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Oscar for Best Director
The Academy Award for Achievement in Directing (Best Director) is one of the Awards of Merit presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to directors working in the motion picture industry. While nominations for Best Director are made by members in the Academy's Directing...
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Danny Boyle
Danny Boyle (born 20 October 1956) is a British filmmaker and producer. He is best known for his work on films such as Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, 28 Days Later and Slumdog Millionaire. For the latter Boyle won numerous awards in 2009, including...
Ethan Coen
Ethan Coen is a film director and film writer.
Joel Coen
Joel Coen is a film director and film writer.
Martin Scorsese
Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. He is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation, a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his...
Ang Lee
Ang Lee (Chinese: 李安; Pinyin: Lǐ Ān; born October 23, 1954) is an Academy Award-winning Taiwanese American film director. Lee has directed a diverse set of films such as Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), Sense and Sensibility (1995), Crouching Tiger,...
Clint Eastwood
Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, film director, film producer and composer. He has received five Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award and five People's Choice Awards—including...
Peter Jackson
Peter Robert Jackson, CNZM (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand filmmaker, producer and screenwriter, best known for The Lord of the Rings trilogy adapted from the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien. He is also known for his 2005 remake of King Kong and...
Roman Polański
Roman Raymond Polanski (Polish: Roman Rajmund Polański; born 18 August 1933) is a Polish-French film director, producer, writer and actor. Polanski began his career in Poland, and later became a critically-acclaimed director of both art house and...
Ron Howard
Ronald William "Ron" Howard (born March 1, 1954) 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 Griffith Show (credited as Ronny...
Steven Soderbergh
Steven Andrew Soderbergh (born January 14, 1963) is an American film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and an Academy Award-winning film director. He is best known for directing the films Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Erin Brockovich,...
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Sam Mendes
Samuel Alexander "Sam" Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965) is an English stage, film and commercial director at RSA US. He is known for his 1998 production of Cabaret, starring Alan Cumming, and his debut film, American Beauty, for which he won the...
James Cameron
James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian film director, producer and screenwriter. His writing and directing work includes The Terminator and Titanic. To date, his directorial efforts have grossed approximately US$1.1 billion...
Anthony Minghella
Anthony Minghella, CBE (6 January 1954 — 18 March 2008) was an English film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was Chairman of the Board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007.
Minghella was born on the Isle of Wight...
Mel Gibson
Mel Colm-Cille Gerard Gibson, AO (born January 3, 1956) is an American Australian actor, film director and producer and screenwriter. Born in Peekskill, New York, Gibson moved with his parents to Sydney when he was 12 years old and later studied...
Robert Zemeckis
Robert Lee "Bob" Zemeckis (born May 14, 1952) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Zemeckis first came to public attention in the 1980s as the director of the comedic time-travel Back to the Future films as well as the live...
Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg KBE (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. In a career of over four decades, Spielberg's films have touched on many themes and genres. Spielberg's early sci-fi and adventure...
Jonathan Demme
Robert Jonathan Demme (born February 22, 1944) is an American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter.
Demme was born in Baldwin, New York, the son of Dorothy Demme and a public relations executive father. Demme has three children: Ramona, Brooklyn,...
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Kevin Costner
Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American actor, musician, producer, and director. He has been nominated for three BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Awards, won two Oscars and a Golden Globe Award. Costner's...
Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson (born April 6, 1942) is an American screenwriter, film director, actor, and producer of film and television. His films include Bugsy, The Natural and Rain Man.
Levinson was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Vi (née Krichinsky)...
Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci (born March 16, 1940) is an Italian film director and screenwriter, probably best known for such films as The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor and The Dreamers.
Bertolucci was born in the Italian city of Parma,...
Oliver Stone
William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) is an American film director and screenwriter. Stone came to prominence as a director with a series of films about the Vietnam War, in which he had participated as an American infantry soldier, and his...
Sydney Pollack
Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 — May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer and actor. Born in Lafayette, Indiana to Russian Jewish immigrants, Pollack studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, where...
Miloš Forman
Jan Tomáš Forman (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjan ˈtomaːʃ ˈforman]; born February 18, 1932), better known as Miloš Forman ([ˈmɪloʃ ˈforman]), is a Czech film director, screenwriter, actor and professor. Two of his films, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...
James L. Brooks
James L. Brooks (born May 9, 1940) is an American director, producer and screenwriter. Growing up in North Bergen, New Jersey, Brooks endured a fractured family life and passed the time by reading and writing. After dropping out of New York...
Richard Attenborough
Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, CBE (born 29 August 1923) is an English actor, director, producer, and entrepreneur. Attenborough has won two Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globes. He is the elder brother of...
Warren Beatty
Henry Warren Beatty (pronounced /ˈbeɪti/, BAY-tee , born March 30, 1937) 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...
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Robert Redford
Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936), better known as Robert Redford, is an American film director, actor, producer, businessman, model, environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival. He received two Oscars...
Robert Benton
Robert Douglas Benton (born September 29, 1932) is an American screenwriter and film director.
Benton was born in Waxahachie, Texas, the son of Dorothy (née Spaulding) and Ellery Douglass Benton, a telephone company employee. He attended the...
Michael Cimino
Michael Cimino (pronounced [ˈtʃamɪnəʊ], born 3 February 1939, New York City) is an American film director. He is often cited as an example of the meteoric rises and falls seen in Hollywood in the 1970s.
Michael Cimino was born in New York City, New...
Woody Allen
Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American screenwriter, film director, actor, comedian, writer, musician, and playwright.
Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to screwball sex comedies, have...
John G. Avildsen
John Guilbert Avildsen (born December 21, 1935) is an American film director.
His films include Guess What We Learned in School (1968), Cry Uncle! (1970), Joe (1970), Save the Tiger (1973), Rocky (1976), The Karate Kid (1984), Lean on Me (1989),...
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is an Italian-American film director, producer and screenwriter. Away from showbusiness, Coppola is also a vintner, magazine publisher and hotelier. He is a graduate of Hofstra University where he studied...
George Roy Hill
George Roy Hill (December 20, 1921 – December 27, 2002) was an American film director. He is most noted for directing such films as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting, which both starred the acting duo Paul Newman and Robert Redford....
Bob Fosse
Robert louis “Bob” Fosse (June 23, 1927 – September 23, 1987) was an American musical theater choreographer and director, and a film director. He won an unprecedented eight Tony Awards for choreography, as well as one for direction. He was nominated...
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William Friedkin
William Friedkin (born 29 August 1935) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter best known for directing The Exorcist and The French Connection in the early 1970s. His recent film is Bug (2006) for which he won the FIPRESCI.
After...
Franklin Schaffner
Franklin James Schaffner (May 30, 1920 - July 2, 1989) was an American film director.
The son of missionaries, Schaffner was born in Tokyo, Japan and raised in that country. He returned to the United States and graduated from Franklin and Marshall...
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John Schlesinger
John Richard Schlesinger, CBE (16 February 1926 – 25 July 2003) was an English film and stage director.
Schlesinger was born in London into a middle class Jewish family, the son of Winifred Henrietta (née Regensburg) and Bernard Edward Schlesinger,...
Carol Reed
Sir Carol Reed (30 December 1906 – 25 April 1976) was an English film director, most famous for directing The Third Man, The Agony and the Ecstasy and Oliver!. He won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Director for Oliver!.
The son of actor-producer...
Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols (born 6 November 1931) is an American television, stage and film director, writer, and producer. Nichols is one of only ten people to have won all the major American entertainment awards: an Oscar, Grammy, Emmy and Tony Award.
Nichols...
George Cukor
George Cukor (July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an American film director who mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO and later MGM, where he directed a string of impressive films including What...
Tony Richardson
Cecil Antonio "Tony" Richardson (5 June 1928 – 14 November 1991) was an English theatre and film director and producer.
Richardson was born in Shipley, Yorkshire in 1928, the son of Elsie Evans (Campion) and Clarence Albert Richardson, a chemist. He...
Robert Wise
Robert Earl Wise (September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005) was an American sound effects editor, film editor, film producer and director. Among his films are Citizen Kane (as an editor); The Sand Pebbles; Born to Kill; The Sound of Music; West Side...
Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelli (February 28, 1903 – July 25, 1986) was a Hollywood director and stage director. His skilled integration of story, music, lighting, and design elements in a film made him the most critically respected crafter of American film...
David Lean
Sir David Lean (25 March 1908 – 16 April 1991) was an English filmmaker, producer, screenwriter and editor, best remembered for big-screen epics such as Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter, and A Passage...
Delbert Mann
Delbert Martin Mann, Jr. (January 30, 1920 – November 11, 2007) was an American television and film director. He won the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Directing for the film Marty. It was the first...
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Fred Zinnemann
Fred Zinnemann (April 29, 1907–March 14, 1997) was an Austrian-American film director. He won four Academy Awards and directed movies like High Noon, From Here to Eternity and A Man for All Seasons.
Zinnemann was born to a Jewish family in Vienna,...
George Stevens
George Stevens (December 18, 1904 - March 8, 1975) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer.
Born in Oakland, California, Stevens broke into the movie business as a cameraman, working on many Laurel and Hardy shorts....
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (11 February 1909 – 5 February 1993) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.
Mankiewicz was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania to Franz Mankiewicz (?–1941) and Johanna Blumenau, Jewish immigrants from Germany...
John Huston
John Marcellus Huston (pronounced /ˈdʒɒn mɑrˈsɛləs ˈhjuːstən/; August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He was known for directing the films The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ...
Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan, (pronounced ē-LĒ-ä ka-ZAHN) (September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003), was a Turkish-born American film and theatre director, film and theatrical producer, screenwriter, novelist and co-founder of the influential Actors Studio in New York...
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder (22 June 1906 – 27 March 2002) was an Austrian-American journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of...
Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz (December 24, 1886 - April 10, 1962) was a Hungarian-American filmmaker. He directed more than fifty films in Europe and more than one hundred in the United States. The best-known were The Adventures of Robin Hood, Angels with Dirty...
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William Wyler
William Wyler (July 1, 1902 – July 27, 1981) was a motion picture director.
Wyler was born Wilhelm Weiller to a Swiss father and a German mother, in Mulhouse in the French region of Alsace (then part of the German Empire). He was distantly related...
John Ford
John Ford (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973) was an American film director of Irish heritage famous for both his westerns such as Stagecoach and The Searchers and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath. His...
Victor Fleming
Victor Fleming (February 23, 1889 – January 6, 1949) (sometimes "Vic Fleming") was an Academy Award-winning American film director, cinematographer, and producer. He is most popular for his films The Wizard of Oz (1939), and Gone with the Wind (1939...
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Leo McCarey
Thomas Leo McCarey (October 3, 1898 – July 5, 1969) was an American film director, screenwriter and producer. During his lifetime he was involved in almost 200 movies, especially comedies. French director Jean Renoir once said that "Leo McCarey...
Frank Capra
Frank Russell Capra (May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was an American film director and a creative force behind a number of films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Lost Horizon (1937),...
Frank Lloyd
Frank Lloyd (2 February 1886, Glasgow, UK – 10 August 1960, Santa Monica, California, United States) was an Academy Award-winning film director, scriptwriter and producer. Lloyd was among the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and...
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Frank Borzage
Frank Borzage (April 23, 1894 – June 19, 1962) was an Academy Award-winning American film director and actor famed for his mystical romanticism.
Borzage's father, Luigi, was born in Roncone, Austria-Hungary in 1859. As a stone mason, he sometimes...
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Norman Taurog
Norman Rae Taurog (February 23, 1899 - April 7, 1981) was an American film director
Between 1920 and 1968, Taurog directed over 140 films. He won the 1931 Academy Award for Best Director for the film Skippy and still holds the record as the youngest...
