrone *Harry Garson *William Garwood *Louis J. Gasnier *Tucker Gates *Mark Gatiss *Tony Gatlif *Nils Gaup *Roberto Gavaldón *Barrie Gavin *Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia *Paul Geday *Jean Genet *Xavier Gens *Giacomo Gentilomo *Fred Gerber * Aleksei Yuryevich German * Aleksei Alekseivich German *Pietro Germi *Clyde Geronimi *Kurt Gerron *Douchan Gersi *Viktor Gertler *Ricky Gervais *Jennifer Getzinger *Subhash Ghai *Ritwik Ghatak *Bahman Ghobadi *Charles Giblyn *Angela Murray Gibson, Angela Gibson *Mel Gibson filmography, Mel Gibson *Billy Gierhart *Joaquin "Kino" Gil *John Gilbert (actor), John Gilbert *Lewis Gilbert *David Giler *Stuart Gillard *Craig Gillespie *Terry Gilliam *Tyler Gillett *Vince Gilligan *John Gilling *Dan Gilroy *Tony Gilroy *Arvid E. Gillstrom *Bernard Girard *Marino Girolami *Ken Girotti *Pavel Giroud *Amos Gitai *Ellen Gittelsohn *Stanka Gjurić *Rose Glass *Lesli Linka Glatter *Jonathan Glazer *John Glen (director), John Glen *Peter Glenville *James Glickenhaus *Will Gluck *Jean-Luc Godard *Andy Goddard *Theo van Gogh (film director), Theo van Gogh *Michael Goi *Menahem Golan *Evan Goldberg *Bobcat Goldthwait *Nick Gomez *Michel Gondry *Alejandro González Iñárritu *Martin Gooch *Derrick Goodwin *Leslie Goodwins *Rupert Goold *Adoor Gopalakrishnan *Bryan Gordon *George Gordon (animator), George Gordon *Michael Gordon (film director), Michael Gordon *Stuart Gordon *John Gorrie (director), John Gorrie *Yana Gorskaya *Hideo Gosha *Ryan Gosling *Raja Gosnell *Lisa Gottlieb *Peter Gould *Alfred Goulding *Edmund Goulding *Ashutosh Gowariker * Jake Graf *Todd Graff *William A. Graham (director), William A. Graham *Michael Grandage *Brian Grant (director), Brian Grant *Lee Grant *Alex Graves *F. Gary Gray *Adam Green (filmmaker), Adam Green *Alfred E. Green *Dave Green (director), Dave Green *David Green (director), David Green *David Gordon Green *Guy Green (filmmaker), Guy Green *Hilton A. Green *Norm Green *Pamela B. Green, Pamela Green *Steph Green *Tom Green *Peter Greenaway *Josh Greenbaum *C. H. Greenblatt *Paul Greengrass *Jeff Greenstein *Robert Greenwald *Edwin Greenwood *Robert Gregson (filmmaker), Robert Gregson *Jean Grémillon *Johannes Grenzfurthner *John Greyson *John Grierson *Ken Grieve *D. W. Griffith *Edward H. Griffith *Murray Grigor *Peter Grimwade *Nick Grinde *David Grossman (director), David Grossman *Luca Guadagnino *Matthew Gray Gubler *Romolo Guerrieri *Christopher Guest *Val Guest *John Guillermin *Fred Guiol *Sacha Guitry *Yilmaz Güney *Andrew Gunn (director), Andrew Gunn *James Gunn (filmmaker), James Gunn *Hrafn Gunnlaugsson *Manish Gupta (director), Manish Gupta *Stephen Gurewitz *Jorge Gutierrez (animator), Jorge Gutierrez *Sebastian Gutierrez * Alice Guy-Blaché *Patricio Guzmán Top of page


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*Charles F. Haas *Kamal Haasan *Taylor Hackford *Zach Hadel *Tala Hadid *Lucile Hadžihalilović *Piers Haggard *Paul Haggis *Larry Hagman *Don Hahn *Antonio Margheriti *Jody Margolin Hahn *Charles Haid *Andrew Haigh *John Halas *Alexander Hall *Don Hall (filmmaker), Don Hall *Lasse Hallström *Victor Hugo Halperin *Gary Halvorson *Ryusuke Hamaguchi *Bent Hamer *Robert Hamer *Guy Hamilton *Hamish Hamilton (director), Hamish Hamilton *Jonathan Hammond (filmmaker), Jonathan Hammond *Sanaa Hamri *Victor Hanbury *John D. Hancock *Michael Haneke *Tom Hanks *William Hanna *Ken Hannam *Curtis Hanson *Geir Hansteen Jörgensen *Alex Hardcastle *Neasa Hardiman *Catherine Hardwicke *Graeme Harper *Tom Harper (director), Tom Harper *Veit Harlan *Renny Harlin *Harry Harris (director), Harry Harris *Peter Harris (director), Peter Harris *Mary Harron *Harvey Hart *William S. Hart *Hal Hartley *Anthony Harvey *Herk Harvey *Jack Harvey (actor and director), Jack Harvey *Wojciech Has *Henry Hathaway *James Hawes *Howard Hawks *Will Hay *Salma Hayek *Michael Hayes (director), Michael Hayes. *David Hayman *James Hayman *Toby Haynes *Todd Haynes *Jimmy Hayward *Michel Hazanavicius *Amy Heckerling *Ralph Hemecker *Anthony Hemingway *Siân Heder *Victor Heerman *Zachary Heinzerling *Stuart Heisler *Brian Helgeland *Marielle Heller *Monte Hellman *Michael "Ffish" Hemschoot *Joseph Henabery *Chris Henchy *Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck *Dell Henderson *John Henderson (director), John Henderson *Frank Henenlotter *Hobart Henley *Paul Henreid *Brian Henson *Jim Henson *Perry Henzell *Paula Heredia *Stephen Herek *Albert Herman *Kate Herron *William Blake Herron *Michael Herz (producer), Michael Herz *John Herzfeld *Werner Herzog filmography, Werner Herzog *Zako Heskiya *Jared Hess *Jerusha Hess *Gordon Hessler *Marianne Hettinger *Jennifer Love Hewitt *David Hewlett *John Edward Heys, John Heys *Douglas Hickox *Scott Hicks (director), Scott Hicks *Howard Higgin *George Roy Hill *George Hill (director), George Hill *Jack Hill *Jody Hill *Robert F. Hill *Sinclair Hill *Walter Hill *Stephen Hillenburg *Arthur Hiller *William Byron Hillman *Lambert Hillyer *Anthony Himbs *Art Hindle *Cheryl Hines *Ryūichi Hiroki *Oliver Hirschbiegel *Leon Hirszman *Leslie S. Hiscott *Alfred Hitchcock *Godfrey Ho *Mervyn Pinfield *Ho Ping *Steve Pink *Jessica Hobbs *Gregory Hoblit *Brent Hodge *Mike Hodges *Jack Hofsiss *James P. Hogan (director), James P. Hogan *P.J. Hogan *Clive Holden *Agnieszka Holland *Todd Holland *Tom Holland (filmmaker), Tom Holland *Savage Steve Holland *Tonya Suzanne Holly, Tonya Holly *Ben Holmes *John Holmquist *Seth Holt *Ishirō Honda *Mitsuru Hongo *Tobe Hooper *Tom Hooper *Stephen Hopkins (director), Stephen Hopkins *Dennis Hopper filmography, Dennis Hopper *Jerry Hopper *Gwyneth Horder-Payton *Leonard Horn *James W. Horne *Oliver Horsbrugh *Hou Hsiao-hsien *Li Hsing *John Hough (director), John Hough *Bryce Dallas Howard *Byron Howard *David Howard (director), David Howard *Michael Howard (filmmaker), Michael Howard *Ron Howard *William K. Howard, William Howard *Peter Howitt *King Hu *L. Ron Hubbard *Reginald Hudlin *Hugh Hudson *Bronwen Hughes *Howard Hughes *John Hughes (filmmaker), John Hughes *Ken Hughes *Robert F. Hughes *Terry Hughes (director), Terry Hughes *Ann Hui *Straub-Huillet, Danièle Huillet *Arthur Humberstone *H. Bruce Humberstone *André Hunebelle *Helen Hunt *Tim Hunter (director), Tim Hunter *Lawrence Huntington *Nick Hurran *Michael Hurst *Sam Hurwitz *Metin Hüseyin *Waris Hussein *John Huston *Charles Hutchison *Brian G. Hutton *Willard Huyck *Peter Hyams Top of page


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*Armando Iannucci *Juan Ibáñez *Kon Ichikawa *Steve Ihnat *Brian Iles *Im Kwon-Taek *Shōhei Imamura *Michael Imison *Hiroshi Inagaki *John Ince (actor), John Ince *Ralph Ince *Thomas H. Ince *Rex Ingram (director), Rex Ingram *Ciro Ippolito *Dickson Iroegbu *John Irvin *George Irving (American actor), George Irving *Kyōhei Ishiguro *Debbie Isitt *Marc Israel *Jūzō Itami *Aleksandr Ivanovsky *Ivan Ivanov-Vano *Joris Ivens *James Ivory Top of page


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*Jacques Jaccard *David Jackson (director), David Jackson *Dianne Jackson *Michael Jackson *Mick Jackson (director), Mick Jackson *Paul Jackson (producer), Paul Jackson *Peter Jackson *Wilfred Jackson *Gregory Jacobs *Rick Jacobson *Sarah Jacobson *Henry Jaglom *Wanda Jakubowska *Alan James *Steve James (producer), Steve James *Miklós Jancsó *Leigh Janiak *Jang Joon-hwan *Bob Jaques *Derek Jarman *Jim Jarmusch *Julian Jarrold *Charles Jarrott *Risto Jarva *Leigh Jason *Kang Je-gyu *Barry Jenkins *What If... (2010 film), Dallas Jenkins *Patty Jenkins *Garth Jennings *Humphrey Jennings *Shelley Jensen *Jean-Pierre Jeunet *Norman Jewison *Jia Zhangke *Jiang Wen *Jaromil Jireš *Phil Joanou *Alejandro Jodorowsky *Mark Joffe *Roland Joffé *Clark Johnson *Craig Johnson (director), Craig Johnson *Duke Johnson (director), Duke Johnson *Lamont Johnson *Liza Johnson *Mark Steven Johnson *Nunnally Johnson *Rian Johnson *Tim Johnson (film director), Tim Johnson *Joe Johnston *Angelina Jolie *Chuck Jones *Duncan Jones *F. Richard Jones *Grover Jones *Michael Jones (writer), Michael Jones *Ron Jones (television director), Ron Jones *Terry Jones *Tommy Lee Jones *Spike Jonze *Neil Jordan *Edward José *Max Joseph *Jon Jost *Louis Jouvet *Paul Joyce *Jonathan Judge *Mike Judge *Rupert Julian *Miranda July *Nathan Juran Top of page


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*Karel Kachyňa *George Kaczender *Jeremy Kagan *Mauricio Kagel *Joseph Kahn videography, Joseph Kahn *Sathish Kalathil *Mikhail Kalatozov *Alex Kalymnios *Kamal (director), Kamal *Arunraja Kamaraj *Sekhar Kammula *Deborah Kampmeier *Puttanna Kanagal *Adam Kane *Joseph Kane *Shusuke Kaneko *Jeff Kanew *Garson Kanin *Jonathan Kaplan *Raj Kapoor *Shekhar Kapur *Pekka Karjalainen *Phil Karlson *Roman Karmen *Jason Kartalian *Jake Kasdan *Lawrence Kasdan *Mathieu Kassovitz *Aaron Katz (filmmaker), Aaron Katz *Lloyd Kaufman *Philip Kaufman *Aki Kaurismäki *Mika Kaurismäki *Helmut Käutner *Jerzy Kawalerowicz *Minoru Kawasaki (film director), Minoru Kawasaki *Tony Kaye (director), Tony Kaye *Elia Kazan *Helmut Käutner *Buster Keaton filmography, Buster Keaton *Abdellatif Kechiche *William Keighley *Asaad Kelada *Frederick King Keller *Harry Keller *Michael Keller (filmmaker), Michael Keller *Barnet Kellman *Brian Kelly (director), Brian Kelly *Gene Kelly filmography, Gene Kelly *Richard Kelly (director), Richard Kelly *Gil Kenan *David Kendall (director), David Kendall *Alex Kendrick *Erle C. Kenton, Erle Kenton *James V. Kern *David Kerr (director), David Kerr *Robert P. Kerr, Robert Kerr *Michael Kerrigan *Irvin Kershner *James Kerwin *Abbas Kiarostami *Krzysztof Kieślowski *Maggie Kiley *Edward Killy *Kim Jee-woon *Kim Ki-duk *Max W. Kimmich, Max Kimmich *Anthony Kimmins *Simon Kinberg *Burton L. King, Burton King *Gary King (director), Gary King *George King (film director), George King *Henry King (director), Henry King *Louis King *Paul King (director), Paul King *Shaka King *Stephen King *Keisuke Kinoshita *Klaus Kinski *Teinosuke Kinugasa *Brian Kirk *Randal Kirk II, Randal Kirk *Mark Kirkland *Lyudmil Kirkov *Karey Kirkpatrick *Alan Kirschenbaum *Ryuhei Kitamura *Takeshi Kitano *Alf Kjellin *William Klein (photographer), William Klein *Randal Kleiser *Elem Klimov *León Klimovsky *Alexander Kluge *Jennifer Kluska *Harley Knoles *Kevin Ko *Masaki Kobayashi *Chris Koch *Kogonada *Bob Koherr *Vincent Kok *Henry Kolker *Alexander Kolowrat *Satoshi Kon *Andrei Konchalovsky *Larysa Kondracki *Tadeusz Konwicki *Alexander Korda *Zoltan Korda *Koreeda Hirokazu, Hirokazu Koreeda *Harmony Korine *Caryl Deyn Korma, Caryl Korma *Baltasar Kormákur *Brigitte Kornetzky *John Korty *Joseph Kosinski *Henry Koster *Ted Kotcheff *Mariusz Kotowski *Serguei Kouchnerov *Nikos Koundouros *Jan Kounen *Paul Kowalski *Aaron Kozak *Ivan Kraljevic *Stanley Kramer *John Krasinski *Kurt Kren *Mitchell Kriegman *Krishnan–Panju *William Kronick *Stanley Kubrick filmography, Stanley Kubrick *George Kuchar *Lev Kuleshov *Roger Kumble *Zacharias Kunuk *List of works by Akira Kurosawa, Akira Kurosawa *Kiyoshi Kurosawa *Karyn Kusama *Emir Kusturica *Geir Ove Kvalheim *Daniels (directors), Daniel Kwan *Stanley Kwan *Ken Kwapis Top of page


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*John La Bouchardière *Nadine Labaki *Neil LaBute *Gregory La Cava *Harry Lachman *Aldo Lado *Edward Laemmle *James Lafferty *John Lafia *René Laloux *Ringo Lam *Fernando Lamas *Mary Lambert (director), Mary Lambert *Charles Lamont *Lew Landers *Alejandro Landes *John Landis *Max Landis *Christopher Landon (filmmaker), Christopher Landon *Sidney Lanfield *Fritz Lang filmography, Fritz Lang *Walter Lang *Michael Lange *Rémi Lange *Jerry Langford *Doug Langway *Yorgos Lanthimos *Claude Lanzmann *Janez Lapajne *Victoria Larimore *Pablo Larraín *John Lasseter *Andrew Lau *Jeffrey Lau *Peter Lauer *Charles Laughton *Mélanie Laurent *Carl Lauten *Arnold Laven *Diarmuid Lawrence *Francis Lawrence videography, Francis Lawrence *Marc Lawrence (filmmaker), Marc Lawrence *J. F. Lawton *Tracie Laymon *Paul Lazarus *Philip Leacock *David Lean filmography, David Lean *Patrice Leconte *Bruce Leddy *Mimi Leder *D. Ross Lederman *Ang Lee *David Lee (screenwriter), David Lee *Jennifer Lee (filmmaker), Jennifer Lee *Lee Chang-dong *Lee Cheol-ha *Lee Lik-Chi *Rowland V. Lee *Spike Lee filmography, Spike Lee *Michael Leeston-Smith *Michael Lehmann *Henry Lehrman *Larry Leichliter *Julia Leigh *Mike Leigh *Danny Leiner *Mitchell Leisen *Logan Leistikow *David Leitch *Józef Lejtes *Claude Lelouch *Michael Lembeck *Kasi Lemmons *John Lemont *Jay Lender *Umberto Lenzi *Robert Z. Leonard *Damien Leone *Sergio Leone filmography, Sergio Leone *John R. Leonetti *Tony Leondis *Robert Lepage *Peter Lepeniotis *Louis Le Prince *Mervyn LeRoy *Michael Lessac *George Lessey *Mark L. Lester *Richard Lester *Louis Leterrier *Jørgen Leth *Jared Leto filmography, Jared Leto *Rob Letterman *Brian Levant *Henry Levin (film director), Henry Levin *Ken Levine (screenwriter), Ken Levine *Barry Levinson *Shawn Levy *Shuki Levy *Herschell Gordon Lewis *Jerry Lewis *Joseph H. Lewis *Leonard Lewis *Phill Lewis *Paul Lieberstein *Jonathan Liebesman *Li Han-Hsiang *Lee Tit *Li Yang (director), Li Yang *Desiree Lim *Doug Liman *Brian Limond *Fred J. Lincoln *Max Linder *Tobias Lindholm *Willy Lindwer *Graham Linehan *Richard Linklater *Matt Lipsey *Oldřich Lipský *Steven Lisberger *Miguel Littín *Dwight H. Little *Lynne Littman *Anatole Litvak *Luis Llosa *Frank Lloyd *Norman Lloyd *Phyllida Lloyd *Lo Wei *Ken Loach *Sondra Locke *Barbara Loden *Ulli Lommel *Richard Loncraine *Jerry London *Kenneth Lonergan *Stanley Long *Robert Longo *Del Lord *Peter Lord * Ian Lorimer *Chuck Lorre *Joseph Losey *Todd Louiso *Lou Ye *David Lowery (director), David Lowery *Declan Lowney *Philippa Lowthorpe *Arthur Lubin *Ernst Lubitsch filmography, Ernst Lubitsch *George Lucas filmography, George Lucas *John Meredyth Lucas *Wilfred Lucas *Edward Ludwig *Baz Luhrmann *Sidney Lumet *Leopold Lummerstorfer *Kátia Lund *Ida Lupino *Rod Lurie *Don Lusk *Hamilton Luske *Dorothy Lyman *Euros Lyn *David Lynch filmography, David Lynch *Jeffrey Lynch *Jennifer Lynch *Liam Lynch (musician), Liam Lynch *Adrian Lyne *Jonathan Lynn Top of page


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Ma–Mc

*David MacDonald (director), David MacDonald *Hettie MacDonald *Kevin Macdonald (director), Kevin Macdonald *Carl Macek *Seth MacFarlane *Gustav Machatý *Willard Mack *Alexander Mackendrick *David Mackenzie (director), David Mackenzie *Philip Charles MacKenzie *Will Mackenzie *Douglas Mackinnon *Gillies MacKinnon *Angus MacLane *Michelle MacLaren *Murdock MacQuarrie *Guy Maddin *Madonna (entertainer), Madonna *Holger-Madsen *Ivan Magrin-Chagnolleau *Brendan Maher (director), Brendan Maher *Barry Mahon *Charles Maigne *Norman Mailer *Alan Mak (director), Alan Mak *Dušan Makavejev *Mohsen Makhmalbaf *Samira Makhmalbaf *Károly Makk *Sundeep Malani *Terrence Malick filmography, Terrence Malick *Louis Malle *Nicholas Mallett *William Malone (director), William Malone *David Maloney *Leo D. Maloney *Henrik Malyan *Djibril Diop Mambéty *Manakis brothers *Milcho Manchevski *Don Mancini *David Mandel *Chris Mandia *Luis Mandoki *James Mangold *Joseph L. Mankiewicz *Anthony Mann *Daniel Mann *Delbert Mann *Michael Mann *Seith Mann *Guy Manos *Sophie Marceau *Terry Marcel *Max Marcin *Nick Marck *Bam Margera *Edwin L. Marin *José Mojica Marins *Chris Marker *Richard Marquand *Laïla Marrakchi *James Marsh (director), James Marsh *Jeff "Swampy" Marsh *Frank Marshall (film producer), Frank Marshall *Garry Marshall *George Marshall (director), George Marshall *Neil Marshall *Penny Marshall *Rob Marshall *Joshua Marston *Lucrecia Martel *Becky Martin *Charles Martin (director), Charles Martin *Darnell Martin *D'Urville Martin *Jim Martin (puppeteer), Jim Martin *Murray Martin *Philip Martin (director), Phillip Martin *Richard Martin (British director), Richard Martin *Sergio Martino *Steve Martino *Marco Martins *Leslie H. Martinson *Derek Martinus *Andrew Marton *Nico Mastorakis *George Mastras *Camillo Mastrocinque *Yasuzo Masumura *Arūnas Matelis *Sean Mathias *Melina Matsoukas *Katsuya Matsumura *Bruno Mattei *Elaine May *Juliet May *Russ Mayberry *Tony Maylam *Archie Mayo *Brad Mays *Dan Mazer *Paul Mazursky *Glen Mazzara *Kenny McBain *Jim McBride *Leo McCarey *Ray McCarey *Colm McCarthy (director), Colm McCarthy *Tom McCarthy (director), Tom McCarthy *Brendan McCaul *Nelson McCormick (director), Nelson McCormick *George McCowan *Martin McDonagh *Frank McDonald (director), Frank McDonald *Terry McDonough *Charles McDougall *Bernard McEveety *Vincent McEveety *McG *William C. McGann *Scott McGehee *J. P. McGowan *Robert F. McGowan *Craig McCracken *Tom McGrath (animator), Tom McGrath *Joseph McGrath (film director), Joseph McGrath *William McGregor (director), William McGregor *Paul McGuigan (filmmaker), Paul McGuigan *Adam McKay *David McKay (actor), David McKay *Jim McKay (director), Jim McKay *John McKay (director), John McKay *Lucky McKee *Kevin McKidd *Norman McLaren *Greg McLean (film director), Greg McLean *Norman Z. McLeod *Tom McLoughlin *Sean McNamara (filmmaker), Sean McNamara *John McNaughton *Daniel McNicoll *Robert Duncan McNeill *Steve McQueen (director), Steve McQueen *John McTiernan Top of page


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*Shane Meadows *Peter Medak *Don Medford *Dariush Mehrjui *Deepa Mehta *Gus Meins *Fernando Meirelles *Adolfas Mekas *Jonas Mekas *Bill Melendez *George Melford *Wilco Melissant *James Melkonian *Jeff Melman *Craig Melville *Jean-Pierre Melville *Lothar Mendes *Sam Mendes *Jim Mendiola *Linda Mendoza *Chris Menges *Meera Menon *Stephen Merchant *E. Elias Merhige *Saul Metzstein *Jeff Meyer (director), Jeff Meyer *Russ Meyer *Leah Meyerhoff *Georges Méliès *Richard Michaels *Oscar Micheaux *Roger Michell *Pete Michels *Jim Mickle *Takashi Miike *Nikita Mikhalkov *Lewis Milestone *John Milius *Bennett Miller *Frank Miller *George Miller (producer), George Miller *Kara Miller *Randall Miller *Robert Ellis Miller *Sam Miller *Sharron Miller *Sidney Miller (actor), Sidney Miller *Tim Miller (director), Tim Miller *Crispian Mills *Rusty Mills *Daniel Minahan *Steve Miner *Anthony Minghella *Joseph Minion *Rob Minkoff *Vincente Minnelli *Eugenio Mira *Emilio Miraglia *Lin-Manuel Miranda *Koki Mitani *David Robert Mitchell *Howard M. Mitchell *John Cameron Mitchell *Mike Mitchell (director), Mike Mitchell *Noël Mitrani *David Mitton *Hayao Miyazaki *Kenji Mizoguchi *Peter Moffatt *Alfred Molina *Édouard Molinaro *Christine Molloy *Zac Moncrief *Mario Monicelli *Cesar Montano *Eduardo Montes-Bradley *Dave Moody (musician), Dave Moody *Lukas Moodysson *Irving J. Moore *Michael Moore *Escape from Tomorrow, Randy Moore *Rich Moore *Robert Moore (director), Robert Moore *Stan Moore (director), Stan Moore *Jocelyn Moorhouse *Ken Mora *Jacobo Morales *Pierre Morel *Nanni Moretti *Harry Morgan *Sidney Morgan *Anders Morgenthaler *Shuhei Morita *Chris Morris (satirist), Chris Morris *Errol Morris *Jennifer Morrison *Vic Morrow *Hollingsworth Morse *Terry O. Morse *Catherine Morshead *Cynthia Mort *Edmund Mortimer (actor), Edmund Mortimer *Scott Mosier *Craig Moss *Katsuyuki Motohiro *Greg Mottola *Wagner Moura *Norbert Moutier *Allan Moyle *Otto Muehl *Russell Mulcahy *John Mulholland (director), John Mulholland *Robert Mulligan *Andrzej Munk *Kira Muratova *Walter Murch *F. W. Murnau *Dudley Murphy *Geoff Murphy *Ralph Murphy *Ryan Murphy (writer), Ryan Murphy *Bill Murray *Noam Murro *John Musker *Floyd Mutrux *Mark Mylod *Daniel Myrick Top of page


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*Amir Naderi *Kenji Nagasaki *Mira Nair *Ilya Naishuller *Takashi Nakamura *Hideo Nakata *Bharat Nalluri *Khodzha Kuli Narliyev *Mikio Naruse *Janusz Nasfeter *Percy Nash *Vincenzo Natali *Matthew Nastuk *Gregory Nava *Doug Naylor *Ray Nazarro *Ronald Neame *Jean Negulesco *Marshall Neilan *Roy William Neill *James Neilson (director), James Neilson *Victor Nelli Jr. *Gary Nelson (director), Gary Nelson *Gene Nelson *Jessie Nelson *Ozzie Nelson *Ralph Nelson *Laura Neri *Max Neufeld *Kurt Neumann (director), Kurt Neumann *Kyle Newacheck *Mike Newell (director), Mike Newell *Sam Newfield *Don O. Newland, Don Newland *John Newland *Joseph M. Newman, Joseph Newman *Fred C. Newmeyer, Fred Newmeyer *Lionel Ngakane *Thuc Doan Nguyen, Thuc Nguyen *Fred Niblo *Andrew Niccol *George Nicholls Jr. *Charles August Nichols *Jeff Nichols *Mike Nichols *Jack Nicholson *Cedric Nicolas-Troyan *Greg Nicotero *William Nigh *Nikos Nikolaidis *Leopoldo Torre Nilsson *Rob Nilsson *Leonard Nimoy *Marcus Nispel *David Nixon (director), David Nixon *Manfred Noa *Gaspar Noé *Christopher Nolan filmography, Christopher Nolan *Tom Noonan *Syed Noor *Paul Norman (director), Paul Norman *Mabel Normand *Edward Norton *Jehane Noujaim *Wilfred Noy *Phillip Noyce *Elliott Nugent *David Nutter *Bruno Nuytten *Andy Nwakalor *Christian Nyby Top of page


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*Dave O'Brien (actor), Dave O'Brien *Katharine O'Brien *Andrew O'Connor (actor), Andrew O'Connor *Renee O'Connor *Bob Odenkirk *Atsushi Ogata *Perry Ogden *George Ogilvie *Kingsley Ogoro *Izu Ojukwu *Kihachi Okamoto *Sidney Olcott *Liddy Oldroyd *Jorge Olguín (director), Jorge Olguín *Ron Oliver *Susan Oliver *Laurence Olivier on stage and screen, Laurence Olivier *Ermanno Olmi *Gunnar Olsson (actor), Gunnar Olsson *Max Ophüls *Joshua Oppenheimer *Benjamin T. Orifici, Benjamin Orifici *Kenny Ortega *Mamoru Oshii *Nagisa Oshima *Richard Oswald *Dominique Othenin-Girard *Katsuhiro Otomo *Ulrike Ottinger *Idrissa Ouedraogo *Horace Ové *Jennifer Oxley *Frank Oz *François Ozon *Yasujirō Ozu Top of page


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*Sergio Pablos *Georg Wilhelm Pabst *Padmarajan, P. Padmarajan *Alan J. Pakula *Debarun Pal *Jafar Panahi *Norman Panama *Gleb Panfilov *Pang Ho-Cheung *Domenico Paolella *Sergei Parajanov *K-Michel Parandi *Dean Parisot *Lana Parrilla *Richard Parry (director), Richard Parry *Park Chan-Wook *Jerry Paris *Nick Park *Alan Parker *Albert Parker (director), Albert Parker *Ol Parker *Trey Parker *James Parrott *Reza Parsa *Gabriel Pascal *Goran Paskaljević *Pier Paolo Pasolini *Ivan Passer *Stuart Paton *John Patterson (director), John Patterson *Ray Patterson (animator), Ray Patterson *Anand Patwardhan *Paweł Pawlikowski *Alexander Payne *György Pálfi *Leslie Pearce (director), Leslie Pearce *Richard Pearce (director), Richard Pearce *Steve Pearlman *George Pearson (filmmaker), George Pearson *Raoul Peck *Sam Peckinpah *Mario Van Peebles *Scott Pembroke *Arthur Penn *Leo Penn *Matthew Penn *Sean Penn *Joe Penna *Mark Pellington *Ivan Perestiani *Lester James Peries *Pierre Perifel *Loni Peristere *Anthony Perkins *Oz Perkins *Quincy Perkins *Léonce Perret *Nat Perrin *Tyler Perry *Christian Peschken *Robert O. Peters *Wolfgang Petersen *David Petrarca *Daniel Petrie *Donald Petrie *Elio Petri *Christian Petzold (director), Christian Petzold *Joseph Pevney *Todd Phillips *Maurice Pialat *Irving Pichel *Andy Picheta *Frank Pierson *Derek Pike *Lucian Pintilie *Robert Pirosh *Noam Pitlik *Pitof *René Plaissetty *Tony Plana *Bill Plympton *Jeremy Podeswa *Ihor Podolchak *Sidney Poitier *Roman Polanski filmography, Roman Polanski *Dominic Polcino *Mark Polish *Michael Polish *Rudolph Polk *Kay Pollak *Sydney Pollack *Harry A. Pollard *Lindsey Pollard *John Polson *Joshua L. Pomer, Joshua Pomer *Ellen Pompeo *Gillo Pontecorvo *Edwin S. Porter *Geoff Posner *Ted Post *H. C. Potter *Sally Potter *Richard Pottier *Alan Poul *Dan Povenmire *Jeff Povey *Frank Powell *Michael Powell *Paul Powell (director), Paul Powell *Kemp Powers *Rosa von Praunheim *Otto Preminger *Emeric Pressburger *Ellen S. Pressman *Michael Pressman *Lonny Price *Sarah Price (filmmaker), Sarah Price *Prince (musician), Prince *Yakov Protazanov *Alex Proyas *Aleksandr Ptushko *Vsevolod Pudovkin *Jon Paul Puno, Jon Puno *Derek Estlin Purvis, Derek Purvis *Ivan Pyryev *Parvez Sharma Top of page


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*Farooq Qaiser *Steven Quale *Brothers Quay *John Quigley (producer), John Quigley *Richard Quine *James Quinn (director), James Quinn *Faisal Qureshi (television personality), Faisal Qureshi *Nabeel Qureshi (director), Nabeel Qureshi Top of page


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Ra–Re

*Peer Raben *Michael Radford *Bob Rafelson *Jeff Ragsdale *Sam Raimi *Yvonne Rainer *Hossein Rajabian *S. S. Rajamouli *Sharat Raju *Harold Ramis *Julius Ramsay *Lynne Ramsay *Tony Randel *Arthur Rankin Jr. *Irving Rapper *Mani Ratnam *Brett Ratner *Gregory Ratoff *John Rawlins (director), John Rawlins *Albert Ray *Bernard B. Ray *Fred Olen Ray *Man Ray *Nicholas Ray *Rick Ray *Satyajit Ray *Herman C. Raymaker *Bobby Razak *Patrick Rea *Jim Reardon *Eric Red *Robert Redford filmography, Robert Redford *Carol Reed *Peyton Reed *Robert Reed *Dee Rees *Christopher Reeve *Keanu Reeves *Matt Reeves *Michael Reeves *Nicolas Winding Refn *Godfrey Reggio *Kelly Reichardt *Willy Reiber *Daina Reid *Carl Reiner *Rob Reiner *Max Reinhardt *Irving Reis *Charles Reisner *Karel Reisz *Wolfgang Reitherman *Ivan Reitman *Jason Reitman *Edgar Reitz *Chris Renaud (animator), Chris Renaud *Drew Renaud *Johan Renck *Jean Renoir *Rob Renzetti *Alain Resnais *Adam Resnick *Carlos Reygadas *Gene Reynolds *Kevin Reynolds (director), Kevin Reynolds *Lynn Reynolds Top of page


Rf–Rz

*Mike Rianda *David Lowell Rich *John Rich (director), John Rich *Tony Richardson *Hans Richter (artist), Hans Richter *W. D. Richter *Tom Ricketts *Leni Riefenstahl *Ransom Riggs *Alrick Riley *Wolf Rilla *Arthur Ripley *Arturo Ripstein *Guy Ritchie *Michael Ritchie (film director), Michael Ritchie *Martin Ritt *Karl Ritter (director), Karl Ritter *Christian Rivers *Fernand Rivers *Joan Rivers *Jacques Rivette *Jamie Rix *Sangeeta (Pakistani actress), Parveen Rizvi *Saeed Rizvi *Jay Roach *Alain Robbe-Grillet *Brian Robbins *Jerome Robbins *Tim Robbins *Brian K. Roberts *Johannes Roberts *Pennant Roberts *Stephen Roberts (director), Stephen Roberts *Graham Robertson (filmmaker), Graham Robertson *John S. Robertson *Arthur Robison *Bruce Robinson *Lee Robinson (director), Lee Robinson *Matthew Robinson (producer), Matthew Robinson *Matthew Robinson (writer), Matthew Robinson *Phil Alden Robinson *Mark Robson (film director), Mark Robson *Glauber Rocha *Alexandre Rockwell *João Pedro Rodrigues *Robert Rodriguez filmography, Robert Rodriguez *Rosemary Rodriguez *John Roecker *Nicolas Roeg *Daniel Roemer *Michael Roemer *Albert S. Rogell *Seth Rogen *Brandon Rogers (YouTuber), Brandon Rogers *David Rogers (film editor), David Rogers *Éric Rohmer *Alice Rohrwacher *James Rolfe *Mark Romanek *George A. Romero *Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent *Mikhail Romm *Am Rong *Bethany Rooney *Mickey Rooney *Cliff Roquemore *Bernard Rose (director), Bernard Rose *Phil Rosen *Stuart Rosenberg *Rick Rosenthal *Tatia Rosenthal *Perry Rosemond *Mark Rosman *Gary Ross *Herbert Ross *Matthew Ross (filmmaker), Matthew Ross *Roberto Rossellini *Robert Rossen *Franco Rossi (director), Franco Rossi *Arthur Rosson *Richard Rosson (filmmaker), Richard Rosson *Eli Roth *Joe Roth *Tim Roth *Richard Rothstein (screenwriter), Richard Rothstein *Josie Rourke *Roy Rowland (film director), Roy Rowland *Patricia Rozema *Joseph Ruben *Alan Rudolph *Oscar Rudolph *Wesley Ruggles *Raúl Ruiz (director), Raúl Ruiz *Pavel Ruminov *Richard Rush (director), Richard Rush *Chuck Russell *David O. Russell *Ken Russell *Paddy Russell *Russo brothers *Stefan Ruzowitzky *Eldar Ryazanov *Zbigniew Rybczyński *Mark Rydell *Gary Rydstrom *Stellan Rye *RZA Top of page


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Sa–Sh

*Maher Sabry *Daniel Sackheim *Christopher Sadler *Numa Sadoul *Safdie brothers *Boris Sagal *Bob Saget *Abdulkadir Ahmed Said *Richard Sakai *Alik Sakharov *Gene Saks *Sidney Salkow *Eriq La Salle *Walter Salles *Dan Sallitt *Mikael Salomon *Anja Salomonowitz *Carlos Saldanha *Victor Salva *Shakti Samanta *Gabriela Samper *Keith Samples *Ari Sandel *Scott Sanders (director), Scott Sanders *Helma Sanders-Brahms *Arlene Sanford *Shin Sang-ok *Jay Sandrich *Mark Sandrich *David Sant *Alfred Santell *Joseph Santley *Damon Santostefano *Miguel Sapochnik *Richard C. Sarafian *Valeria Sarmiento *Michael Sarnoski *Peter Sasdy *Shinsuke Sato *Yūichi Satō *Marjane Satrapi *Charles Saunders (director) *Hubert Sauper *Claude Sautet *Fred Savage *Philip Saville *Seth Savoy *Donald Sawyer *Geoffrey Sax *John Sayles *Rodo Sayagues *John Scagliotti *Armand Schaefer *George Schaefer (director), George Schaefer *Akiva Schaffer *Jeff Schaffer *Franklin Schaffner *Peter Schamoni *Frank Scheffer *Daniels (directors), Daniel Scheinert *Fred Schepisi *Victor Schertzinger *Paul Scheuring *Kyle Schickner *Thomas Schlamme *Craig Schlattman *John Schlesinger *Christoph Schlingensief *Volker Schlöndorff *David Schmoeller *Julian Schnabel *Thomas Schnauz *Dan Schneider (TV producer), Dan Schneider *Ian Schneider *Paul Schneider (director), Paul Schneider *Rob Schneider *Ernest B. Schoedsack *Renen Schorr *Paul Schrader *Rick Schroder *Barbet Schroeder *Werner Schroeter *John Schultz (director), John Schultz *Michael Schultz *Hugh Schulze *Joel Schumacher *Reinhold Schünzel *Lloyd J. Schwartz *Rudolf Schwarzkogler *Stefan Schwartz *Til Schweiger *Robert Schwentke *John Schwert *David Schwimmer *Christian Schwochow *Ettore Scola *Martin Scorsese filmography, Martin Scorsese *Oz Scott *Ridley Scott filmography, Ridley Scott *Shaun Scott (filmmaker), Shaun Scott *Swinton O. Scott III *Tony Scott *Aubrey Scotto *Steven Seagal *Francis Searle *Fred F. Sears *Eric Dean Seaton *George Seaton *Edward Sedgwick *Alex Segal *Peter Segal *Susan Seidelman *Ulrich Seidl *Lewis Seiler *William A. Seiter *Franz Seitz, Sr. *George B. Seitz, George Seitz *Steve Sekely *Lesley Selander *Henry Selick *Bill Sellars *Herbert Selpin *Aaron Seltzer *David Seltzer *Selvaraghavan *Edgar Selwyn *Ousmane Sembène *Larry Semon *Mrinal Sen *Dominic Sena *Lorraine Senna *Mack Sennett *Craig Serling *Tom Shadyac *Matt Shakman *Lee Shallat Chemel *S. Shankar *Adam Shankman *John Patrick Shanley *Ted Sharks *Tristram Shapeero *Parvez Sharma *Jim Sharman *William Shatner filmography, William Shatner *Melville Shavelson *Jenn Shaw *Larry Shaw (director), Larry Shaw *Scott Shaw *Jack Shea (director), Jack Shea *Barry Shear *Chuck Sheetz *Lynn Shelton *Millicent Shelton *Ron Shelton *Darren Benjamin Shepherd, Darren Shepherd *Larisa Shepitko *Adrian Shergold *Jim Sheridan *Kirsten Sheridan *Rondell Sheridan *Taylor Sheridan *Gary Sherman (director), Gary Sherman *George Sherman *Lowell Sherman *Vincent Sherman *Domee Shi *John Shiban *Steve Shill *Takashi Shimizu *Peter Shin *Naoyoshi Shiotani *Alexandra Shiva *Daryush Shokof *Jack Sholder *Cate Shortland *Wil Shriner *M. Night Shyamalan filmography, M. Night Shyamalan *Charles Shyer *Ginny Stikeman *Joe Simon (film director), Joe Simon Top of page


Si–Sz

*George Sidney *Scott Sidney *David Siegel (screenwriter), David Siegel *Don Siegel *Ted Sieger *Pedro Sienna *Floria Sigismondi *Slobodan Šijan *Brad Silberling *David Silverman (animator), David Silverman *Dean Silvers *Lisa Simon *S. Sylvan Simon *Yves Simoneau *Giorgio Simonelli *Alexander Singer *Bryan Singer *Manmohan Singh (director), Manmohan Singh *Tarsem Singh *Tony Singletary *John Singleton *Roger Singleton-Turner *Robert Siodmak *Puneet Sira *Douglas Sirk *Cheick Oumar Sissoko *Andrea Sisson *Chris Sivertson *Tom Six *Vilgot Sjöman *Victor Sjöström *Kari Skogland *Jerzy Skolimowski *Gia Skova *David Slade *Paul Sloane (director), Paul Sloane *Edward Sloman *Michael Slovis *Yannis Smaragdis *Alan Smart *Ralph Smart *Jack Smight *Adam Smith (director), Adam Smith *Brian Trenchard-Smith *Charles Martin Smith *Christopher Smith (director), Christopher Smith *David Smith (director), David Smith *Gary T. Smith, Gary Smith *George Albert Smith *Harry Everett Smith *Jim Field Smith *John Smith (English filmmaker), John Smith *John N. Smith *Julia Smith (producer), Julia Smith *Kevin Smith filmography, Kevin Smith *Michael V. Smith *Noel M. Smith *Roy Allen Smith *Sarah Smith (producer), Sarah Smith *Seth Grahame-Smith *Simon J. Smith *Adam Smoluk *Michael Snow *Zack Snyder *Michele Soavi *Steven Soderbergh filmography, Steven Soderbergh *Gennady Sokolsky *Aleksandr Sokurov *David Solomon (TV producer), David Solomon *Frances-Anne Solomon *Todd Solondz *Andrew Solt *Stephen Sommers *Barry Sonnenfeld *Sion Sono *Paolo Sorrentino *Jen and Sylvia Soska *Tressie Souders *Simon Spencer (producer), Simon Spencer *George Spenton-Foster *Jaap Speyer *Penelope Spheeris *Bryan Spicer *Steven Spielberg filmography, Steven Spielberg *Götz Spielmann *Spierig brothers *Bob Spiers *Roger Spottiswoode *Jill Sprecher *Alejandro Springall *Aaron Springer *R. G. Springsteen *Anthony Stacchi *John M. Stahl *Sylvester Stallone filmography, Sylvester Stallone *Andrew Stanton *Wendey Stanzler *Ladislas Starevich *Jack Starrett *Richard Starzak *Ralph Staub *Malcolm St. Clair (filmmaker), Malcolm St. Clair *J.A. Steel *Burr Steers *Paul L. Stein *David Steinberg *Hans Steinhoff *Steno (director) *Boris Stepantsev *Mike Stephens (director), Mike Stephens *Jared Stern *Sandor Stern *Steven Hilliard Stern *Andrew Stevens *Dan Stevens *George Stevens *George Stevens Jr. *Robert Stevens (director), Robert Stevens *Robert Stevenson (director), Robert Stevenson *Gordon Curran Stewart, Gordon Stewart *Ben Stiller filmography, Ben Stiller *Mauritz Stiller *Whit Stillman *Francis Stokes *Marcus Stokes *Mike Stoklasa *Nicholas Stoller *Benjamin Stoloff *Andrew L. Stone *Ezra Stone *Jamie Magnus Stone *Matt Stone filmography, Matt Stone *Oliver Stone *Howard Storm (director), Howard Storm *Jerome Storm *Straub-Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub *Frank R. Strayer *Suresh Joachim *Amanda Lovejoy Street, Amanda Street *Graham Streeter *Barbra Streisand *Brenda Strong *James Strong (director), James Strong *John Stroud (director), John Stroud *Mel Stuart *Gene Stupnitsky *John Sturges *Preston Sturges *K. Subash *Arne Sucksdorff *Elia Suleiman *Sun Yu (director), Sun Yu *Mohit Suri *Stephen Surjik *A. Edward Sutherland *Hal Sutherland *Kiefer Sutherland *Seijun Suzuki *Jan Švankmajer *Mary Sweeney *Harry Sweet *Justin David Swibel, Justin Swibel *David Swift (director), David Swift *Hans-Jürgen Syberberg *Khady Sylla *István Szabó *Peter Szewczyk *Damián Szifron *Małgorzata Szumowska Top of page


T

*Rachel Talalay *Patrick Tam (film director), Patrick Tam *Lee Tamahori *Cyndi Tang *Alain Tanner *Danis Tanović *Quentin Tarantino *Andrei Tarkovsky *Béla Tarr *Genndy Tartakovsky *Frank Tashlin *Jacques Tati *Norman Taurog *Bertrand Tavernier *Alan Taylor (director), Alan Taylor *Don Taylor (actor), Don Taylor *Don Taylor (American filmmaker), Don Taylor *Ray Taylor (director), Ray Taylor *Sam Taylor (director), Sam Taylor *Stanner E.V. Taylor *William Desmond Taylor *Colin Teague *Lewis Teague *André Téchiné *Julien Temple *Suzie Templeton *Larry Teng *Andy Tennant *George Terwilliger *Hiroshi Teshigahara *Duccio Tessari *Ted Tetzlaff *Kirk Thatcher *Wilhelm Thiele *Gerald Thomas *John G. Thomas *Ralph Thomas *Bernard Thompson (director), Bernard Thompson *Caroline Thompson *J. Lee Thompson *Thomas J. Thompson, Tommy Thompson *Robert Thornby *Billy Bob Thornton filmography, Billy Bob Thornton *Richard Thorpe *Rawson Marshall Thurber *Paul Tibbitt *Greg Tiernan *George Tillman Jr. *Constance Tillotson *Tony Tilse *Mihai Timofti *Bruce Timm *James Tinling *Phil Tippett *Justin Tipping *Romeo Tirone *Johnnie To filmography, Johnnie To *James Toback *Norman Tokar *Jan Tománek *Mattson Tomlin *Liesl Tommy *Mark Tonderai *Aad van Toor *Hisayuki Toriumi *Giuseppe Tornatore *Miguel Contreras Torres *Ivan Tors *André de Toth *Laurent Touil-Tartour *Viktor Tourjansky *Jacques Tourneur *Maurice Tourneur *Robert Townsend (actor), Robert Townsend *Frederick E.O. Toye *Wendy Toye *Josh Trank *David Trainer *David Owen Trainor *Pablo Trapero *Pete Travis *Scott Treleaven *Jeff Tremaine *Jesús Salvador Treviño *Joachim Trier *Laurence Trimble *Nadine Trintignant *Jan Troell *Alice Troughton *Keith Truesdell *François Truffaut *Tsai Ming-liang, Ming-liang Tsai *Peter Tscherkassky *Hark Tsui, Tsui Hark *Shinya Tsukamoto *Stanley Tucci *Anand Tucker *Rex Tucker *Gary J. Tunnicliffe *Brad Turner (director), Brad Turner *Jon Turteltaub *Frank Tuttle *David Twohy *Chris Twomey *Michael Tyburski *Tom Tykwer *Morten Tyldum *George Tyne *George Tzavellas Top of page


U

*Gustav Ucicky *Edgar G. Ulmer *Ron Underwood *Lee Unkrich *Upendra (actor), Upendra *Michael Uppendahl *Urszula Urbaniak *Carl Urbano *Chano Urueta *Carly Usdin *Kinka Usher *Peter Ustinov *Roar Uthaug Top of page


V

*Roger Vadim *Ladislao Vajda *Luis Valdez *Steve Valentine *Tonino Valerii *Mike Valerio *Jean-Marc Vallée *Jackie van Beek *W. S. Van Dyke *Thurop Van Orman *Vanelle *Andre van Heerden *Buddy Van Horn *Erik Van Looy *Tim Van Patten *Melvin Van Peebles *Gus Van Sant *Florestano Vancini *Norman Thaddeus Vane *Carlo Vanzina *Agnès Varda *Giuseppe Vari *Ram Gopal Varma *Marcel Varnel *Petar B. Vasilev *Tom Vaughan (director), Tom Vaughan *Matthew Vaughn *Joe Vaux *Pam Veasey *Perry N. Vekroff *Milo Ventimiglia *Gore Verbinski *Tristan de Vere Cole *John David Coles *Paul Verhoeven *Dziga Vertov *Charles Vidor *King Vidor *Berthold Viertel *Denis Villeneuve *Robert G. Vignola *Jean Vigo *Vijayakrishnan *Agusti Villaronga *Robert Vince *Thomas Vinterberg *Luchino Visconti *Biju Viswanath *K. Viswanath *Erik Voake *Jordan Vogt-Roberts *Géza von Bolváry *Géza von Cziffra *Daisy von Scherler Mayer *Josef von Sternberg *Erich von Stroheim *Lars von Trier filmography, Lars von Trier *Margarethe von Trotta *Bernard Vorhaus *Slavko Vorkapić *Kurt Voss *Jürgen Vsych Top of page


W

*The Wachowskis *Michael Wadleigh *Wai Ka-Fai *Rupert Wainwright *Taika Waititi *Andrzej Wajda *Chris Walas *John Walker (animator), John Walker *Stuart Walker (filmmaker), Stuart Walker *David Wall (actor), David Wall *Randall Wallace *Richard Wallace (director), Richard Wallace *Tommy Lee Wallace *Herb Wallerstein *Tom Walls *Aisling Walsh *Dearbhla Walsh *Raoul Walsh *Charles Walters *Christoph Waltz *Wan brothers *James Wan *Sam Wanamaker *Lulu Wang (filmmaker), Lulu Wang *Wang Quan'an *Wang Xiaoshuai *Wayne Wang *Albert Ward (film director), Albert Ward *David S. Ward *Vincent Ward (director), Vincent Ward *Ernest C. Warde *Andy Warhol *Alan Wareing *Alex van Warmerdam *David Warren (director), David Warren *Harold P. Warren *Norman J. Warren *Denzel Washington on screen and stage, Denzel Washington *Darrell Wasyk *John Waters *Mark Waters *Peter Watkins *Jon Watts *Ric Roman Waugh *Michael Waxman *Keenen Ivory Wayans *Carl Weathers *Sean Weathers *Kenneth Webb (director), Kenneth Webb *Marc Webb *Millard Webb *Lois Weber *Chris Wedge *Apichatpong Weerasethakul *Peter Weibel *Paul Weiland *Ed. Weinberger *Clay Weiner *Hans Weingartner *Bob Weinstein *Harvey Weinstein *Peter Weir *Don Weis *Sam Weisman *D. B. Weiss *Glenn Weiss *Helmut Weiss *Adam Weissman *Chris Weitz *Paul Weitz (filmmaker), Paul Weitz *Bo Welch *Orson Welles *Arthur Wellin *William Wellman *Simon Wells *Wim Wenders *Alfred L. Werker *Lina Wertmüller *Roland West *Simon West *Tanya Wexler *James Whale *Frank Whaley *Leopold Wharton *Joyce Wieland *Leigh Whannell *Theodore Wharton *Ken and Jim Wheat *Joss Whedon *Tim Whelan *Dean White (director), Dean White *Eddie White (director), Eddie White *Mike White (filmmaker), Mike White *Susanna White *Ken Whittingham *Richard Whorf *Kanchi Wichmann *Bernhard Wicki *Robert B. Weide *Hans Weidemann *Bo Widerberg *Virgil Widrich *Ken Wiederhorn *Erin Wiedner *Robert Wiene *Crane Wilbur *Herbert Wilcox *Cornel Wilde *Olivia Wilde *Ted Wilde *Billy Wilder *Gene Wilder *W. Lee Wilder *Gordon Wiles *Diane Wilkins *Irvin Willat *Adim Williams *Chris Williams (director), Chris Williams *Paul Andrew Williams *Richard Williams (animator), Richard Williams *Stephen Williams (director), Stephen Williams *Dennis Willis *Gordon Willis *Paul Wilmshurst *Rex Wilson (director), Rex Wilson *Scott Winant *Simon Wincer *Bretaigne Windust *Adam Wingard *Henry Winkler *Irwin Winkler *Michael Winner *David Winning *Michael Winterbottom *Tommy Wirkola *Frank Wisbar *Robert Wise *Tommy Wiseau *Frederick Wiseman *Len Wiseman *Doris Wishman *Chester Withey *William Witney *Alexander Witt *George C. Wolfe *Art Wolff *Jason Woliner *Andy Wolk *James Wong (producer), James Wong *Wong Jing *Wong Kar-wai *John Woo *Andrés Wood *Ed Wood *Ivor Wood *Sam Wood *Jeremy Wooding *Arthur B. Woods *Kate Woods *Stephen Woolfenden *John Griffith Wray *Edgar Wright *Joe Wright *Mack V. Wright *Julius Wu *Rupert Wyatt *William Wyler *Robert Wynne-Simmons *Jim Wynorski Top of page


X

*Xie Jin *Xie Fei (director), Xie Fei Top of page


Y

*Boaz Yakin *Edward Yang *Ruby Yang *Jean Yarbrough *Tom Yasumi *David Yates *Hal Yates *Peter Yates *Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. *Derek Yee *Ray Yeung *Özgür Yıldırım *Lev Yilmaz *Wayne Yip *Wilson Yip *Eugen York *Bud Yorkin *Yaky Yosha *Yamada Youji *Harold Young (director), Harold Young *James Young (director), James Young *Terence Young (director), Terence Young *Yuen Woo-ping *Brian Yuzna *Jake Yuzna *Yugander V. V. Top of page


Z

*Romas Zabarauskas *Jeremiah Zagar *Eduard Zahariev *Alex Zakrzewski *Jerry Zaks *Alex Zamm *Moisés Zamora *Rudy Zamora *Krzysztof Zanussi *Alan Zaslove *Kristi Zea *Dan Zeff *Franco Zeffirelli *Primo Zeglio *Sande Zeig *Alfred Zeisler *Benh Zeitlin *Florian Zeller *David Zellner *Frederic Zelnik *Robert Zemeckis *David Zennie *Hans H. Zerlett *Zhang Yang (director), Zhang Yang *Zhang Yimou *Zhang Yuan (director), Zhang Yuan *Zheng Junli *Thierry Zéno *Chloé Zhao *Tian Zhuangzhuang *Maheen Zia *Howard Zieff *Želimir Žilnik *Lydia Zimmermann *Michael Zinberg *Fred Zinnemann *Thishiwe Ziqubu *Craig Zisk *Randy Zisk *Rob Zombie *Erick Zonca *Hisham Zreiq *Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker, Zucker Brothers *Steve Zuckerman *Ezz El-Dine Zulficar *Mahmoud Zulfikar *Edward Zwick *Joel Zwick *Terry Zwigoff *Andrzej Żuławski *Xawery Żuławski *Harald Zwart Top of page


See also

* List of film director and cinematographer collaborations * List of film director and composer collaborations * List of Spaghetti Western filmmakers#Directors, List of Spaghetti Western directors


References

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