Director may refer to:
Literature
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''Director'' (magazine), a British magazine
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''The Director'' (novel), a 1971 novel by Henry Denker
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''The Director'' (play), a 2000 play by Nancy Hasty
Music
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Director (band), an Irish rock band
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''Director'' (Avant album) (2006)
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''Director'' (Yonatan Gat album)
Occupations and positions
Arts and design
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Animation director
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Artistic director
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Creative director
A creative director is a person who makes high-level creative decisions; oversees the creation of creative assets such as advertisements, products, events, or logos; and directs and translates the creative people who produce the end results. Creat ...
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Design director
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Film director
A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...
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Music director
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Music video director
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Television director
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Theatre director
Positions in other fields
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Director (business), a senior-level management position
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Director (colonial), head of chartered company's colonial administration for a territory
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Director (education)
Academic rank (also scientific rank) is the rank of a scientist or teacher in a college, high school, university or research establishment. The academic ranks indicate relative importance and power of individuals in academia.
The academic ra ...
, head of a university or other educational body
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Company director, a member of (for example) a board of directors
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Cruise director
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Executive director, senior operating officer or manager of an organization or corporation, usually at a nonprofit
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Finance director
A chief financial officer (CFO) is an officer of a company or organization who is assigned the primary responsibility for making decisions for the company for projects and its finances; i.a.: financial planning, management of financial risks, ...
or chief financial officer
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Funeral director
A funeral director, also known as an undertaker or mortician (American English), is a professional who has licenses in funeral arranging and embalming (or preparation of the deceased) involved in the business of funeral rites. These tasks o ...
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Managing director
A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a chief executive or managing director, is the top-ranking corporate officer charged with the management of an organization, usually a company or a nonprofit organization.
CEOs find roles in variou ...
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Non-executive director
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Technical director
A technical director (TD) is usually a senior technical person within e.g. a software company, engineering firm, film studio, theatre company or television studio. They are responsible for overseeing and coordinating all of the technical aspect ...
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Tournament director
A tournament director (TD) is an official at a competitive sporting or gaming event, who typically perform a number of key functions. The extent of the tournament director's duties varies depending on the size of the tournament, the nature of the ...
Science and technology
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Director (military)
A director, also called an auxiliary predictor, is a mechanical or electronic computer that continuously calculates trigonometric firing solutions for use against a moving target, and transmits targeting data to direct the weapon firing crew. ...
, a device that continuously calculates firing data
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Adobe Director
Adobe Director (formerly Macromedia Director, MacroMind Director, and MacroMind VideoWorks) was a multimedia application authoring platform created by Macromedia and managed by Adobe Systems until its discontinuation.
Director was the primary ed ...
'', multimedia authoring software
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Fibre Channel director
In the computer storage field, a Fibre Channel switch is a network switch compatible with the Fibre Channel (FC) protocol. It allows the creation of a Fibre Channel fabric, that is the core component of a storage area network (SAN). The fa ...
, a large switch for computer storage networks
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Director telephone system
The director telephone system was a development of the Strowger or step-by-step (SXS) switching system used in London and five other large cities in the UK from the 1920s to the 1980s.
A large proportion (c. 70% to 80%) of telephone traffic in ...
, or Director exchange
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GCR Class 11E or Directors, a class of locomotive
* Director, the spatial and temporal average of the orientation of the long molecular axis within a small volume element of
liquid crystal
Liquid crystal (LC) is a state of matter whose properties are between those of conventional liquids and those of solid crystals. For example, a liquid crystal can flow like a liquid, but its molecules may be oriented in a common direction as i ...
Other uses
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''Director'' (1969 film), a Soviet film directed by Alexey Saltykov
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''Director'' (2009 film), an American film directed by Aleks Rosenberg
* The Director, an artificial intelligence system in the video game ''
Left 4 Dead''
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HMS ''Director'' (1784), a ship of the British Royal Navy
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Directors beer, by Courage Brewery
People with the surname
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Aaron Director (1901–2004), professor at the University of Chicago Law School
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Kim Director (born 1974), American actress
See also
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Deputy Director (disambiguation)
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Directeur sportif'', a person directing a cycling team during a road bicycle racing event
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Director-general
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Director string, a way of tracking free variables in computation
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French Directory
The Directory (also called Directorate; ) was the system of government established by the Constitution of the Year III, French Constitution of 1795. It takes its name from the committee of 5 men vested with executive power. The Directory gov ...
, the executive committee of the French Revolutionary government between 1795 and 1799
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