- George Lucas
George Walton Lucas, Jr. is a four-time Academy Award nominated American film director, producer, and screenwriter famous for his epic "Star Wars" saga and Indiana Jones films — the latter a collaboration with his friend Steven Spielberg. He is one of American film industry's most financially successful independent directors and producers, with an estimated net worth of $3.6 billion. - Woody Allen
Woody Allen is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. His large body of work and cerebral film style, mixing satire, wit and humor, have made him one of the most respected and prolific filmmakers in the modern era. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, philosophy, psychology, Judaism, … - George Clooney
George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an Academy Award- and two-time Golden Globe-winning American actor, director, producer and screenwriter, known for his role in the first five seasons of the long-running television drama "ER" (1994-99), and his rise as an "A-List" movie star in contemporary American cinema. - 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, … - Martin Scorsese
Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, writer and producer and founder of the World Cinema Foundation. He is also a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won an Academy Award as well as awards from the Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America. Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Italian American identity, … - Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, actor, and screenwriter. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an auteur indie filmmaker whose films used postmodern nonlinear storylines, and stylized violence interwoven with often-obscure cinematic references. His films include "Reservoir Dogs" (1992), " Pulp Fiction" (1994), "Jackie Brown" (1997), "Kill Bill" (Vol. 1 2003, Vol. - Diablo Cody
Diablo Cody is the pseudonym of Brook Busey-Hunt, a Minnesota-based writer and blogger best known for her yearlong foray in the stripping and peep show circuits of Minneapolis, candidly chronicled on her "Pussy Ranch" blog and in her 2006 memoir "Candy Girl: A Year in The Life of an Unlikely Stripper". Cody has also written the forthcoming movie "Juno" and is in pre-production for development of a sitcom. - Paul Schrader
Paul Joseph Schrader (born July 22, 1946 in Grand Rapids, Michigan) is a screenwriter and film director, renowned for his characters that fall into desperation while their world crumbles around them. His influences include Robert Bresson, Yasujiro Ozu and Carl Dreyer, whose cross-cultural similarities he examined in "Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer" (ISBN 0-306-80335-6) in 1972. - Matt Damon
As a teen, Boston-native Matt Damon used to break-dance for money in Harvard Square. Matt Damon was an extra in Field of Dreams with friend Ben Affleck when they were just starting out. ... Matt Damon appeared on Will & Grace in 2002 as Jack's rival for a coveted spot in a gay men's chorus. - Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan (born July 30, 1970) is an Academy Award nominated film director, writer and producer. The son of an English father and American mother, Nolan is a dual citizen of the United Kingdom and United States. He is married to Emma Thomas, his longtime producer. They have three children together. - Sean Penn
Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an American film actor and director who is perhaps best known for playing intense, often humorless and unsympathetic characters. - Oliver Stone
William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946), known as Oliver Stone, is a American film director, and screenwriter. - Ben Affleck
Benjamin Géza Affleck is a Golden Globe Award-nominated American film actor, director, and Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-winning screenwriter. He became known in the late 1990s, after his involvement in the film "Good Will Hunting", and has since become a Hollywood leading man, having starred in several big budget films. - Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick was an influential and acclaimed American film director and producer considered among the greatest of the 20th Century. He directed a number of highly acclaimed and sometimes controversial films, including "2001: A Space Odyssey", "Paths of Glory", "A Clockwork Orange", and "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb". - Ben Stiller
Benjamin Edward Stiller (born November 30, 1965) is an Emmy-winning American comedian, actor, film producer and director. He is the son of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, both of whom are veteran comedians and actors themselves. Ben Stiller's most recent role was in the film "Night at the Museum" and his next upcoming film is "The Heartbreak Kid". - 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. - Orson Welles
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 - October 10, 1985) was an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, a radio, film and theatre director, a radio and film producer and an actor in film and theatre, as well as a Grammy Award-winning radio personality. Welles first gained wide notoriety for his October 30, 1938 radio broadcast of H. G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds". Adapted to sound like a contemporary news broadcast, … - Gary Oldman
Leonard Gary Oldman is an Emmy Award-nominated, Saturn and BAFTA Award-winning English actor, writer and director. He initially came to prominance in the 1986 film "Sid & Nancy", in which he played the ill-fated rocker Sid Vicious. He later starred in films such as "Dracula", "Léon", "The Fifth Element" and "Hannibal". Generally regarded as one of the world's most versatile actors, … - John August
John August (born August 4, 1970 in Boulder, Colorado) is an American screenwriter and film director. Born and raised in Boulder, Colorado, August earned a degree in journalism from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa and an MFA in film from the The Peter Stark Producing Program at the University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles. August's debut film was 1999's critically-acclaimed "Go", which he also co-produced and was second unit director in. - Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is a five-time Academy Award winning American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Coppola is also a vintner, magazine publisher, and hotelier. He earned an M.F.A. in film directing from the UCLA Film School. He is most renowned for directing the highly regarded "Godfather" trilogy, "The Conversation", and the Vietnam War epic "Apocalypse Now". - Judd Apatow
Judd Apatow (born December 6, 1967, in Syosset, New York) is an Emmy-winning American screenwriter, director, and producer. He is best known for writing and directing successful comedy films "The 40 Year-Old Virgin" and "Knocked Up". He also is the founder of Apatow Productions, his own production company. He has written, produced, and directed films that have grossed nearly $700 million at the box office. - Jackie Chan
Chan Kong-Sang, also known as Sing Lung or Jackie Chan SBS, (born on April 7, 1954) is a Chinese actor, director, martial artist, film producer, screenwriter, singer and stunt performer. Chan is one of the best known names in kung fu and action movies worldwide for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, usage of improvised weapons and his innovative stunts. - Steven Soderbergh
Steven Andrew Soderbergh (born January 14, 1963 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and Oscar-winning director - Joss Whedon
Joss Hill Whedon (born Joseph Hill Whedon on June 23, 1964 in New York) is an American writer, director, executive producer, and creator of the well-known television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Angel", and "Firefly". He has also written several film scripts and several comic book series. After finishing at Winchester College in England, he went on to receive a film degree from Wesleyan University in 1987. - Charlie Kaufman
Charles Stuart Kaufman (born November 1, 1958) is an American playwright, film producer, theater and film director, and Academy Award and BAFTA award winning screenwriter. in 2003 Kaufman was listed at #100 on Premiere's annual "Power 100" list. He was also identified by Time Magazine in 2004 as one of the 100 most powerful people in Hollywood. - 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. - Steve Martin
Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American comedian, writer, producer, actor, musician and composer. - Tim Robbins
Timothy Francis Robbins (born October 16, 1958) is an American Academy Award-winning actor, screenwriter, director, producer, activist and small time musician. He is the longtime partner of actress Susan Sarandon, with whom he shares strong liberal political views. - Seth Rogen
Seth Rogen was born April 15, 1982 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. His mother is a social worker and his father is an assistant director for a non-profit organization. During his youth, he attended a Talmud Torah school, but it was at camp that he got his first taste of stand-up comedy, performing for the other campers. - Sam Raimi
Samuel Marshall Raimi (born October 23, 1959 in Royal Oak, Michigan) is an American film director, producer, actor and writer. He is best known for directing the classic cult-horror film "The Evil Dead" and the blockbuster "Spider-Man films". - Paul Haggis
Paul Edward Haggis (born March 10, 1953 in London, Ontario) is an Academy Award-winning Canadian screenwriter, producer, film director, and a director/producer of television programs working in Hollywood. - Neil Gaiman
Neil Richard Gaiman was born on November 10, 1960 in Portchester, England. He is the author of numerous science fiction and fantasy works, including many comic books. As of 2002, he lives near Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. ... After being rejected many times by publishers, Gaiman pursued journalism as a means to learn about the world and make connections that he hoped would later assist him in getting published. - David Mamet
David Alan Mamet (born) is an American author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. His works are known for their clever, terse, sometimes vulgar dialogue, arcane stylized phrasing, and for his exploration of masculinity. As a playwright, he received Tony nominations for "Glengarry Glen Ross" (1984) and "Speed-the-Plow" (1988). As a screenwriter, he received Oscar nominations for "The Verdict" (1982) and "Wag the Dog" (1997). - Sylvester Stallone
SO IT'S LIKE THIS... - John Carpenter
John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, film score composer and occasional actor. Carpenter has worked in numerous film genres, and is considered one of the most accomplished and influential horror and science fiction directors in Hollywood. - Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornberry (born Joe (spoken with a deep voice and with no last name) on August 4 1955) is an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, actor, as well as occasional director, playwright and singer. He came to fame in the mid 1990s, after writing, directing, and starring in the film "Sling Blade", and has since established a career as a Hollywood leading actor, having appeared in several successful films, … - Chris Rock
Christopher Julius Rock III (born February 7, 1965) is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer and director. He was described by Comedy Central as the fifth greatest stand-up comedian of all time. - Jon Favreau
Jonathan K. Favreau (born on October 19, 1966) is an American actor and director. - Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson (born April 15, 1959) is an Emmy-, BAFTA- and Academy Award-winning English actress, comedian, and screenwriter. She is also a patron of the Refugee Council. - Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder was an Austrian-born, Jewish-American journalist, screenwriter, film director, and producer whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. Many of Wilder's films achieved both critical and public acclaim.
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