É um cineasta argentino-brasileiro de ascendência judaico-ucraniana. Nasceu na Argentina e radicou-se no Brasil aos dezenove anos de idade. É naturalizado brasileiro desde 1977. Casado com a atriz Barb...

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Director Kathryn Bigelow's small but impressive body of work has consistently dealt with issues of violence and tension. With The Hurt Locker , Bigelow became the first woman to win the Academy Award f...

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Michael Francis Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an American filmmaker, author, social critic and activist. He is the director and producer of Fahrenheit 9/11, which is the highest-grossing documentary o...

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Merian Caldwell Cooper - amerykański filmowiec, reżyser i scenarzysta, a także podpułkownik pilot Wojska Polskiego, służący w lotnictwie polskim podczas wojny polsko-bolszewickiej 1919-1920, organizato...

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Asquith was a leading English film director. He collaborated successfully with playwright Terence Rattigan on The Winslow Boy (1948) and The Browning Version (1951), among other adaptations. His other ...

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Paul Almond, OC (born April 26, 1931 in Montréal, Québec) is one of Canada's preeminent film and television directors, and he has directed and produced over 130 television dramas for the CBC, BBC, ABC ...

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Site Officiel Georges Méliès , né Marie Georges Jean Méliès le 8 décembre 1861 et mort le 21 janvier 1938, est un réalisateur de films français. Il est connu pour les développements qu'il apporta aux...

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Frederick Bean "Fred/Tex" Avery (February 26, 1908 – August 26, 1980) was an American animator, cartoonist, voice actor and director, famous for producing animated cartoons during The Golden Age of H...

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Ralph Nelson (August 12, 1916 – December 21, 1987) was an American movie and television director, producer, writer, and actor. Life and career Nelson was born in Long Island City, NY. He serv...

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) Elwood Dager Cromwell (December 23, 1887 – September 26, 1979), known as John Cromwell, was an American film actor, director and producer. Biography Born in Toledo, Ohio, Cromwell made his ...

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Born Vidor Károly to a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary, he served in the Hungarian Army during World War I. He first came to prominence during the final years of the silent film era. Among his fil...

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Otto Ludwig Preminger (5 December 1905 – 23 April 1986) was an Austro–Hungarian-American theatre and film director. After moving from the theatre to Hollywood, he directed over 35 feature films i...

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Boris Sagal (October 18, 1923 - May 22, 1981) was a Ukrainian-born American television and film director. Early life and career Born in Yekaterinoslav, Ukrainian SSR (now known as Dnipropetrovs...

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American motion-picture director John Huston's taut dramas were some of the most famous movies of the 20th century, including the Humphrey Bogart classics The Maltese Falcon (1941), Key Largo (1948), T...

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Busby Berkeley (November 29, 1895 – March 14, 1976) was a highly influential Hollywood movie director and musical choreographer. Berkeley was famous for his elaborate musical production numbers that ...

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Jerome Robbins (October 11, 1918 – July 29, 1998) was an American theater producer, director, and choreographer known primarily for Broadway Theater and Ballet/Dance, but who also occasionally direct...

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. Gordon Roger Parks, Jr. (December 7, 1934 – April 3, 1979) was an American film director best known for the film Super Fly. Parks was the son of Sally Alvis and late photographer and director G...

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Trivandrum, Kerala, India

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Sathyapalan produced and directed a number of feature films in both Tamil and Malayalam, many of them super hits of those times. Malaya Cottage also had its own home productions' with Sathyapalan (th...

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P. Bhaskaran, who is affectionately called ‘Bhaskaran Master’ by his admirers is a Poet, Playwright, Lyricist, Actor, Broadcaster, Cine Director, Film Producer, T.V. Producer, Tele-caster, Intellectual...

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A. Bhimsingh (1924-1978) was a film maker, producer, editor and writer . His film career started as an assistant editor with the film making duo Krishnan-Panju, in the late 1940s. His directorial debut...

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She was was a Telugu actress, director and producer of films in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi languages. She was known for her liveliness and captivating performance and is still treated as the benchmark for...

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He was also known as the show-man, was an Indian film actor, producer and director of Hindi films.He was the winner of nine Filmfare Awards, while his films Awaara (1951) and Boot Polish (1954) were no...

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He was a Bengali Indian filmmaker (producer and director). Brother of the producer director Sashadhar Mukherjee. He is succeeded by his wife Kamala, his sons Subhash and Sanjoy and his daughter Gitanja...

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Robert Selden Duvall (born January 5, 1931) is an Academy Award-, two-time Emmy Award-, and four-time Golden Globe Award-winning American film actor and director. He is best known for his roles in To K...

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Joshua Lockwood Logan III (October 5, 1908 – July 12, 1988) was an American stage and film director and writer. Early years Logan was born in Texarkana, Texas, the son of Susan (née Nabors) a...

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Robert Rossen (March 16, 1908 – February 18, 1966) was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer whose film career spanned almost three decades. His 1949 film All the King's Men won Oscars ...

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Philip Davis Guggenheim (born November 3, 1963) is an American film director and producer. His credits as a producer and director include Training Day, The Shield, Alias, 24, NYPD Blue, ER, Deadwood,...

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Charles Guggenheim (March 31, 1924 – October 9, 2002) was an American film director and producer. Early life Guggenheim was born into a prominent German Jewish family in Cincinnati, Ohio. His...

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William Wyler, born Wilhelm Weiller, was an academy award winning motion picture director notable for his work on Ben-Hur (1959), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), and Mrs. Miniver (1942), all of whi...

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He was a Hungarian-American filmmaker (with early credits as Mihály Kertész and Michael Kertész). He directed more than fifty films in Europe and more than one hundred in the United States. The best-kn...

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Bruce Weigert Paltrow was an American television and film director and producer. He is the father of actress Gwyneth Paltrow and director Jake Paltrow. He was born on November 26, 1943 in Brooklyn, N...

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Sir David Lean, CBE, was an English film director, producer, screenwriter and editor, best remembered for big-screen epics The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago...

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Howard "The Silver Fox" Winchester Hawks was an influential American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. He is known for a wide range of genres such as Scarface (1932...

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Renny Harlin (born Renny Lauri Mauritz Harjola, 15 March 1959) is a Finnish-American film director and producer. He is best known for Die Hard 2 (1990), Cliffhanger (1993), The Long Kis...

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Roman Polanski (born 18 August 1933) is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few "truly inter...

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Charles Robert Redford, Jr. (born August 18, 1936), better known as Robert Redford, is an American actor, film director, producer, businessman, environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the Su...

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) Philip Ford (October 16, 1900 – January 12, 1976) was an American film director and actor. He directed 43 films between 1945 and 1964. He also appeared 16 in films between 1916 and 1926. He was...

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) John Ford (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973) was an American film director. He was famous for both his westerns such as Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and adapta...

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Robert Louis “Bob” Fosse (June 23, 1927 – September 23, 1987) was an American actor, dancer, musical theater choreographer, director, screenwriter, film editor and film director. He won an unpreceden...

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Richard Brooks (May 18, 1912 – March 11, 1992) was an American screenwriter, film director, novelist and occasional film producer. Early life and career Brooks was born Ruben Sax to Russian J...

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Preston Sturges (29 August 1898 – 6 August 1959), originally Edmund Preston Biden, was a celebrated playwright, screenwriter and film director born in Chicago, Illinois. In 1941 he won the Academy Aw...

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Los Angeles, CA, USA

Steven Spielberg is one of the wealthiest and most powerful moviemakers in Hollywood. The director of such elaborate fantasies as Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, he ...

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Wikipedia: Berthold Viertel From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Berthold Viertel Born 28 June 1885 Vienna, Austria-Hungary Died 24 September 1953 (aged 68) Vienna, Austria Spouse Salka Viertel (1918-...

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William Desmond Taylor (born William Cunningham Deane-Tanner, 26 April 1872 – 1 February 1922) was an Irish-born American actor, successful film director of silent movies and a popular figure in the ...

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Mack Sennett (January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960) was a Canadian-born American director and was known as the innovator of slapstick comedy in film. During his lifetime he was known at times as the "...

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Mabel Normand (November 9, 1892 – February 23, 1930) was an American silent film comedienne and actress. She was a popular star of Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios and is noted as one of the film indu...

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Garson Kanin (November 24, 1912 – March 13, 1999) was a prolific American writer and director of plays and films. Film and stage career His first film as a director was A Man to Remember (193...

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Anatole Litvak (Анатоль Литвак) (May 10, 1902 – December 15, 1974) was a Ukrainian-born filmmaker who wrote, directed, and produced films in a various countries and languages. He was best known as th...

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William Augustus Wellman (February 29, 1896 – December 9, 1975) was an American film director. Although Wellman began his film career as an actor, he worked on over 80 films, as director, producer an...

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A Hollywood filmmaker who made non-Hollywood movies, Robert Altman earned five Oscar nominations over his long and independent-minded career. Altman became known for: a meandering narrative, satiric hu...

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British film director and writer.

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Cecil Blount Demille, known as Cecil B. DeMille , was a pioneering film director - in both silent and sound movies. Starting in 1913, he became a dominant force in the Hollywood film industry for 40 ye...

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Ronald William "Ron" Howard is an American film director and producer, as well as an actor. Howard came to prominence in the 1960s while playing Andy Griffith's TV son, Opie Taylor, on The Andy Griffit...

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Born: Quentin Jerome Tarantino March 27, 1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S. Occupation: Film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, actor Years active: 1988–present Influenced by: Sergio L...

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San Francisco, CA, USA

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One of the rare Hollywood talents who excelled at both acting and directing, Sydney Pollack fell haphazardly into a craft that eventually earned him three Oscar nominations and one Academy Award. Thank...

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Director of 90 titles, writer of 21 titles, second unit director or assistant director of 9 titles

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Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American aviator, engineer, industrialist, film producer, film director, philanthropist, and one of the wealthiest people in the w...

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He is an American actor, producer, screenwriter and director. Beatty was born Henry Warren Beaty in Richmond, Virginia's Bellevue neighborhood. His mother, Kathlyn Corinne (née MacLean), was a Nova S...

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Robert De Niro's grandfather Henry De Niro was born in Italy. Robert De Niro, Jr. (born August 17, 1943) is an American actor, director, and producer. Widely considered one of the greatest actors of ...

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One of the most popular action stars of all time, Sylvester Stallone is best known for portraying two heroic characters on the big screen—boxer Rocky Balboa and Vietnam War veteran John Rambo. His trad...

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Melvin Kaminsky, better known by his stage name Mel Brooks , is an American film director, screenwriter, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor, and producer. He is best known as a creator of broad film f...

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Oscar and Golden Globes winner Kevin Costner made his now-infamous major film debut in director Lawrence Kasdan's "The Big Chill" (1983). He established a reputation in the critically acclaimed films B...

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Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American film actor, director, producer, composer, and politician. Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series...

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Andrew Warhola known as Andy Warhol, was a Russian American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a comme...

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At the age of 26, Steven Soderbergh permanently altered the face of independent cinema when he became the youngest-ever winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival for sex, lies and video...

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Frances "Fran" Walsh, Lady Jackson, MNZM (born January 10, 1959) is a screenwriter, film producer and occasional musician. She is the wife of filmmaker Peter Jackson. They have two children: Billy and ...

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He is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. He is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributi...

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Guy Ritchie Guy Ritchie, September 2008 Born Guy Stuart Ritchie 10 September 1968 (1968-09-10) (age 41) Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England Occupation Filmmaker, Screenwriter Years active 19...

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Satyajit Ray (Bengali: সত্যজিত রায় or সত্যজিৎ রায় About this sound Shottojit Rae (help·info); 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian Bengali filmmaker. He is regarded as one of the greatest auteur...

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One of Hollywood's few celebrators of the "Southern bad boy" image, country musician turned actor-screenwriter-director Billy Bob Thornton consistently engenders a reputation -- via chosen onscreen par...

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He is known professionally as M. Night Shyamalan, is an Indian American filmmaker and screenwriter who resides and works primarily in the United States, known for making movies with contemporary supern...

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George Orson Welles May 6, 1915-October 10, 1985 Parents: Richard Welles 1873-1930 and Beatrice Ives 1882-1924 Wives and Partners: Virginia Nicholson Rita Hayworth Paola Mori Oja Kodar (p...

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Paris, France

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Los Angeles, CA, USA

He is an American filmmaker and visual artist. Over a lengthy career, Lynch has employed a distinctive, unorthodox (and now known as "Lynchian") approach to narrative filmmaking that has become instant...

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One of the most creative and influential personalities of the silent-film era and one of the great icons of 20th-century film, Charlie Chaplin used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and...

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Ingmar Bergman Sources Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, svenska Karin inte Bergmans biologiska moder

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Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Königsberg) is an American screenwriter, film director, actor, comedian, writer, musician, and playwright. Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas t...

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Stanley Kubrick ( July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999 ) was an American director, writer, producer, and photographer of films, who lived in England during most of the last 40 years of his career. Kubrick w...

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Schooled in low-budget filmmaking, Francis Ford Coppola has gone on to direct some of the most financially successful and critically praised movies in U.S. cinematic history, including The Godfather an...

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