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* Dodo Abashidze *

George Abbott George Francis Abbott (June 25, 1887January 31, 1995) was an American theatre producer, director, playwright, screenwriter, film director and producer whose career spanned eight decades. He received numerous honors including six Tony Awards, the ...

* Norman Abbott * Phil Abraham *

Jim Abrahams James Steven Abrahams (May 10, 1944 – November 26, 2024) was an American film director and writer, best known as a member of Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker. Life and career James Steven Abrahams was born on May 10, 1944, to a Jewish family in ...

Lenny Abrahamson Leonard Ian Abrahamson (born 30 November 1966) is an Irish film and television director. He is best known for directing independent films ''Adam & Paul'' (2004), ''Garage (film), Garage'' (2007), ''What Richard Did'' (2012), ''Frank (film), Fra ...

* Abiola Abrams * J. J. Abrams * Ivan Abramson * Hany Abu-Assad * Tengiz Abuladze * Herbert Achternbusch *

Andy Ackerman Robert Andrew Ackerman (born September 19, 1956) is an American director, producer, and script editor who is best known for his work on ''Seinfeld'', '' The New Adventures of Old Christine'' and the HBO series ''Curb Your Enthusiasm''. Early ...

Andrew Adamson Andrew Ralph Adamson (born 1 December 1966) is a New Zealand film director, producer, screenwriter and animator. He is best known for directing the DreamWorks Animation, DreamWorks animated film ''Shrek'' (2001), which is based on the Shrek!, ...

* Anita W. Addison * Maren Ade *

Carine Adler Carine Adler, Baroness Reid of Cardowan (born 1948) is a Brazilian screenwriter and film director. Career Adler's break came when the British Film Institute The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisa ...

Percy Adlon Paul Rudolf Parsifal "Percy" Adlon (; 1 June 1935 – 10 March 2024) was a German director, screenwriter, and producer. He is associated with the New German Cinema movement (ca. 1965–1985), and is known for his strong female characters and po ...

* John G. Adolfi * Franklin Adreon *

Ben Affleck Benjamin Géza Affleck (born August 15, 1972) is an American actor and filmmaker. His accolades include two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globes. Affleck began his career as a child when he starred in the PBS educatio ...

Casey Affleck Casey Affleck (born Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt; August 12, 1975) is an American actor. He is the recipient of List of awards and nominations received by Casey Affleck, various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film ...

Neil Affleck Neil Affleck is a Canadian animator, director, actor, and teacher. He has worked as an animation-timer and director on ''The Simpsons'' and ''Family Guy''. As an actor, he appeared in the 1981 film ''Scanners'' and had a leading role in the 1981 f ...

* Andrew Agnew *

Alejandro Agresti Alejandro Agresti (born June 2, 1961, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine film director, writer and producer. A prominent filmmaker in his country, he also directed ''The Lake House (film), The Lake House'' with Hollywood, Los Angeles, Hollywood acto ...

Scott Aharoni Scott Aharoni (born January 4, 1994) is an American film producer and director. He is a co-Founder of Curious Gremlin, an American independent entertainment company specializing in film and television development, production and financing. Earl ...

Joe Ahearne Joe Ahearne (born 1962), is a British television screenwriting, writer and television director, director, best known for his work on several fantasy and science fiction based programmes including ''Ultraviolet (TV serial), Ultraviolet'', ''Appar ...

Caroline Aherne Caroline Mary Aherne (24 December 1963 – 2 July 2016) was an English actress, comedian, writer and director. She was best known for performing as the acerbic chat show host '' Mrs Merton'', in various roles in '' The Fast Show'', and as Denise ...

Abdel Rahim Ahmed Abdel Rahim Ahmed () is an Egyptian director and author, born in Egypt, graduated from the 6 October University, Faculty of Applied Arts, Department of Photography, Film and Television, and then studied film directing at the Arab School of Film ...

* Aqeel Ahmed * Alexandre Aja * Chantal Akerman * Desiree Akhavan *

Fatih Akın Fatih Akin (, born 25 August 1973) is a Turkish-German film director, screenwriter and producer. His films have won numerous awards and accolades, including the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for his film '' Head-On'' (2004), Best Scr ...

Moustapha Akkad Moustapha al Akkad (; July 1, 1930 – November 11, 2005) was a Syrian Americans, Syrian-American film producer and Film director, director, best known for producing the original series of ''Halloween (franchise), Halloween'' films and dire ...

* John Akomfrah * R. Kan Albay * Barbara Albert * Félix Enríquez Alcalá *

Alan Alda Alan Alda (; born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo; January 28, 1936) is an American actor. A six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner and a three-time Tony Award nominee, he is best known for playing Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pier ...

Robert Aldrich Robert Burgess Aldrich (August 9, 1918 – December 5, 1983) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. An iconoclastic and maverick '' auteur'' working in many genres during the Golden Age of Hollywood, he directed main ...

* Tomás Gutiérrez Alea * Grigori Aleksandrov * Victoria Aleksanyan * Chris Alexander * David Alexander *

Jason Alexander Jay Scott Greenspan (born September 23, 1959), known professionally as Jason Alexander, is an American actor and comedian. Over the course of his career he has received an Emmy Award and a Tony Award as well as nominations for four Golden Globe ...

* John Alexander * Lexi Alexander * Sherman Alexie * Ozzie Alfonso * Khalik Allah *

Marc Allégret Marc Allégret (22 December 1900 – 3 November 1973) was a French screenwriter, photographer and film director. Biography Born in Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland, he was the elder brother of Yves Allégret. Marc was educated to be a lawyer in ...

Yves Allégret Yves Allégret (13 October 1905 – 31 January 1987) was a French film director, often working in the film noir genre. He was born in Asnières-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine and died in Paris. He was an assistant to film directors such as his brothe ...

* Elizabeth Allen *

Irwin Allen Irwin Allen (born Irwin O. Cohen; June 12, 1916 – November 2, 1991) was an American film and television producer and director, known for his work in science fiction, then later as the "Master of Disaster" for his work in the disaster film genr ...

* Lewis Allen *

Woody Allen Heywood Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American filmmaker, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades. Allen has received many List of awards and nominations received by Woody Allen, accolade ...

* Raine Allen-Miller * Hassan Al-Imam * Mairzee Almas *

Pedro Almodóvar Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (; born 25 September 1949) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and author. His films are distinguished by Melodrama (film genre), melodrama, irreverent humour, bold colour, glossy décor, quotations from popular c ...

* Paul Almond *

Robert Altman Robert Bernard Altman ( ; February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer, producer. He is considered an enduring figure from the New Hollywood era, known for directing subversive and sat ...

* Fede Álvarez * Silvio Amadio *

Mathieu Amalric Mathieu Amalric (; born 25 October 1965) is a French actor and filmmaker. He has won several César Awards and the Lumière Awards. He is best known internationally for his roles in the James Bond film '' Quantum of Solace'', in which he pla ...

* Rod Amateau * Ned Ambler * Gianni Amelio *

Alejandro Amenábar Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos (born 31 March 1972) is a Chilean-Spanish film director, screenwriter and composer. He has won nine Goya Awards—including Best Director for his 2001 film '' The Others''—and two European Film Awards amon ...

* Jon Amiel * Ana Lily Amirpour * George Amponsah * Dev Anand *

Sean Anders Sean Anders (born June 19, 1969) is an American film director and screenwriter. Career He co-wrote and directed the 2005 film ''Never Been Thawed'', the 2008 film ''Sex Drive (film), Sex Drive'', the 2014 film ''Horrible Bosses 2'', the 2015 f ...

* Thom Andersen * Bob Anderson * Brad Anderson *

Broncho Billy Anderson Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson (born Maxwell Henry Aronson; March 21, 1880 – January 20, 1971) was an American actor, writer, film director, and film producer, who was the first star of the Western film genre. He was a founder and star ...

* Deborah Anderson * Gordon Anderson * Justin Anderson * Lindsay Anderson * Michael Anderson *

Paul Thomas Anderson Paul Thomas Anderson (born June 26, 1970), also known by his initials PTA, is an American filmmaker. Often described as one of the most preeminent writer-directors of his generation, List of awards and nominations received by Paul Thomas Anders ...

* Paul W. S. Anderson * Trevor Anderson *

Wes Anderson Wesley Wales Anderson (born May 1, 1969) is an American filmmaker. Wes Anderson filmography, His films are known for themes of grief, loss of innocence, and dysfunctional families. Due to his films' eccentricity, distinctive visual and narrative ...

Roy Andersson Roy Arne Lennart Andersson (born 31 March 1943) is a Swedes, Swedish film director, best known for his distinctive style of absurdism, absurdist humor and Melancholia, melancholic depictions of human life. His personal style is characterized by ...

* Metodi Andonov * Raoul André * Bryan Andrews * Kostas Andritsos *

Theo Angelopoulos Theodoros "Theo" Angelopoulos (; (27 April 1935 – 24 January 2012) was a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer. He dominated the Greek art film industry from 1975 on, and Angelopoulos was one of the most influential and widely respect ...

Kenneth Anger Kenneth Anger (born Kenneth Wilbur Anglemyer, February 3, 1927 – May 11, 2023) was an American Underground film, underground experimental filmmaker, actor, and writer. Working exclusively in short films, he produced almost 40 works beginning i ...

* Threes Anna * Graham Annable * Ken Annakin *

Jean-Jacques Annaud Jean-Jacques Annaud (; born 1 October 1943) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He directed ''Quest for Fire (film), Quest for Fire'' (1981), ''The Name of the Rose (film), The Name of the Rose'' (1986), ''The Bear (1988 film), ...

Hideaki Anno is a Anime, Japanese animator, filmmaker, Film producer, producer, and voice actor. His most celebrated creation, the Neon Genesis Evangelion (franchise), ''Evangelion'' franchise, has had a significant influence on the anime television industr ...

* Arnold Antonin *

Michelangelo Antonioni Michelangelo Antonioni ( ; ; 29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and editor. He is best known for his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents", ''L'Avventura'' (1960), ''La Notte'' (1961), and '' ...

* Pan Anzi *

Judd Apatow Judd Apatow (; born December 6, 1967) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, and comedian known for his work in comedy films. Apatow is the founder of Apatow Productions, through which he wrote, produced, and directed his films ''The 4 ...

* Emmanuel Apea * Apichatpong Weerasethakul * Oscar Apfel * Norman Apstein *

Michael Apted Michael David Apted (10 February 1941 – 7 January 2021) was an English television and film director and producer. Apted began working in television and directed the ''Up (film series), Up'' documentary series from 1970 to 2019). He later di ...

Gregg Araki Gregg Araki (born December 17, 1959) is an American filmmaker. He is noted for his involvement with the New Queer Cinema movement. His ''Teenage Apocalypse'' film trilogy, consisting of ''Totally F***ed Up ''(1993), ''The Doom Generation ''(1995) ...

* Alfonso Aráu *

Roscoe Arbuckle Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle (; March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933) was an American silent film actor, director, and screenwriter. He started at the Selig Polyscope Company and eventually moved to Keystone Studios, where he worked with Mabel ...

Denys Arcand Georges-Henri Denys Arcand (; born June 25, 1941) is a Canadian filmmaker. During his four decades career, he became one of the most internationally-recognized director from Quebec, earning widespread acclaim and numerous accolades for his "inten ...

* George Archainbaud *

Wes Archer Wesley Meyer Archer (born ) is an American animation director. He is best known for directing on series such as ''The Simpsons'', ''King of the Hill'' and ''Rick and Morty'', and is a three-time Emmy Award winner. Early life and education We ...

* Jane Arden * Emile Ardolino * Asia Argento *

Dario Argento Dario Argento (; born 7 September 1940) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and producer. His influential work in the horror film, horror and giallo genres during the 1970s and 1980s has led him to being referred to as the "Master of the ...

* Adam Arkin * Allan Arkush *

Serena Armitage Serena Armitage is a director and producer from North Yorkshire, UK. She is best known for producing the short film '' Stutterer'' that earned her an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 88th Academy Awards with director Benjami ...

* Dionciel Armstrong *

Gillian Armstrong Gillian May Armstrong (born 18 December 1950) is an Australian feature film and documentary film director, director, best known for ''My Brilliant Career (film), My Brilliant Career'' (1979), ''Mrs. Soffel'' (1984), ''High Tide (1987 film), Hi ...

* Andrea Arnold * Jack Arnold *

Darren Aronofsky Darren Aronofsky (born February 12, 1969) is an American Filmmaking, filmmaker. His films are noted for their surreal, dramatic, and often disturbing elements, frequently in the form of psychological realism. His accolades include a Golden Lion ...

* Fernando Arrabal * Miguel Arteta * Larysa Artiugina * Dorothy Arzner * Dinara Asanova *

Hal Ashby William Hal Ashby (September 2, 1929 – December 27, 1988) was an Cinema of the United States, American film Film director, director and Film editing, editor. His work exemplified the countercultural attitude of the era. He directed wide-rangi ...

* John Mallory Asher * Anthony Asquith *

Olivier Assayas Olivier Assayas (; born 25 January 1955) is a French film director, screenwriter and film critic. Assayas is known for his eclectic filmography, consisting of slow-burning Period Piece Films, period pieces, psychological thrillers, neo-noirs, an ...

* Ari Aster *

Carlos Atanes Carlos Atanes (born November 8, 1971) is a Spanish film director, writer and playwright. He was born in Barcelona, and is a member of The Film-Makers' Cooperative, founded by Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Ken Jacobs, Andy Warhol, Jack Smith (fil ...

* Mark Atkinson *

Richard Attenborough Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough (; 29 August 192324 August 2014) was an English actor, film director, and Film producer, producer. Attenborough was the president of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and the British Acade ...

* Dan Attias * David Attwood *

Jacques Audiard Jacques Audiard (; born 30 April 1952) is a French film director, producer, and screenwriter. One of the most awarded French filmmakers in history, his international accolades include an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, and three ...

Jacqueline Audry Jacqueline Audry (25 September 1908 – 22 June 1977) was a French film director who began making films in post-World War II France and specialised in literary adaptations. She was the first commercially successful female director of post-war ...

* John H. Auer *

Bille August Bille August (; born 9 November 1948) is a Danish director, screenwriter, and cinematographer of film and television. August's 1987 film ''Pelle the Conqueror'' won the , Academy Awards, Academy Award and Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globe Awar ...

Claude Autant-Lara Claude Autant-Lara (; 5 August 1901 – 5 February 2000) was a French film director, screenwriter, set designer and costume designer who worked in films for over 50 years. He made films characterised by bourgeois Realism (arts), realism, anti- ...

Aram Avakian Aram A. Avakian (April 23, 1926 – January 17, 1987) was an American film editor and director. His work in the latter role includes ''Jazz on a Summer's Day'' (1959) and the indie film '' End of the Road'' (1970). Life and work Aram "Al" Ava ...

* Roger Avary *

Pupi Avati Giuseppe Avati, better known as Pupi Avati (born 3 November 1938), is an Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is known to horror film fans for his two '' giallo'' masterpieces, '' The House with Laughing Windows'' (1976) and '' ...

Hy Averback Hyman Jack Averback (October 21, 1920 – October 14, 1997) was an American radio, television, and film actor who eventually became a producer and director. Early years Born in Minneapolis, Averback moved to California with his family when he w ...

* Ilya Averbakh * Julius Avery *

Tex Avery Frederick Bean "Tex" Avery (; February 26, 1908 – August 26, 1980) was an American animator, cartoonist, animation director, director, and voice actor. He was known for directing and producing animated cartoons during the golden age of America ...

* John G. Avildsen * Jon Avnet *

David Ayer David Ayer (born January 18, 1968) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for his action work, writing films such as ''Training Day'' (2001), '' The Fast and the Furious'' (2001), and '' S.W.A.T.'' (2003), and directing films such as '' End ...

Dan Aykroyd Daniel Edward Aykroyd ( ; born July 1, 1952) is a Canadian actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. Aykroyd was a writer and an original member of the "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" cast on the NBC sketch comedy series ''Saturday Nigh ...

Richard Ayoade Richard Ayoade ( ; born 23 May 1977) is a British comedian, actor, writer, director and presenter. He played the role of socially awkward IT technician Maurice Moss in Channel 4 sitcom ''The IT Crowd'' (2006–2013), for which he won the 2014 Br ...

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Jamie Babbit Jamie Merill Babbit (born November 16, 1970) is an American director, producer and screenwriter. She directed the films '' But I'm a Cheerleader'' (1999), '' The Quiet'' (2005), and '' Itty Bitty Titty Committee'' (2007). She has also directed ep ...

Héctor Babenco Héctor Eduardo Babenco (February 7, 1946July 13, 2016) was an Argentine-Brazilian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor who worked in several countries including Brazil, Argentina, and the United States. He was one of the first Braz ...

Lloyd Bacon Lloyd Francis Bacon (December 4, 1889 – November 15, 1955) was an American screen, stage, and vaudeville actor and film director. As a director, he made films in numerous genres, including westerns, musicals, comedies, gangster films, and c ...

* Clarence G. Badger *

John Badham John MacDonald Badham (born August 25, 1939) is an American film and television director, best known for directing the films ''Saturday Night Fever'' (1977), ''Dracula (1979 film), Dracula'' (1979), ''Blue Thunder'' (1983), ''WarGames'' (1983), ...

* Bae Yong-Kyun * Cindy Baer * Prince Bagdasarian * King Baggot * Nadeem Baig * Prano Bailey-Bond * Jon S. Baird *

Stuart Baird Stuart Baird (born 14 January 1947) is an English film editor, producer, and director who is mainly associated with action films. He has edited over thirty major motion pictures. Life and career Baird has had an List of film director and edito ...

* Imruh Bakari *

Roy Ward Baker Roy Ward Baker (born Roy Horace Baker; 19 December 1916 – 5 October 2010) was an English film director. He was known professionally as Roy Baker until 1967, when he adopted Roy Ward Baker as his screen credit. Early life Baker was born i ...

Sean Baker Sean Baker (born February 26, 1971) is an American filmmaker. He is a director, writer, editor, and producer of Independent film, independent narrative feature films which are most often about the lives of marginalized people, especially immi ...

* Mohammad Bakri *

Ralph Bakshi Ralph Bakshi (; born October 29, 1938) is a Mandatory Palestine-born American retired animator and filmmaker, known for his fantastical animated films. In the 1970s, he established an alternative to mainstream animation through independent anim ...

* Bob Balaban *

Aleksei Balabanov Aleksei Oktyabrinovich Balabanov (; 25 February 1959 – 18 May 2013) was a Russian film director, screenwriter, and Film producer, producer, a member of European Film Academy. He started from creating mostly arthouse pictures and music videos ...

* Kailasam Balachander * Jan Balej * Peter Baldwin * Wes Ball * Carroll Ballard *

Anne Bancroft Anne Bancroft (born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano; September 17, 1931 – June 6, 2005) was an American actress. Respected for her acting prowess and versatility, Bancroft received an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, tw ...

Albert Band Albert Band (born Alfredo Antonini; May 7, 1924 – June 14, 2002) was a French-born American film director and film producer. He was the son of artist Max Band, father of filmmaker Charles Band and of film composer Richard Band and the grandfath ...

Charles Band Charles Robert Band (born December 27, 1951) is an American film producer and director, known for his work on horror comedy movies. Career Band entered film production in the 1970s with Charles Band Productions. Dissatisfied with distributo ...

* Biyi Bandele * Elizabeth Banks *

Monty Banks Montague (Monty) Banks (born Mario Bianchi; 18 July 1897 – 7 January 1950) was a 20th century Italian-born American comedian, film actor, director and producer who achieved success in the United States and United Kingdom. Career Banks was bor ...

Joseph Barbera Joseph Roland Barbera ( ; ; March 24, 1911 – December 18, 2006) was an American animator and cartoonist, best known as the co-founder of the animation studio Hanna-Barbera. Born to Italian Americans, Italian immigrants in New York City, Bar ...

Juan Antonio Bardem Juan Antonio Bardem Muñoz (2 June 1922 – 30 October 2002) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter, born in Madrid. Bardem was best known for '' Muerte de un ciclista'' (1955) which won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1955 Cannes Film Festiv ...

* Richard L. Bare * Francesco Barilli * Sooraj R. Barjatya *

Clive Barker Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English writer, filmmaker, and visual artist. He came to prominence in the 1980s with a series of short stories collectively named the ''Books of Blood'', which established him as a leading horror author ...

Reginald Barker Reginald C. Barker (April 2, 1886 – February 23, 1945) was a pioneer film director. Biography Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Barker's family moved to Scotland when he was an infant and then to the United States. Living in California, ...

* Tom Barman * Boris Barnet *

Matthew Barney Matthew Barney (born March 25, 1967) is an American contemporary artist and film director who works in the fields of sculpture, film, photography and drawing. His works explore connections among geography, biology, geology and mythology as well ...

Daniel Barnz Daniel Barnz (born 1970) is an American screenwriter and director. Life and career Barnz was born Daniel Bernstein in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania,Champagne, Christine"10 Directors to Watch: Daniel Barnz" ''Variety (magazine), Variety'', 16 January 2 ...

* Allen Baron * David Barrett *

Chuck Barris Charles Hirsch Barris (June 3, 1929 – March 21, 2017) was an American game show creator, producer, and host, author, and songwriter. A key crew member of several hugely successful game shows, he was the creator of ''The Dating Game'' (1965– ...

* Robert V. Barron * Christopher Barry * Morris Barry *

Drew Barrymore Drew Blythe Barrymore (born February 22, 1975) is an American actress, talk show host, and businesswoman. A member of the Barrymore family of actors, she has received multiple List of awards and nominations received by Drew Barrymore, awards a ...

* Lionel Barrymore * Andrzej Bartkowiak *

Jules Bass Julius Caesar Bass (; September 16, 1935 – October 25, 2022) was an American director, producer, lyricist, composer and author. Until 1960, he worked at a New York advertising agency, and then co-founded the film production company Videocraft ...

* M. J. Bassett * Joy Batchelor *

Jason Bateman Jason Kent Bateman (born January 14, 1969) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Michael Bluth in the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox / Netflix sitcom ''Arrested Development'' (2003–2019) and Marty Byrde in the Netflix crime drama s ...

* Otto Bathurst *

Paul Bartel Paul Bartel (August 6, 1938 – May 13, 2000) was an American actor, writer and director. He was perhaps most known for his 1982 hit black comedy ''Eating Raoul'', which he co-wrote, starred in and directed. Bartel appeared in over 90 movies an ...

Hall Bartlett Hall Bartlett (November 27, 1922 – September 8, 1993) was an American film producer, director, and screenwriter, and a pioneer of independent filmmaking. Early life Hall Bartlett was born in Kansas City, Missouri, he graduated from Yale Unive ...

* Charles Barton * Felix Basch * Aclan Bates * Matthew Bauer * Jay Bauman *

Noah Baumbach Noah Baumbach (born September 3, 1969) is an American filmmaker. He is known for making light comedies set in New York City and his works are inspired by filmmakers such as Woody Allen and Whit Stillman. His frequent collaborators include Wes A ...

Lamberto Bava Lamberto Bava (born 3 April 1944) is an Italian film director. Born in Rome, Italy, Rome, Bava began working as an assistant director for his director father Mario Bava. Lamberto co-directed the 1979 television film ''La Venere d'Ille'' with his f ...

Mario Bava Mario Bava (; 31 July 1914 – 27 April 1980) was an Italian filmmaker who worked variously as a director, cinematographer, special effects artist and screenwriter. His low-budget genre films, known for their distinctive visual flair and stylish ...

Michael Bay Michael Benjamin Bay (born February 17, 1965) is an American film director and producer. He is best known for making big-budget high-concept action films with fast cutting, stylistic cinematography and visuals, and extensive use of special eff ...

* Samuel Bayer * Juan Antonio Bayona * Edward Bazalgette * Luigi Bazzoni *

Warren Beatty Henry Warren Beatty (né Beaty; born March 30, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker. His career has spanned over six decades, and he has received an Academy Award and three Golden Globe Awards. He also received the Irving G. Thalberg Memor ...

William Beaudine William Washington Beaudine (January 15, 1892 – March 18, 1970) was an American film director. He was one of Hollywood's most prolific directors, turning out a remarkable 179 feature-length films in a wide variety of genres. He is best know ...

* Harry Beaumont *

Harold Becker Harold Becker (born September 25, 1928) is an American film and television director, producer, and photographer from New York City, associated with the New Hollywood movement and best known for his work in the thriller genre. His body of work i ...

Jacques Becker Jacques Becker (; 15 September 1906 – 21 February 1960) was a French film director and screenwriter. His films, made during the 1940s and 1950s, encompassed a wide variety of genres, and they were admired by some of the filmmakers who led th ...

* Josh Becker * Terry Becker * Wolfgang Becker * Guy Norman Bee *

Ford Beebe Ford Ingalsbe Beebe (November 26, 1888 – November 26, 1978) was a screenwriter and Film director, director. He entered the film business as a writer around 1916 and over the next 60 years wrote and/or directed almost 200 films. He specialized ...

* Greg Beeman * Morgan Beggs * Hans Behrendt * Jean-Jacques Beineix *

Timur Bekmambetov Timur Nuruakhitovich Bekmambetov (, ; ; born 25 June 1961) is a Kazakh-born Russian film director, producer, screenwriter, and tech entrepreneur. He is best known for the fantasy epic '' Night Watch'' (2004) and the action thriller '' Wanted' ...

* Susan Belbin *

Monta Bell Louis Monta Bell (February 5, 1891 – February 4, 1958) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Biography Monta Bell first appeared in theatrical venues with Washington D.C. Summer stock theatre, stock companies and then ...

Earl Bellamy Earl Arthur Bellamy (March 11, 1917 – November 30, 2003) was an American television and film director. Biography Bellamy was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was also known as Earl J. Bellamy, or Earl J. Bellamy, Jr. "Earl Bellamy." Contem ...

* Troian Bellisario *

Marco Bellocchio Marco Bellocchio (; born 9 November 1939) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. Life and career Born in Bobbio, near Piacenza, Marco Bellocchio had a strict Catholic upbringing – his father was a lawyer, his mother a schooltea ...

* Jerry Belson * Maria Luisa Bemberg *

Steve Bendelack Steve Bendelack is an English filmmaker and television director who has worked primarily on comedy programmes. Originally an assistant to Peter Fluck and Roger Law on satirical TV puppet show ''Spitting Image'', Bendelack went on to direct the ...

* Jack Bender * László Benedek * Shyam Benegal * Lubomír Beneš * Roberto Benigni *

David Benioff David Friedman (; born September 25, 1970), known professionally as David Benioff (), is an American novelist, screenwriter, and producer. Along with his collaborator D. B. Weiss, he is best known for co-creating ''Game of Thrones'' (2011–201 ...

* Richard Benjamin * Rodney Bennett *

Spencer Gordon Bennet Spencer Gordon Bennet (January 5, 1893 – October 8, 1987) was an American film producer and director. Known as the "King of Serial Directors", he directed more film serials than any other director. Biography Born in Brooklyn, New York, Benne ...

* Lizet Benrey * Robert Benton * Luca Bercovici *

Bruce Beresford Bruce Beresford (; born 16 August 1940) is an Australian film director, opera director, screenwriter, and producer. He began his career during the Australian New Wave, and has made more than 30 feature films over a 50-year career, both locally ...

* Alec Berg *

Peter Berg Peter Berg (born March 11, 1964) is an American director, producer, writer, and actor. His directorial film works include the black comedy '' Very Bad Things'' (1998), the action comedy '' The Rundown'' (2003), the sports drama '' Friday Night ...

* Edward Berger * Andrew Bergman *

Ingmar Bergman Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish film and theatre director and screenwriter. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential film directors of all time, his films have been described as "profoun ...

* Busby Berkeley * Luis Garcia Berlanga *

Greg Berlanti Gregory Berlanti (born May 24, 1972) is an American screenwriter, producer and director. He is known for his work on the television series ''Dawson's Creek'', ''Brothers & Sisters (2006 TV series), Brothers & Sisters'', ''Everwood'', ''Political ...

* Abby Berlin * Marc Berlin * Robert Berlinger * Andrea Berloff *

Paul Bern Paul Bern (born Paul Levy; December 3, 1889September 5, 1932) was a German-born American film director, screenwriter and film producer, producer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), where he became the assistant to producer Irving Thalberg. He helped la ...

Ishmael Bernal Ishmael Bernal (September 30, 1938 – June 2, 1996) was a Philippines, Filipino filmmaker, stage and television director, actor and screenwriter. Noted for his melodramas, particularly with feminist and moral issues, he directed many landmark ...

* Paul Bernard * Curtis Bernhardt * Adam Bernstein * Claude Berri * Halle Berry * John Berry * Arthur Berthelet * André Berthomieu * Bryan Bertino *

Bernardo Bertolucci Bernardo Bertolucci ( ; ; 16 March 1941 – 26 November 2018) was an Italian film director and screenwriter with a career that spanned 50 years. Considered one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema, Bertolucci's work achieved inte ...

Luc Besson Luc Paul Maurice Besson (; born 18 March 1959) is a French filmmaker. He directed and produced the films '' Subway'' (1985), '' The Big Blue'' (1988), and '' La Femme Nikita'' (1990). Associated with the '' Cinéma du look'' film movement, he h ...

Frank Beyer Frank Paul Beyer (; 26 May 1932 – 1 October 2006) was a German film director. In East Germany he was one of the most important film directors, working for the state film monopoly DEFA (film studio), DEFA and directed films that dealt mostl ...

Bharathiraja Bharathiraja ( born 17 July 1941) is an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor who works mainly in the Tamil film industry. Making his debut in 1977 with ''16 Vayathinile'', he is known for realistic and sensitive portrayals of ...

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* Ed Bianchi * John Biddle * Fabián Bielinsky * Robert Bierman *

Kathryn Bigelow Kathryn Ann Bigelow (; born November 27, 1951) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Her accolades include two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. ''Time'' magazine named her one of the 100 most i ...

* Tony Bill *

Anna Biller Anna Biller is an American filmmaker who wrote and directed the feature films ''Viva'' (2007) and '' The Love Witch'' (2016). Biller considers herself a feminist filmmaker and consciously explores feminist themes throughout her work, including ...

Peter Billingsley Peter Billingsley (born April 16, 1971), also known as Peter Michaelsen and Peter Billingsley-Michaelsen, is an American actor and filmmaker. He is best known for portraying Ralphie Parker in ''A Christmas Story'' and ''A Christmas Story Christm ...

* Bruce Bilson *

Brad Bird Philip Bradley Bird (born September 24, 1957) is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He has had a career spanning over four decades in both animation and Live action, live-action. Bird was born in Montana and grew up in Oregon. He ...

* Bill Bixby *

Alice Guy-Blaché Alice Ida Antoinette Guy-Blaché ( Guy; ; 1 July 1873 – 24 March 1968) was a French pioneer film director. She was one of the first filmmakers to make a Narrative film, narrative fiction film, as well as the first woman to direct a film. From ...

* Herbert Blaché * John Black * Nicola Black *

Shane Black Shane Black (born December 16, 1961) is an American screenwriter, film director, and actor, known for his distinctive style of Action film, action and action comedy films. He is the original creator of the ''Lethal Weapon (franchise), Lethal Wea ...

* Farren Blackburn * Gerald Blake * George Blair *

Alessandro Blasetti Alessandro Blasetti (3 July 1900 – 1 February 1987) was an Italian film director and screenwriter who influenced Italian neorealism with the film ''Four Steps in the Clouds''. Blasetti was one of the leading figures in Italian cinema during the ...

William Peter Blatty William Peter Blatty (January 7, 1928 – January 12, 2017) was an American writer, director and producer. He is best known for his 1971 novel ''The Exorcist (novel), The Exorcist'' and for his screenplay for The Exorcist, the 1973 film adaptat ...

* Bertrand Blier * Jeffrey Blitz *

Neill Blomkamp Neill Blomkamp (; born 17 September 1979) is a South African and Canadian film director and screenwriter. He is known as the co-writer and director of the science fiction action film ''District 9'' (2009), for which he was nominated for the Aca ...

* Matt Bloom *

Don Bluth Donald Virgil Bluth ( ; born September 13, 1937) is an American filmmaker, animator, video game designer and author. He came to prominence working for Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Productions before creating his own film studio in ...

* John G. Blystone * Keith Boak * James Bobin *

Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck Anna Boden and Ryan K. Fleck are an American filmmaking duo. The duo rose to prominence for their work on the 2004 short film ''Gowanus, Brooklyn'', which earned the Grand Jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival. They went on to collaborate on ...

* Richard Boden * Eugeniusz Bodo *

Carl Boese Carl Eduard Hermann Boese (; 26 August 1887 – 6 July 1958) was a German film director, screenwriter, and film producer, producer. He directed 158 films between 1917 and 1957. Selected filmography * ''Farmer Borchardt'' (1917) * ''Donna Luci ...

* Budd Boetticher *

Paul Bogart Paul Bogart (né Bogoff; November 13, 1919 – April 15, 2012) was an Americans, American television director and producer. Bogart directed episodes of the television series 'Way Out (TV series), Way Out'' in 1961, ''Coronet Blue'' in 1967, '' ...

* Peter Bogdanovich * José Bohr *

Michel Boisrond Michel Jacques Boisrond (9 October 1921 – 10 November 2002) was a French film director and screenwriter. His work spanned five decades, from the 1950s to the 1990s. Career A former apprentice of Jean Delannoy, Jean Cocteau, and René Clair ...

* Patrick Bokanowski * Richard Boleslawski *

Uwe Boll Uwe Boll (; born 22 June 1965) is a German filmmaker. He came to prominence during the 2000s for his adaptations of video game franchises. Released theatrically, the films were critical and commercial failures; his Alone in the Dark (2005 film), ...

* Mauro Bolognini * Fyodor Bondarchuk *

Sergei Bondarchuk Sergei Fyodorovich Bondarchuk (25 September 192020 October 1994) was a Soviet and Russian actor and filmmaker of Ukrainian origin who was one of the leading figures of Soviet cinema in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. He is known for his sweeping p ...

* Bong Joon-ho * Linwood Boomer * John Boorman * Gavin Michael Booth * Kristoffer Borgli *

Walerian Borowczyk Walerian Borowczyk (21 October 1923 – 3 February 2006) was a Polish film director described by film critics as a "genius who also happened to be a pornographer". He directed 40 films between 1946 and 1988. Borowczyk settled in Paris in 1959. A ...

Frank Borzage Frank Borzage ( né Borzaga; April 23, 1894 – June 19, 1962) was an American film director and actor. He was the first person to win the Academy Awards, Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Director, Best Director for his film ''7th Heaven ...

John and Roy Boulting John Edward Boulting (21 December 1913 – 17 June 1985) and Roy Alfred Clarence Boulting (21 December 1913 – 5 November 2001), known collectively as the Boulting brothers, were English filmmakers and identical twins who became known for thei ...

* Martin Bourboulon * Lucien Bourjeily * David Bowers * Pearl Bowser * Muriel Box * David Boyd * Dermot Boyd *

Danny Boyle Daniel Francis Boyle (born 20 October 1956) is an English director and producer. He is known for his work on the films ''Shallow Grave (1994 film), Shallow Grave'' (1994), ''Trainspotting (film), Trainspotting'' (1996) and its sequel ''T2 Tra ...

Charles Brabin Charles Brabin (April 17, 1882 – November 3, 1957) was a British-American film director. Biography Born in Liverpool, England, he was educated at St. Francis Xavier's College (Liverpool), St. Francis Xavier College. Brabin sailed to New Yor ...

Richard Bracewell Richard Bracewell (born 28 November 1969) is an English film director best known for directing 2015 British comedy feature film ''Bill (2015 film), Bill'', which he also developed with writers Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond . ''Bill'' was B ...

* Harry Bradbeer * Robert N. Bradbury *

John Brahm John Brahm (August 17, 1893 – October 12, 1982) was a German film and television director. His films include ''The Undying Monster'' (1942), ''The Lodger (1944 film), The Lodger'' (1944), ''Hangover Square (film), Hangover Square'' (1945), ''Th ...

Stan Brakhage James Stanley Brakhage ( ; January 14, 1933 – March 9, 2003) was an American experimental filmmaker. He is considered to be one of the most important figures in 20th-century experimental film. Over the course of five decades, Brakhage cr ...

* Matt Braly * A.V. Bramble *

Kenneth Branagh Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh ( ; born 10 December 1960) is a British actor and filmmaker. Born in Belfast and raised primarily in Reading, Berkshire, Branagh trained at RADA in London and served as its president from 2015 to 2024. List of award ...

Spike Brandt Christopher John Brandt and Anthony Joseph Cervone are an American television writer, television writing, animation and production team at Warner Bros. Animation and formerly at Nickelodeon Animation Studios. Brandt was born on December 24, 1961, ...

* Fred C. Brannon *

Tinto Brass Giovanni "Tinto" Brass (born 26 March 1933) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. In the 1960s and 1970s, he directed many critically acclaimed avant-garde films of various genres. Today, he is mainly known for his later work in the Erot ...

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Neil Breen Neil Breen is an American filmmaker and actor. Since 2005, he has made six feature films in which he acts as director, writer, producer and lead star, while being in charge of most other key crew positions. He usually finances his films himself ...

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Herbert Brenon Herbert Brenon (born Alexander Herbert Reginald St. John Brenon; 13 January 1880 – 21 June 1958) was an Irish-born U.S. film director, actor and screenwriter during the era of Silent film, silent films through 1940. Brenon was among the e ...

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Robert Bresson Robert Bresson (; 25 September 1901 – 18 December 1999) was a French film director. Known for his ascetic approach, Bresson made a notable contribution to the art of cinema; his non-professional actors, Ellipsis (narrative device), ellipses, an ...

Martin Brest Martin Brest (born August 8, 1951) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. After his feature debut, ''Going in Style'' (1979), he directed the action comedies ''Beverly Hills Cop'' (1984) and ''Midnight Run'' (1988), which were ...

Howard Bretherton Howard Bretherton (13 February 1890, in Tacoma, Washington – 12 April 1969, in San Diego, California) was an American film director and film editor. Career He began his career as a propman and then became a film editor during the early 1920s f ...

* Eric Brevig * Craig Brewer * Michael E. Briant * Monte Brice * Patrick Brice * Sean Bridgers * James Bridges *

Nicholas Briggs Nicholas Briggs (born 29 September 1961) is an English actor, writer, director, sound designer and composer. He is associated with the BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' and its spin-offs, particularly as the voice of the Da ...

Guido Brignone Guido Brignone (6 December 1886 – 6 March 1959) was an Italian film director and actor. He was the father of actress Lilla Brignone and younger brother of actress Mercedes Brignone. Brignone was born in Milan, Italy. He was the first Italian ...

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Philippe de Broca Philippe Claude Alex de Broca de Ferrussac (; 15 March 1933 – 26 November 2004) was a French film director. He directed 30 full-length feature films, including the highly successful ''That Man from Rio (''L'Homme de Rio'')'', ''Le Magnifique, ...

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*Fred de Cordova *Allen Coulter *Albert de Courville *Russell DeGrazier *Rolf de Heer *Steve De Jarnatt *Fred Dekker *Alex de la Iglesia *Jean Delannoy *Bruce Dellis *Greg DeLiso *Hampton Del Ruth *Roy Del Ruth *Guillermo del Toro *Alberto De Martino *Kirk DeMicco *Cecil B. DeMille *William C. deMille *Jonathan Demme *Ted Demme *James DeMonaco *Jacques Demy *Reginald Denham *Robert De Niro *Claire Denis *Martin Dennis *Pen Densham *Ruggero Deodato *Manoel de Oliveira *Brian De Palma *Serge de Poligny *Johnny Depp *John Derek *Maya Deren *Scott Derrickson *Bernard Derriman *Giuseppe de Santis *Vittorio De Sica *Tom DeSimone *Howard Deutch *Michel Deville *Danny DeVito *Dean Devlin *Maury Dexter *David Dhavan *Matthew Diamond *Emma-Rosa Dias *Tom DiCillo *Nigel Dick *Vivienne Dick *Ernest Dickerson *Thorold Dickinson *William Kennedy Dickson *Carlos Diegues *Vin Diesel *William Dieterle *Helmut Dietl *J. D. Dillard *John Francis Dillon (director), John Francis Dillon *Michael Dante DiMartino *Mark Dindal *Mark A.Z. Dippé *Mike Disa *Lino DiSalvo *Walt Disney *Adriaan Ditvoorst *Ivan Dixon *Edward Dmytryk *Darren Doane *David Dobkin (director), David Dobkin *Lawrence Dobkin *Pete Docter *Jacques Doillon *Michael Dolan *Xavier Dolan *Miles Doleac *Andrew Dominik *Roger Donaldson *Stanley Donen *Ciaran Donnelly (director), Ciaran Donnelly *Clive Donner *Richard Donner *Mark Donskoi *Robert Dornhelm *Doris Dörrie *Nelson Pereira dos Santos *Maïmouna Doucouré *Michael Dougherty *Gordon Douglas (director), Gordon Douglas *Robert Douglas (actor), Robert Douglas *Aleksandr Dovzhenko *Tony Dow (director), Tony Dow *John Erick Dowdle *Kevin Dowling (director), Kevin Dowling *B. E. Doxat-Pratt *Jim Drake (director), Jim Drake *Oliver Drake (filmmaker), Oliver Drake *Polly Draper *Jean Dréville *Plan B (musician), Ben Drew *Carl Theodor Dreyer *Marcel Duchamp *Frederik Du Chau *Terence Dudley *Peter Duffell *Duffer brothers *Troy Duffy *Dennis Dugan *Joshua Dugdale *Bill Duke *Bruno Dumont *Duwayne Dunham *George Dunning *Cheryl Dunye *Quentin Dupieux *Jay Duplass *Mark Duplass *Ewald André Dupont *Momina Duraid *Marguerite Duras *Fred Durst *Richard Dutcher *Guru Dutt *Robert Duvall *Ava DuVernay *Julien Duvivier *Allan Dwan Top of page

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*Charles F. Haas *Kamal Haasan *Taylor Hackford *Zach Hadel *Tala Hadid *Lucile Hadžihalilović *Piers Haggard *Paul Haggis *Larry Hagman *Don Hahn *Jody Margolin Hahn *Charles Haid *Andrew Haigh *John Halas *Alexander Hall *Don Hall (filmmaker), Don Hall *Lasse Hallström *Victor Hugo Halperin *Gary Halvorson *Ryusuke Hamaguchi *John Hamburg *Bent Hamer *Robert Hamer *Guy Hamilton *Hamish Hamilton (director), Hamish Hamilton *Jonathan Hammond (filmmaker), Jonathan Hammond *Sanaa Hamri *Victor Hanbury *John D. Hancock *Michael Haneke *Tom Hanks *William Hanna *Ken Hannam *Curtis Hanson *Geir Hansteen Jörgensen *Alex Hardcastle *Neasa Hardiman *Catherine Hardwicke *Sam Hargrave *Graeme Harper *Tom Harper (director), Tom Harper *Veit Harlan *Renny Harlin *Harry Harris (director), Harry Harris *Owen Harris (director), Owen Harris *Peter Harris (director), Peter Harris *Mary Harron *Harvey Hart *William S. Hart *Hal Hartley *Anthony Harvey *Herk Harvey *Jack Harvey (actor and director), Jack Harvey *Wojciech Has *Henry Hathaway *James Hawes *Phil Hawkins *Howard Hawks *Will Hay *Salma Hayek *Michael Hayes (director), Michael Hayes *David Hayman *James Hayman *Toby Haynes *Todd Haynes *Jimmy Hayward *Michel Hazanavicius *He Ping (director), He Ping *Max Hechtman *Amy Heckerling *Siân Heder *Victor Heerman *Ralph Hemecker *Anthony Hemingway *Zachary Heinzerling *Stuart Heisler *Jalmari Helander *Brian Helgeland *Marielle Heller *Monte Hellman *Michael "Ffish" Hemschoot *Joseph Henabery *Chris Henchy *Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck *Dell Henderson *John Henderson (director), John Henderson *Frank Henenlotter *Hobart Henley *Paul Henreid *Julian Henriques *Buck Henry *Brian Henson *Jim Henson *Perry Henzell *Paula Heredia *Stephen Herek *Albert Herman *Oliver Hermanus *Kate Herron *William Blake Herron *Michael Herz (producer), Michael Herz *John Herzfeld *Werner Herzog *Zako Heskiya *Jared Hess *Jerusha Hess *Gordon Hessler *Charlton Heston *Fraser Heston *Marianne Hettinger *Jennifer Love Hewitt *David Hewlett *John Edward Heys, John Heys *Douglas Hickox *Scott Hicks (director), Scott Hicks *Howard Higgin *George Roy Hill *George Hill (director), George Hill *Jack Hill *Jody Hill *Robert F. Hill *Sinclair Hill *Walter Hill *Stephen Hillenburg *Arthur Hiller *William Byron Hillman *Lambert Hillyer *Anthony Himbs *Art Hindle *Cheryl Hines *Ryūichi Hiroki *Oliver Hirschbiegel *Leon Hirszman *Leslie S. Hiscott *Alfred Hitchcock *Godfrey Ho *Ho Ping *Peter Hoar *Jessica Hobbs *Gregory Hoblit *Brent Hodge *Mike Hodges *Jack Hofsiss *James P. Hogan (director), James P. Hogan *P. J. Hogan *Clive Holden *Agnieszka Holland *Todd Holland *Tom Holland (filmmaker), Tom Holland *Savage Steve Holland *Tonya Suzanne Holly, Tonya Holly *Ben Holmes *John Holmquist *Seth Holt *Ishirō Honda *Mitsuru Hongo *Tobe Hooper *Tom Hooper *Stephen Hopkins (director), Stephen Hopkins *Dennis Hopper *Jerry Hopper *Gwyneth Horder-Payton *Leonard Horn *James W. Horne *Oliver Horsbrugh *Hou Hsiao-hsien *Harrison Houde *John Hough (director), John Hough *Bryce Dallas Howard *Byron Howard *David Howard (director), David Howard *Michael Howard (filmmaker), Michael Howard *Ron Howard *William K. Howard, William Howard *Peter Howitt *King Hu *L. Ron Hubbard *Reginald Hudlin *Hugh Hudson *Bronwen Hughes *Howard Hughes *John Hughes (filmmaker), John Hughes *Ken Hughes *Robert F. Hughes *Terry Hughes (director), Terry Hughes *Ann Hui *Straub-Huillet, Danièle Huillet *Arthur Humberstone *H. Bruce Humberstone *André Hunebelle *Helen Hunt *Tim Hunter (director), Tim Hunter *Lawrence Huntington *Nick Hurran *Michael Hurst *Metin Hüseyin *Waris Hussein *John Huston *Charles Hutchison *Brian G. Hutton *Willard Huyck *Hwang Dong-hyuk *Peter Hyams Top of page

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*Armando Iannucci *Juan Ibáñez *Kon Ichikawa *Steve Ihnat *Brian Iles *Im Kwon-Taek *Shōhei Imamura *Michael Imison *Hiroshi Inagaki *John Ince (actor), John Ince *Ralph Ince *Thomas H. Ince *Rex Ingram (director), Rex Ingram *Ciro Ippolito *Dickson Iroegbu *John Irvin *George Irving (American actor), George Irving *Kyōhei Ishiguro *Debbie Isitt *Marc Israel *Jūzō Itami *Aleksandr Ivanovsky *Ivan Ivanov-Vano *Joris Ivens *James Ivory Top of page

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*Jacques Jaccard *David Jackson (director), David Jackson *Dianne Jackson *Michael Jackson *Mick Jackson (director), Mick Jackson *Paul Jackson (producer), Paul Jackson *Peter Jackson *Wilfred Jackson *Jordan Jacobo *Gregory Jacobs *Rick Jacobson *Sarah Jacobson *Henry Jaglom *Wanda Jakubowska *Alan James *Steve James (producer), Steve James *Brian Jamieson (director), Brian Jamieson *Miklós Jancsó *Jang Joon-hwan *Leigh Janiak *Bob Jaques *Derek Jarman *Jim Jarmusch *Julian Jarrold *Charles Jarrott *Risto Jarva *Leigh Jason *Cord Jefferson *Barry Jenkins *Dallas Jenkins *Patty Jenkins *Garth Jennings *Humphrey Jennings *Shelley Jensen *Jean-Pierre Jeunet *Norman Jewison *Jia Zhangke *Jiang Wen *Jaromil Jireš *Suresh Joachim *Phil Joanou *Alejandro Jodorowsky *Mark Joffe *Roland Joffé *Clark Johnson *Craig Johnson (director), Craig Johnson *Duke Johnson (director), Duke Johnson *Lamont Johnson *Liza Johnson *Mark Steven Johnson *Nunnally Johnson *Rian Johnson *Tim Johnson (film director), Tim Johnson *Joe Johnston *Gerard Johnstone *Angelina Jolie *Chuck Jones *Duncan Jones *F. Richard Jones *Grover Jones *Michael Jones (writer), Michael Jones *Ron Jones (television director), Ron Jones *Terry Jones *Tommy Lee Jones *Spike Jonze *Neil Jordan *Michael B. Jordan *Edward José *Max Joseph *Jon Jost *Louis Jouvet *Paul Joyce *Jonathan Judge *Mike Judge *Rupert Julian *Isaac Julien *Miranda July *Nathan Juran Top of page

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*Karel Kachyňa *George Kaczender *Jeremy Kagan *Mauricio Kagel *Dustin Kahia *Joseph Kahn (director), Joseph Kahn *Alex Kahuam *Sathish Kalathil *Mikhail Kalatozov *Alex Kalymnios *Kamal (director), Kamal *Arunraja Kamaraj *Sekhar Kammula *Deborah Kampmeier *Puttanna Kanagal *Adam Kane *Joseph Kane *Shusuke Kaneko *Jeff Kanew *Kang Je-gyu *Garson Kanin *Jonathan Kaplan *Raj Kapoor *Shekhar Kapur *Pekka Karjalainen *Phil Karlson *Roman Karmen *Jason Kartalian *Jake Kasdan *Lawrence Kasdan *Mathieu Kassovitz *Aaron Katz (filmmaker), Aaron Katz *Lloyd Kaufman *Philip Kaufman *Aki Kaurismäki *Mika Kaurismäki *Helmut Käutner *Jerzy Kawalerowicz *Minoru Kawasaki (director), Minoru Kawasaki *Tony Kaye (director), Tony Kaye *Elia Kazan *Buster Keaton *Abdellatif Kechiche *William Keighley *Asaad Kelada *Frederick King Keller *Harry Keller *Michael Keller (filmmaker), Michael Keller *Barnet Kellman *Brian Kelly (director), Brian Kelly *Gene Kelly *Richard Kelly (director), Richard Kelly *Gil Kenan *David Kendall (director), David Kendall *Alex Kendrick *Anna Kendrick *Erle C. Kenton, Erle Kenton *James V. Kern *David Kerr (director), David Kerr *Robert P. Kerr, Robert Kerr *Michael Kerrigan *Irvin Kershner *James Kerwin *Abbas Kiarostami *James Kicklighter *Krzysztof Kieślowski *Maggie Kiley *Edward Killy *Kim Jee-woon *Kim Ki-duk *Max W. Kimmich, Max Kimmich *Anthony Kimmins *Simon Kinberg *Burton L. King, Burton King *Gary King (director), Gary King *George King (film director), George King *Henry King (director), Henry King *Louis King *Paul King (director), Paul King *Shaka King *Stephen King *Keisuke Kinoshita *Klaus Kinski *Teinosuke Kinugasa *Brian Kirk *Randal Kirk II, Randal Kirk *Mark Kirkland *Lyudmil Kirkov *Karey Kirkpatrick *Alan Kirschenbaum *Ryuhei Kitamura *Takeshi Kitano *Alf Kjellin *William Klein (photographer), William Klein *Randal Kleiser *Elem Klimov *León Klimovsky *Alexander Kluge *Jennifer Kluska *Harley Knoles *Masaki Kobayashi *Chris Koch (director), Chris Koch *Kogonada *Bob Koherr *Vincent Kok *Henry Kolker *Alexander Kolowrat *Satoshi Kon *Andrei Konchalovsky *Larysa Kondracki *Tadeusz Konwicki *Alexander Korda *Zoltan Korda *Koreeda Hirokazu, Hirokazu Koreeda *Harmony Korine *Caryl Deyn Korma, Caryl Korma *Baltasar Kormákur *Brigitte Kornetzky *John Korty *Joseph Kosinski *Henry Koster *Ted Kotcheff *Mariusz Kotowski *Serguei Kouchnerov *Nikos Koundouros *Jan Kounen *Josh Koury *Paul Kowalski *Aaron Kozak *Ivan Kraljevic *Stanley Kramer *John Krasinski *Kurt Kren *Mitchell Kriegman *Krishnan–Panju *William Kronick *Stanley Kubrick *George Kuchar *Cy Kuckenbaker *Lev Kuleshov *Roger Kumble *Zacharias Kunuk *Akira Kurosawa *Kiyoshi Kurosawa *Karyn Kusama *Emir Kusturica *Geir Ove Kvalheim *Daniels (directors), Daniel Kwan *Stanley Kwan *Ken Kwapis Top of page

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*John La Bouchardière *Nadine Labaki *Neil LaBute *Gregory La Cava *Harry Lachman *Aldo Lado *Edward Laemmle *James Lafferty *John Lafia *René Laloux *Ringo Lam *Fernando Lamas *Mary Lambert (director), Mary Lambert *Charles Lamont *Lew Landers *Alejandro Landes *John Landis *Max Landis *Christopher Landon (filmmaker), Christopher Landon *Michael Landon *Sidney Lanfield *Fritz Lang *Walter Lang *Michael Lange *Rémi Lange *Jerry Langford *Doug Langway *Yorgos Lanthimos *Claude Lanzmann *Janez Lapajne *Victoria Larimore *Pablo Larraín *John Lasseter *Dennis Latos *Andrew Lau *Jeffrey Lau *Peter Lauer *Michael Laughlin *Charles Laughton *Mélanie Laurent *Carl Lauten *Arnold Laven *Diarmuid Lawrence *Francis Lawrence *Marc Lawrence (filmmaker), Marc Lawrence *J. F. Lawton *Tracie Laymon *Paul Lazarus *Philip Leacock *David Lean *Patrice Leconte *Bruce Leddy *Mimi Leder *D. Ross Lederman *Ang Lee *David Lee (screenwriter), David Lee *Lee Chang-dong *Lee Cheol-ha *Jennifer Lee (filmmaker), Jennifer Lee *Lee Lik-Chi *Rowland V. Lee *Spike Lee filmography, Spike Lee *Michael Leeston-Smith *Karenssa LeGear *Michael Lehmann *Henry Lehrman *Larry Leichliter *Julia Leigh *Mike Leigh *Danny Leiner *Mitchell Leisen *Logan Leistikow *David Leitch *Józef Lejtes *Claude Lelouch *Michael Lembeck *Kasi Lemmons *John Lemont *Jay Lender *Umberto Lenzi *Robert Z. Leonard *Damien Leone *Sergio Leone *John R. Leonetti *Tony Leondis *Robert Lepage *Peter Lepeniotis *Louis Le Prince *Mervyn LeRoy *Michael Lessac *George Lessey *Mark L. Lester *Richard Lester *Louis Leterrier *Jørgen Leth *Jared Leto *Rob Letterman *Barry Letts *Brian Levant *Henry Levin (film director), Henry Levin *Ken Levine (screenwriter), Ken Levine *Barry Levinson *Shawn Levy *Shuki Levy *Herschell Gordon Lewis *Jerry Lewis *Joseph H. Lewis *Leonard Lewis *Phill Lewis *Paul Lieberstein *Jonathan Liebesman *Li Han-Hsiang *Li Hsing *Li Yang (director), Li Yang *Lee Tit *Desiree Lim *Doug Liman *Brian Limond *Justin Lin *Jüri Lina *Fred J. Lincoln *Max Linder *Tobias Lindholm *Willy Lindwer *Graham Linehan *Richard Linklater *Matt Lipsey *Oldřich Lipský *Steven Lisberger *Miguel Littín *Dwight H. Little *Lynne Littman *Anatole Litvak *Luis Llosa *Frank Lloyd *Norman Lloyd *Phyllida Lloyd *Lo Wei *Ken Loach *Sondra Locke *Barbara Loden *Joshua Logan *Ulli Lommel *Richard Loncraine *Jerry London *Kenneth Lonergan *Stanley Long *Robert Longo *Matthew López (writer), Matthew López *Del Lord *Peter Lord *Phil Lord *Ian Lorimer *Chuck Lorre *Joseph Losey *Steve Loter *Todd Louiso *Lou Ye *David Lowery (director), David Lowery *Declan Lowney *Philippa Lowthorpe *Arthur Lubin *Ernst Lubitsch *George Lucas *John Meredyth Lucas *Wilfred Lucas *Edward Ludwig *Baz Luhrmann *Sidney Lumet *Leopold Lummerstorfer *Kátia Lund *Ida Lupino *Rod Lurie *Teddy Lussi-Modeste *Don Lusk *Hamilton Luske *Dorothy Lyman *Euros Lyn *David Lynch *Jeffrey Lynch *Jennifer Lynch *Liam Lynch (musician), Liam Lynch *Adrian Lyne *Jonathan Lynn Top of page

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Ma–Mc

*David MacDonald (director), David MacDonald *Hettie MacDonald *Kevin Macdonald (director), Kevin Macdonald *Carl Macek *Seth MacFarlane *Gustav Machatý *Willard Mack *Alexander Mackendrick *David Mackenzie (director), David Mackenzie *Philip Charles MacKenzie *Will Mackenzie *Douglas Mackinnon *Gillies MacKinnon *Angus MacLane *Michelle MacLaren *Murdock MacQuarrie *John Madden (director), John Madden *Guy Maddin *Madonna (entertainer), Madonna *Holger-Madsen *Ivan Magrin-Chagnolleau *Brendan Maher (director), Brendan Maher *Barry Mahon *Charles Maigne *Norman Mailer *Alan Mak (director), Alan Mak *Dušan Makavejev *Mohsen Makhmalbaf *Samira Makhmalbaf *Károly Makk *Sundeep Malani *Sarah Maldoror *Terrence Malick *Louis Malle *Nicholas Mallett *William Malone (director), William Malone *David Maloney *Leo D. Maloney *Henrik Malyan *Djibril Diop Mambéty *Manakis brothers *Milcho Manchevski *Don Mancini *David Mandel *Chris Mandia *Luis Mandoki *James Mangold *Joseph L. Mankiewicz *Anthony Mann *Daniel Mann *Delbert Mann *Michael Mann *Seith Mann *Guy Manos *Sophie Marceau *Terry Marcel *Max Marcin *Nick Marck *Bam Margera *Antonio Margheriti *Edwin L. Marin *José Mojica Marins *Chris Marker *Richard Marquand *Laïla Marrakchi *James Marsh (director), James Marsh *Jeff "Swampy" Marsh *Frank Marshall (film producer), Frank Marshall *Garry Marshall *George Marshall (director), George Marshall *Neil Marshall *Penny Marshall *Rob Marshall *Joshua Marston *Lucrecia Martel *Becky Martin *Charles Martin (director), Charles Martin *Darnell Martin *D'Urville Martin *Henry G. Martin *Jim Martin (puppeteer), Jim Martin *Murray Martin *Philip Martin (director), Phillip Martin *Richard Martin (British director), Richard Martin *Richard Martini (director), Richard Martini *Sergio Martino *Steve Martino *Marco Martins *Leslie H. Martinson *Derek Martinus *Andrew Marton *Nico Mastorakis *George Mastras *Camillo Mastrocinque *Yasuzo Masumura *Arūnas Matelis *Sean Mathias *Melina Matsoukas *Katsuya Matsumura *Bruno Mattei *Elaine May *Juliet May *Russ Mayberry *Tony Maylam *Archie Mayo *Brad Mays *Dan Mazer *Paul Mazursky *Glen Mazzara *Kenny McBain *Jim McBride *Robert McCallum (director) , Robert McCallum *Leo McCarey *Ray McCarey *Colm McCarthy (director), Colm McCarthy *Tom McCarthy (director), Tom McCarthy *Brendan McCaul *Nelson McCormick (director), Nelson McCormick *George McCowan *Craig McCracken *John Michael McDonagh *Martin McDonagh *Frank McDonald (director), Frank McDonald *Terry McDonough *Charles McDougall *Bernard McEveety *Vincent McEveety *McG *William C. McGann *Scott McGehee *J. P. McGowan *Robert F. McGowan *Tom McGrath (animator), Tom McGrath *Joseph McGrath (film director), Joseph McGrath *William McGregor (director), William McGregor *Paul McGuigan (filmmaker), Paul McGuigan *Adam McKay *Chris McKay *David McKay (actor), David McKay *Jim McKay (director), Jim McKay *John McKay (director), John McKay *Lucky McKee *Kevin McKidd *Norman McLaren *Greg McLean (film director), Greg McLean *Norman Z. McLeod *Tom McLoughlin *Sean McNamara (filmmaker), Sean McNamara *John McNaughton *Daniel McNicoll *Robert Duncan McNeill *Steve McQueen (director), Steve McQueen *John McTiernan Top of page

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*Shane Meadows *Peter Medak *Don Medford *Dariush Mehrjui *Deepa Mehta *Gus Meins *Fernando Meirelles *Adolfas Mekas *Jonas Mekas *Bill Melendez *Georges Méliès *George Melford *Wilco Melissant *James Melkonian *Jeff Melman *Craig Melville *Jean-Pierre Melville *Lothar Mendes *Sam Mendes *Jim Mendiola *Linda Mendoza *Chris Menges *Meera Menon *Stephen Merchant *E. Elias Merhige *Saul Metzstein *Jeff Meyer (director), Jeff Meyer *Russ Meyer *Leah Meyerhoff *Richard Michaels *Oscar Micheaux *Roger Michell *Pete Michels *Jim Mickle *Takashi Miike *Nikita Mikhalkov *Lewis Milestone *John Milius *Bennett Miller *Christopher Miller (filmmaker), Christopher Miller *Frank Miller *George Miller (producer), George Miller *Kara Miller *Randall Miller *Robert Ellis Miller *Sam Miller *Sharron Miller *Sidney Miller (actor), Sidney Miller *Tim Miller (director), Tim Miller *Crispian Mills *Rusty Mills *Daniel Minahan *Steve Miner *Anthony Minghella *Joseph Minion *Rob Minkoff *Vincente Minnelli *Eugenio Mira *Emilio Miraglia *Lin-Manuel Miranda *Koki Mitani *David Robert Mitchell *Howard M. Mitchell *John Cameron Mitchell *Mike Mitchell (director), Mike Mitchell *Noël Mitrani *David Mitton *Goro Miyazaki *Hayao Miyazaki *Kenji Mizoguchi *Peter Moffatt *Shahram Mokri *Alfred Molina *Josefina Molina *Édouard Molinaro *Christine Molloy *Zac Moncrief *Mario Monicelli *Cesar Montano *Eduardo Montes-Bradley *Dave Moody (musician), Dave Moody *Lukas Moodysson *Irving J. Moore *Michael Moore *Escape from Tomorrow, Randy Moore *Rich Moore *Robert Moore (director), Robert Moore *Stan Moore (director), Stan Moore *Jocelyn Moorhouse *Ken Mora *Jacobo Morales *Pierre Morel *Nanni Moretti *Harry Morgan *Sidney Morgan *Anders Morgenthaler *Shuhei Morita *Chris Morris (satirist), Chris Morris *Errol Morris *Jennifer Morrison *Vic Morrow *Hollingsworth Morse *Terry O. Morse *Catherine Morshead *Cynthia Mort *Edmund Mortimer (actor), Edmund Mortimer *Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese *Scott Mosier *Craig Moss *Katsuyuki Motohiro *Greg Mottola *Wagner Moura *Norbert Moutier *Allan Moyle *Otto Muehl *Russell Mulcahy *John Mulholland (director), John Mulholland *Robert Mulligan *Andrzej Munk *Kira Muratova *Walter Murch *F. W. Murnau *Dudley Murphy *Geoff Murphy *Ralph Murphy *Ryan Murphy (producer), Ryan Murphy *Bill Murray *Noam Murro *John Musker *Floyd Mutrux *Mark Mylod *Daniel Myrick Top of page

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*Amir Naderi *Kenji Nagasaki *Mira Nair *Ilya Naishuller *Takashi Nakamura *Hideo Nakata *Bharat Nalluri *Michael Nankin *Silvio Narizzano *Khodzha Kuli Narliyev *Mikio Naruse *Janusz Nasfeter *Percy Nash *Matthew Nastuk *Vincenzo Natali *Gregory Nava *Mike Nawrocki *Doug Naylor *Ray Nazarro *Ronald Neame *Jean Negulesco *Marshall Neilan *Roy William Neill *James Neilson (director), James Neilson *Victor Nelli Jr. *Gary Nelson (director), Gary Nelson *Gene Nelson *Jessie Nelson *Ozzie Nelson *Ralph Nelson *Max Neufeld *Kurt Neumann (director), Kurt Neumann *Kyle Newacheck *Mike Newell (director), Mike Newell *Sam Newfield *Don O. Newland, Don Newland *John Newland *Joseph M. Newman, Joseph Newman *Fred C. Newmeyer, Fred Newmeyer *Lionel Ngakane *Thuc Doan Nguyen, Thuc Nguyen *Fred Niblo *Andrew Niccol *George Nicholls Jr. *Charles August Nichols *Jeff Nichols *Mike Nichols *Jack Nicholson *Cedric Nicolas-Troyan *Greg Nicotero *William Nigh *Nikos Nikolaidis *Leopoldo Torre Nilsson *Rob Nilsson *Leonard Nimoy *Marcus Nispel *David Nixon (director), David Nixon *Manfred Noa *Gaspar Noé *Christopher Nolan *Chris Noonan *Tom Noonan *Syed Noor *Paul Norman (director), Paul Norman *Mabel Normand *Edward Norton *Jehane Noujaim *Cyrus Nowrasteh *Wilfred Noy *Phillip Noyce *Elliott Nugent *David Nutter *Bruno Nuytten *Andy Nwakalor *Christian Nyby Top of page

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*Dave O'Brien (actor), Dave O'Brien *Katharine O'Brien *Andrew O'Connor (actor), Andrew O'Connor *Renee O'Connor *Bob Odenkirk *Atsushi Ogata *Perry Ogden *George Ogilvie *Kingsley Ogoro *Izu Ojukwu *Kihachi Okamoto *Sidney Olcott *Liddy Oldroyd *Jorge Olguín (director), Jorge Olguín *Ron Oliver *Susan Oliver *Laurence Olivier on stage and screen, Laurence Olivier *Ermanno Olmi *Tony Olmos *Gunnar Olsson (actor), Gunnar Olsson *Max Ophüls *Joshua Oppenheimer *Benjamin T. Orifici, Benjamin Orifici *Kenny Ortega *Mamoru Oshii *Nagisa Oshima *Ruben Östlund *Richard Oswald *Dominique Othenin-Girard *Katsuhiro Otomo *Ulrike Ottinger *Idrissa Ouedraogo *Horace Ové *André Øvredal *Jennifer Oxley *Frank Oz *François Ozon *Yasujirō Ozu Top of page

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*Sergio Pablos *Georg Wilhelm Pabst *Padmarajan, P. Padmarajan *Alan J. Pakula *György Pálfi *Ben Palmer *Charles Palmer (director), Charles Palmer *Jake Paltrow *Jafar Panahi *Norman Panama *Gleb Panfilov *Pang Ho-Cheung *Domenico Paolella *Sergei Parajanov *K-Michel Parandi *Jerry Paris *Dean Parisot *Lana Parrilla *Richard Parry (director), Richard Parry *Park Chan-Wook *Nick Park *Alan Parker *Albert Parker (director), Albert Parker *Ol Parker *Trey Parker *James Parrott *Reza Parsa *Gabriel Pascal *Goran Paskaljević *Pier Paolo Pasolini *Ivan Passer *Stuart Paton *John Patterson (director), John Patterson *Ray Patterson (animator), Ray Patterson *Anand Patwardhan *Frank Paur *Paweł Pawlikowski *Alexander Payne *Leslie Pearce (director), Leslie Pearce *Richard Pearce (director), Richard Pearce *Steve Pearlman *George Pearson (filmmaker), George Pearson *Raoul Peck *Sam Peckinpah *Jordan Peele *Mark Pellington *Scott Pembroke *Arthur Penn *Leo Penn *Matthew Penn *Sean Penn *Joe Penna *Ivan Perestiani *Lester James Peries *Pierre Perifel *Loni Peristere *Anthony Perkins *Oz Perkins *Quincy Perkins *Boruch Perlowitz *Léonce Perret *Nat Perrin *Frank Perry *Tyler Perry *Christian Peschken *Robert O. Peters *Wolfgang Petersen *David Petrarca *Daniel Petrie *Donald Petrie *Elio Petri *Christian Petzold (director), Christian Petzold *Joseph Pevney *Danny and Michael Philippou *Todd Phillips *Maurice Pialat *Irving Pichel *Andy Picheta *Frank Pierson *Derek Pike *Mervyn Pinfield *Steve Pink *Lucian Pintilie *Robert Pirosh *Noam Pitlik *Pitof *René Plaissetty *Tony Plana *Bill Plympton *Jeremy Podeswa *Ihor Podolchak *Sidney Poitier *Roman Polanski *Dominic Polcino *Mark Polish *Michael Polish *Rudolph Polk *Kay Pollak *Sydney Pollack *Harry A. Pollard *Lindsey Pollard *John Polson *Ellen Pompeo *Gillo Pontecorvo *Edwin S. Porter *Geoff Posner *Ted Post *H. C. Potter *Sally Potter *Richard Pottier *Alan Poul *Dan Povenmire *Jeff Povey *Frank Powell *Michael Powell *Paul Powell (director), Paul Powell *Kemp Powers *Udayan Prasad *Rosa von Praunheim *Otto Preminger *Emeric Pressburger *Ellen S. Pressman *Michael Pressman *Lonny Price *Sarah Price (filmmaker), Sarah Price *Prince (musician), Prince *Yakov Protazanov *Alex Proyas *Aleksandr Ptushko *Vsevolod Pudovkin *Jon Paul Puno, Jon Puno *Derek Estlin Purvis, Derek Purvis *Ivan Pyryev Top of page

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*Farooq Qaiser *Steven Quale *Brothers Quay *John Quigley (producer), John Quigley *Richard Quine *James Quinn (director), James Quinn *Faisal Qureshi (television personality), Faisal Qureshi *Nabeel Qureshi (director), Nabeel Qureshi Top of page

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Ra–Re

*Peer Raben *Michael Radford *Bob Rafelson *Jeff Ragsdale *Sam Raimi *Yvonne Rainer *Hossein Rajabian *S. S. Rajamouli *Sharat Raju *Harold Ramis *Julius Ramsay *Lynne Ramsay *Tony Randel *Arthur Rankin Jr. *Irving Rapper *Mani Ratnam *Brett Ratner *Gregory Ratoff *John Rawlins (director), John Rawlins *Albert Ray *Bernard B. Ray *Fred Olen Ray *Man Ray *Nicholas Ray *Rick Ray *Satyajit Ray *Herman C. Raymaker *Bobby Razak *Patrick Rea *Jim Reardon *Eric Red *Robert Redford filmography, Robert Redford *Carol Reed *Peyton Reed *Robert Reed *Dee Rees *Christopher Reeve *Keanu Reeves *Matt Reeves *Michael Reeves (director), Michael Reeves *Nicolas Winding Refn *Godfrey Reggio *Willy Reiber *Kelly Reichardt *Daina Reid *Carl Reiner *Rob Reiner *Max Reinhardt *Irving Reis *Charles Reisner *Karel Reisz *Wolfgang Reitherman *Ivan Reitman *Jason Reitman *Edgar Reitz *Chris Renaud (animator), Chris Renaud *Johan Renck *Jean Renoir *Rob Renzetti *Alain Resnais *Adam Resnick *Carlos Reygadas *Gene Reynolds *Kevin Reynolds (director), Kevin Reynolds *Lynn Reynolds Top of page

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*Mike Rianda *David Lowell Rich *John Rich (director), John Rich *Tony Richardson *Hans Richter (artist), Hans Richter *W. D. Richter *Tom Ricketts *Leni Riefenstahl *Ransom Riggs *Alrick Riley *Wolf Rilla *Arthur Ripley *Arturo Ripstein *Guy Ritchie *Michael Ritchie (film director), Michael Ritchie *Martin Ritt *Karl Ritter (director), Karl Ritter *Christian Rivers *Fernand Rivers *Joan Rivers *Jacques Rivette *Jamie Rix *Sangeeta (Pakistani actress), Parveen Rizvi *Saeed Rizvi *Jay Roach *Alain Robbe-Grillet *Brian Robbins *Jerome Robbins *Tim Robbins *Brian K. Roberts *Johannes Roberts *Pennant Roberts *Stephen Roberts (director), Stephen Roberts *Graham Robertson (filmmaker), Graham Robertson *John S. Robertson *Gillian Robespierre *Arthur Robison *Bruce Robinson *Lee Robinson (director), Lee Robinson *Matthew Robinson (producer), Matthew Robinson (British-Cambodian , born in 1944) *Matthew Robinson (writer), Matthew Robinson (American , born in 1978) *Phil Alden Robinson *Mark Robson (film director), Mark Robson *Adam Robitel *Glauber Rocha *Alexandre Rockwell *João Pedro Rodrigues *Robert Rodriguez *Rosemary Rodriguez *John Roecker *Nicolas Roeg *Daniel Roemer *Michael Roemer *Albert S. Rogell *Seth Rogen *Brandon Rogers (YouTuber), Brandon Rogers *David Rogers (film editor), David Rogers *Éric Rohmer *Alice Rohrwacher *James Rolfe *Mark Romanek *George A. Romero *Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent *Mikhail Romm *Am Rong *Bethany Rooney *Mickey Rooney *Cliff Roquemore *Bernard Rose (director), Bernard Rose *Phil Rosen *Stuart Rosenberg *Rick Rosenthal *Tatia Rosenthal *Perry Rosemond *Mark Rosman *Gary Ross *Herbert Ross *Matthew Ross (filmmaker), Matthew Ross *Roberto Rossellini *Robert Rossen *Franco Rossi (director), Franco Rossi *Arthur Rosson *Richard Rosson (filmmaker), Richard Rosson *Eli Roth *Joe Roth *Tim Roth *Richard Rothstein (screenwriter), Richard Rothstein *Josie Rourke *Roy Rowland (film director), Roy Rowland *Patricia Rozema *Joseph Ruben *Alan Rudolph *Oscar Rudolph *Wesley Ruggles *Demián Rugna *Raúl Ruiz (director), Raúl Ruiz *Pavel Ruminov *Richard Rush (director), Richard Rush *Chuck Russell *David O. Russell *Ken Russell *Paddy Russell *Russo brothers *Stefan Ruzowitzky *Eldar Ryazanov *Zbigniew Rybczyński *Mark Rydell *Gary Rydstrom *Stellan Rye *RZA Top of page

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Sa–Sh

*Maher Sabry *Daniel Sackheim *Christopher Sadler *Numa Sadoul *Safdie brothers *Boris Sagal *Bob Saget *Abdulkadir Ahmed Said *Richard Sakai *Alik Sakharov *Gene Saks *Carlos Saldanha *Sidney Salkow *Eriq La Salle *Walter Salles *Dan Sallitt *Mikael Salomon *Anja Salomonowitz *Victor Salva *Shakti Samanta *Gabriela Samper *Keith Samples *David F. Sandberg *Ari Sandel *Scott Sanders (director), Scott Sanders *Helma Sanders-Brahms *Jay Sandrich *Mark Sandrich *Arlene Sanford *David Sant *Alfred Santell *Joseph Santley *Damon Santostefano *Miguel Sapochnik *Richard C. Sarafian *Valeria Sarmiento *Michael Sarnoski *Peter Sasdy *Shinsuke Sato *Yūichi Satō *Marjane Satrapi *Charles Saunders (director) *Hubert Sauper *Claude Sautet *Fred Savage *Rob Savage *Philip Saville *Seth Savoy *Geoffrey Sax *John Sayles *Rodo Sayagues *John Scagliotti *Armand Schaefer *George Schaefer (director), George Schaefer *Akiva Schaffer *Jeff Schaffer *Franklin Schaffner *Peter Schamoni *James Schamus *Frank Scheffer *Daniels (directors), Daniel Scheinert *Fred Schepisi *Victor Schertzinger *Paul Scheuring *Kyle Schickner *Thomas Schlamme *Craig Schlattman *John Schlesinger *Christoph Schlingensief *Volker Schlöndorff *David Schmoeller *Julian Schnabel *Thomas Schnauz *Dan Schneider (TV producer), Dan Schneider *Ian Schneider *Paul Schneider (director), Paul Schneider *Rob Schneider *Ernest B. Schoedsack *Jane Schoenbrun *Renen Schorr *Paul Schrader *Liev Schreiber *Rick Schroder *Barbet Schroeder *Werner Schroeter *John Schultz (director), John Schultz *Michael Schultz *Hugh Schulze *Joel Schumacher *Reinhold Schünzel *Michael Schur *Lloyd J. Schwartz *Stefan Schwartz *Rudolf Schwarzkogler *Til Schweiger *Robert Schwentke *David Schwimmer *Christian Schwochow *Ettore Scola *Martin Scorsese *Oz Scott *Ridley Scott *Shaun Scott (politician), Shaun Scott *Swinton O. Scott III *Tony Scott *Aubrey Scotto *Steven Seagal *Francis Searle *Fred F. Sears *Eric Dean Seaton *George Seaton *Edward Sedgwick *Alex Segal *Peter Segal *Susan Seidelman *Ulrich Seidl *Lewis Seiler *William A. Seiter *Franz Seitz, Sr. *George B. Seitz, George Seitz *Steve Sekely *Lesley Selander *Henry Selick *Bill Sellars *Herbert Selpin *Aaron Seltzer *David Seltzer *Selvaraghavan *Edgar Selwyn *Ousmane Sembène *David Semel *Larry Semon *Mrinal Sen *Dominic Sena *Lorraine Senna *Mack Sennett *Craig Serling *Menelik Shabazz *Tom Shadyac *Matt Shakman *Lee Shallat Chemel *S. Shankar *Adam Shankman *John Patrick Shanley *Ted Sharks *Tristram Shapeero *Parvez Sharma *Jim Sharman *William Shatner *Melville Shavelson *Jenn Shaw *Larry Shaw (director), Larry Shaw *Scott Shaw *Jack Shea (director), Jack Shea *Barry Shear *Chuck Sheetz *Lynn Shelton *Millicent Shelton *Ron Shelton *Darren Benjamin Shepherd, Darren Shepherd *Larisa Shepitko *Adrian Shergold *Jim Sheridan *Kirsten Sheridan *Rondell Sheridan *Taylor Sheridan *Gary Sherman (director), Gary Sherman *George Sherman *Lowell Sherman *Vincent Sherman *Domee Shi *John Shiban *Steve Shill *Takashi Shimizu *Peter Shin *Shin Sang-ok *Naoyoshi Shiotani *Alexandra Shiva *Jack Sholder *Cate Shortland *Michael Showalter *Wil Shriner *Trey Edward Shults *M. Night Shyamalan *Charles Shyer *Justin Simien *Joe Simon (film director), Joe Simon Top of page

Si–Sz

*George Sidney *Scott Sidney *David Siegel (screenwriter), David Siegel *Don Siegel *Ted Sieger *Pedro Sienna *Floria Sigismondi *Slobodan Šijan *Brad Silberling *David Silverman (animator), David Silverman *Dean Silvers *Lisa Simon *S. Sylvan Simon *Yves Simoneau *Giorgio Simonelli *Alexander Singer *Bryan Singer *Grant Singer *Manmohan Singh (director), Manmohan Singh *Tarsem Singh *Tony Singletary *John Singleton *Roger Singleton-Turner *Robert Siodmak *Puneet Sira *Douglas Sirk *Cheick Oumar Sissoko *Andrea Sisson *Chris Sivertson *Tom Six *Vilgot Sjöman *Victor Sjöström *Kari Skogland *Jerzy Skolimowski *Gia Skova *David Slade *Paul Sloane (director), Paul Sloane *Edward Sloman *Michael Slovis *Yannis Smaragdis *Alan Smart *Ralph Smart *Jack Smight *Adam Smith (director), Adam Smith *Brian Trenchard-Smith *Charles Martin Smith *Christopher Smith (director), Christopher Smith *David Smith (director), David Smith *Gary T. Smith, Gary Smith *George Albert Smith *Harry Everett Smith *Jim Field Smith *John Smith (English filmmaker), John Smith *John N. Smith *Julia Smith (producer), Julia Smith *Kevin Smith *Michael V. Smith *Noel M. Smith *Roy Allen Smith *Sarah Smith (director), Sarah Smith *Seth Grahame-Smith *Simon J. Smith *Adam Smoluk *Michael Snow *Zack Snyder *Michele Soavi *Steven Soderbergh *Iain Softley *Gennady Sokolsky *Aleksandr Sokurov *David Solomon (TV producer), David Solomon *Frances-Anne Solomon *Todd Solondz *Andrew Solt *Stephen Sommers *Barry Sonnenfeld *Sion Sono *Celine Song *Chris Soriano *Paolo Sorrentino *Jen and Sylvia Soska *Tressie Souders *Simon Spencer (producer), Simon Spencer *George Spenton-Foster *Jaap Speyer *Penelope Spheeris *Bryan Spicer *Steven Spielberg *Götz Spielmann *Spierig brothers *Bob Spiers *Roger Spottiswoode *Jill Sprecher *Alejandro Springall *Aaron Springer *R. G. Springsteen *Anthony Stacchi *John M. Stahl *Sylvester Stallone *Andrew Stanton *Wendey Stanzler *Ladislas Starevich *Jack Starrett *Richard Starzak *Ralph Staub *Malcolm St. Clair (filmmaker), Malcolm St. Clair *J.A. Steel *Burr Steers *Jefferson Stein *Paul L. Stein *David Steinberg *Hans Steinhoff *Steno (director) *Boris Stepantsev *Mike Stephens (director), Mike Stephens *Jared Stern *Sandor Stern *Steven Hilliard Stern *Andrew Stevens *Dan Stevens *George Stevens *George Stevens Jr. *Robert Stevens (director), Robert Stevens *Robert Stevenson (director), Robert Stevenson *Gordon Curran Stewart, Gordon Stewart *Ginny Stikeman *Ben Stiller *Mauritz Stiller *Whit Stillman *Francis Stokes *Marcus Stokes *Mike Stoklasa *Nicholas Stoller *Benjamin Stoloff *Andrew L. Stone *Ezra Stone *Jamie Magnus Stone *Matt Stone *Oliver Stone *Tad Stones *Howard Storm (director), Howard Storm *Jerome Storm *Straub-Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub *Frank R. Strayer *Amanda Lovejoy Street, Amanda Street *Graham Streeter *Barbra Streisand *Brenda Strong *James Strong (director), James Strong *John Stroud (director), John Stroud *Mel Stuart *Gene Stupnitsky *John Sturges *Preston Sturges *K. Subash *Arne Sucksdorff *Elia Suleiman *Sun Yu (director), Sun Yu *Mohit Suri *Stephen Surjik *A. Edward Sutherland *Hal Sutherland *Kiefer Sutherland *Seijun Suzuki *Jan Švankmajer *Mary Sweeney *Harry Sweet *Justin David Swibel, Justin Swibel *David Swift (director), David Swift *Hans-Jürgen Syberberg *Khady Sylla *István Szabó *Peter Szewczyk *Damián Szifron *Małgorzata Szumowska Top of page

T

*Rachel Talalay *Patrick Tam (film director), Patrick Tam *Lee Tamahori *Cyndi Tang *Alain Tanner *Danis Tanović *Quentin Tarantino *Andrei Tarkovsky *Béla Tarr *Genndy Tartakovsky *Frank Tashlin *Jacques Tati *Norman Taurog *Bertrand Tavernier *Alan Taylor (director), Alan Taylor *Don Taylor (actor), Don Taylor *Don Taylor (American filmmaker), Don Taylor *Ray Taylor (director), Ray Taylor *Sam Taylor (director), Sam Taylor *Stanner E.V. Taylor *William Desmond Taylor *Colin Teague *Lewis Teague *André Téchiné *Julien Temple *Suzie Templeton *Larry Teng *Andy Tennant *George Terwilliger *Hiroshi Teshigahara *Duccio Tessari *Ted Tetzlaff *Kirk Thatcher *Wilhelm Thiele *Gerald Thomas *John G. Thomas *Ralph Thomas *Bernard Thompson (director), Bernard Thompson *Caroline Thompson *J. Lee Thompson *Thomas J. Thompson, Tommy Thompson *Robert Thornby *Billy Bob Thornton filmography, Billy Bob Thornton *Richard Thorpe *Rawson Marshall Thurber *Tian Zhuangzhuang *Paul Tibbitt *Greg Tiernan *George Tillman Jr. *Constance Tillotson *Tony Tilse *Mihai Timofti *Bruce Timm *James Tinling *Phil Tippett *Justin Tipping *Romeo Tirone *Johnnie To *James Toback *Norman Tokar *Jan Tománek *Mattson Tomlin *Liesl Tommy *Mark Tonderai *Aad van Toor *Hisayuki Toriumi *Giuseppe Tornatore *Miguel Contreras Torres *Ivan Tors *André de Toth *Laurent Touil-Tartour *Viktor Tourjansky *Jacques Tourneur *Maurice Tourneur *Robert Townsend (actor), Robert Townsend *Frederick E.O. Toye *Wendy Toye *David Trainer *David Owen Trainor *Josh Trank *Pablo Trapero *Pete Travis *Scott Treleaven *Jeff Tremaine *Brian Trenchard-Smith *Jesús Salvador Treviño *Colin Trevorrow *Joachim Trier *Justine Triet *Laurence Trimble *Nadine Trintignant *Jan Troell *Alice Troughton *Gary Trousdale *Keith Truesdell *François Truffaut *Tsai Ming-liang, Ming-liang Tsai *Peter Tscherkassky *Hark Tsui, Tsui Hark *Shinya Tsukamoto *Stanley Tucci *Anand Tucker *Rex Tucker *Gary J. Tunnicliffe *Brad Turner (director), Brad Turner *Jon Turteltaub *Frank Tuttle *David Twohy *Chris Twomey *Michael Tyburski *Tom Tykwer *Morten Tyldum *George Tyne *George Tzavellas Top of page

U

*Gustav Ucicky *Edgar G. Ulmer *Ron Underwood *Lee Unkrich *Upendra (actor), Upendra *Michael Uppendahl *Urszula Urbaniak *Carl Urbano *Chano Urueta *Syed Ali Raza Usama *Carly Usdin *Kinka Usher *Peter Ustinov *Roar Uthaug Top of page

V

*Roger Vadim *Ladislao Vajda *Luis Valdez *Steve Valentine *Tonino Valerii *Mike Valerio *Jean-Marc Vallée *Jackie van Beek *W. S. Van Dyke *Andre van Heerden *Buddy Van Horn *Erik Van Looy *Tim Van Patten *Mario Van Peebles *Melvin Van Peebles *Thurop Van Orman *Gus Van Sant *Florestano Vancini *Norman Thaddeus Vane *Vanelle *Carlo Vanzina *Agnès Varda *Giuseppe Vari *Ram Gopal Varma *Marcel Varnel *Petar B. Vasilev *Tom Vaughan (director), Tom Vaughan *Matthew Vaughn *Joe Vaux *Pam Veasey *Perry N. Vekroff *Milo Ventimiglia *Gore Verbinski *Tristan de Vere Cole *Paul Verhoeven *Dziga Vertov *Charles Vidor *King Vidor *Berthold Viertel *Robert G. Vignola *Jean Vigo *Vijayakrishnan *Agusti Villaronga *Denis Villeneuve *Robert Vince *Thomas Vinterberg *Phil Vischer *Luchino Visconti *Biju Viswanath *K. Viswanath *Erik Voake *Jordan Vogt-Roberts *Géza von Bolváry *Géza von Cziffra *Daisy von Scherler Mayer *Josef von Sternberg *Erich von Stroheim *Lars von Trier filmography, Lars von Trier *Margarethe von Trotta *Dylan Verrechia *Bernard Vorhaus *Slavko Vorkapić *Kurt Voss *Jürgen Vsych Top of page

W

*The Wachowskis *Michael Wadleigh *Wai Ka-Fai *Rupert Wainwright *Taika Waititi *Andrzej Wajda *Chris Walas *John Walker (animator), John Walker *Stuart Walker (director), Stuart Walker *David Wall (actor), David Wall *William Wall (filmmaker), William Wall *Randall Wallace *Richard Wallace (director), Richard Wallace *Tommy Lee Wallace *Herb Wallerstein *Tom Walls *Aisling Walsh *Dearbhla Walsh *Raoul Walsh *Charles Walters *Christoph Waltz *Wan brothers *James Wan *Sam Wanamaker *Lulu Wang (filmmaker), Lulu Wang *Wang Quan'an *Wang Xiaoshuai *Wayne Wang *Albert Ward (film director), Albert Ward *David S. Ward *Vincent Ward (director), Vincent Ward *Ernest C. Warde *Andy Warhol *Alan Wareing *Alex van Warmerdam *David Warren (director), David Warren *Harold P. Warren *Norman J. Warren *Denzel Washington *Darrell Wasyk *John Waters *Mark Waters *Peter Watkins *Jon Watts *Ric Roman Waugh *Scott Waugh *Michael Waxman *Keenen Ivory Wayans *Carl Weathers *Sean Weathers *Kenneth Webb (director), Kenneth Webb *Marc Webb *Millard Webb *Lois Weber *Chris Wedge *Peter Weibel *Paul Weiland *Ed. Weinberger *Clay Weiner *Hans Weingartner *Bob Weinstein *Harvey Weinstein *Peter Weir *Don Weis *Sam Weisman *D. B. Weiss *Glenn Weiss *Helmut Weiss *Adam Weissman *Chris Weitz *Paul Weitz (filmmaker), Paul Weitz *Bo Welch *Orson Welles *Arthur Wellin *William Wellman *Charlotte Wells *Simon Wells *Wim Wenders *Alfred L. Werker *Lina Wertmüller *Roland West *Simon West *Ti West *Tanya Wexler *James Whale *Frank Whaley *Leopold Wharton *Joyce Wieland *Leigh Whannell *Theodore Wharton *Ken and Jim Wheat *Ben Wheatley *Joss Whedon *Tim Whelan *Dean White (director), Dean White *Eddie White (director), Eddie White *Mike White (filmmaker), Mike White *Susanna White *Ken Whittingham *Richard Whorf *Kanchi Wichmann *Bernhard Wicki *Robert B. Weide *Hans Weidemann *Bo Widerberg *Virgil Widrich *Ken Wiederhorn *Erin Wiedner *Robert Wiene *Crane Wilbur *Herbert Wilcox *Cornel Wilde *Olivia Wilde *Ted Wilde *Billy Wilder *Gene Wilder *W. Lee Wilder *Gordon Wiles *Diane Wilkins *Irvin Willat *Adim Williams *Chris Williams (director), Chris Williams *Michael Williams (film director), Michael Williams *Paul Andrew Williams *Richard Williams (animator), Richard Williams *Roger Ross Williams *Stephen Williams (director), Stephen Williams *Dennis Willis *Gordon Willis *Paul Wilmshurst *Hugh Wilson (director), Hugh Wilson *Patrick Wilson *Rex Wilson (director), Rex Wilson *Scott Winant *Simon Wincer *Bretaigne Windust *Adam Wingard *Henry Winkler *Irwin Winkler *Max Winkler (director), Max Winkler *Michael Winner *David Winning *Michael Winterbottom *Tommy Wirkola *Frank Wisbar *Kirk Wise *Robert Wise *Tommy Wiseau *Frederick Wiseman *Len Wiseman *Doris Wishman *Chester Withey *William Witney *Alexander Witt *George C. Wolfe *Art Wolff *Jason Woliner *Andy Wolk *James Wong (producer), James Wong *Wong Jing *Wong Kar-wai *John Woo *Andrés Wood *Ed Wood *Ivor Wood *Sam Wood *Jeremy Wooding *Arthur B. Woods *Kate Woods *Stephen Woolfenden *John Griffith Wray *Edgar Wright *Joe Wright *Mack V. Wright *Julius Wu *Rupert Wyatt *William Wyler *Robert Wynne-Simmons *Jim Wynorski Top of page

X

*Xie Jin *Xie Fei (director), Xie Fei Top of page

Y

*Boaz Yakin *Edward Yang *Ruby Yang *Jean Yarbrough *Tom Yasumi *David Yates *Hal Yates *Peter Yates *Reggie Yates *Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. *Derek Yee *Ray Yeung *Özgür Yıldırım *Lev Yilmaz *Wayne Yip *Wilson Yip *Eugen York *Bud Yorkin *Yaky Yosha *Yamada Youji *Harold Young (director), Harold Young *James Young (director), James Young *Terence Young (director), Terence Young *Yuen Woo-ping *Yugander V. V. *Brian Yuzna *Jake Yuzna Top of page

Z

*Romas Zabarauskas *Jeremiah Zagar *Eduard Zahariev *Alex Zakrzewski *Jerry Zaks *Alex Zamm *Moisés Zamora *Rudy Zamora *Krzysztof Zanussi *Alan Zaslove *Kristi Zea *Dan Zeff *Franco Zeffirelli *Sande Zeig *Alfred Zeisler *Benh Zeitlin *Primo Zeglio *Florian Zeller *David Zellner *Frederic Zelnik *Robert Zemeckis *David Zennie *Hans H. Zerlett *Zhang Yang (director), Zhang Yang *Zhang Yimou *Zhang Yuan (director), Zhang Yuan *Zheng Junli *Thierry Zéno *Chloé Zhao *Maheen Zia *Howard Zieff *Želimir Žilnik *Lydia Zimmermann *Michael Zinberg *Fred Zinnemann *Craig Zisk *Randy Zisk *Thishiwe Ziqubu *Rob Zombie *Erick Zonca *Hisham Zreiq *Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker, Zucker Brothers *Steve Zuckerman *Andrzej Żuławski *Xawery Żuławski *Ezz El-Dine Zulficar *Mahmoud Zulfikar *Harald Zwart *Edward Zwick *Joel Zwick *Terry Zwigoff Top of page

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