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Ang Lee
Birth at
23 October 1954
Ang Lee is a Chinese director and producer. The director is different from others in the sense that he shot what he wanted, without thinking about the
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Spike Lee
Birth at
20 March 1957
Spike LeeAmerican director screenwriter and actor. His real name is Sheldon Jackson (he chose the pseudonym Spike - that is, "Spike").
The undoubted leader
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Steven Soderbergh
Birth at
14 January 1963
Steven Soderbergh was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 14, 1963. His father moved the family to Pittsbug when Steve was a child. A little later, another
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Sidney Lumet
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25 June 1924 - 9 April 2011
Sidney Lumet was born on June 25, 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He graduated from Columbia University in drama literature. Coming from an acting
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Richard Linklater
Birth at
30 July 1960
Richard Linklater was born in Houston, Texas, on July 30, 1960. After school, he became a student at Houston Literary University. But before finishing
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George Cukor
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7 July 1899 - 24 January 1983
George Dewey Cukor was born on July 7, 1899 in New York (USA). He began his creative career in the theater in 1919, getting a job as an assistant director
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David Lynch
Birth at
20 January 1946
The most inimitable and mysterious director and screenwriter of the 20th century, a talented actor, David Keith Lynch (David Lynch) was born in 1946 in
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Akira Kurosawa
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23 March 1910 - 6 September 1998
Deservedly considered one of the brightest representatives of the humanistic direction of film art of the twentieth century, who managed to combine traditional
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Forman Milos
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18 February 1932 - 13 April 2018
Czech film director Milos Forman was born on February 18, 1932. Having lost his parents who died at Auschwitz, he was forced to make his way through life
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Francois Truffaut
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6 February 1932 - 21 October 1984
Francois Truffaut was born in Paris, France on February 6, 1932. Roland Truffaut is the adoptive father of the child, the boy has never seen his own father.
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David Fincher
Birth at
28 August 1962
American film director David Andrew Leo Fincher was born in 1962 in Colorado, Denver. David’s interest in the world of cinema awoke quite early, at the
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Joseph Barbera
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24 March 1911 - 18 December 2006
His full name is Joseph Roland Barbera.
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Paul Thomas Anderson
Birth at
26 June 1970
One of the most remarkable and worthwhile directors to date, Paul Thomas Anderson was born on June 26, 1970 in Studio City, California. He grew up in
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Tim Burton
Birth at
25 August 1958
The most talented director, unsurpassed master of spectacular cinema Tim Burton was born on August 25, 1958 in the United States, Los Angeles. From an
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Michael Curtiz
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24 December 1886 - 10 April 1962
Michael Curtitz (his real name is Mihai Kertez) was born on December 24, 1888 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary, to a wealthy Jewish family. His father was
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Mike Nichols
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6 November 1931 - 19 November 2014
Mike Nichols (real name - Mikhail Igorevich Peshkovsky) was born on November 6, 1931 in Berlin, in the family of a doctor, a Russian Jew. In 1939, the
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Orson Welles
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6 May 1915 - 10 October 1985
George Orson Welles was born on May 6, 1915 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA. He was orphaned at the age of twelve, losing both his father and his mother. George's
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Lean David
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25 March 1908 - 16 April 1991
English director Lin David was born in Croydon on March 25, 1908.
From a young age he began to work at the film studio as a messenger, then as an editor,
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Alain Resnais
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3 June 1922 - 1 March 2014
Alain René is a French screenwriter, director, cameraman and editor. At the age of fourteen, Alain shot the debut amateur film “Fantomas”, but only at
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Elia Kazan
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7 September 1909 - 28 September 2003
Lias Kazancıoğlu (Greek: Elia Kazancıoğlu) was born in Istanbul into a family of Greek cotton traders. In 1913, he and his family emigrated to New York,
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Quentin Tarantino
Birth at
27 March 1963
Quentin Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1963. At the age of 16, after leaving school, he got a job in a video archive. At the same time
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Nikita Mihalkov
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Director | 36 | 1967 - 2016 | #119 |
All creativity | 155 | 1959 - 2024 | #52 |
This man became a living classic of Russian cinema. The son of the famous Soviet writer Sergei Mikhalkov and translator Natalia Konchalovskaya, he devoted
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Wes Anderson
Birth at
1 May 1969
Director | 27 | 1994 - 2023 | #62 |
All creativity | 58 | 1994 - 2023 | #53 |
Famous American film director, screenwriter, actor and producer, Wesley Walz Anderson was born on May 1, 1969 in Houston, Texas. He was the second son
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Sydney Pollack
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1 July 1934 - 26 May 2008
Director | 41 | 1959 - 2018 | #79 |
All creativity | 169 | 1954 - 2018 | #54 |
American film director, actor and producer Sidney Irwin Pollack was born on July 1, 1934 in Lafayette, Indiana. His parents - housewife Rebecca Miller
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Kenneth Branagh
Birth at
10 December 1960
Director | 25 | 1989 - 2023 | #130 |
All creativity | 182 | 1977 - 2023 | #55 |
Actor and director Kenneth Branagh was born in Belfast on 10 December 1960. When he was 9 years old, his family moved to the city of Reading, where he
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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31 May 1945 - 10 June 1982
Writer | 51 | 1966 - 2022 | #48 |
All creativity | 101 | 1966 - 2022 | #56 |
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s whole life is the embodiment of the motto “Live fast, die young”. Born on May 31, 1945, the Bavarian lived 37 years and 10
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Luis Bunuel (Luis Buñuel Portolés)
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22 February 1900 - 29 July 1983
Director | 36 | 1923 - 1977 | #45 |
All creativity | 74 | 1923 - 2019 | #57 |
Having received the title of the largest representative of surrealism in cinema, the famous Spanish director Luis Buñuel was born in 1900. Traditionally,
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Birth at
15 August 1963
Director | 16 | 1995 - 2022 | #53 |
All creativity | 60 | 1986 - 2022 | #58 |
Becoming the first Mexican director nominated for an Oscar, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñaritu was born on August 15, 1963. Having a penchant for music, he began
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Fred Zinnemann
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29 April 1907 - 14 March 1997
Director | 46 | 1930 - 1982 | #46 |
All creativity | 59 | 1930 - 2005 | #59 |
Fred Zinneman was born in Vienna to a Jewish family, his father was a doctor. He wanted to become a musician, but entered the University of Vienna, where
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Friz Freleng
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21 August 1904 - 26 May 1995
Director | 351 | 1928 - 1993 | #48 |
All creativity | 679 | 1928 - 2011 | #60 |