- Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson CNZM (born October 31, 1961) is a New Zealand filmmaker best known as the director of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, which he, along with Fran Walsh, his long time partner, and Philippa Boyens, adapted from the novels by J. R. R. Tolkien. He is also known for his 2005 remake of "King Kong". Jackson first gained attention with his "splatstick" horror comedies, … - David Lynch
David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, painter, video artist, and performance artist. Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations, for his direction of "The Elephant Man" (1980), "Blue Velvet" (1986), and "Mulholland Drive" (2001). He has won awards at the Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival. - Ang Lee
Ang Lee (born October 23, 1954) is a film director from Taiwan. - Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol was an American artist who became a central figure in the movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter; an avant-garde filmmaker, a record producer, an author and a public figure known for his presence in wildly diverse social circles that included bohemian street people, distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy aristocrats. - 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. - 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. - Paul Thomas Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson (born June 26, 1970 in Studio City, California) is a two-time Oscar nominated American filmmaker. - Julian Schnabel
Julian Schnabel (b. 26 October 1951) is an American artist and filmmaker born in Brooklyn, New York City. - David Gordon Green
David Gordon Green (born 9 April 1975 in Little Rock, Arkansas) is an American filmmaker. Green grew up in Richardson, Texas and attended the North Carolina School of the Arts, where he studied directing. He currently lives in New Orleans. - Catherine Breillat
Catherine Breillat (born July 13, 1948) is a French filmmaker and director. She is known not only for her films focusing on themes of sexuality, gender conflict and sibling rivalry, but also for her best-selling novels. Ms. Breillat has been the subject of controversy for her explicit depictions of sexuality and violence. She cast the pornstar Rocco Siffredi in her films "Romance" ("Romance X", 1999) and "Anatomie de l'enfer" ("Anatomy of Hell", … - Michael Haneke
Michael Haneke is with good certainty both Austria's most esteemed and most controversial active filmmaker. His feature Benny's Video (1992) shocked crowds with its restrained, antipsychological portrait of a teenager who kills a young girl to see how it is. Funny Games (1997) inspired a fierce debate on how one can interrogate violence in film. - Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton (born Joseph Frank Keaton, October 4, 1895 - February 1, 1966) was an American silent film comic actor and filmmaker. His trademark was physical comedy with a stoic, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face" (referencing the Nathaniel Hawthorne story about the "Old Man of the Mountain"). His career as a performer and director is widely regarded to be among the most innovative and important work in the history of cinema. - Zhang Yimou
Zhang Yimou (born November 14, 1951) is an internationally acclaimed Chinese filmmaker and one-time cinematographer. He made his directorial debut in 1987 with the film "Red Sorghum". - Alan Moore
Alan Moore (born November 18, 1953 in Northampton) is an English writer most famous for his influential work in comics, including the acclaimed graphic novels "Watchmen", "V for Vendetta" and "From Hell". He has also written a novel, "Voice of the Fire", and performs "workings" (one-off performance art/spoken word pieces) with the Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels, some of which have been released on CD. As a comics writer, … - Michael Winterbottom
Michael Winterbottom (b. March 29 1961 in Blackburn, Lancashire) is a prolific British filmmaker, who has directed fifteen films in the past twelve years, six of them written by screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce, including "Welcome to Sarajevo" and "24 Hour Party People". He has two daughters with his ex-wife, author Sabrina Broadbent. Winterbottom went to Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, taking his O Levels in an accelerated 4 years, … - Takashi Miike
(born August 24, 1960) is a highly prolific and controversial Japanese filmmaker. He has directed over sixty theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. In the years 2001 and 2002 alone, Miike is credited with directing no fewer than fourteen productions. - Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray was an Indian filmmaker regarded as one of the greatest film directors of the twentieth century. Born in the city of Kolkata (then Calcutta) into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and letters, Ray studied at Presidency College and at the Visva-Bharati University, at the poet Rabindranath Tagore's Santiniketan. - Stan Brakhage
Stan Brakhage was an American non-narrative filmmaker. He is regarded as one of the most important experimental filmmakers of the 20th century. Brakhage was born as Robert Sanders in an orphanage in Kansas City, Missouri. Three weeks after his birth, he was adopted by Ludwig and Clara Brakhage, and he was given the name James Stanley Brakhage. As a child, he appeared on radio as a boy soprano before going to high school in Denver, … - Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel Portolés was a Spanish filmmaker who worked mainly in Mexico and France, but also in his native country and the United States. He is considered one of the most important directors in the history of cinema. - Jean Cocteau
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker. His versatile, unconventional approach and enormous output brought him international acclaim. - Peter Greenaway
Peter Greenaway, CBE (born 5 April 1942) is an English film director. - Lynn Hershman Leeson
Lynn Hershman Leeson is an American artist and filmmaker. She is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis, and an A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. She is Chair of the Film Department at the San Francisco Art Institute. From 1973-79 she made a pioneering work, "Roberta Breitmore". In this piece she lived as another identity who was created out of artifacts of that time frame. - Cristian Mungiu
Cristian Mungiu is a Romanian filmmaker, and winner of the Palme d'Or in 2007. After studying English literature at the University of Iaşi, he worked for a few years as a teacher and as a journalist. After that, he enrolled at the University of Film in Bucharest to study film directing. After graduating in 1998, Mungiu made several short films. In 2002, he debuted with his first feature film, "Occident". - Isabella Rossellini
Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini (born June 18 1952 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and model. - Hal Hartley
Hal Hartley (b. November 3 1959, Lindenhurst, New York) is an American film director and writer, and a pioneer of the independent film movement who was educated at the State University of New York at Purchase. Early on, Hartley was interested in painting and attended the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. While studying there, he took a few courses in filmmaking and realized that this was what he wanted to do. - Mark Lewis
Mark Lewis is a documentary film and television producer, director and writer. He is famous for his film Cane Toads: An Unnatural History and for his body of work on animals. Unlike many other producers of nature films, his films do not attempt to document the animals in question or their behaviors but rather the complex relationships between people and society and the animals they interact with. - Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag was an American essayist, novelist, intellectual, filmmaker, and activist. - Jonas Mekas
Jonas Mekas is a Lithuanian filmmaker, writer, and curator who has often been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema." - Stephen Fry
Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, writer, actor, novelist, filmmaker and television personality. The former comedy collaborator of Hugh Laurie, his renowned intellect has most recently led to the success of television panel game "QI", of which he is host. - Wayne Wang
Wayne Wang (born January 12, 1949) is a Chinese American film director. Born in Hong Kong, he studied film and television at California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. "Chan Is Missing" (1982) and "Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart" (1985) established his reputation. He is best known for the independent features "Smoke" (1995) and "Anywhere But Here" (1999). He is married to a former Miss Hong Kong, Cora Miao, … - Crispin Glover
Crispin Hellion Glover (born April 20, 1964) is an American primarily known as a film actor, but is also a painter, filmmaker, author, musician, and collector and archivist of esoterica. Glover is known for portraying eccentric people on screen, such as George McFly in "Back to the Future" and Willard Stiles in "Willard". In the early 2000s, Glover started his own production company, Volcanic Eruptions. - Jacques Tati
Jacques Tati (October 9 1907 - November 5 1982) was a noted French comedic filmmaker. He was born Jacques Tatischeff, the son of Russian father Georges-Emmanuel Tatischeff and Dutch mother Marcelle Claire Van Hoof, in Le Pecq, Yvelines, and died in Paris. - Walter Salles
Walter Moreira Salles Jr. (born April 12 1956, Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian filmmaker and film producer of international prominence. He is the son of Walter Moreira Salles, a Brazilian banker and ambassador, and the brother of João Moreira Salles, also a filmmaker. - Chris Columbus
Christopher "Chris" Columbus (born in Spangler, Pennsylvania, on September 10, 1958) is an American filmmaker. - Sergei Bodrov
Sergei Bodrov was born on June 28, 1948 in Khabarovsk, USSR (part of modern day Russia). He is a Russian filmmaker, writer, producer and director. He had a son named Sergei Bodrov Jr. who was killed in an avalanche in the mountains of the North Caucasus on September 20, 2002. He has directed movies such as "Mongol" (2006), "Shiza" (2004), "The Nomad" (2004), "Bear's Kiss" (2002), "The Quickie" (2001), … - Danny Schechter
Danny Schechter, also known as the "News Dissector", is a television producer, independent filmmaker, blogger, and media critic who writes and lectures frequently about the media in the United States and worldwide. - John Smith
John Smith (b. 1952, London, England) is an avant garde filmmaker noted for his use of humor in exploring various themes that often play upon film spectator's conditioned assumptions of the medium. Noted works include The Girl Chewing Gum (1976), Om (1987), The Kiss (1999) and Blight (1999). John Smith was often ridiculed by his classmates and peers in the film industry for his common, ordinary name. - Maya Deren
Maya Deren, born Eleanora Derenkowsky, was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film theorist of the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, poet, writer and photographer. - Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Jean-Pierre Jeunet (born 3 September 1953) is a French film director. His films are idiosyncratic fantasies characterized by detailed sets and story-lines. - Frederick Wiseman
Frederick Wiseman (born 1 January 1930 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA) is an American documentary filmmaker. Born into a Jewish family, he came to documentary filmmaking after first being trained as a lawyer, a fact that has influenced his style and choice of subjects ever since. In 2003, Frederick Wiseman received the George Polk Career Award given annually by Long Island University to honor contributions to journalistic integrity and investigative reporting.
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