List of UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television alumni

This is a list of alumni of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

* Shane Acker, filmmaker, '' 9''
*Ana Lily Amirpour, filmmaker, ''A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night''
* Corey Allen, actor, film director, writer, television director, and producer, '' Rebel Without a Cause''
* Allison Anders, filmmaker, '' Gas, Food, Lodging''
*MK Asante, author, '' Buck: A Memoir'', filmmaker, ''The Black Candle'', executive producer, ''While Black with MK Asante''
*Jacoba Atlas, television executive, senior producer at NBC News and TBS, vice president at CNN and PBS
*Danilo Bach, writer, '' Beverly Hills Cop''
*Carroll Ballard, director, '' Fly Away Home''
* Beth Behrs, actress, ''2 Broke Girls'', '' The Neighborhood''
*Harve Bennett, producer, ''Star Trek''
*Corbin Bernsen, actor, ''Psych'', ''L.A. Law''
* Jeff Berry, historian and author
*Bruce Bilson, director, '' Get Smart''
* Dustin Lance Black, screenwriter, ''J. Edgar'', '' Milk''
*Jack Black, actor, '' Kung Fu Panda'', ''School of Rock''
* Shane Black, writer/director, '' Lethal Weapon'', '' Iron Man 3''
* Thomas Bliss, producer
*Roger Blonder, short film animation
* Carol Burnett, comedian
* Charles Burnett, filmmaker, '' To Sleep with Anger''
*Stephen H. Burum, cinematographer, '' Mission: Impossible''
*Giacun Caduff, producer of '' La femme et le TGV''
*Sheila Callaghan, writer/producer, '' Shameless''
* Patricia Cardoso, filmmaker, '' Real Women Have Curves''
* Nancy Cartwright, voice actress, '' The Simpsons''
* Migdia Chinea, writer, '' The Incredible Hulk''
* Bert Convy, host, '' Tattletales'', '' Super Password''
*Francis Ford Coppola, filmmaker, '' The Godfather'' franchise
* Alex Cox, filmmaker, '' Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas''
*Steve Cuden, screenwriter, ''Jekyll & Hyde'' musical
*Dean Cundey, cinematographer, ''Apollo 13''
* Julie Dash, filmmaker, '' Daughters of the Dust''
* Jonathan Dayton, director, ''Little Miss Sunshine'', '' Ruby Sparks''
*James Dean, actor, '' Rebel Without a Cause''
* Joyce DeWitt, actress, '' Three's Company''
*Jesse Draper, actress, talk show host, ''The Valley Girl Show''
* Moctesuma Esparza, producer, '' Gettysburg''
*Jamaa Fanaka, filmmaker, '' Penitentiary''
* Valerie Faris, director, ''Little Miss Sunshine'', '' Ruby Sparks''
*Teshome Gabriel, cinema scholar and professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, expert on cinema in Africa and the developing world
*Sacha Gervasi, filmmaker, ''Hitchcock''
*Alex Gibney, filmmaker, '' Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief''
* Geoffrey Gilmore, director, Tribeca Film Festival
*Maria Giese, director, activist for women directors, '' hen Saturday Comes', '' GA ACLU EEOC investigation for women directors'
* Joanna Gleason, actress, ''The Wedding Planner''
* Dan Gordon, screenwriter, '' The Hurricane''
*Christopher Gorham, actor, '' Covert Affairs''
* Kristin Hanggi, Broadway director, ''Rock of Ages''
*Catherine Hardwicke, director, '' Twilight''
* Mariska Hargitay, actress, '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''
* Marielle Heller, director, '' A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood'', '' Can You Ever Forgive Me?'', ''The Diary of a Teenage Girl''
*Felicia D. Henderson, writer/producer, '' Fringe'', '' Gossip Girl''
*Jim Herzfeld''
*Colin Higgins, screenwriter, '' The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas''
*Michael Hitchcock, actor/writer, ''Glee''
* Todd Holland, showrunner, ''Malcolm in the Middle''
*Randall Jahnson, screenwriter, '' The Doors''
* Anne-Marie Johnson, actress, '' What's Happening Now!!''
*Laeta Kalogridis, writer/producer, '' Terminator Genisys''
*Judy Kaye, Broadway actress
*Nietzchka Keene, director, '' The Juniper Tree''
* Gil Kenan, director, ''Poltergeist''
*Matthew Kennedy, writer, Roadshow! The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s
*Russ Kingston, actor, film editor
* David Koepp, screenwriter, ''Jurassic Park'', ''Spider-Man, Mission Impossible''
* Scott Kosar, writer, '' The Machinist''
*Neil Landau, writer, '' Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead''
* Deborah Nadoolman Landis, costume designer, '' Coming to America'', Michael Jackson's "Thriller"
*Janet Leahy, executive producer, '' Mad Men''
*Justin Lin filmmaker, '' Fast & Furious 6''
* Erica Lindbeck, voice actress
*Russell Mael, singer-songwriter, Sparks
* SJ Main Muñoz, television and film director, ''American Horror Stories''
*Ray Manzarek, keyboardist, The Doors
*Courtney Marsh, filmmaker, '' Chau, Beyond the Lines''
* Steve Martin, actor/writer, '' It's Complicated'', '' L.A. Story''
* Jim Morrison, lead singer and lyricist, The Doors
* Gregory Nava, filmmaker, ''American Family''
*Victor Nuñez, filmmaker, '' Ulee's Gold''
*Alexander Payne, filmmaker, '' Nebraska'', '' The Descendants''
* Nasim Pedrad, comedian, '' Saturday Night Live''
*Robert Roy Pool, writer, '' Armageddon''
* Doug Pray, filmmaker, ''Levitated Mass''
* Gina Prince-Bythewood, filmmaker, '' Beyond the Lights'', ''The Secret Lives of Bees''
* John Rando, Broadway director, '' On the Town''
* Rob Reiner, actor/writer/producer, '' New Girl'', '' Flipped'', '' The Bucket List''
* Tim Robbins, actor, '' The Brink'', '' Mystic River'', '' The Shawshank Redemption''
*Scott Rosenberg, producer/writer, '' Zoo'', '' October Road'', '' Con Air''
* Eric Roth, writer, ''Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close'', '' The Curious Case of Benjamin Button''
* Pietro Scalia, editor, '' Black Hawk Down'', ''Gladiator'', '' Good Will Hunting''
*Paul Schrader, writer, '' Raging Bull'', '' Taxi Driver''
* Tom Shadyac, filmmaker, ''Bruce Almighty'', '' Evan Almighty''
* Chuck Sheetz, animation director, '' The Simpsons, Recess''
* Brad Silberling, filmmaker, '' Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events''
* David Silverman, animation producer, '' The Simpsons''
* Tom Skerritt, actor, ''Ted'', '' Picket Fences'', ''Top Gun''
* Penelope Spheeris, director, ''Wayne's World''
*Nicole St. John, voice actress, ''Futurama''
* Ben Stiller, actor/writer/director, '' The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'', '' Zoolander''
* Michael Stuhlbarg, actor, ''Boardwalk Empire''
* Joel Surnow, writer, '' 24''
*Jorma Taccone, writer, '' Saturday Night Live''
* George Takei, actor, ''Star Trek''
*Ham Tran, director, The Anniversary (2003 film)
* Gore Verbinski, director, '' Rango'', ''Pirates of the Caribbean''
*David S. Ward, writer, '' Sleepless in Seattle'', '' The Sting''
*Aron Warner, producer, '' Shrek'' franchise
*Mitch Watson, animation writer, '' All Hail King Julien''
* Kevin Weisman, actor, ''Alias''
*Jenna Westover, writer, ''I am not OK with this!''
* Marianne Wibberley, writer, ''National Treasure'' franchise
*Gregory Widen, writer, ''Highlander''
*Cress Williams, actor, Prison Break
*Hoyt Yeatman, visual effects, '' Jack the Giant Slayer''
* Daphne Zuniga, actress, ''One Tree Hill'', ''Melrose Place''
* Chih-yen Yee, writer/director, '' Blue Gate Crossing''2002 Cannes Film Festival
* Ayn Carrillo Gailey, writer, ''Nice Girl Like You''
*Usmar Ismail, director, ''Lewat Djam Malam''
*Kerem Çatay, film producer, ''Ay Yapim''
* Kevin Tsai, television host/writer, '' Kangsi Coming''

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