- Walter Murch
Walter Scott Murch (born July 12, 1943) is an Academy Award-winning film editor/sound mixer. He went to The Collegiate School, a private preparatory school in Manhattan, from 1949 to 1961. He then attended Johns Hopkins University from 1961 to 1965, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in Liberal Arts. While at Hopkins, he met future director/screenwriter Matthew Robbins and cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, with whom he staged a number of happenings.
- James Cameron
James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian director, producer and screenwriter. He is noted for his action/science fiction films, which are often highly successful financially and innovatively. Thematically, James Cameron's films generally explore the relationship between man and technology. Cameron also directed the film "Titanic", which went on to become the top-grossing film of all time, with a worldwide gross of over US$1.8 billion.
- Thelma Schoonmaker
Thelma Schoonmaker (born January 3, 1940) is an American Academy Award-winning film editor who has worked with director Martin Scorsese for over thirty-five years. She has edited many of Scorsese's films, such as "Raging Bull", "The Aviator," "Goodfellas", "The Last Temptation of Christ", "The King of Comedy", "After Hours", "Casino", …
- David Lean
Sir David Lean KBE (March 25, 1908 - April 16, 1991) was an English film director and producer, best remembered for big-screen epics such as "Lawrence of Arabia", "The Bridge on the River Kwai", and "Doctor Zhivago". He was voted 9th best director of all time in the BFI "Directors Top Directors" poll 2002.
- Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard (born 3 December, 1930) is a French filmmaker and one of the most influential members of the "Nouvelle Vague", or "French New Wave". Born to Franco-Swiss parents in Paris, he was educated in Nyon, Switzerland, later studying at the Lycée Rohmer, and the Sorbonne in Paris, where he studied anthropology. During his time at the Sorbonne, he became involved with the young group of filmmakers and film theorists that gave birth to the New Wave.
- Robert Wise
Robert Wise (September 10, 1914 - September 14, 2005) was an American sound effects editor, film editor, and Academy Award-winning American film producer and director. Among his many famous films are "The Sand Pebbles", "The Sound of Music", "West Side Story", "The Hindenburg", "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", "The Day the Earth Stood Still", "Run Silent, Run Deep", "The Andromeda Strain", "The Set-Up", …
- Michael Kahn
Michael Kahn (born in New York, December 8, 1935) is a widely recognized film editor. His credits range from TV's "Hogan's Heroes" to feature films directed by Steven Spielberg. He has won the Academy Award for Film Editing for "Raiders of the Lost Ark," (1981), "Schindler's List" (1993) and Saving Private Ryan" (1998). He is one of the few editors who still edits on film (though he has edited digitally on projects not directed by Spielberg). Kahn is an Eagle Scout.
- Wim Wenders
Ernst Wilhelm ("Wim") Wenders is a German film director, playwright, photographer, and producer. He was born in Düsseldorf.
- John Cassavetes
John Nicholas Cassavetes was a Greek American actor, screenwriter, and director. He is considered a pioneer of American independent film.
- Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni was born in 1912 into a middle-class family and grew up in bourgeois surroundings of the Italian province. In Bologna he studied economics and commerce while he painted and also wrote criticism for a local newspaper. In 1939 he went to Rome and worked for the journal "Cinema" studying directorship at the School of Cinema. As he was a debter of the neorealism his films reflect his bourgeois roots like in his first movie Cronaca di un amore (1950) or Signora senza...
- John Wright
John Wright is an ACE-certified film editor. He was nominated for two Academy Awards for his work on The Hunt for the Red October (1990) and Speed (1994). He has recently edited films such as X-Men (2000), Rollerball (2002), The Passion of the Christ (2004), and Glory Road (2006).
- Ben Burtt
Ben Burtt (born July 12, 1948 in Syracuse, New York) is the archetypal sound designer (a term he invented) and sound editor for many famous and noteworthy films, as well as directing an Oscar-nominated documentary.
- John Ottman
John Ottman (born July 6, 1964 in San Diego, California) is an American film editor, composer and director. He is best known for his collaborations with film director Bryan Singer, editing and composing the scores for "The Usual Suspects", "Apt Pupil", "X2: X-Men United" and most recently "Superman Returns", adapting themes originally composed by John Williams.
- Atom Egoyan
Atom Egoyan, OC (born July 19, 1960) is a critically acclaimed Canadian-Armenian film maker. His work often explores themes of alienation and isolation, featuring characters whose interactions are mediated through technology, bureaucracy or other power structures. Stylistically, Egoyan's films often follow non-linear plot-structures, in which events are placed out of sequence in order to elicit specific emotional reactions from the audience by withholding key information.
- Peter Greenaway
Peter Greenaway, CBE (born 5 April 1942) is an English film director.
- Dede Allen
Dede Allen (born Dorothea Carothers Allen, 3 December, 1923, in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a three-time Academy Award-nominated American film editor, well-known "film editing doctor" to the major American movie studios and one of cinema's all-time celebrated "auteur" film editors. Allen is most known for having edited classic films such as "Dog Day Afternoon", "The Hustler", …
- David O. Selznick
David O. Selznick (May 10, 1902-June 22, 1965), was one of the iconic Hollywood producers of the Golden Age. He is best known for producing the epic blockbuster "Gone with the Wind" (1939) which earned him an Oscar for Best Picture. Not only did "Gone with the Wind" gross the highest amount of money at the box office of any film ever (adjusted for inflation), but it also won seven additional Oscars and two special awards.
- Glenn Erickson
Glenn Erickson is an American film editor and film critic. He started in the film industry in 1975 as an editor of low budget films and later worked in minor technical crew capacities in such major films as "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977) and "1941" (1979). As an editor, most of his credits have been in creating supplemental documentary materials for DVD releases of "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly" (1966), "Buckaroo Banzai" (1985), …
- Cecil B. Demille
Cecil Blount DeMille was a very successful American filmmaker in the first half of the 20th century.
- Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a revolutionary Soviet film director and film theorist noted in particular for his silent films "Strike", "Battleship Potemkin" and "Oktober". His work vastly influenced early film makers owing to his innovative use of and writings about montage.
- Michael Ondaatje
Philip Michael Ondaatje, OC,, (born 12 September, 1943) is a Sri Lankan Canadian novelist and poet, perhaps best known for his Booker Prize winning novel adapted into an Academy-Award-winning film, "The English Patient"
- Dario Argento
Dario Argento was born in Rome in 1940, the son of influential film producer Salvatore Argento , and established Brazilian photographer Elda Luxardo . While these parental influences assured Argento's filmic fascination from an early age, he assimilated influences from a wide range of the fantastic arts.
- Stuart Baird
Stuart Baird is an Academy Award nominated English film editor, producer, and director who is mainly associated with action films. Baird worked for a number of years with Richard Donner. He has directed three films: "Executive Decision" (1996), "U.S. Marshals" (1998), and "Star Trek: Nemesis" (2002). He was the editor and executive producer of "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" (2001).
- Hal Ashby
Hal Ashby (September 2, 1929 - December 27, 1988) was an American film director and Academy Award winner born William Hal Ashby.
- Ivan Reitman
Ivan Reitman is a Slovakian-born, Canadian-raised jewish film actor, producer, and director. He is most remembered for directing and producing a string of comedies, mostly in the 1980s and 1990s. Reitman worked on a number of films after graduating from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He produced two films for director David Cronenberg with "Shivers/They Came from Within/The Parasite Murders" (1974) and "Rabid" (1976).
- Margaret Booth
Margaret Booth (January 16, 1898 - October 28, 2002) was an American film editor. Born in Los Angeles, California, she started her Hollywood career as a 'patcher', editing films by D. W. Griffith, around 1915. Later she worked for Louis B. Mayer when he was an independent film producer. When Mayer merged with others to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1924, she worked as a director's assistant with that company. She edited several films starring Greta Garbo.
- Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor (born December 15 1952) is an American director of Broadway theatre and film. Taymor's work has been received many accolades from critics, and she has won several Tony Awards for her work, noted for its visual flair and colorful costuming choices.
- Zach Staenberg
Zach Staenberg is an Academy Award winning film editor best known for the Matrix Trilogy.
- Alain Resnais
Alain Resnais is a French film director whose early works are often grouped within the New Wave or Nouvelle Vague film movement. Although he has had a long and fruitful career, Resnais is best known internationally for three of his early works: "Night and Fog" (1955), "Hiroshima Mon Amour" (1959), and "L'Année Dernière à Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad)" (1961).
- John Bailey
John Bailey (cinematographer) (born 10 August 1942 in Moberly, Montana) is an award-winning American cinematographer and film director. He is married to film editor, Carol Littleton.
- Edward Dmytryk
Edward Dmytryk (September 4, 1908 - July 1, 1999) was an American film director who was amongst the Hollywood Ten, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who served time in prison for being in contempt of Congress during the McCarthy era red scare. Although born in Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada, Dmytryk grew up in San Francisco when his Ukrainian parents moved to the United States. At the age of 31, he became a naturalized citizen.
- Abel Ferrara
Abel Ferrara (born July 19, 1951 in The Bronx) is an American movie screenwriter and director. At the age of 15, he moved upstate where he met Nicholas St. John, a fellow classmate in high school who would go on to write several of his movies. Ferrara started out as a director by making amateur films on Super 8 including a five-minute short that would provide the basis for his 1979 film, "The Driller Killer", …
- Christopher Rouse
Christopher Rouse is an Academy Award-nominated film editor
- Taylor Hackford
Taylor Hackford (born December 31, 1944 in Santa Barbara, California) is an American film director. He received an Oscar in 2000 for the short film "Teenage Father" and received two Oscar nominations in 2004 for the Ray Charles biopic "Ray". Hackford is married to Academy Award winning actress Helen Mirren. Hackford graduated from USC's School of Cinema-Television in 2000. In a recent interview, he confirmed that he never attended film school, …
- Sven Nykvist
Sven Vilhem Nykvist (3 December 1922 - 20 September 2006) was a Swedish cinematographer. He worked on over 120 films, but is known especially for his work with director Ingmar Bergman. He won Academy Awards for his work on two Bergman films, "Cries and Whispers" ("Viskningar och rop") in 1973 and "Fanny and Alexander" ("Fanny och Alexander") in 1983. His work is generally noted for its naturalism and simplicity.
- Paul Hirsch
Paul Hirsch is an American motion picture editor. He was an art history major who dropped out of Columbia graduate school to pursue a career in editing trailers and montages. In the early 1970s he was introduced by his brother, Charles, to then unknown filmmaker Brian De Palma.
- David Brenner
"David Brenner (editor)" is an American film editor most well known (along with fellow film editors Joe Hutshing, Pietro Scalia and Julie Monroe) for having been one of director Oliver Stone's 'hot shot' group of up-and-coming film editors.
- Dody Dorn
Dody Dorn born 20 April 1955 (sometimes credited as Dody J. Dorn) is an Academy Award nominated American film and sound editor best known for working with director Christopher Nolan on several films including the post-modern, deconstructionist masterpiece about amnesia, "Memento".
- Hayao Miyazaki
Born January 5, 1941 in Tokyo, Japan, Hayao Miyazaki is one of the most famous and well-respected creators of anime. He has three brothers, he being the second oldest. His older brother, Arata Miyazaki , was born in July 1939. His first younger brother is Shirou Miyazaki. His youngest is brother is named Yutaka Miyazaki and was born in January 1944. In 1947, Miyazaki enrolled at a school in... More A
- Ernst Lubitsch
Ernst Lubitsch, was a German-born Jewish film director. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch."