- Spike Lee
Shelton Jackson Lee (born March 20, 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia), better known as Spike Lee, is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor noted for his films dealing with controversial social and political issues. He also teaches film at New York University and Columbia University. His production company, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983. - John Waters
John Waters (born April 22, 1946) is an American filmmaker, writer, personality, visual artist and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films. - Adam Richard Sandler
Adam Sandler was born on September 9, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York. He has seven brothers. He was always the class clown in school. When Adam Sandler turned 17 years old, at the advice of his brother he tried out for a comedy club. That's how he came to recognize his true talent as a comedian. He started acting in the Cosby Show and then wen on to movies. - Jim Jarmusch
Jim Jarmusch (born January 22 1953 in Akron, Ohio) is a noted American independent film director. - Sidney Poitier
Sir Sidney Poitier KBE, (born February 20 1927), is an Academy Award-winning Bahamian American actor, film director, and activist. He broke through as a star in acclaimed performances in American films and plays, which, by consciously defying racial stereotyping, gave a new dramatic credibility for black actors to mainstream film audiences in the Western world. - Brett Ratner
Brett Ratner (born March 28, 1969) is an American film director and music-video director. He is best known as the director of "Red Dragon", the "Rush Hour" series, and "X-Men: The Last Stand". He is also a producer on the Fox drama, "Prison Break". - Neil Labute
Neil LaBute (born March 19, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, and playwright. Born in Detroit, Michigan, LaBute was raised in Spokane, Washington. He studied theater at Brigham Young University (BYU), where he joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS church; see also Mormon). At BYU he also met actor Aaron Eckhart, who would later play leading roles in several of his films. - Morgan Spurlock
Morgan V. Spurlock (born November 7, 1970) is an American independent documentary film director, TV producer, and screenwriter, known for the documentary film "Super Size Me", in which he attempted to demonstrate the negative health effects of McDonald's food by eating nothing but McDonalds three times a day, every day, for one month. Spurlock is also the executive producer and star of the reality television series "30 Days". - Marc Forster
Marc Forster (born 1969 in Ulm, Germany) is a Swiss film director and screenwriter. - Andy Samberg
David Andrew J. Samberg (born August 18, 1978 in Berkeley, California), better known as Andy Samberg or Andy, is a stand-up comic and member of comedy group The Lonely Island. Samberg attended Berkeley High School, New York University (NYU) film school, and UC Santa Cruz. He is currently a cast member on Saturday Night Live and has appeared on Premium Blend and "Arrested Development", … - Amy Heckerling
Amy Heckerling is an American film director, one of the few women directors to have produced multiple box-office hits. Born in The Bronx, she attended the High School of Art and Design in Manhattan and studied film at New York University. She received her master's degree from the AFI Conservatory. Heckerling's first film, "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" (1982), about Los Angeles teenagers, was praised for the strong female characters played by Phoebe Cates, … - Ismail Merchant
Ismail Merchant was an Indian-born film producer, best known for the results of his famously long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions which included director James Ivory and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Their films won six Academy Awards. Ivory was Merchant's long-term life partner - George C. Wolfe
George C. Wolfe (b. September 23, 1954) is an African-American playwright and director of theater and film. He is openly gay. Wolfe was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, at the time a heavily-segregated city. As a young child, he attended the all-black private school at which his mother taught, but began attending the integrated Frankfort public school district after a family move. He attended Frankfort High School. There began to pursue his interest in theater, … - David Wain
David Wain (born August 1, 1969 in Shaker Heights, Ohio) is an American writer, director, actor and comedian. He is best known for the feature film "Wet Hot American Summer", the 90s sketch comedy series "The State", and the Comedy Central show "Stella". Wain was a founding member of Stella, along with Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black. - Michael Showalter
Michael Showalter (born June 17, 1970) is an American actor, writer, and director. He is one-third of the sketch comedy trio Stella. Showalter first came to recognition as a cast member on MTV's "The State" which aired from 1993 to 1995. He co-wrote (with David Wain) and starred in the cult classic "Wet Hot American Summer" (2001) and he wrote, directed, and starred in "The Baxter" (2005), with Michelle Williams, Justin Theroux and Elizabeth Banks. - Bill Duke
Bill Duke (born February 26, 1943) is an American actor and film director. - Brad Friedman
Brad Friedman is a US journalist, blogger, actor, director and comedian. Friedman has a BFA from New York University's (NYU) Tisch School of the Arts. He can speak using a High British, East London, Cockney, Irish, Yiddish, German and other dialects and has special skills that include Sketch Comedy, Juggling, Unicycling, Driver's License, Various Circus Skills, Baseball, Tennis, Roller & Ice Skating, Basketball, Water & Snow Skiing, Golf, and Stage Combat. - Tom Dicillo
Tom DiCillo is an American film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. He was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1954, and studied filmmaking at New York University's Film School, subsequently working as an actor, then cinematographer, before making his own films. His first film, "Johnny Suede", casted then-unknows Brad Pitt and Catherine Keener which would be both their first starring roles. - Kenneth Lonergan
Kenneth Lonergan (b. 16 October 1962) is a playwright, screenwriter, and director born in the Bronx, New York City, New York. He began writing in high school, later graduating from the NYU Playwriting Program. His first success came with the play "This is Our Youth" (1996), and was followed by "The Waverley Gallery" (1999), based on his grandmother's Greenwich Village Gallery, and later "Lobby Hero" (2002). - Irwin Winkler
Irwin Winkler (born May 25, 1931) is an American film producer and director. He is the producer or director of 50 major motion pictures, dating back to 1967's "Double Trouble", starring Elvis Presley. The fourth film he produced, "They Shoot Horses Don't They" (1969), starring Jane Fonda, was nominated for eleven Academy Awards. In 1976, he won an Oscar for Best Picture for "Rocky". - Martin Brest
Martin Brest (August 8, 1951) is an American filmmaker, producer, screenwriter, film editor, and actor. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1969, from New York University's School of the Arts in 1973 and from the AFI Conservatory with an M.F.A. degree in 1977. His film debut as a director/writer was with 1979's "Going in Style", which starred George Burns, Art Carney and Lee Strasberg. - Joseph Kahn
Joseph Kahn (born October 12, 1972) in Jersey Village, Texas (a suburb of Houston) is a notable music video, advertising, and feature film director. Kahn has worked with diverse artists such as Muse, Britney Spears, Kelly Clarkson, Backstreet Boys, U2, The Chemical Brothers, Blink 182, Eminem, TLC, Mariah Carey, Moby, George Michael, KoRn, Janet Jackson, Black Eyed Peas, Destiny's Child, and many more. Kahn has collected multiple Music Video Production awards. - Roman Coppola
Roman Coppola (born 22 April 1965 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) is an American film director and music video director. He attended New York University's film school. He is the son of 5-time Academy Award winning director, producer, and writer Francis Ford Coppola and Eleanor Coppola, brother of Academy Award winning film director Sofia Coppola and the late Gian-Carlo Coppola, first cousin to actor Nicolas Cage. - Bart Freundlich
Bart Freundlich (born on January 17, 1970) is an American director, screenwriter, and producer. He grew up in Manhattan and eventually graduated with a double major in Cinema Studies and Film and Television Production from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Before the creation of his first full length film, "Hired Hands" (which would go on to receive praise and awards at the Sundance Film Festival), in 1994, … - Greg Pak
Greg Pak is a New York-based film director/comic book writer. His early work is noted for its strong Asian American themes. His New York University (NYU) student film, "Fighting Grandpa", about his Korean grandparents, won the Gold Medal at the 25th Student Academy Awards. His short film "Asian Pride Porn", starring playwright David Henry Hwang and director Michael Kang, was licensed to Atom Films. - Alex Winter
Alex Winter (born July 17, 1965) is an actor, director, and film writer, English-born but raised in the USA. Born in London, England, Alex Winter trained as a dancer as a child, that being the profession of his parents. His family then relocated to Missouri. He moved to New York in 1984 and began attending New York University (NYU). While at college, he starred in a number of plays and met a future friend and co-star Keanu Reeves. - Eugene Jarecki
Eugene Jarecki is an award-winning dramatic and documentary filmmaker based in New York. His works include "Why We Fight" which won the 2005 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, "The Trials of Henry Kissinger", "Quest of the Carib Canoe" and "Season of the Lifterbees". He is the brother of filmmaker Andrew Jarecki. He attended Princeton and New York University. After working for some years as a director of stage plays, … - Angela Robinson
Angela Robinson (born February 14, 1971 in San Francisco, California) is an American film director, and graduate of Brown University and New York University. Robinson is a lesbian and frequently deals with gay and lesbian topics in her films. Robinson has directed an award winning short film "D.E.B.S. (2003 film)" and a feature length film "D.E.B.S. (2004 film)". - Chen Shi-Zheng
Chen Shi-Zheng is an acclaimed Chinese theatre and opera director now based in the United States. His early training in China was in traditional Chinese opera. He went to study at New York University in 1989. Chen's directorial debut film, "Dark Matter", was released in 2007, starring Liu Ye and Meryl Streep. This film won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. - Karyn Kusama
Karyn Kusama is a US film director and screenwriter. A graduate of New York University's film school, her début production "Girlfight" won both the Director's Award and the Grand Jury Prize (tied with Kenneth Lonergan's "You Can Count on Me") at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. She has finished a live-action film version of "Æon Flux", starring Charlize Theron. - Boaz Yakin
Boaz Yakin (born 1966) is a screenwriter and film director based in New York City. Yakin studied filmmaking at New York City College and New York University. He is currently writing the screenplay for "Conan the Barbarian" (2008). - Duncan Tucker
Duncan Tucker is an American film director and screenwriter. Tucker was born in Arizona and graduated from New York University. After the short subject film "The Mountain King", which was screened at over 30 international festivals, he wrote and directed his first feature film, "Transamerica". Tucker's hobbies include writing and painting. His tale "Many Fish" is published by Ascent, … - Dean Parisot
Dean Parisot (born in Wilton, Connecticut) is an Academy Award winning American film and television director. He is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and also took part in the Sundance Institute's June Lab. Paisot won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Short Film, Live Action for "The Appointments of Dennis Jennings" which starred and was co-written (with Mike Armstrong) by comedian Steven Wright. - Deborah Kaplan
Deborah Kaplan is an American screenwriter and film director. Raised in Abington, Pennsylvania, Deborah Kaplan met her creative partner Harry Elfont while they were both enrolled at the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University (NYU). They have since written several films together, and directed two: "Can't Hardly Wait" and "Josie and the Pussycats". Kaplan married actor Breckin Meyer (who had small roles in both of the films she directed) on October 14, … - Matthew Gray Gubler
Matthew Gray Gubler is an American actor, film director, sketch artist, and former fashion model. The Las Vegas, Nevada-born actor made his début in the film "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou" (2004) as Intern #1, and now he is best known for his role as the young genius Dr. Spencer Reid in the CBS television show "Criminal Minds". Coincidentally, his character on the show was also born and raised in Las Vegas. - Jesse Dylan
Jesse Byron Dylan (born January 6 1966, New York City) is the eldest son of musician Bob Dylan and his first wife, Sara Dylan. He is an American film director whose credits include the 2001 Method Man/Redman comedy "How High", the third film in the "American Pie" trilogy "American Wedding" (2003), and the 2005 Will Ferrell film "Kicking & Screaming". Jesse also directed Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds video of 'Red Right Hand' in 1994. - Mo Willems
Mo Willems (born February 11, 1968) is an American writer, animator, and children's books author/illustrator. After graduating from New York University's Tisch School for the Arts, Willems spent a year traveling around the world drawing a cartoon every day, all of which have been published in the book "You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When it Monsoons". Returning to New York, he went on to write Emmy Award-winning scripts for "Sesame Street" from 1993 to 2002, … - Ronald F. Maxwell
Ronald F. Maxwell (born January 3, 1947) is an independent film director and writer from Clifton, New Jersey. He is most famous for directing the American Civil War epics "Gettysburg" (1993) and "Gods and Generals" (2003). A New Jersey native, Maxwell graduated from New York University (NYU) Institute of Film in the late 1960s and is a member of the Writers Guild of America, Directors Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. - Jesse Merz
JESSE MERZ (Artistic Director, Meisner Acting Instructor) Jesse Merz grew up on an apple and pear orchard in Parkdale, Oregon and lived in New York City for 8 years. As an actor, he has performed off-Broadway, off-off-Broadway, in regional theatre, summer stock, feature films, on the radio and in 120 cities in 34 states on national tours. - Cédric Klapisch
Cédric Klapisch is a French film director born in 1961 in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris. He studied cinema in France at university and at 23 years old he went to the New York University for two years to continue his studies in the cinema. During the 80's he started to shoot short films like "In transit" or "Ce qui me meut". After this he worked as a scriptwriter and he became a director for corporate films.
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