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Palme d'Or
The Palme d'Or (English: Golden Palm) is the highest prize awarded to competing films at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee. From 1939 to 1954, the highest prize was the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film. From 1964 to 1974 it was replaced...
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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...
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...
Louis Malle
Louis Malle (30 October 1932 – 23 November 1995) was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He has worked in both French cinema and Hollywood. His films include Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (1958), Atlantic City (1981), and Au revoir, les...
Mikhail Kalatozov
Mikhail Kalatozov or Mikheil Kalatozishvili (28 December 1903, Tbilisi – 27 March 1973, Moscow) was an Georgian director began his career as an actor and cinematographer in the Soviet Union and soon thereafter began writing and directing his own...
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Marcel Camus
Marcel Camus (April 21, 1912 - January 13, 1982) was a French film director.
He was born in Chappes, Ardennes, France and died in Paris.
He directed nearly a dozen films, including Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus), which won the Golden Palm at the 1959...
Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (January 20, 1920 – October 31, 1993) was an Italian film director. Known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered one of the most influential and widely revered...
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Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel Portolés (Spanish pronunciation: [lwis buˈɲwel]) (22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish-born filmmaker who acquired Mexican citizenship and worked in Mexico, France, and also in his native Spain and the United States. He is...
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Henri Colpi
Henri Colpi (15 July 1921 - Brigue, Switzerland – 14 January 2006 - Menton, France) was a French film editor and film director.
Colpi directed the 1961 film Une aussi longue absence, which is well-known for sharing the Palme d'Or at the 1961 Cannes...
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Anselmo Duarte
Anselmo Duarte (born April 21, 1920) is a Brazilian actor, screenwriter and film director. His film O Pagador de Promessas (1962) won the Golden Palm and the Special Jury Prize at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival, and was also nominated for the Academy...
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Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo (2 November 1906 - 17 March 1976) was an Italian theatre, opera and cinema director and writer, best known for films such as The Leopard (1963) and Death in Venice (1971). He died in Rome of a...
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Jacques Demy
Jacques Demy (5 June 1931 – 27 October 1990) was one of the most approachable filmmakers to appear in the wake of the French New Wave. Uninterested in the formal experimentation of Alain Resnais, or the political agitation of Jean-Luc Godard, Demy...
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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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Ingmar Bergman
Ernst Ingmar Bergman ([ˈɪŋmar ˈbærjman] ( listen); 14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish director, writer and producer for film, stage and television. His influential body of work often dealt with themes such as bleakness and despair, as well...
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...
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Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina (born 26 February 1934 in M'sila) is an Algerian film director.
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Wim Wenders
Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (born 14 August 1945) is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer.
Wenders was born in Düsseldorf. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine (1963...
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Paolo Taviani
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Vittorio Taviani
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Ermanno Olmi
Ermanno Olmi (born July 24, 1931) is a renowned Italian film director.
Olmi was born in Treviglio, province of Bergamo, Lombardy. He is married to Loredana Detto, who played Antonietta Masetti in Il Posto.
Olmi's films fit into the artistic mold of...
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Volker Schlöndorff
Volker Schlöndorff (born 31 March 1939, Wiesbaden, Germany) is a Berlin-based German filmmaker.
He won an Oscar as well as the Palme d'or at the Cannes Film Festival for The Tin Drum (1979), the film version of the novel by Nobel Prize-winning...
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Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa (黒澤 明 or 黒沢 明, Kurosawa Akira, 23 March 1910 – 6 September 1998) was a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. In a career that spanned 50 years, Kurosawa directed 30 films. He is widely regarded as one of the most...
Andrzej Wajda
Andrzej Wajda (born 6 March 1926) is a Polish film director. Recipient of an honorary Oscar, he is perhaps the most prominent member of the unofficial "Polish Film School" (active circa 1955 to 1963). He is known especially for a trilogy of war...
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Costa Gavras
Constantinos Gavras (born February 13, 1933), better known as Costa-Gavras (Κώστας Γαβράς), is a Greek born French filmmaker, best known for films with overt political themes, most famously the fast-paced thriller, Z (1969). Most of his movies were...
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Şerif Gören
Şerif Gören (born 1944 in Xanthi, Greece) is a Turkish film director. Aside from important films under his own signature, he is also the winner of the Palme d'Or ("Golden Palm") award in Cannes Film Festival in 1982 for the film Yol, which he had...
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (French pronunciation: [ʒak iv kusto]; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life...
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Roland Joffé
Roland Joffé (born November 17, 1945 in London) is a film director who began his career in television. His early television credits included episodes of Coronation Street and an adaptation of The Stars Look Down for Granada. He gained a reputation...
Maurice Pialat
Maurice Pialat (21 August 1925 – 11 January 2003) was a French film director, screenwriter and actor noted for the rigorous and unsentimental style of his films. His work is often described as being "realist", though many film critics acknowledge...
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Bille August
Bille August (born November 9, 1948) is a Danish Academy Award winning film and television director. Most of his projects have been in co-operation with Swedish production and with a mainly Swedish cast. He was partially educated in Sweden and also...
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David Lynch
David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker and visual artist. Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, for The Elephant Man (1980), Blue Velvet (1986), and Mulholland Drive (2001). He also...
Chen Kaige
Chen Kaige (simplified Chinese: 陈凯歌; traditional Chinese: 陳凱歌; pinyin: Chén Kǎigē; Wade-Giles: Ch'en K'ai-ko) (born August 12, 1952) is a Chinese film director and a leading figure of the fifth generation of Chinese cinema. His films are known for...
Jane Campion
Jane Campion (born 30 April 1954) is a film maker and an Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is one of the most internationally successful New Zealand directors, although most of her work has been made in or financed by other countries,...
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Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an independent filmmaker whose films used nonlinear storylines and aestheticization...
Emir Kusturica
Emir Kusturica, OF (Serbian Cyrillic: Емир Кустурица; pronounced [ˈkusturitsa] (born 24 November 1954 in Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian filmmaker, actor and musician with a string of internationally acclaimed...
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Mike Leigh
Mike Leigh, OBE (born 20 February 1943) is an English writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and did his early acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He began as a theatre director and...
Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami (Persian: عباس کیارستمی `Abbās Kiyārostamī; born 22 June 1940) is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film producer. An active filmmaker since 1970, Kiarostami has been involved in over forty films, including shorts and...
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Shohei Imamura
Shōhei Imamura (今村 昌平, Imamura Shōhei, Tokyo, 15 September 1926 – 30 May 2006) was a Japanese film director. Imamura was the first Japanese director to win two Palme d'Or awards.
His eldest son Daisuke Tengan is also a script writer and film...
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Theo Angelopoulos
Theodoros Angelopoulos (Greek: Θόδωρος Αγγελόπουλος) (born 27 April 1935) is a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer.
Angelopoulos studied law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, but after his military service went to...
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Lars von Trier
Lars von Trier (born Lars Trier, April 30, 1956) is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He is closely associated with the Dogme 95 collective, although his own films have taken a variety of different approaches.
Lars Trier was born in...
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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,...
Nanni Moretti
Giovanni (Nanni) Moretti (born August 19, 1953) is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.
Born in Bruneck from the epigraphist Luigi Moretti, Greek teacher at Rome La Sapienza, and resident for his whole life in Rome, he is...
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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...
Gus Van Sant
Gus Green Van Sant, Jr. (born July 24, 1952) is an American film director, screenwriter, photographer, musician, and author. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Achievement in Directing for his 1997 film Good Will Hunting and his 2008 film...
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Michael Moore
Michael Francis Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an American filmmaker, author and liberal political commentator. He is the director and producer of Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, and Capitalism: A Love Story, four of the top six...
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Jean-Pierre Dardenne
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Luc Dardenne
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Ken Loach
Kenneth Loach (born 17 June 1936) is an English film and television director.
He is known for his naturalistic, social realist directing style and for his socialist beliefs, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as...
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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...
Ethan Coen
Ethan Coen is a film director and film writer.
Joel Coen
Joel Coen is a film director and film writer.
Cristian Mungiu
Cristian Mungiu (b. 1968, Iaşi) is a Romanian filmmaker, winner of the Palme d'Or in 2007.
After studying English literature at the University of Iaşi, he worked for a few years as a teacher and as a journalist. After that, he enrolled at the...
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Laurent Cantet
Laurent Cantet is a French director, born on June 15, 1961 at Melle (Deux-Sèvres). His parents were schoolteachers in Ardilleux.
On 25 May 2008, he received the Palme d'Or at the Festival de Cannes 2008, for the movie Entre les murs.
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Michael Haneke
Michael Haneke (born March 23, 1942) is an Austrian filmmaker and writer best known for his bleak and disturbing style. His films often document problems and failures in modern society. Haneke has worked in television‚ theatre and cinema. He is also...
