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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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Lewis Milestone
Lewis Milestone (born Lev Milstein) (September 30, 1895 – September 25, 1980) was an Academy Award-winning motion picture director. He is known for directing Two Arabian Knights (1927), All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), The General Died at Dawn...
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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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Herbert Brenon
Herbert Brenon (January 13, 1880 – June 21, 1958) was a film director during the era of silent movies through the 1930s. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, and was educated at St Paul's School and at King's College London. Before becoming a director,...
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Ted Wilde
Ted Wilde (c1893 - December 17, 1929) was a comedy writer and director during the era of silent movies, though he also produced two movies with sound in 1930. He was born in New York, New York. His initial career was as a member of Harold Lloyd's...
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Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore (April 12, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, radio and film. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul (1931).
Barrymore was born Lionel Herbert Blythe in Philadelphia,...
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Irving Cummings
Irving Cummings (October 9, 1888 - April 18, 1959), born Irving Camisky in New York City, New York was an American movie actor, director, producer and writer.
Cummings started his acting career in his late teens on Broadway with the legendary...
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Harry Beaumont
Harry Beaumont (1888 – 1966) was an American film director of the 1920s and 30s. He worked for a variety of production companies including Fox, Goldwyn, Metro, Warner Brothers and MGM.
His greatest successes were during the silent film era, when he...
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Clarence Brown
Clarence Brown (May 10, 1890 – August 17, 1987) was an American film director.
Born in Clinton, Massachusetts, to a cotton manufacturer, Brown moved to the South when he was eleven. He attended the University of Tennessee, graduating at the age of...
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Josef von Sternberg
Josef von Sternberg aka Jonas Sternberg (29 May 1894 – 22 December 1969) was an Austrian-American film director. He is one of the earliest examples of 'auteur' filmmakers, and practised many other skills while making his films including...
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Wesley Ruggles
Wesley Ruggles (June 11, 1889 – January 8, 1972) was an American film director.
He was born in Los Angeles, a younger brother of actor Charles Ruggles. He began his career in 1915 as an actor, appearing in a dozen or so silent films, on occasion...
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Victor Schertzinger
Victor L. Schertzinger (April 8, 1888 - October 26, 1941) was an American composer, film director, film producer, and screenwriter. His films include Paramount on Parade (co-director, 1930), Something to Sing About (1937) with James Cagney, and the...
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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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Henry Hathaway
Henry Hathaway (March 13, 1898 – February 11, 1985) was an American film director and producer. He is best known as a director of Westerns, especially starring John Wayne.
Born Henri Leonard de Fiennes in Sacramento, California, he was the son of...
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...
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Gregory La Cava
Gregory La Cava (March 10, 1892 – March 1, 1952) was an American film director best known for his films of the 1930s, including My Man Godfrey and Stage Door.
He was born in Towanda, Pennsylvania and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the...
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Woody Van Dyke
Woodbridge Strong "Woody" Van Dyke, Jr. (March 21, 1889 – February 5, 1943) was an American motion picture director.
Born in San Diego, California, Van Dyke was a child actor on the vaudeville circuit, and in his early adult years was unsettled and...
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Robert Z. Leonard
Robert Zigler Leonard (October 7, 1889 - August 27, 1968) was an American film director, actor, producer and screenwriter.
He was born in Chicago, Illinois. At one time, he was married to silent superstar Mae Murray with the two forming Tiffany...
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William Dieterle
William Dieterle (July 15, 1893, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany – December 9, 1972, Ottobrunn, Bavaria) was a German actor and film director, who worked in Hollywood for much of his career.
He was born Wilhelm Dieterle, the youngest child of nine,...
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Sidney Franklin
Sidney Franklin (March 21, 1893 — May 18, 1972) was an Academy Award-winning American film director and producer.
His credits as director include:
He also produced:
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King Vidor
King Wallis Vidor (February 8, 1894 – November 1, 1982) was an acclaimed American film director whose career spanned nearly seven decades.
He was born in Galveston, Texas, where he survived the great Galveston Hurricane of 1900. His grandfather,...
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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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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...
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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),...
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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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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...
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Sam Wood
Samuel Grosvenor (Sam) Wood (July 10, 1883, Philadelphia – September 22, 1949) was an American film director. He also undertook some production, writing, and to a lesser extent, acting work.
Wood worked for Cecil B. De Mille as an assistant in 1915....
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Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was a British filmmaker and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in his native United Kingdom in both...
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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...
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Howard Hawks
Howard Winchester Hawks (May 30, 1896 – December 26, 1977) was an influential American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. He is popular for his films from a wide range of genres such as Scarface (1932), Bringing...
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Orson Welles
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985), best known as Orson Welles, was an American film director, writer, actor and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio. Welles was also an accomplished magician,...
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Alexander Hall
Alexander Hall (January 11, 1894, Boston, MA - July 30, 1968, San Francisco, CA) was a theatre actor from the age of four through 1914, when he began to work in silent movies. Following his military service in World War I, he returned to Hollywood...
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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...
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Mervyn LeRoy
Mervyn LeRoy (October 15, 1900 - September 13, 1987) was an American film director, producer and sometime actor.
Born to Jewish parents in San Francisco, California, his family was financially ruined by the 1906 earthquake. (His paternal grandfather...
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John Farrow
John Farrow (10 February, 1904 – 28 January, 1963) was an award-winning film director, producer and screenwriter.
Born John Villiers Farrow in Sydney, Australia, John Farrow began writing while working as a sailor in the 1920s. He moved to Hollywood...
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Ernst Lubitsch
Ernst Lubitsch (January 28, 1892 – November 30, 1947), was a German-born Jewish film director. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were...
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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....
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Otto Preminger
Otto Ludwig Preminger (5 December 1906 – 23 April 1986) was an Austrian-born American film director who moved from the theatre to Hollywood, directing over 35 feature films in a five-decade career. He rose to prominence for stylish film noir...
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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...
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Henry King
Henry King (January 24, 1886 - June 29, 1982) was an American film director.
Before coming to film, King worked as an actor in various repertoire theatres, and first started to take small film roles in 1912. He directed for the first time in 1915,...
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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...
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Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir (French IPA: [ʁəˈnwaʁ]) (15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979), born in the Montmartre district of Paris, France, was a film director, actor and author. He was the second son of Aline Charigot and the French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir...
Robert Siodmak
Robert Siodmak (8 August 1900 - 10 March 1973) was a German born American film director. He is best remembered as a thriller specialist and for the series of Hollywood film noirs he made in the 1940s.
Siodmak was born to a Polish Jewish family in...
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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...
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Edward Dmytryk
Edward Dmytryk (September 4, 1908 – July 1, 1999) was an American film director who was amongst the Hollywood Ten, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who served time in prison for being in contempt of Congress during the McCarthy-era...
Henry Koster
Henry Koster (May 1, 1905 – September 21, 1988) was born Herman Kosterlitz in Berlin, Germany. He became a film director and later moved to Hollywood. Koster's father, a salesman, left home when Henry was a young man. Koster still managed to finish...
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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,...
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Jean Negulesco
Jean Negulesco (born Jean Negulescu; February 26, 1900 – July 18, 1993) was a Romanian-born American film director and screenwriter.
Born in Craiova, he attended Carol I High School. In 1915, he moved to Vienna, and, in 1919, to Bucharest, where he...
Anatole Litvak
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 nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for the film The...
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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...
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Robert Rossen
Robert Rossen (March 16, 1908 – February 18, 1966) was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer. Initially writing and directing for the stage, Rossen moved to Hollywood in 1937. His film career spanned almost three decades. Rossen was...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was a legendary American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies.
DeMille was born in Ashfield, Massachusetts...
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Charles Walters
Charles Walters (November 11, 1911 – August 13, 1982) was a Hollywood director and choreographer most noted for his work in MGM musicals and comedies in from the 1940s to the 1960s.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, and educated at...
George Seaton
George Seaton (April 17, 1911 – July 28, 1979) was an American screenwriter, playwright, film director and producer, and theatre director.
Born George Stenius in South Bend, Indiana, Seaton moved to Detroit after graduating from college to work as...
William A. Wellman
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 and consultant but most often as a director, notable...
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Joshua Logan
Joshua Lockwood Logan III (5 October 1908 – 12 July 1988) was an American stage and film director and writer.
Logan was born in Texarkana, Texas. His father died when Logan was only three, and his mother remarried six years later. He was reared in...
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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...
John Sturges
John Eliot Sturges (January 3, 1910 – August 18, 1992) was an American film director. His movies include Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Great Escape (1963) and Ice Station Zebra ...
