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Sutherland Trophy
Created in 1958, the Sutherland Trophy was awarded annually by the British Film Institute to "the maker of the most original and imaginative [first or second feature] film introduced at the National Film Theatre during the year". In 1997, the criteria changed to honour the maker of the most...
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Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian modernist film director.
Michelangelo Antonioni was born into a well-to-do family of landowners in Ferrara, Emilia Romagna, in northern Italy. The...
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Yasujiro Ozu
Yasujirō Ozu (小津 安二郎, Ozu Yasujirō, 12 December 1903 – 12 December 1963) was a prominent Japanese film director and script writer. He is known for his distinctive technical style, developed since the silent era. Marriage and family, especially the...
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Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray (Bengali: সত্যজিত রায় or সত্যজিৎ রায় Shottojit Rae (help·info); 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian Bengali filmmaker. He is regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of 20th century cinema. Ray was born in the city of Calcutta ...
Alain Resnais
Alain Resnais (born 3 June 1922, Vannes, Morbihan) is a French film director whose early works are often grouped within the New Wave or nouvelle vague film movement. Although he has had a long and fruitful career, Resnais is best known for three...
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Grigori Kozintsev
Grigori Mikhailovich Kozintsev (Russian: Григорий Михайлович Козинцев; Kiev, 22 March [O.S. 9 March] 1905 – Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg, 11 May 1973) was a Soviet Russian theatre and film director. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in...
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Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃lyk ɡɔˈdaʀ]; born 3 December 1930) is a French and Swiss filmmaker and one of the founding members of the Nouvelle Vague, or "French New Wave".
Godard was born to Franco-Swiss parents in Paris. He attended...
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André Delvaux
André, Baron Delvaux was a Belgian film director and widely regarded as the founder of the Belgian national cinema. Born 21 March 1926 in Heverlee, he died on 4 October 2002 in Valencia, Spain.
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Masaki Kobayashi
Masaki Kobayashi (小林 正樹, Kobayashi Masaaki, February 14, 1916–October 4, 1996) was a Japanese director.
Among his films is Kwaidan (1965), a collection of four ghost stories drawn from the book by Lafcadio Hearn, each of which has a surprise ending....
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Jean-Marie Straub
Jean-Marie Straub (born 8 January 1933, France) and Danièle Huillet (1 May 1936, Paris – 9 October 2006, Cholet) were a duo of filmmakers who made two dozen films between 1963 and 2006. Their films are noted for their rigorous, intellectually...
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Danièle Huillet
Daniￃﾨle Huillet was born in Paris on 1 May 1936. She collaborates with Jean-Marie Straub on films.
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Jacques Rivette
Jacques Rivette (born 1 March 1928) is a French film director.
With Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette is one of the more experimental of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) directors. In common with many of his peers, he has a background in film...
Robert Bresson
Robert Bresson (pronounced [ʁɔbɛʁ bʁɛˈsɔ̃] in French) (25 September 1901 – 18 December 1999) was a French film director known for his spiritual, ascetic style.
Bresson was born at Bromont-Lamothe, Puy-de-Dôme. Little is known of his early life and...
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Fernando Solanas
Fernando Ezequiel 'Pino' Solanas (born 16 February 1936, Olivos, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine film director, screenwriter and politician. His films include La hora de los hornos (1968), Tangos: el exilio de Gardel (1985), Sur (1988), El...
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Octavio Getino
Octavio Getino (born in August 6, 1935 in León, Spain) is an Argentine film director who is best known for co-founding, along with Fernando Solanas, the Grupo Cine Liberación and the school of Third Cinema.
Getino was born in Spain and migrated to...
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Giorgi Shengelaya
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Rainer Werner Maria Fassbinder (May 31, 1945 – June 10, 1982) was a German movie director, screenwriter and actor. He is one of the most important representatives of the New German Cinema.
He maintained a frenetic pace in film-making. In a...
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Nagisa Oshima
Nagisa Oshima (大島 渚, Ōshima Nagisa) born March 31, 1932, Kyoto, is a Japanese film director. After graduating from Kyoto University he was hired by Shochiku Ltd. and quickly progressed to directing his own movies, making his debut feature A Town of...
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Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
Hans-Jürgen Syberberg (born 8 December 1935) is a German film director, whose best known film is his lengthy feature, Hitler: A Film from Germany.
Born in Nossendorf, Pomerania, the son of an estate owner, Syberberg lived until 1945 in Rostock and...
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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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Mark Rappaport
Mark Rappaport is an American independent/underground film director who has been working sporadically since the early 1970s. A lifelong New Yorker, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, he graduated from Brooklyn College in 1964. His films are...
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Zeki Ökten
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Peter Greenaway
Peter Greenaway, CBE (born 5 April 1942, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales) is a Welsh film director. He is currently professor of cinema studies at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
Peter Greenaway's family left South Wales when he...
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Xie Jin
Xie Jin (simplified Chinese: 谢晋; traditional Chinese: 謝晉; pinyin: Xiè Jìn; November 21, 1923 – October 18, 2008) was an important Chinese film director. He came to prominence in 1957 directing the film Woman Basketball Player No. 5. Most recently he...
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Helma Sanders-Brahms
Helma Sanders-Brahms (born 1940) is a German film director.
She studied acting then German and English. She first worked in TV and then trained as a film director with Sergio Corbucci and Pier Paolo Pasolini making a large number of films often...
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Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Moutatthu "Adoor" Gopalakrishnan Unnithan (b. 3 July 1941) is a nine-time National Award winning Indian film director, script writer, and producer. Adoor Gopalakrishnan had a major role in revolutionizing Malayalam cinema. Adoor's first film...
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Chris Marker
Chris Marker (born 29 July 1921) is a French writer, photographer, film director, multimedia artist and documentary maker.
His best known films are La Jetée (1962), A Grin Without a Cat (1977), Sans Soleil (1983) and AK (1985), a documentary on the...
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Lino Brocka
Catalino Ortiz Brocka, better known as Lino Brocka (April 3, 1939–May 21, 1991) is known as one of the greatest film directors of the Philippines. Brocka was openly homosexual and many of his films incorporated LGBT themes into their often dramatic...
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Bill Douglas
William Gerald Forbes (Bill) Douglas (17 April 1934 - 18 June 1991) was a Scottish film director best known for the trilogy of films about his early life.
Born in Newcraighall on the outskirts of Edinburgh, he was brought up initially by his...
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Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci (born March 16, 1940) is an Italian film director and screenwriter, whose well known films include: The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor and The Dreamers.
Bertolucci was born in the Italian city of Parma, in the...
Souleymane Cissé
Souleymane Cissé (born April 21, 1940 in Bamako) is a Malian film director.
Raised in a Muslim family, Souleymane Cissé was a passionate cinephile from childhood. He attended secondary school in Dakar, and returned to Mali in 1960 after national...
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Edward Yang
Edward Yang (simplified Chinese: 杨德昌; traditional Chinese: 楊德昌; pinyin: Yáng Déchāng; November 6, 1947 – June 29, 2007), along with Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Tsai Ming Liang, was one of the leading filmmakers of the Taiwanese New Wave and Taiwanese Cinema...
Nils Gaup
Nils Gaup (born April 12, 1955) is a Sámi film director from Norway.
Gaup was born in Kautokeino, Finnmark County in Northern Norway. He first intended to become an athlete but from 1974 to 1978 he went to drama school and studied at the Beaivváš...
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Steve Kloves
Stephen Keith "Steven" Kloves (born March 18, 1960) is an American screenwriter mainly renowned for his adaptations of novels, especially for the Harry Potter film series and for Wonder Boys, whose screenplay was nominated for a Golden Globe and an...
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Elaine Proctor
Elaine Proctor (born 1960) is a South African film director, screenwriter and actress. Her film Friends was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Caméra d'Or Special Distinction.
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Jocelyn Moorhouse
Jocelyn Denise Moorhouse is an Australian writer and film director born in Victoria, Australia on September 4, 1960.
Moorhouse did her HSC year in 1978 at Vermont High School, which is the same high school that Gillian Armstrong attended a few years...
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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...
Julio Medem
Julio Médem (born 21 October 1958) is a Spanish Basque writer and film director.
Medem was born in San Sebastián, Basque Country and showed an interest in movies since childhood, when he would take his father's Super 8 camera and shoot at night,...
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Tran Anh Hung
Trần Anh Hùng (born December 23, 1962) is a French film director of Vietnamese ancestry.
He was born in Đà Nẵng, Central Vietnam, and emigrated to France when he was 12 following the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.
Tran has...
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Mofida Tlatli
Moufida Tlatli (Arabic: مفيدة التلاتلي; born in Sidi Bou Saïd in 1947) is a Tunisian film director. She was the first Arab woman to direct a full featured-film (The Silences of the Palace) in the Arab World.
She was born in Sidi Bou Saïd suburb of...
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Jevon O'Neill
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Bruno Dumont
Bruno Dumont (born 1958, Bailleul, France) is a French film director. To date, he has directed five feature films, all of which border somewhere between realistic drama and the avant-garde. His films have won several awards at the Cannes 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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Samira Makhmalbaf
Samira Makhmalbaf (Persian: سمیرا مخملباف, UniPers: Samirâ Maxmalbâf) (born February 15, 1980, Tehran) is an internationally acclaimed Iranian filmmaker and script writer. She is the daughter of Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the film director and writer....
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Lynne Ramsay
Lynne Ramsay (born 5 December 1969) is an award-winning Scottish film director, best known for the feature films Ratcatcher and Morvern Callar.
Born in Glasgow on 5 December 1969, Ramsay graduated from the UK's National Film and Television School in...
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Kenneth Lonergan
Kenneth Lonergan (born October 16, 1962) is a playwright, screenwriter, and director born in the Bronx, New York City, New York. He began writing in high school, later graduating from the NYU Playwriting Program.
His first success came with the play...
Asif Kapadia
Asif Kapadia (born 1972) is a British filmmaker of Indian descent. He directed several award-winning films, including The Sheep Thief (1997), which won the Cinéfondation Award for Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival, and The Warrior (2001), which...
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Delphine Gleize
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Siddiq Barmak
Siddiq Barmak (Born September 7, 1962 in Panjshir, Afghanistan) is an Afghan film director and producer. He received an M.A degree in cinema direction from Moscow Film Institute (VGIK) in 1987.
He has written a few screenplays and has made a few...
Jonathan Caouette
Jonathan Caouette (born 1973) is an American director. Caouette is the director of Tarnation (2003) and the forthcoming All Tomorrow's Parties about the cult music festival. As an actor, Caouette played a major role in the 2006 film Fat Girls and is...
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Kari Paljakka
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Andrea Arnold
Andrea Arnold (born April 5, 1969) is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker and former actress from England, who made her feature length directorial debut in 2006 with Red Road.
Arnold first came to prominence as an actress and television presenter...
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Marjane Satrapi
Marjane Satrapi (Persian: مرجان ساتراپی) (born 22 November 1969 in Rasht, Iran) is an Iranian-born French contemporary graphic novelist, illustrator, Academy Award-nominated animated film director, and children's book author.
Satrapi grew up in...
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Vincent Paronnaud
Vincent Paronnaud (born 1970), a.k.a. Winshluss, is a French comics artist and filmmaker. He is best known for cowriting and codirecting with Marjane Satrapi the highly acclaimed animated film Persepolis (2007), for which they received numerous...
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Sergey Dvortsevoy
Sergey Dvortsevoy (1962–present) is a filmmaker from Kazakhstan.
Dvortsevoy worked as an aviation engineer before studying film in Moscow in the early 1990s. His films immediately garnered international acclaim, receiving prizes and recognition at...
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Scandar Copti
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